Alastair Lucas Endowment Fund
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
Adolescents and young adults have many unmet needs for health care, and often experience significant barriers in accessing health care.
Two and a half million people die each year from the harmful use of alcohol and more than 15 million have drug-use disorders.
A blood-borne virus that attacks the liver causing both acute and chronic disease, hepatitis B affects two billion people.
Infecting more than three percent of the world’s population, it causes chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
More than 30 years on since the emergence of HIV and yet it still remains one of the greatest challenges to human health.
Uses epidemiological and economic models to better inform public health decisions.
In Australia, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) notifications are on the rise.
Accounts for the majority of hepatitis C infections and fatal drug overdoses.
We undertake research to build the evidence base to improve health outcomes for prisoners and ex-prisoners.
Facilitate reductions in new HIV infections and improve the lives of people living with HIV in Australia and internationally.
A simple mosquito bite is all it takes for a young child in a poor tropical country to develop this life-threatening disease.
Relates to matters across puberty, sexuality, relationships, sexual health, fertility and birth.
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections notifications have risen in Australia for the past 10 years.
Using innovative methods to understand key issues affecting young people to reduce risk events.
