Research projects

Featured studies

Explore a selection of our research studies which aim to deliver better health outcomes and services for rural communities:

MIXMAX Study

The Methamphetamine and Injecting Drug Use Cohort Study aims produce new evidence on the nature and extent of illicit drug related harms and the effectiveness of interventions to address them.

ENHEARTEN Study

The Enhancing Health Literacy in Secondary Prevention of Cardiac Events Study investigates the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes in adults admitted with their first heart attack across metropolitan and rural health services.

Equal Hearts Study

The Equal Hearts Study uses a health literacy-based, co-design approach to identify how hospital cardiac services can improve and measure accessibility for disadvantaged population groups with coronary heart disease.

Check-back Study

The Check-Back Study focuses on the co-design and evaluation of resources to improve patient-clinician communication in rural chronic disease settings.

NAHGOT Study

The Nursing and Allied Health Graduate Outcome Tracking (NAHGOT) study aims to understand why nursing, midwifery, and allied health graduates choose to work in metropolitan or rural, regional or remote settings.

Hazelwood Health Study

The Hazelwood Health Study aimed to identify potential health outcomes for people who were exposed to the smoke from the Hazelwood mine fire in 2014.

Active projects

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