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Understanding the substantial changes to dietary intake and participation in physical activity of Australia’s first peoples since colonisation and informing education programs for local communities.
Project node lead: Dr Josephine Gwynn
Developing solutions to improve the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of older people living at home. From aged care treatment to policies, education for health professionals, and rehabilitation programs in the community.
Project node lead: Professor Lindy Clemson
Identifying and dealing with interactions before and during pregnancy that can contribute to the development of health disorders that impact future generations.
Project node lead: Dr Adrienne Gordon
Good research has always been about evidence. Reliable evidence. This node aims to ensure that research, and related policy decisions, rest on strong and unbiased pillars of evidence.
Project node lead: Professor Lisa Bero
Increasing the understanding of ageing and interventions that delay ageing in order to increase human lifespan and health span.
Project node lead: Professor David Le Couteur
Exploring the connection between body disorders like obesity and diabetes, and brain diseases like Alzheimer's.
Project node lead: Associate Professor Greg Sutherland
Promoting strong collaboration between clinicians, biologists, mathematicians, engineers and computational scientists.
Project node lead: Professor Jean Yang, Dr Rima Chaudhuri, Professor David James
Understanding the interconnected roles of business, social context and consumer behaviour in improving health.
Project node lead: TBA
Guiding effective decision-making in cardiac health by using emerging technologies that provide better detection of early stages of disease.
Project node lead: Professor Stuart Grieve
Citizen science enhances diversity of thought and can accelerate transformative outcomes for health and quality of life. Through this node, we will establish a framework and platform for the enhancement of citizen science.
Project node lead: Professor Yun-Hee Jeon
Our climate is constantly changing. As increasingly high temperatures accelerate mortality and morbidity rates, this node explores the heightened health risks created by these climate issues.
Project node lead: Associate Professor Ollie Jay
A study on pregnant women in Western Sydney to determine whether disease begins developing in the womb through fetal immune programming.
Project node lead: Professor Ralph Nanan
Demonstrating how the integration of data in the public and private sector can be used to map individual health journeys, and make our health system more efficient.
Project node lead: Professor Jonathan Morris, Professor Tim Shaw
Improving preventative care through the development of digital health interventions designed to educate patients and reduce the number of secondary cardiovascular episode.
Project node lead: Professor Clara Chow
Making a direct impact on the community through research into lifestyle changes made in the early years and their effect on obesity-related diseases.
Project node lead: Professor Louise Baur
Why are some people more likely to succeed than others? This node addresses the question of long-term effects of socioeconomic disadvantage on the evolution of human potential.
Project node lead: Professor Stefanie Schurer
Working towards synthesizing all kinds of evidence around obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and uniting key researchers to collaborate on solutions.
Project node lead: Professor Lisa Bero
Bringing together researchers from a diverse range of disciplines to prevent, treat and reverse fibrosis across a diversity of diseases.
Project node lead: Professor Stephen Twigg
Exploring how governments can use legal strategies to create conditions for people to live healthier lives.
Project node lead: Dr Alexandra Jones, Dr Belinda Reeve
Discovering the influence of our gut microorganisms over our metabolism, immune and nervous systems, our food choices and other behaviours.
Project node lead: Associate Professor Andrew Holmes
Challenging staff and students to create a new vibrancy to explore new approaches to society’s complex and chronic health problems.
Project node lead: TBA
Using health research and applied economics to influence government decision-making so we can improve cross portfolio policy, and in turn, the health and wellbeing of Australians.
Project node lead: Dr Michelle Cunich
Working with Qantas to provide integrated health and wellbeing advice, education and research to improve the experience of long-haul flying.
Project node lead: Professor Stephen Simpson
A holistic exploration on how the arts and humanities can promote human health and wellbeing in hospitals, households, and communities.
Project node lead: Dr Olaf Werder
A multidisciplinary, international research network improving the management of chronic disease for adults with lower literacy.
Project node lead: Professor Kirsten McCaffery
We look at ways that communities can access nutritional food while ensuring the natural systems their food comes from remain ecologically sustainable.
Project node lead: Dr Sinead Boylan
Developing new partnerships in clinical medicine, biomedical research, computing and systems biology to apply new immune therapies and diagnostic tools for monitoring patient response.
Project node lead: Professor Barbara Fazekas
Biomedical and health service research often stays in the laboratory longer than it should. This node addresses the urgent need for this new evidence to be put into practice.
Project node lead: Professor Tim Shaw
The program invites Australian creative writers to apply for a generous University of Sydney fellowship, including a $100,000 grant, to begin a project exploring issues around health.
Identifying and understanding the incidence, prevalence and history of kidney disease at a population level to find solutions and treatments for this disease.
Project node lead: Professor Steven Chadban
Finding solutions to prevent and manage obesity within individuals, families and communities, in Greater Western Sydney and beyond.
Project node lead: Dr Kathryn Williams
Finding novel strategies to block the harmful effects of sunlight and UV, while retaining the beneficial effects so we can all absorb a healthy amount of sunlight.
Project node lead: A/Professor Scott Byrne
Drawing on theory, methods and empirical findings from the field of nutritional ecology to view humans in the broader context of biological diversity, along with the fundamental theoretical frameworks in biology, evolution and ecology, to inform the study of human diet, nutrition and health.
Project node lead: Professor David Raubenheimer
Exploring whether poor diets lead to disease and how a change in diet can help treat or prevent disease.
Project node lead: A/Professor Laurence Macia
Improving and better understanding the clinical application of animal welfare and ethics throughout Australasia.
Project node lead: Professor Paul McGreevy
Understanding the complex interplay between oral health and general health including its links with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, arthritis, and pregnancy outcomes.
Project node lead: Professor Joerg Eberhard
We improve the lives of people with chronic conditions by improving pharmaceutical policies to optimise medical treatments, facilitate equal access to medications, and foster transparency.
Project node lead: Professor Lisa Bero, Dr Barbara Mintzes
We aim to understand the placebo effect so that we can evaluate new and existing health interventions to improve health outcomes.
Project node lead: Associate Professor Ben Colagiuri
Navigating the line between the government’s responsibility to protect public health and fears of a ‘nanny state’ by developing and targeting arguments for/against policies in Australia.
Project node lead: Professor Paul Griffiths, Professor Warwick Anderson
Looking at insomnia, obstructive sleep apnoea, and shift work disorder, and their links to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
Project node lead: Professor Peter Cistulli, Associate Professor Kristina Kairaitis
Addressing the prevalent issues in the prevention of cardiovascular disease through collaborative, interdisciplinary research.
Project node lead: Professor Robyn Gallagher
A collaborative platform aimed at generating evidence to be used in the next generation of physical activity, sleep and exercise medicine guidelines.
Project node lead: Professor Emmanual Stamatakis
Identifying and addressing high-risk schizophrenia patients for whom intensive interventions will be of great value.
Project node lead: Professor Tim Lambert
Developing a set of interfaced, artificial solutions that repair and replace malfunctioning body parts and damaged tissue.
Project node lead: Professor Tony Weiss
Encouraging the growth and development of twin research to dissolve research obstacles in the wider research community.
Project node lead: Ms Susan Carrick
A research into mobile phone apps, wireless sensing and communications to empower people to improve their quality of life while preventing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Project node lead: Professor Margaret Allman-Farinelli
