Research project nodes
Aboriginal nutrition, physical activity and wellbeingUnderstanding the substantial changes to dietary intake and participation in physical activity of Australia’s first peoples since colonisation and informing education programs for local communities. Project node lead: Dr Josephine Gwynn |
Active ageing
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BABY1000Identifying and dealing with interactions before and during pregnancy that can contribute to the development of health disorders that impact future generations. Project node lead: Dr Adrienne Gordon |
Bias in researchGood research has always been about evidence. Reliable evidence. This node aims to ensure that research, and related policy decisions, rest on strong and unbiased pillars of evidence. Project node lead: Professor Lisa Bero |
Biology of ageingIncreasing the understanding of ageing and interventions that delay ageing in order to increase human lifespan and health span. Project node lead: Professor David Le Couteur |
Brain and bodyExploring the connection between body disorders like obesity and diabetes, and brain diseases like Alzheimer's. Project node lead: Associate Professor Greg Sutherland |
Building system wide capacity for complex and big data analysis and storage in T2DPromoting strong collaboration between clinicians, biologists, mathematicians, engineers and computational scientists. Project node lead: Professor Jean Yang, Dr Rima Chaudhuri, Professor David James |
Businesses, markets and the social context of healthUnderstanding the interconnected roles of business, social context and consumer behaviour in improving health. Project node lead: TBA |
Cardiac translational imagingGuiding effective decision-making in cardiac health by using emerging technologies that provide better detection of early stages of disease. Project node lead: Professor Stuart Grieve |
Charles Perkins Centre networksExploring the transformative effect that the Charles Perkins Centre has on the University’s academic population and its external collaborators. Project node lead: TBA |
Citizen ScienceCitizen science enhances diversity of thought and can accelerate transformative outcomes for health and quality of life. Through this node, we will establish a framework and platform for the enhancement of citizen science. Project node lead: Professor Yun-Hee Jeon |
Climate adaptation and healthOur climate is constantly changing. As increasingly high temperatures accelerate mortality and morbidity rates, this node explores the heightened health risks created by these climate issues. Project node lead: Associate Professor Ollie Jay |
Developmental origin of health and disease (DOHaD)A study on pregnant women in Western Sydney to determine whether disease begins developing in the womb through fetal immune programming. Project node lead: Professor Ralph Nanan |
Digital solutions in cardiovascular disease preventionImproving preventative care through the development of digital health interventions designed to educate patients and reduce the number of secondary cardiovascular episode. Project node lead: Professor Clara Chow |
Dog ownership and human healthExamining the influence of dog ownership on human physical and mental health and social wellbeing. Project node lead: Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis |
Early prevention of obesity in childhoodMaking a direct impact on the community through research into lifestyle changes made in the early years and their effect on obesity-related diseases. Project node lead: Professor Louise Baur |
Economics of human developmentWhy are some people more likely to succeed than others? This node addresses the question of long-term effects of socioeconomic disadvantage on the evolution of human potential. Project node lead: Professor Stefanie Schurer |
E-health in gaming and avatarsAn artificial intelligence-based clinical intervention for patients with Type-2 diabetes that aims to help them achieve health and wellness goals. Project node lead: Professor Stephen Twigg |
Evidence synthesisWorking towards synthesizing all kinds of evidence around obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and uniting key researchers to collaborate on solutions. Project node lead: Professor Lisa Bero |
Lifespan obesity nodeFinding solutions to prevent and manage obesity within individuals, families and communities, in Greater Western Sydney and beyond. Project node lead: Dr Kathryn Williams |
Fibrosis and wound healingBringing together researchers from a diverse range of disciplines to prevent, treat and reverse fibrosis across a diversity of diseases. Project node lead: Professor Stephen Twigg |
Food governanceExploring how governments can use legal strategies to create conditions for people to live healthier lives. Project node lead: Dr Alexandra Jones, Dr Belinda Reeve |
Gut microbiomeDiscovering the influence of our gut microorganisms over our metabolism, immune and nervous systems, our food choices and other behaviours. Project node lead: Associate Professor Andrew Holmes |
Health and creativityChallenging staff and students to create a new vibrancy to explore new approaches to society’s complex and chronic health problems. Project node lead: TBA |
Health and economicsUsing health research and applied economics to influence government decision-making so we can improve cross portfolio policy, and in turn, the health and wellbeing of Australians. Project node lead: Dr Michelle Cunich |
Health and wellness in the airWorking with Qantas to provide integrated health and wellbeing advice, education and research to improve the experience of long-haul flying. Project node lead: Professor Stephen Simpson |
Health humanitiesA holistic exploration on how the arts and humanities can promote human health and wellbeing in hospitals, households, and communities. Project node lead: Dr Olaf Werder |
Digital Health Information NetworkDemonstrating how the integration of data in the public and private sector can be used to map individual health journeys, and make our health system more efficient. Project node lead: Professor Jonathan Morris, Professor Tim Shaw |
