2008

  • Aitken C, Dixon H, Lim M, Wakefield M, Ferrari G, Hope J. $68,593. VicHealth Discovery Grant - Using text messaging (SMS) to promote health issues to young people - a randomise controlled trial (2008-2009).
  • Hellard M, Goller J, Winter R, Downing S, Aitken C. $89,755.60. Western Australian Department of Health - Evaluation of the Western Australian HIV/AIDS, STI and Hepatitis C Action Plans (2006-2008) and the Western Australian Aboriginal Sexual Health Strategy (2005-2008) (2008).
  • Lim M. Monash University Postgraduate Publication Award (2008).
  • Lim M. Alfred Week Burnet Prize for Infectious Diseases Research (2008).

 

2007

  • Dietze, P., and Aitken, C. $21,423. Maribyrnong City Council – Public Drinking and Drug Use in the Footscray Business District.
  • Dwyer, R. Public Health Travel Award (Burnet Institute).
  • Hellard, M., and Hocking, J. $28,849. Victorian Department of Human Services – HIV mathematical modelling in Victoria.
  • Hellard, M., Guy, R., Goller, J., Leonard, M. (World Vision Australia), Halcrow, G. (World Vision Australia), Clarke, Y. (World Vision Australia), Anderson, A. (School of Population Health, University of Melbourne) and O’Shaughnessy, T. $58,537. Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing – Evaluation of the Tristate HIV/STI Project in Central Australia.
  • Hellard, M., Guy, R., and Donovan, B. (National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research). $1,192,228. Federal government Chlamydia targeted grants program – The Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (2007-2008).
  • Higgs, P., and Aitken, C. $9,814. Western Region Health Centre – Braybrook Needle and Syringe Program – Evaluation of the establishment of a secondary site.
  • Lim et al. Alfred Research Week  Burnet Prize for Infectious Diseases Poster - Impact of  SMS and email messages on young peoples' sexual health: A randomised controlled trial.
  • Lim, M. Monash University Postgraduate Travel Award.

 

2006

  • Aitken, C. and Power, R. (Centre for Harm Reduction, Burnet Institute). $138,231. Queensland Health - Injecting Related Injury and Disease Project (2006-2007).
  • Aitken, C. $22,708. DHS Victoria competitive grant – Evaluation of a Heroin overdose prevention and education campaign.
  • Goller J et al. Award for Best Oral Presentation - Australasian HIV Medicine (ASHM) Conference - Evaluation of an HIV and STI testing campaign targeting men who have sex with men in Victoria, 2004.
  • Hellard, M. Appointed Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
  • Hellard, M., and Aitken, C. $10,000. Ray and Joyce Uebergang Foundation – Behavioural, virological and immunological factors influencing hepatitis C infection in injecting drug users.
  • Hellard, M., and Aitken, C. $15,000. The Invergowrie Foundation – A research traineeship for an outreach worker from a marginalised community.
  • Hellard, M., and Aitken, C. $50,000. The Collier Charitable Trust – A research traineeship for an outreach worker from a marginalised community.
  • Hellard, M., Guy, R., Kelly, H., and Fairley, C (Melbourne Sexual Health Centre). $413,151. Victorian Department of Human Services – HIV, HCV and Chlamydia sentinel surveillance in Victoria (2005-2007).
  • Hellard, M., Guy, R., White, B., and Minge, A. $58,510. Victorian Department of Human Services – Hepatitis C treatment, information and support for Victorian prisoners.
  • Hellard, M., and Guy, R. $130,000 per annum. Victorian Department of Human Services - Renewal of HIV surveillance in Victoria (2006–2009).
  • Hellard, M., Hocking, J., Kyle-Link, C. $166,296. Federal government Chlamydia targeted grants program – Sex and Sport: A community-based program of Chlamydia testing and treatment in rural and regional Victoria (2006-2007).
  • Hellard, M., Hocking, J., Kyle-Link, C. $45,000. Myer Foundation – Sex and Sport: A community-based program of Chlamydia testing and treatment in rural and regional Victoria (2006-2007).
  • Hellard, M., Patton, G., and Higgs, P. $80,000. Victorian Department of Human Services – From custody to community: A randomised structured intervention to reduce HCV transmission among juvenile justice attendees.
  • Lim, M. Public Health Travel Award (Burnet Institute).
  • Power, R. (Centre for Harm Reduction, Burnet Institute), Baldwin, S. (Centre for Harm Reduction, Burnet Institute), and Aitken, C. $95,634. Victorian Department of Human Services competitive grant - Local solutions to public drug use.

 

2005

  • Aitken, C., Fry, T. (Economics, RMIT) and Farrell, L. (Economics, University of Melbourne). $165,000. ARC Discovery Project grant - An investigation of illicit tobacco use - its prevalence, economic impact and the motivations and perceptions of consumers (2006-2008).
  • Gold, J. VicHealth award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Promotions 2005 (studies less than $15,000). Uncontested possessions and key positions was Judy’s Honours project. Judy's study examined sexual health and risk behaviours in young men in rural and regional football clubs.
  • Hellard, M. Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases.
  • Hellard, M., Fairley, K. (Melbourne Sexual Health Centre), Hocking, J., and Aitken, C. $192,735. AHMAC Priority Driven Research Program - The impact of text & email messaging on the sexual risk behaviour of young men & women: a randomised controlled trial (2006-2008).
  • Hellard, M., Guy, R. White, B., and Minge, A. $94,232. Victorian Department of Human Services – Evaluation of the Victorian Public Health Prisoner Initiative.
  • Hellard, M. $15,000. The Danks Trust – Playing together to stay healthy.
  • Hellard, M. $25,000. The Jack Brockhoff Foundation - Playing together to stay healthy.
  • Hellard, M. $5,000. Project Sunshine Foundation - Playing together to stay healthy.
  • Hocking, J. VicHealth award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Promotions 2005 (studies over $75,000), for The epidemiology and control of chlamydia infection in Victoria. This study was a major part of Jane's PhD thesis and included a population based survey of the prevalence of Chlamydia in women in Victoria aged 18-35.
  • Lim, M. (et al). The Alfred Research Week Burnet Prize for Infectious Diseases - Young people’s knowledge and self-perceived risk of sexually transmissible infections.
  • Nguyen, O. ASHM Award - Public health, Prevention and Policy Presentation award.

2004

  • Hellard, M., Crofts, C., Bharadwaj, M. (Department of Immunology, University of Melbourne), Aitken, C., Gowans, E. (Virology Program, Burnet Institute) and Bowden, S. (Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory). $955,250. NHMRC project grant #331312 - Behavioural, virological and immunological factors influencing hepatitis C infection in injecting drug users (2005-2007).

 

2003

  • Kaldor, J., Crofts, N., Dore, J., Hellard, M., Lloyd, A., Rawlinson, W., MacCaughan, G., Haber, P., van Beek, I., and Dolan, K. $US 1.8million. National Institutes of Health (US) - A longitudinal cohort study of newly acquired hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users (2003-2008).

 

2002

  • Crofts, N., and Aitken, C. ($50,000). New Zealand Ministry of Health - New Zealand Needle and Syringe Exchange Programme Review.