Health Services and Implementation

We bring together multidisciplinary experts, health professionals and consumers to understand health and social care access and experiences, and to design and implement systems-level changes that deliver better user experiences and outcomes, with equity and efficiency embedded in their core.

Our focus areas

Research units

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre

We conduct pivotal, large scale research projects in critical care, and build research capacity in the field. Our work has revolutionised clinical practice and service delivery globally, saving and improving countless lives.

Director

Professor (DJ) Jamie Cooper AO

Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics

A multidisciplinary team undertaking clinical and applied research with the aim of improving care for cardiac patients through a range of settings, including pre-hospital, hospital, and as rehab outpatients.

Co-Directors

Professor Chris Reid
Professor Dion Stub

Climate, Air Quality Research

Our team conducts modelling of the impact of unmitigated climate change on human health, to inform planning for resilient health services able to meet the climate-driven health challenges of the immediate future.

Head of Unit

Professor Yuming Guo

Department of General Practice

We conduct a wide range of practice-relevant and implementation research, and leverage strong relationships with policy influencers to drive innovation, safety, efficacy, and efficiency in primary care.

Head of Department

Professor Danielle Mazza AM

Health and Social Care

With a strong emphasis on implementation science, we work at the intersection of public health, psychology, social sciences, clinical care, and communications, generating evidence that guides policies and programs that support good health in community-based settings.

Head of Unit

Professor Helen Skouteris

Health Economics

Our research builds evidence around the most efficient allocation of constrained resources, enabling health leaders to make decisions that drive more sustainable, efficient health and social care services that have wider benefits in communities.

Head of Unit

Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos

Healthy Working Lives

We work with diverse partners and consumers to design kinder, fairer workers’ compensation and social care systems and return-to-work pathways for injured workers.

Head of Unit

Professor Alex Collie

Musculoskeletal Health

We conduct high-quality clinical research and drive translation of evidence into practice and policy change for improved musculoskeletal and general healthcare, and work to reduce low-value interventions that stymie sustainable healthcare systems.

Head of Unit

Professor Rachelle Buchbinder AO

Pharmacoepidemiology

We evaluate quality of medicine use, system resilience and patient‑centred outcomes, co‑design tools to support clinical decision‑making, and lead translational research to embed evidence‑based practices across primary care and broader health services.

Head of Research Group

Dr Stella Talic

Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma Research

We conduct research that strengthens care for trauma and emergency patients. Our team manages clinical quality registries, and we develop and trial novel workflows and interventions to improve clinical outcomes for these patients.

Head of Unit

Professor Belinda Gabbe

Transfusion Research

We conduct a broad range of research to understand current use of blood products and anticipate future needs, facilitating the best use of these most precious resources across Australian health services.

Head of Unit

Professor Erica Wood AO

Centres and major initiatives

Blood Synergy Program

Blood Synergy is a multi-awarded NHMRC-funded program providing vital new knowledge on conventional and novel blood products, and health systems and economic data to improve the use and cost-effectiveness of blood products in Australia.

The EXCEL Registry

The EXCEL Registry aims to generate a binational multidisciplinary network of integrated care for critically ill patients requiring ECMO, and to monitor long-term outcomes and identify best practice.

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in optimising the emergency response to save lives (Aus-ROC CRE)

Every year, over 31,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in Australia and New Zealand, and less than 7% of patients survive. Aus-ROC CRE is bringing cutting-edge technologies and resuscitation science together to double survival rates.

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in intensive care
(CRE-ICU)

CRE-ICU manages a suite of research projects that will identify and streamline best practices in intensive care services, with particular emphasis on invasive life support treatments.

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in improving Immunoglobulin use and clinical outcomes (OPTIMAL)

OPTIMAL brings together patients, leading researchers, health professionals and health economists to design and implement better systems for delivering immunoglobulin therapy and improving outcomes for patients.

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in women's sexual and reproductive health in primary care (SPHERE)

SPHERE is a prominent national collaborative comprising multidisciplinary researchers, healthcare providers and paradigm-shifters driving better sexual and reproductive health outcomes for women through primary care.