Health literacy chronic disease networkA multidisciplinary, international research network improving the management of chronic disease for adults with lower literacy. Project node lead: Professor Kirsten McCaffery |
Healthy food systemsWe look at ways that communities can access nutritional food while ensuring the natural systems their food comes from remain ecologically sustainable. Project node lead: Dr Sinead Boylan |
Immune therapiesDeveloping new partnerships in clinical medicine, biomedical research, computing and systems biology to apply new immune therapies and diagnostic tools for monitoring patient response. Project node lead: Professor Barbara Fazekas |
Implementation scienceBiomedical and health service research often stays in the laboratory longer than it should. This node addresses the urgent need for this new evidence to be put into practice. Project node lead: Professor Tim Shaw |
Incidental physical activity and sedentary behaviourUnderstanding the cultural, economic and individual circumstances leading to habit-formation to help people adopt healthy habits. Project node lead: Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis |
Judy Harris Writer in Residence FellowshipThe program invites Australian creative writers to apply for a generous University of Sydney fellowship, including a $100,000 grant, to begin a project exploring issues around health. |
Kidney healthIdentifying and understanding the incidence, prevalence and history of kidney disease at a population level to find solutions and treatments for this disease. Project node lead: Professor Steven Chadban |
Living healthier lives under the Australian sunFinding novel strategies to block the harmful effects of sunlight and UV, while retaining the beneficial effects so we can all absorb a healthy amount of sunlight. Project node lead: A/Professor Scott Byrne |
Nutritional ecology and human healthDrawing on theory, methods and empirical findings from the field of nutritional ecology to view humans in the broader context of biological diversity, along with the fundamental theoretical frameworks in biology, evolution and ecology, to inform the study of human diet, nutrition and health. Project node lead: Professor David Raubenheimer |
Nutrition and cardiovascular healthExploring which types of healthy diets can lower the risk of developing heart disease, and how these differ from person to person. Project node lead: Professor Michael Skilton |
Nutritional immunometabolismExploring whether poor diets lead to disease and how a change in diet can help treat or prevent disease. Project node lead: A/Professor Laurence Macia |
One welfareImproving and better understanding the clinical application of animal welfare and ethics throughout Australasia. Project node lead: Professor Paul McGreevy |
Oral and systemic healthUnderstanding the complex interplay between oral health and general health including its links with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, arthritis, and pregnancy outcomes. Project node lead: Professor Joerg Eberhard |
Pharmaceutical policyWe improve the lives of people with chronic conditions by improving pharmaceutical policies to optimise medical treatments, facilitate equal access to medications, and foster transparency. Project node lead: Professor Lisa Bero, Dr Barbara Mintzes |
Placebo research networkWe aim to understand the placebo effect so that we can evaluate new and existing health interventions to improve health outcomes. Project node lead: Associate Professor Ben Colagiuri |
Politics of obesityNavigating the line between the government’s responsibility to protect public health and fears of a ‘nanny state’ by developing and targeting arguments for/against policies in Australia. Project node lead: Professor Paul Griffiths, Professor Warwick Anderson |
Positive computing in health systemsPsychology experts and technology designers collaborating to investigate how technology can promote motivation, autonomy and self-empowerment to support physical wellbeing. Project node lead: Professor Rafael Calvo |
Precision Sleep Medicine (PRISM)Looking at insomnia, obstructive sleep apnoea, and shift work disorder, and their links to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Project node lead: Professor Peter Cistulli, Associate Professor Kristina Kairaitis |
Preventative cardiologyAddressing the prevalent issues in the prevention of cardiovascular disease through collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Project node lead: Professor Robyn Gallagher |
Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium (ProPASS)A collaborative platform aimed at generating evidence to be used in the next generation of physical activity, sleep and exercise medicine guidelines. Project node lead: Professor Emmanual Stamatakis |
Schizophrenia: Cardiometabolic and other medical comorbidityIdentifying and addressing high-risk schizophrenia patients for whom intensive interventions will be of great value. Project node lead: Professor Tim Lambert |
Science of learning scienceImproving the learning experience for students by focusing on the emerging challenges and opportunities for multidisciplinary education in a research-intense environment. Project node lead: Professor Philip Poronnik, Professor Peter Goodyear |
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM)Developing a set of interfaced, artificial solutions that repair and replace malfunctioning body parts and damaged tissue. Project node lead: Professor Tony Weiss |
Twin researchEncouraging the growth and development of twin research to dissolve research obstacles in the wider research community. Project node lead: Ms Susan Carrick |
Type 1 diabetesOur multidisciplinary team is working towards improvement management and, ultimately, preventing & curing type 1 diabetes. Project node lead: Professor Peter Thorn, Dr Kirstine Bell |
Virtual realityDesigning strategies for virtual reality environments that enable researchers to adapt this technology in their research for better research outcomes. Project node lead: TBA |
Wireless wellbeing and personalised healthA research into mobile phone apps, wireless sensing and communications to empower people to improve their quality of life while preventing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Project node lead: Professor Margaret Allman-Farinelli |
