CONNECT-TBI

CONNECT-TBI is a national collaboration designed to improve care
and outcomes for people who experience moderate to severe
traumatic brain injury (TBI).

We're part of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

  • CONNECT-TBI will create a comprehensive national data asset that brings together clinical, biological, imaging, rehabilitation, and outcome data to better understand recovery and support more personalised care.

  • By integrating data from across hospitals, rehabilitation services, and research programs, CONNECT-TBI will provide a powerful foundation for improving treatment pathways and supporting new clinical research and trials.

  • The interdisciplinary consortium includes clinicians, researchers, data scientists, and people with lived experience of TBI, all working together to build a sustainable resource that strengthens Australia’s capacity to deliver world-leading TBI care and research.

CONNECT-TBI is funded by the Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF).

CONNECT-TBI Workstreams

The delivery of CONNECT-TBI will be guided by three coordinated workstreams focused on Clinical Innovation, Informatics, and Research.

Informatics

The Informatics workstream will build the CONNECT-TBI Data Asset by conducting data capability assessments and establishing governance, security, quality standards, and streamlined pipelines for data linkage, secure sharing, and interactive dashboards.

Clinical Innovation

The Clinical Innovation workstream ensures the CONNECT-TBI Data Asset supports system-wide clinical care optimisation. Using the novel CBI-M msTBI classification system, it will develop improved outcome prediction algorithms, establish quality indicators across the care continuum, and provide clinical input for data dashboards and performance benchmarking.

Research

The Research workstream will use the CBI-M classification and integrated data to identify msTBI sub-groups for enriched trials, improve outcome prediction models, conduct comparative effectiveness research, and develop a co-designed research program to maximise the utility and impact of the CONNECT-TBI Data Asset.

CONNECT-TBI Project Team

Partner and Participating Organisations

  • Curtin University

  • Queensland University of Technology

  • Bayside Health

  • Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre

  • Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society

  • Australian and New Zealand Trauma Registry

  • Australian and New Zealand Trauma Society

  • Brain Injury Australia

  • Brightwater Care Group

  • Central Adelaide Local Health Network

  • Connectivity TBI Australia

  • Deakin University

  • Flinders Medical Centre

  • Flinders University

  • Gold Coast University Hospital

  • Griffith University

  • Hunter New England Local Health District

  • Hunter Medical Research Institute

  • John Hunter Hospital

  • Liverpool Hospital

  • Melbourne Health

  • Menzies School of Public Health

  • Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

  • National Imaging Facility

  • National Trauma Research Institute

  • Royal Perth Hospital

  • Rockingham Hospital

  • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

  • St George Hospital

  • Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick

  • Synapse Australia

  • The George Institute for Global Health

  • The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

  • The University of Adelaide

  • The University of Queensland

  • Transport Accident Commission

  • The University of Cambridge UK

  • The University of Melbourne

  • The University of Newcastle

  • The University of Sydney

  • The University of Western Australia

  • The University of Wollongong