Research impact

Our research remains focused on delivering better health outcomes for rural and Indigenous communities. In 2023, we undertook research looking at supporting the rural health workforce, the health and wellbeing of our rural communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islandder people and health systems to support optimal health outcomes. We have achieved this research through strengthening our collaborative partnerships with health services, organisations, educational institutions and community members.

Facts and figures

  • in new multi year research grants and income awarded

    $6.4m

  • publications

    79

  • PhD student completions

    1

  • Honours student completion

    1

MIXMAX methamphetamine research

Significant boost for research on illicit drugs in regional Victoria

Equal Hearts study

Equal Hearts study looks at how to make cardiac services more accessible

Women in surgery

Study reveals why we have so few rural female surgeons

Stigma beat

A different lens for recognised stigma faced by children of parents with mental health challenges

Mental Health app development

Funding win for new app to address unmet need in mental health

Young adults with diabetes

Medical student project supports funding for new young adult diabetes clinic

Physical activity and cancer treatment

Research reveals that physical activity is associated with better quality of life in rural Australian cancer survivors

Parents with mental illness

Leon Piterman prize awarded to Dr Melinda Goodyear for research into supporting children of parents with a mental illness

Advanced care planning

Advance care planning research shows rural Victorians have double the odds of having a plan in place