Research Themes

Linking our expertise across interdisciplinary health programs to achieve better health for vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally

  • Global infectious disease threats

    Drug-resistant TB, ZIKA virus and pandemic influenza.

  • Healthy Ageing

    Need to address primary health care and services for older people especially in poorer settings.

  • Hepatitis B

    A blood-borne virus that attacks the liver causing acute and chronic disease.

  • Hepatitis C

    A blood-borne virus causing chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

  • Influenza

    We are a member of the WHO’s Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN).

  • Injecting Drug Use

    Accounts for the majority of hepatitis C infections and fatal drug overdoses.

  • Justice Health

    Research building an evidence base to improve health outcomes for prisoners and ex-prisoners.

  • LGBTQIA+

    Improving the health and lives of people living with HIV in Australia and internationally.

  • Malaria

    Despite reductions globally, more than 400,000 people still die each year from malaria.

  • Maternal and Child Health

    Many women and children die from preventable illnesses in vulnerable communities.

  • Nutrition

    Child malnutrition is an underlying cause of death among children under five years pf age.

  • Sepsis

    Hard to diagnose, quick to progress, potentially fatal.

  • Zika Virus

    The WHO declared this mosquito-borne virus a health emergency in 2016.