Research Areas
Research is undertaken in all of the areas listed here. Health Sciences is home to research groupings and centres that offer supervision of students' research, and are generally attached to existing major research programs.
Life Sciences
- Alzheimer's disease, the role of glycogen synthase kinase
- Anti-parasitic drug discovery
- Anti-tumour activity of adenoviruses
- Applied bioinformatics
- Articular cartilage stress, investigation the mechanisms and outcomes
- Biodiversity of nitrogen fixing bacteria
- Brain mapping
- Cardiovascular disease of cytomegalovirus myocarditis
- Characterisation of flea allergens and antigens
- Chemical screening of traditional medicinal plants
- Clinical pharmacy
- Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease, implications for transfusion and transplantation
- Detection and significance of protein sequence patterns
- Diabetes, Alzheimer and cancer drug discovery projects
- Diabetes education and pharmacists
- Diabetes,molecular studies of insulin and its receptor
- Drug delivery and optimisation
- Drug-food interactions
- Drug resistance and drug discovery in staphylococcus aureus
- Drug resistance in bacteria, epidemiology and molecular mechanisms
- Drug stability
- Electrolyte reponses to thermal conditions
- Epidemiology of the neurodevelopmental disorder, Rett Syndrome
- Evaluation of community pharmacy services for opioid addicts
- Gene therapy of cancer
- Genetic factors in chronic diseases
- Haemostasis, role of the tissue factor pathway
- Human adenoviral-based cancer therapies
- Human fungal infections, diagnosis and treatment
- Improving clinical outcomes in hypertension through community pharmacist managed care
- Leukemia, cytogenetics and molecular characterisation
- Malarial parasites; processing in a murine model
- Malignant melanomas, the molecular basis of their invasiveness
- Malignant mesothelioma treatment by inducing immunity
- Melanosis and weight recoveries in Western rock lobster fluid Microbial spoilage of wine
- Molecular basis of childhood leukaemia
- Molecular diagnostics, development of low cost DNA testing in animals
- Molecular epidemiology of parasites and bacteria
- Molecular genetics, structure, diversity & function of the MHC
- Molecular modelling and rational drug discovery
- Nanoparticles for delivery of proteins and peptides
- Natural products and heterocyclic chemistry
- Neuropathological and immunohistochemical studies by electron microscopy
- Nosocomial pathogens,gene transfer in staphylococcus aureus
- P-glycoprotein and multiple drug resistance
- Pharmaceutical biology
- Pharmaceutical care in diabetic patients
- Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Pharmaceutical services in single pharmacy towns
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics of drugs
- Pharmacy practice
- Prostate cancer, the role of sex steroids
- Psychoimmunology, the links between the brain and and the immune system
- Red wine polyphenolics and their effect on lipids and lipoprotein metabolism
- Spontaneous miscarriage, cytogenetics and molecular characterisation
- Targeted topical drug delivery
- Therapeutic antiviral efficacies of type I interferon subtypes
- Thrombotic disease, haemostatic mechanisms and risk
Clinical Sciences
- Acute/complex health care
- Aging and aged care
- Alcohol and drug issues
- ADHD and conduct disorder as risk factors for substance use disorders
- AdultsCarer/consumer issues
- Applied technology and rehabilitation, assessment and training
- Community health
- Construction of meaning and recovery from severe trauma
- Dementia
- Depression prevention
- Diabetes
- Disability
- Emotional Development of Very Preterm infants
- Enduring illnesses /disabilities
- Ethics and law in health care
- Evidence-based practice and evaluation of services
- Family health
- Impact of 'baby boomers' on services
- Infectious Diseases
- Innovation in fieldwork education
- Learning inhibition
- Maternal and child health
- Mechanisms of Worry in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Mental health/illness
- Models of care
- Motor learning and control
- Multi-cultural issues in health care
- Musculoskeletal dysfunction
- Nursing and midwifery theory
- Occupational health and safety
- Occupations affecting healthy aging
- Organisational stress
- Pain management
- Patient self-management
- Peri-operative nursing
- Physical activity and well-being of older people
- Qualitative research methodologies
- Respite services for people with dementia and their carers
- Student learning outcomes in occupational therapy
- Tuberculosis
- Validation of assessment tools/occupational performance/safety analysis and prevention
- Vocational rehabilitation and service provision
- Women's health
- Workforce issues
Population Health Sciences
- Adolescent pregnancy and drug abuse
- Alcohol consumption (especially amongst young people)
Alcohol research
- Alcohol and drug prevention in the workplace
- Breastfeeding and the introduction of complementary foods (Maldives)
- Bullying prevention (community campaign)
- Changing community dietary behaviour
- Childhood development and survival in Bangladesh
- Community-based programs/activities and disabled populations
- Community and child health
- Community and school interventions research
- Comparison of women's health status in two South Indian states
- Culturally specific health promotion material and its provision of practical education for health professionals/health workers
- Determinants of health, corporate activity and community health
- Dietary factors and lifestyle characteristics in the aetiology of ovarian cancer (China)Domestic violence (targeting perpetrators in particular)
- Drug use (factors influencing use; community attitudes)
- Education and health care
- Ethnic and cultural influence on body image of males
- Experiential learning
- Gay men's experiences of sexuality, risk and HIV
- Health care history
- Health consumer satisfaction, conceptual, methodological and practical issues related to its measurement Housing and accommodation needs
- Illicit drug use research
- Indigenous Australian research
- International Health
- Knowledge about risk and preventative factors for various cancers
- Long-term health status of torture and trauma survivors
- Malnutrition in hill tribes in Northern Thailand
- Maternity services use and breastfeeding practices (rural Vietnam)
- Mental health promotion
- Performance-enhancing drug use in sport
- Physical activity promotion
- Policy analysis, interaction between the environment and infectious diseases
- Population health best practice
- Respiratory effects of rice husk dust exposure, influence of an intervention program on health awareness/preventative practices
- Social issues for older people
- Socialisation processes, social structure and cultural dimensions of anabolic steroid use
- Smoking harm minimisation and non-smokers
- Sun protection (especially amongst young people)
- Tobacco control (cessation research; advocacy research; prevention)
- Traditional medicine and culture beliefs in PNG
- White Australians' participation in reconciliation
- Women's heath
- Young adult refugees
