Healthy Ageing

  • Healthy Ageing

    Healthy Ageing

    Promoting improved physical, mental and social wellbeing in vulnerable communities and healthy ageing from birth.

This program focuses on promoting wellbeing in vulnerable communities and healthy ageing from birth.

Through the Healthy Ageing program Burnet will make a major contribution:

  • To knowledge about biological and psychosocial determinants of healthy ageing
  • To developing new tools and therapeutics for diseases associated with ageing
  • To promoting inclusive communities and services for healthy ageing
  • To integrating concepts of healthy ageing into all our research and development activities
  • To increasing the capacity of health professionals, researchers, policy makers and the general community in relation to healthy ageing, through education and training in Australia and globally.

Contact Details

Doctor Anna Hearps

Deputy Program Director, Disease Elimination

Email

anna.hearps@burnet.edu.au


Projects

  • Fc Receptor Targeted Treatments in Inflammation and Allergy

  • Stellabody™ Technology in Infectious Disease – COVID-19 and beyond

  • Stellabody™ Technology in Cancer Therapy

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