Public health research project funding 2003-04
The Public Health Group of the Department of Human Services sought public health research proposals in the areas of Health Inequalities, Communicable Disease, Environmental Health, Chronic Disease, Injury Prevention and Nursing Practice research in November 2003. The number and quality of applications received, for the available funding, resulted in strong competition.
Details of the thirteen successful project applications are listed below:
| Topic |
An investigation into the effect of income inequality, social capital and socioeconomic status on smoking behaviour |
| Investigators |
Dr Mohammad Siahpush, Dr Ron Borland |
| Organisation |
Cancer Council Victoria |
| Funding |
$75,000 |
| Topic |
The Positioning of Health Impact Assessment in Local Government in Victoria |
| Investigators |
Ms Mary Mahoney |
| Organisation |
Deakin University, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Science |
| Funding |
$75,000 |
| Topic |
The social processes of peer influence among gay men in Melbourne |
| Investigators |
A/Professor Anthony Smith, Professor Marian Pitts |
| Organisation |
La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society |
| Funding |
$74,528 |
| Topic |
Perceptions and Understandings of HIV transmission among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities |
| Investigators |
Dr Stephen McNally, Professor Marian Pitts, Dr Jeffrey Grierson |
| Organisation |
La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society |
| Funding |
$63,236 |
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| Topic |
Reducing the risk of transmission of HIV/AIDS in African and Arabic-speaking communities in Victoria |
| Investigators |
A/Professor Beverley-Ann Biggs, Dr Margaret Hellard, Dr Alan Street |
| Organisation |
Melbourne Health, Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital |
| Funding |
$75,627 |
| Topic |
Emergency Management Risk Communication |
| Investigators |
A/Professor Rae Walker, Professor Vivian Lin, Dr Priscilla Robinson, Dr John Tebbutt |
| Organisation |
La Trobe University, School of Population Health |
| Funding |
$72,882 |
| Topic |
Occupational asthma - detection, surveillance and prevention of the disease burden |
| Investigators |
A/Professor Malcolm Sim, A/Professor Michael Abramson, A/Professor Anthony LaMontagne, Dr Rosalie Aroni |
| Organisation |
Monash University, Occupational & Environmental Health Unit |
| Funding |
$71,274 |
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| Topic |
Gear up: Motivators and barriers to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) wearing by youth skaters (in-line skaters and skateboards) |
| Investigators |
Ms Erin Cassell, Dr Rosalie Aroni, A/Professor Susan Sawyer |
| Organisation |
Monash University, Accident Research Centre |
| Funding |
$69,953 |
| Topic |
Barriers to child poisoning prevention: Why does child resistant packaging fail? |
| Investigators |
Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith, Dr Jenny Sherrard, Mr Jeff Robinson |
| Organisation |
Monash University, Accident Research Centre |
| Funding |
$54,287 |
| Topic |
Investigating the over-representation of older persons in Do-It-Yourself home maintenance injury and barriers to prevention |
| Investigators |
Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith. Ms Karen Ashby |
| Organisation |
Monash University, Accident Research Centre |
| Funding |
$33,041 |
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| Topic |
Doesn't everyone have poison in the kitchen cupboard? Investigating socio-cultural differences in child unintentional poisoning |
| Investigators |
Ms Lisa Gibbs, A/Professor Elizabeth Waters, Dr Simon Young |
| Organisation |
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Centre for Community Child Health |
| Funding |
$74,280 |
| Topic |
Cultural safety in nursing practice: professional, educational, organisational and consumer perspectives |
| Investigators |
Professor Olga Kanitsaki, Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone |
| Organisation |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Department of Nursing & Midwifery |
| Funding |
$72,650 |
| Topic |
Beyond the bedside: What contribution can Nurses make within a regional HACC agency? |
| Investigators |
Professor Linda Johnston, |
| Organisation |
The University of Melbourne, Victorian Centre for Nursing Practice Research |
| Funding |
$73,142 |
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