The key focus of CHS is the inter-disciplinary study of health, illness and health care in local, national and international settings, which brings perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to the study of medical science, clinical and public health practice and health policy.
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Research Units
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics
The Centre is a multidisciplinary organisation, the core business of which is health services and policy research, and health economics.
Centre for International Mental Health
The Centre for International Mental Health (CIMH) is dedicated to research, teaching and health system in the field of mental health, in Australia and the broader international community.
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology
MEGA Epidemiology aims to develop, promote and consolidate epidemiologic research and teaching.
Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society
The World Health Organization Gender policy (2002) explicitly acknowledges that sex - the biological facts of being female and male - and gender - the cultural norms that determine femininity and masculinity - have an important impact on health and wellbeing.
Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society: Health and Ageing Group
The Australian health sector faces major challenges, such as an ageing population, the rise in chronic disease, uneven access to specialist care, complex and costly diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, the healthcare consumer movement and health workforce shortages.
Natural Disaster Management Research Initiative (NDMRI)
This Initiative brings together our considerable research expertise from across the University in areas related to natural disasters.
Social Justice Initiative
The aim of the SJI is to facilitate interdisciplinary research of international standing and strengthen the growing interest in questions of social justice at the University of Melbourne and beyond.
Australian Health Workforce Institute
Towards a Sustainable Health Workforce
The current pressures on the Australian health care system demand some radical surgery.
Lowitja Institute: CRC for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
The Lowitja Institute is an innovative research body that brings together Aboriginal organisations, academic institutions and government agencies to facilitate collaborative, evidence-based research into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
The focus of the Melbourne Institute is: applied macroeconomic research; labour economics and social policy; and applied industrial economic research; and health economics research.
Nossal Institute for Global Health
The Nossal Institute works in partnership with other organisations who share its vision of improving health where health is at its poorest. It strongly endorses the global responsibility to work together to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Health Services
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Sustainable Health Services aims to promote health services that are provided in an environmentally responsible manner. It includes advancement of Green Clinics and Green Hospitals, because health services are significant contributors to a society’s environmental footprint especially in developed countries. It also covers ethical questions about equity, access and quality of health care (see the Onemda Vic Health Koori Health Unit).
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Research Funding
ARC Discovery Grant: Beyond the Workforce Crisis: Advancing Conceptual Understanding in Rural and Remote Health
Researcher: A/Prof L Bourke; Dr JE Taylor; Prof JS Humphreys; Prof J Wakerman
ARC Discovery Grant: Drug Companies, their Patenting Strategies and High-Cost Pharmaceuticals: An Empirical Investigation
Researchers: Prof AF Christie; Prof DM Studdert; Prof P Mcintyre; Dr CM Dent
ARC Discovery Grant: Effective communication and improved patient safety: Addressing the complexities of managing high risk medications in metropolitan and regional hospitals
Researchers: Prof E Manias; Dr AF Williams; A/Prof D Liew
ARC Discovery Grant: Effects of Private Health Insurance on Health Care Usage and Health Outcomes in Australia
Researchers: Dr J Yong; Dr A Palangkaraya; Prof JW Freebairn
ARC Discovery Grant: Improving the participation of young people with chronic illness in triadic medical discussions about their health
Researchers: Dr Sarah E Drew, Prof Johanna G Wyn, Dr Helen W Cahill, Prof Vicki A Anderson, Dr Jenny L Hynson, Ms Maria C McCarthy, Dr Rony E Duncan
ARC Discovery Grant: Maternal mental health and anaemia as determinants of infant health and development in resource constrained settings
Researchers: Asst Prof JR Fisher; A/Prof B Biggs; Prof DA Rosenthal; Prof TD Dwyer; Mr GJ Casey; Mr T Tran; Dr Nt Nguyen
ARC Discovery Grant: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Australia: An Econometric Investigation into Causality and Pathways
Researchers: A/Prof M Shields; Dr DW Johnston
ARC Discovery Grant: The effect of competition and doctor heterogeneity on prices charged by doctors
Researchers: Prof Anthony Scott, Dr Jong-Say Yong, A/Prof Helena C Britt, Prof Hugh Gravelle
ARC Future Fellowship: Incentives and performance in the health care system
Researcher: Prof A Scott
ARC Laureate: Law for the public's health: the impact of medico-legal institutions on public health
Researcher: Prof David M Studdert
ARC Linkage Grant: From Suspicion to Intervention: Improving responsiveness to abuse of the elderly in acute and sub acute health care
Researchers: A/Prof LB Joubert; A/Prof D Ames; A/Prof EA Ozanne; Ms S Posenelli; Dr MF Gerdtz
ARC Linkage Grant: New directions in health inequalities research: understanding the intersection between housing, employment and health in Australia
Researchers: Dr Rebecca Bentley, Dr Emma Baker, Dr Shelley Mallett, A/Prof Anthony D LaMontagne, Prof Andrew P Beer, Prof Anne M Kavanagh, Dr Deborah W Keys, Ms Violet Kolar
ARC Linkage Grant: The emotional and social burden of caring for a young child with complex health needs
Researchers: Prof LJ Johnston; Dr PJ Anderson; Dr RW Hunt; A/Prof K Spence; A/Prof B Jordan; A/Prof N Badawi
ARC Linkage Grant: Towards improved healthcare communication: development and validation of language proficiency standards for non-native English speaking health professionals
Researchers: A/Prof CA Elder; Prof TF McNamara; Prof GJ McColl; Prof E Manias; A/Prof G Webb; Dr R Woodward-Kron
ARC Linkage Grant: When informed consent goes poorly: A descriptive study of health care complaints and medical negligence claims
Researchers: Prof DM Studdert; A/Prof RL Gruen