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Faculty Research Day collaborative opportunities in the school of population health

Faculty Research Day collaborative opportunities in the school of population health. Presented by: A/Prof Angus Cook MBChB (Auckland, NZ), PhD ( Otago, NZ) SPH Research Coordinator. Five major collaborative opportunities to discuss: INTERVENTION RESEARCH / CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Faculty Research Day collaborative opportunities in the school of population health

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  1. Faculty Research Daycollaborative opportunities in the school of population health Presented by: A/Prof Angus Cook MBChB (Auckland, NZ), PhD (Otago, NZ) SPH Research Coordinator

  2. Five major collaborative opportunities to discuss: • INTERVENTION RESEARCH / CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY • POLICY AND TRANSLATION APPROACHES TO MEDICAL RESEARCH • SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH/HEALTH DISPARITIES • NURSING RESEARCH • SOCIAL WORK, ESPECIALLY IN MENTAL HEALTH AND CHILD HEALTH ISSUES

  3. Also attempt to overcome some major misconceptions of Population Health: Are we about more than just theory and numbers?

  4. Range of Centres, groups and projects • Centre for Health Services Research • Centre for the Built Environment and Health • Marine Safety Research • Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology • The Cardiovascular Research Group • Environmental Epidemiology • Busselton Health Study • Ecology and Health • Catastrophic Injury Study • Women's Health • Aged Care Research and Evaluation • Nursing Research

  5. OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FIELDS OF INTERVENTION RESEARCH / CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY • SPH research groups are currently engaged in work on mental health, cardiovascular disease, aged care, a range of respiratory disease, and cancer. • We are extending our involvement in intervention • research (ranging from non-experimental program evaluations to experimental field • trials and clinical trials). • This includes an emphasis on: • establishing and advancing collaborations between population health and clinical researchers • providing a research nexus to examine the population risk profiles, management, intervention and mitigation, especially for chronic diseases • developing and implementing education programs relating to chronic disease

  6. OPPORTUNITIES FOR POLICY AND TRANSLATION APPROACHES TO MEDICAL RESEARCH • Many SPH projects have a strong health economics and/or health policy dimension. • We are seeking collaborative links on projects that support research-informed changes in policy and practice. • This strategy includes: • engaging with health economists and policy-makers to optimise services to people with acute and chronic illnesses • developing and evaluating new delivery models for: • primary prevention programs • primary medical, nursing and allied • health care • cross-cultural health programs

  7. OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH/HEALTH DISPARITIES • Much of our research often encompasses or explicitly explores the social, economic and cultural components of health and illness. • We are extending research linkages on health disparities and the social determinants of health, including in the following populations: • Indigenous Australians • people in rural and remote areas • people in socio-economically disadvantaged areas • minorities, migrants and marginalised population groups • people with mental disorders, chronic diseases and disabilities (including cardiovascular disease; cancer) and comorbidities • at-risk aged populations

  8. Expansion of School from “core” Population Health to new disciplines • Now encompasses research and education in Nursing and Social Work Master of Nursing Science students at SPH Nursing research teams

  9. OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATIONS IN NURSING RESEARCH Our Nursing group is currently involved in several projects within the Faculty and with external partners including Brightwater, Silver Chain, SCGH, Bethanie Group and Bethesda Hospital. We are seeking to extend our collaborative links in this field as the number of Nursing researchers increases in the next couple of years.

  10. OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATIONS IN SOCIAL WORK, ESPECIALLY MENTAL HEALTH AND CHILD HEALTH ISSUES The Department of Social Work will be joining the School from 2011/12. SPH will work with the Social Work team in providing training and inbuilding research capacity. As the academic staff numbers expandin Social Work, we will be seeking interdisciplinary, collaborative links, particularly in the aspects of social work that impact on mental health and child health issues

  11. MORE DETAILS ON COLLABORATIVE OPPORTUNITIES CAN ALSO BE FOUND:- AT OUR SCHOOL WEBSITEhttp://www.sph.uwa.edu.au/research - IN OUR 2010 SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLAN:http://www.sph.uwa.edu.au/staff/strategic-plan …OR CONTACT ANGUS COOK DIRECTLY angus.cook@uwa.edu.au

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