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Health Services Research Program
Round Three
The call for research for Health Services Research Program (Round 3) was advertised in March 2006 and attracted forty-nine Expressions of Interest. These were short listed by the Working Group with the assistance of a limited number of overseas experts and fifteen applicants were asked to submit detailed proposals. The Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott, has approved funding for the following seven proposals:
Chief |
Administering Institute |
Project description |
Recommended Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
Professor Peter Cameron |
Monash University |
Using data to improve quality of health care. |
$2,629,000 |
Professor Anthony Scott |
University of Melbourne |
Understanding the dynamics of the medical workforce to improve Population health and equity of access: The Australian Longitudinal Survey of Doctors. |
$2,133,430 |
Professor John McNeil |
Monash University |
Better targeting of preventative services using epidemiological modelling |
$1,823,750 |
Associate Professor Dianne O’Connell |
The Cancer Council of NSW |
Patterns of cancer care for Indigenous people in NSW |
$1,580,750 |
Professor Robyn Ward |
University of New South Wales |
Using clinical and economic evidence to inform local decision making in cancer care. |
$1,575,750 |
Professor Simon Stewart |
Baker Health Research Institute |
Which Heart failure Intervention is most Cost-effective and consumer friendly in reducing Hospital care: The WHICH Study. |
$878,702 |
Professor Lorna Rosenwax |
Curtin University of Technology |
Determining critical points in the potential palliative care pathway in the last year of life. |
$344,000 (over three years) |
Round Two
The call for research for Health Services Research Program (Round 2) advertised in May 2005 attracted seventy-seven Expressions of Interest. These were short listed by the Working Group. Eight applicants were asked to submit detailed proposals.
The Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott has approved funding for the following four proposals:
Chief |
Administering Institute |
Project description |
Recommended Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
Dr Alan CASS |
The University of Sydney * |
Improving health outcomes for Aboriginal Australians with chronic disease through strategies to reduce systems barriers to necessary care. |
$2,800,000 |
Associate Professor Ian CAMERON |
The University of Sydney * |
Transition care: evidence and innovation. The project will develop and validate quality, cost and continuity of service indicators for transition care and service integration in different settings. |
$2,900,000 |
Professor Stephen LEEDER |
The University of Sydney * |
Optimising prevention and the management of care for Australians with, or at risk of serious and continuing chronic illness. The project will prototype Cardio-Vascular disease, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in people aged 45 to 85. |
$3,515,000 |
Professor Stephen DUCKETT |
University of Queensland |
Care pathways for older Australians with dementia, Cardio-Vascular Disease and Arthritis using existing data to provide information about outcomes for people assessed for aged care in hospital settings. |
$622,000 (Over two years) |
* While the Administrative Institution for three of the funded projects is the University of Sydney, these projects involve collaborations between researchers, clinicians and policy makers from universities, health research institutes, Area Health Services and Aboriginal Medical Service sites in five States and Territories.
Round One
The first call under this program focused on Financing and Economics of Health and resulted in the following three capacity building grants:
Chief |
Institute |
Title |
Total Funding |
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Dr James Robert Gerard BUTLER |
Australian National University |
ACERH- Innovative Analysis of Health Insurance, Ageing and the Economic Burden of Illness and Injury |
$4,500,000 |
See link to project website |
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Associate Professor Eric Theo VOS |
University of Queensland |
Guiding Intervention Choices to Reduce Health Costs, Health Inequalities, and Improve the Health of Australians: Avoidable Disease Burden and Cost-Effectiveness of Prevention. |
$3,200,000 |
Associate Professor Anthony HARRIS |
Monash University |
Modelling the Economics of the Australian Health Care System for Policy Analyses |
$3,500,000 |
Twenty six Expressions of Interest were received in February 2004 in response to a national advertisement on 11 October 2003. These were short-listed by the Working Group with the assistance of a limited number of overseas experts. Seven short-listed applicants were asked to submit a more detailed proposal, leading to the approval of the above three projects.
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