Our research
World-leading research; world-changing insights.
Our unique approach to diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease research is empowering individuals to lead healthier lives.
Through a collaborative and multidisciplinary research strategy, we’re building a network of the best minds at Sydney and internationally to tackle obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related conditions.
The Charles Perkins Centre was designed as a new model for addressing the burden of chronic disease based on principles from evolutionary biology and ecology. It brings together multidisciplinary teams spanning philosophers to clinicians in a complex adaptive research ecosystem, from which are emerging unexpected linkages and new solutions.
It’s never been more important to find real-world solutions to diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Where other research initiatives have approached these illnesses as medical conditions, concentrating solely on their biology, we recognise that these conditions involve more than biology alone.
Research domains define major disciplinary areas and provide the organisational framework to identify, nurture and grow capabilities within and across faculties and partner organisations to support the centre’s mission, objectives and outcomes. All research taking place at the Charles Perkins Centre falls into at least one research domain.
Several research themes run as threads through our research domains.
Phone: +61 2 8627 1616
Email: info.perkins@sydney.edu.au
John Hopkins Drive, Camperdown NSW 2006
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
