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SPH researchers on ARC and NHMRC grants
Monday, 27 October 2008Professor Wayne Hall is a chief investigator on a NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council) grant administered through the University of Sydney. The grant, What is influential public health research ($433,500), is led by Professor Sally Redman with other chief investigators Professor Stephen Leeder, Professor Simon Chapman and Dr James Gillespie.
SPH’s Dr Allyson Mutch is chief investigator on an ARC (Australian Research Council) grant led by Professor B Oldenburg and entitled Citizen engagement: Listening to citizens' views about Australia's health system and prevention ($250,000, 2009-2011). The grant is administered through Monash University under the broader banner of the Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies.
Dr Mutch said the grant aims to gather new and important perspectives from citizens on preventive health and health promotion.
“The study will be investigating and evaluating innovative methods for engaging citizens’ in public health policy debates.”
“In particular, the emphasis will be on some topical health issues, including how we can achieve a better balance between prevention and treatment and the trade-offs that we may need to make to shift the emphasis to prevention,” she said.
“We hope that our findings will enhance our capacity to engage citizens in the policy process to develop better targeted and more effective prevention and promotion policies and strategies.”
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