General Practice Research
Cancer in Primary Care
Research Program Leader : Professor Jon Emery
Our Cancer in Primary Care Research Group conducts research covering the role of primary care across the cancer continuum.
- CHEST Australia Trial: An Intervention to Reduce Time-to-Consult with Symptoms of Lung Cancer
- CRISP-DNA: The feasibility of assessing bowel cancer risk using genomic testing to target screening in general practice
- Development and validation of triage guidelines for colonoscopy and gastroscopy
- Improving Cancer Outcomes for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) Communities
- NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence for Reducing the Burden of Colorectal Cancer by Optimising Screening
- Prevalence of Risk Factors for Melanoma in Primary Care Patients using the MelaTools Risk Calculator
- Reducing disparities in mortality and survival for rural Victorians with colorectal cancer
- Studying the Continuum of Cancer Care through Linking Primary Data
- Supporting earlier cancer diagnosis and efficient referral pathways in general practice
Children and Young People’s Health
Research Program Leader : Associate Professor Lena Sanci
Our aim is to advance the health and wellbeing of young people through an accessible, effective and responsive primary care workforce and system.
- Dating Violence, help-seeking and Technology in Australia
- Doctors in Secondary Schools
- E-tool for online interactive assessment of young people’s wellbeing
- Fostering Health: Examining health care systems for children and young people in Out-of-Home Care
- General Practitioners' perceptions of paediatric care
- PARTY (Prevention Access Risk Taking in Young People)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health in Adolescence
- The Link Project
Diabetes and Cardio-Metabolic Conditions
Research Program Leader : Associate Professor John Furler
Our research group is focused on addressing a global health problem. Across the world over a billion people have diabetes and up to 15% of national health budgets are spent on diabetes, risk-factors and cardiovascular complications. Our research aims to reach a deep understanding of this complex problem to develop innovative primary care-led solutions that will improve health outcomes.
- Chronic Kidney Disease in the Management of people with Type 2 Diabetes in General Practice
- Cultural Respect Encompassing Simulation Training (CREST)
- Multimorbidity and glycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes attending Australian general practice
- The GP-OSMOTIC trial: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes
- Understanding antibiotic prescribing and use of guidelines in general practice
- Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing (WoTWoD) - An Indigenous Cultural Respect Program in General Practice
Integrated Mental Health
Research Program Leader : Dr Victoria Palmer
Our vision is a primary care system which embeds person-centered mental health care to enhance physical and mental well-being- A Novel Cure – the Health and Well-being Outcomes of Creative Practices in Ageing
- ACRE
- Co-design Living Labs
- CREMSI: NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health Systems Improvement
- Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in the Primary Care Setting (The Diamond Cohort Study)
- Driving to Health: A mental health app for taxi drivers
- Link-me: A randomised controlled trial of a systematic model of stepped mental health care in general practice
- Self-help for Depression and Diabetes-related Distress in People With Type 2 Diabetes (SpringboarD)
- The CORE Study
- The Target-D Trial
Sexual Abuse and Family Violence: SAFE
Research Program Leader : Professor Kelsey Hegarty
The program aims to improve the safety, health and wellbeing of women, families and communities through addressing abuse and violence.
- A Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence
- Beyond Silence
- Early intervention with men who use violence
- I-DECIDE: Trial of an online healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid for women experiencing domestic violence
- PROSPER: PRevalence Of unwanted Sexual contact: Pursuing Early Recognition
- Risk identification and Risk Assessment Framework
- SUSTAIN: Sustainability of Identification and Response to Family Violence in antenatal care
- WITH: Women’s Input to a Trauma-informed systems model of care in Health settings