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OSPREY (Outcomes, Services and Policy for the Reproductive and Early Years)

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NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Health Services Research. OSPREY is developing a new cadre of researchers skilled in methods for research using linked health datasets, and in applying these to address policy-relevant questions relating to the health of mothers, babies and children. OSPREY commenced in 2009 and team investigators (TIs) are based at UNSW Australia, the University of Western Sydney, the University of Sydney and the University of...

The Smoking MUMS (Maternal Use of Medications and Safety) Study

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Funded by NHMRC Project Grant. Little is known about the utilisation, effectiveness and safety of pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation during pregnancy. The Smoking MUMS (Maternal Use of Medications and Safety) Study will explore these issues using routinely collected perinatal data from NSW and WA linked to pharmaceutical data and records of other health service use. In addition to investigating the maternal and neonatal safety of nicotine...

Seeding success: identifying factors that contribute to positive early childhood health and development in Aboriginal children

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Funded by NHMRC Project Grant. Promoting positive early childhood development is fundamental to improving life opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal Australians. However, national data show that a significant proportion of Aboriginal children have markers of developmental vulnerability at school entry and this tracks through to poor literacy and numeracy outcomes across all schooling years. We currently lack information about the key drivers...

Population-based family study of follicular lymphoma

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Follicular lymphoma is the second most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults. The environmental and genetic factors that influence the susceptibility of this cancer are not completely understood. This is a large-scale population-based family case-control study of follicular lymphoma in NSW and Victoria. We are collecting valid, reliable estimates of lifetime personal exposure to selected risk factors and sampling saliva for genotyping...

Population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer

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We are estimating and comparing the population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer in Australia by applying our recently published PAF measure and program to data from established large-scale Australian cohort studies linked to national cancer and death registries (relative risk estimates) and nationally representative health survey (exposure prevalence estimates). Our method has been shown to provide more accurate estimates of the...

Risk and prognostic factors for glioma in Australia

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Glioma is the most common type of brain cancer. It is extremely aggressive and yet understudied. We are conducting a family case-control study of glioma in Australia. We will (i) investigate the genetic basis of this malignancy; (ii) estimate associations with established and new environmental, lifestyle, constitutional and occupational risk factors; (iii) identify prognostic factors and estimate their association with survival; and (iv)...

Measuring low value health care for targeted policy action

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In January 2015 The Australian newspaper ran with the headline 'Health eyes $15bn payoff from war on waste', outlining; "Ten per cent of all health expenditure and as much as $15 billion a year could be saved through a concerted effort to reduce wasteful programs, marginal treatments and avoidable errors". However, despite growing awareness of this overuse phenomenon, there is scant hard data on the scale and nature of the problem of marginal...

Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing

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The Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Medicines and Ageing is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between highly dedicated and internationally recognised researchers from the University of Sydney, Australian National University, the Sax Institute, University of Western Australia, University of NSW, University of Technology Sydney, and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences in Canada. The CRE in Medicine and Ageing will generate...
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Research Units

 

Our research spans a broad range of health issues – we will tackle any health issue that can be informed through research using large-scale electronic data.

The Centre has five (5) Research Units:

  • Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit
  • Clinical Machine Learning Research Unit
  • Health Services and Outcomes Unit
  • Medicines Policy Research Unit (MPRU)
  • National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU)

 


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