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Capital projects

  • The Queensland Government Smart State Research Facilities Fund granted $22.5m to QUT towards construction of the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation building at Kelvin Grove.

Operational support

  • At risk Foot Clinic – joint education and research position between the School of Public Health and the Brisbane North Health Service District
  • Joint Clinical Academic Fellow with Q-Health and Child and Youth Mental Health Services (Q-Health $75k over 5 years, in process)

Major fellowships/projects

  • $0.9 million (2003-2006) - Resiliency in school children (Brisbane City Council, Qld Health)
  • $0.7 million (2010-2013) – Skin protection for outdoor workers (Health Promotion Qld)
  • $298,000 (2010) - Evaluation of hospital in nursing home program in Queensland (Qld Emergency Medicine Research Foundation)
  • $205,000 (2010) – Improved food literacy for young people aged 16-25 years (Queensland Health)
  • $180,000 (2008-2011) - Evaluation of health risk of heat waves (Qld Government)
  • $180,000 (2008-2010) Smart State Research Fellow, Environmental UV Radiation Exposure and its Health Duality for Queenslanders (Qld Government)
  • $150,000 (2006-2008) – Evaluation of the Qld Health Leadership Program (Qld Health)
  • $110,000 (2008-2009) Healthy babies project (Qld Health)
  • $102,000 (2005-2009) - Socio-economic inequality and diet (Qld Government)
  • $77,000 (2008-2009) – Injury prevention and management at the Qld Academy of Sport (Qld Academy of Sport)
  • $55,000 (2009) – Case studies of funded projects (Health Promotion Qld)
  • $46,000 (2008-2011) – Preventing healthcare acquired infection surgical site infection (CHRISP – Qld Health)
  • $45,000 (2008-2010) - Measurement and surveillance of child abuse (Qld Government)
  • $45,000 (2007-2010) - Health vulnerability to climate change (Qld Government)
  • $35,000 (2006-2008) Engaging Queensland Community: a strategy for reducing unemployment among Queensland’s Muslims (Multicultural Affairs Queensland)
  • $30,000 (2009-2010) Youth Space Engagement and Evaluation (Redland City Council)
  • $27,000 (2006-2007) – A pilot study of Vitamin D levels in Brisbane
  • $22,500 (2009 – 2012) Smart Futures PhD Scholarship “Perspectives of home: Queenslanders with an Intellectual Disability share their experiences and concepts of home while living in supported accommodation”
  • $20,000 (2009) Shopping centre protocols (Redland Shire Council)

Fellowships:

  • Joint Senior Research Fellow appointment with Metro South Health Service District
  • Q-Health Health Practitioner Research Capacity Building Senior Research Fellows in Podiatry
  • Q-Health Health Practitioner Research Capacity Building Senior Research Fellows in Public Health

 

National

  • National Competitive Grants ($889,309)
  • Public Sector Grants ($514,622)
  • Industry and Philanthropic Grants ($528,141)
  • $0.7 million (2008-2010) – Emergency health services: Demand and service delivery models (ARC Linkage)
  • $0.56 million (2009-2013) - Ecosystem control and population health (NHMRC Research Fellowship)
  • $0.5 million (2010-2012) - Hand hygiene interventions (NHMRC Partnership Project)
  • $0.48 million (2010-2011) - Helping women meet their physical activity goals: a randomised, controlled trial of a personalized program delivered by mobile telephone text messaging (NHMRC Project))
  • $370,000 (2009-2012) - Behavioural research and cancer control (NHMRC Career Development Award)
  • $370,000 (2009-2012)  - Physical activity participation in rural communities (NHMRC Career Development Award)
  • $302,698 (2010-2011) - Integrated and precautionary approach for assessing complex environmental health impacts (ARC Discovery)
  • $285,000(2009-2012) - Response of melanocytes to sunlight (NHMRC Training Fellowship)
  • $196,000 (2009-2010) – Embedding chronic disease self-management principles and practices into curriculum (Commonwealth Dept of Health and Ageing)
  • $192,894 (2005-2007) Active ageing and intellectual disability (ARC Linkage)
  • $164,000 (2000-2010) Youth Connections Project (FaHCSIA)
  • $161,503 (2009) – Australian Network of Academic Public Health Institutions (Dept of Health and Ageing, Canberra)
  • $129,127 (2007-2010) Refugee health – Family approaches (ARC Linkage)
  • $106,136 (2010-2012) - Emergency department impact and patient profile of influenza A (H1N1) “Swine Flu” outbreak in Australia 2009: A national survey (NHMRC Strategic Award)
  • $61,000 (2009-2010) Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) (joint participation)
  • $18,000 (2009) Action research manual project (FaHCSIA)

 

International

2008/2009

  • $458,399 (2009) – Using evidence to reduce the risk of healthcare acquired infection following hip replacement (Health Protection Agency (USA))
  • $32,129 (2009) –  ICD Coding Training (Ministry of Health, Brunei Darassalam)
  • $22,727 (2009) – ICD Update Seminars (Hong Kong Department of Health)
  • $25,000 (2009) – Supplemental vitamin D and functional outcomes in early adolescence (National Institutes of Health (USA)