These grants provide seed funding for research projects to assist our researchers build a body of evidence which will lead to positive health outcomes.
The small grants program is part of our commitment to strengthen the skills of our research teams and develop research projects that are world-class, translatable, and will make a difference to the lives of people throughout Australia and across the region.
We look forward to sharing the stories of our grant recipients research in future editions of Healthy Tomorrow.
Congratulations to the following grant recipients:
- Abbey Diaz - Improving cardiovascular prevention and outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people diagnosed with cancer
- Nicholas Fancourt - A pilot study of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in acutely malnourished children in Dili, Timor-Leste
- Marita Hefler - Transforming tobacco control: towards ending commercial cigarette sales
- Vicki Kerrigan - The "Communicate" study: developing cultural training
- Steven Kho - A non-invasive ultrasonographic and elastographic approach to:
- estimate the hidden splenic parasite biomass
- evaluate the magnitude of splenic red cell congestion and its impact on anaemia in clinical malaria
- Robyn Marsh - Interactions among nasopharyngeal bacteria
- Megan Sutherland - Optimising methods for non-invasive urine collection in newborn infants