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 : Professor Lena Sanci
Our program aims to advance the health and wellbeing of children and young people through an accessible and responsive primary care workforce and health system and through effective interventions.
Data driven quality improvement
Research Program Leader : Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis
Our program aims to facilitate quality and system improvement in general practice using a datadriven and integrated knowledge translation approach.
- Future Health Today: Pilot project at Altona North Medical Group and Shepparton Medical Centre
- General Practitioner, Practice Nurse and Practice Manager attitudes to sharing de-identified patient health information for research
- Guidance GP: An antimicrobial stewardship program for general practice
- Multimorbidity and glycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes attending Australian general practice
Data for Decisions
Data for Decisions aims to make better use of existing primary care data to improve knowledge, medical education, healthcare policy and the way medical care is delivered, and so ultimately improve the health of Australians.
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
Health Data Science for Medical Research
This theme spans from foundational components such as governance and consent mechanisms through to the practical delivery of translational research following Learning Health Systems methodologies. These applications range from the individual project level to national infrastructure.
Integrated Mental Health
Research Program Leader : Associate Professor Victoria Palmer
Our vision is a primary care system which embeds person-centered mental health care to enhance physical and mental well-being- ACRE
- Co-design Living Labs
- 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)
- STOPS: A randomised trial of a Structured Online intervention to Promote and Support antidepressant de-prescribing in primary care
- The ACCT Healthy Hearts Study
- 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