Research projects
Our supervisors can support a broad range of research projects. The department aims to cater to many specialized areas of interest to expand its scope of influence over evidence-based primary care in the medical community. Detailed overviews of our current research projects and supervisors can be found below.
There are a number of projects currently available for students supported by our supervisors listed below.
Current Projects
 | The IMPRovE Partnership Trial – Implementing work-related Mental health guidelines in general PRacticE: A stepped-wedged cluster RCT. |
 | SPHERE – NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care |
 | OPTIMISE – NHMRC Partnership Project grant to improve primary health care delivery to refugees living in Australia |
 | IMPACT – Health service broker intervention to help people to access primary care services through connection to a General Practitioner (GP) |
 | Pop-up Project – Bringing care to those in need: Translating a 'Pop-Up' Primary Health Care Intervention to vulnerable communities in South-East Melbourne |
Completed Projects | |
 | ENDURE GP: Establishing and normalising durable relationships with GPs (2018) |
 | ACCORD: The Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (2015-2019) |
 | PREFER: Can the preference for and use of LARCs in young Australian women be increased using an online “LARC first” structured patient educational video? |
 | Barriers and facilitators to the delivery and uptake of long-acting reversible contraception: What are the views of general practitioners? (2016) |
 | GRIP: General Practitioners Prevention and Management of Road Traffic Crash Injuries (2014) |
 | Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery (PULSAR) (2013-2016) |
 | REDIRECT: Reducing older patients’ avoidable presentations for emergency care treatment (2013-2015) |
 | A process evaluation of the new certificate of capacity for compensation claims (2013) |
 | FIT to Work: Facilitating Injured Workers Return to Work in Victoria, Australia (2012-2013) |
 | Investigating Symptoms of Lung Cancer: A Guide for General Practitioners (2011-2013) |
 | Touch screen computer health assessment in Australian general practice patients – a cross sectional study protocol (2011-2013) |
 | Implementing guidelines to routinely prevent chronic disease in general practice (PEP) (2010-2013) |
 | Researcher trauma and safety in sexual violence research (2010-2013) |
 | Which test is best? A randomised controlled trial to evaluate family history as a triage tool in screening for colorectal cancer (2010-2014) |
 | LEAD – Lung cancer diagnostic and treatment pathways: A comparison between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Anglo-Australian patients |