Research Collaborations
Collaboration is viewed as the key to the GGT UDRH's first class research program. Staff collaborate with leading researchers, educators and clinicians nationally and internationally who are working in the fields of public health, health service research and workforce. Collaboration with the health services and organisations of the Greater Green Triangle region is also essential to achieving the GGT UDRH's mission.
Current collaborations encompass a range of institutions and organisations including:
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing:
- Pharmacy Academics at UDRH (PAUDRH) program
- Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) program
- University Department of Rural Health (UDRH) program
- UDRH Mental Health project
Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) (Australian National University):
- APHCRI Linkage & Exchange Travelling Scholarship - Chronic Disease Management Models as Examples of Organisational Developmental Approaches in Primary Care (Stream 10)
- The Contribution of Organisational Change to Optimising the Workforce in Primary Care project (Stream 6)
- Project work on organisational development (Stream 16)
beyondblue: the National Depression Initiative:
Department of Human Services Victoria:
Diabetes Australia - Victoria (DAV):
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science's Public Health Research, Evaluation and Policy Cluster
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- NHMRC Partnership Project Grant - Preventing diabetes in pregnancy from progressing to type 2 diabetes
- Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) program
- Primary Health Care Research Information Service (PHCRIS)
General Practice South Australia (GPSA):
General Practice Victoria (GPV):
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
- TrueBlue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage 2))
Greater Green Triangle General Practice Education and Training (GGT GPET):
- Collaborative care work
- TrueBlue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage 2))
- Advanced practice in allied health and nursing (Consultancy, Associate Professor Adrian Schoo)
- A Controlled Evaluation of the Australasian Peers for Progress Diabetes Program (PfP-DP) and its Transferability to Other Countries project
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Pharmacy Academics at UDRH (PAUDRH) program
- NICS Fellowship for Kevin McNamara and the associated project "Controlling Hypertension through Innovation in Primary Care", see the PAUDRH program
- Pharmacist Assessment of Adherence, Risk and Treatment & Increasing the involvement of community pharmacy in the prevention of cardiovascular disease projects, see the PAUDRH program
- Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) program
National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), Finland:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Other diabetes prevention initiatives
Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health:
Otway Division of General Practice:
- Consultancy on diabetes prevention (Professor James Dunbar)
Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH):
- Corangamite Managed Clinical Network
- Statewide Allied Health Workforce Education Program (SAHWEP)
- UDRH Mental Health project
Terang and Mortlake Health Service:
- Corangamite Managed Clinical Network
- Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) program bursary holder- Health, Wellbeing and Active Transport
- Centre of Clinical Research Excellence: Clinical Science in Diabetes project
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- PEACH - Patient Engagement and Coaching for Health: An Intensive Treatment Intervention for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Disadvantaged Communities project
University of North Carolina, USA:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Efectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Pharmacist Assessment of Adherence, Risk and Treatment & Increasing the involvement of community pharmacy in the prevention of cardiovascular disease projects, see the Pharmacy Academics at UDRH (PAUDRH) program
University of Washington, USA:
- Collaborative care using the IMPACT Model/ True Blue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage 2))
West Vic Division of General Practice:
Western District Health Services (WDHS):
Wimmera Health Care Group (WHCG):
For more information about the GGT UDRH's research collaborations contact Professor James Dunbar
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