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2021 Publications Performance
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Mean Field Weighted Citation Impact of Monash Outputs: 2.39
Number of Monash Research Outputs: 3224
Monash University Accident Research Centre
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The Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) is Australia's largest and most respected accident and injury prevention research organisation. Victorian road safety is just one example of MUARC's research at work. In 1989, there were 776 people killed on Victorian roads. Today, through Government action based on MUARC research, Victorian roads are amongst the safest in the world, with fewer than 250 deaths per year.
Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) Program
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The Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) program is researching how innovative water sensitive infrastructure can improve health, wellbeing, and water management across urban informal settlements in Indonesia and Fiji. 2021 RISE embraced the new operating environment that COVID-19 has created, and used it to show that breaking down structural inequalities of international collaboration can lead to new innovations and efficiencies, and that research and development programs can be stronger because of it.
The program's accelerated transition to a more strongly locally led model is giving greater agency to RISE research and implementation partners and creating new opportunities, such as establishing state-of-the-art PCR-based pathogen detection capacity at the RISE laboratories hosted at Hasanuddin University and Fiji National University, and instituting an ISO9001 quality management system across the RISE international research platform.
World Mosquito Program
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The World Mosquito Program (WMP) is Monash University’s groundbreaking research program utilising wolbachia bacteria to prevent mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever. In 2020 the Program opened its third regional hub in Panama City, providing a vital channel into Latin America, and successfully launched its first mosquito release in Colombo, Sri Lanka in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services. Other regional hubs are in Oceania and Asia.
During 2021, WMP published the results of its largest trial to date in the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s most prestigious medical research journal. The findings showed WMP’s Wolbachia method dramatically reduced dengue incidence in a randomised controlled trial in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Cochrane Australia
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Cochrane Australia is housed within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, providing renowned evidence synthesis across qualitative and quantitative projects, and generating some of the highest levels of evidence in medicine globally. They are a driving force in the move towards continuous evidence surveillance and rapid response pathways that incorporate new relevant evidence into systematic reviews and clinical practice guideline recommendations as soon as it becomes available.
Neuromedicines Discovery Centre
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In November 2021, Monash launched its Neuromedicines Discovery Centre, a cross-disciplinary centre that will work in three major areas – Better Medicines, Better Minds and Better Futures. The centre brings together the combined expertise and resources of world-leading researchers from Monash University and collaborators from University of Melbourne and The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health to propel new treatments for mental ill health spanning the entire medicines development pipeline, from drug discovery and optimisation, to clinical trials, new healthcare guidelines and into the public policy arena.
South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO)
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SEACO is a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) located in Peninsular Malaysia. In 2021 SEACO celebrated 10 years of capturing and making usable, rich longitudinal data about a geographical area including the individuals, families and households within the communities in it - to observe the relationship between willing participants, their health and wellbeing, and the broader environment.
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
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Launched in 2019, the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health is one of Australia’s largest Institutes for brain and mental health. Through three key themes – Developing Well, Living Well and Ageing Well – the Institute is responding to common community challenges to develop resilient brains, promote brain healthy lifestyles, and maximise cognitive capabilities.
Reducing air pollution
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Air pollution affects most people and kills seven million annually. The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute is investigating how airborne particulates and gases affect organs, drive carcinogenesis, and sustain pathogens. These findings are informing air quality policies.
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