Research in the School of Population Health

General Practice

Clinical Trials
Dr Caroline Laurence, Ms Chris Holton

Respiratory Health
Dr Christopher Barton, A/Prof Alan Crockett, Ms Chris Holton, Prof Nigel Stocks

Grief and Palliative Care
Dr Susan Selby, Dr Nicole Moulding, Dr Alison Jones, Dr Sheila Clark, Prof Justin Beilby

Mental Health
Dr Christopher Barton, Dr Cate Howell, Ms Melissa Opolski

Cardiovascular Disease
Prof Nigel Stocks, Prof Phil Ryan, Dr Oliver Frank, Dr Karin Ried, Prof Gary Wittert

Asthma management, COPD & bronchitis in general practice
Associate Professor Alan Crockett, Dr Chris Barton

Capacity building in primary health care research
Dr Karin Ried

Cardiovascular health
Dr Karin Ried

Clinical & infectious disease epidemiology 
Professor Nigel Stocks

Clinical trials (design & analysis of data)
Dr Amy Salter

Clinical trials (design & conduct)
Professor Philip Ryan

Clinical trials in the community 
Professor Nigel Stocks

General medical practice
Dr Oliver Frank

Health inequalities 
Professor Nigel Stocks

Informatics in primary care
Dr Oliver Frank

Intergrative health
Dr Karin Ried

Nutritional health
Dr Karin Ried

Organisation of the health system
Dr Oliver Frank

Primary health care
Professor Nigel Stocks, Professor Helen Winefield, Dr Oliver Frank, Mr David Scrimgeour

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Public Health

The SA Men Online Study
Dr Nathanaelle Theriault, Dr Peng Bi, Professor Janet Hiller

North Western Men's Health Study
Professor Janet Hiller, Dr Megan Warin (School of Social Sciences), Professor Gary Wittert (School of Medicine), Dr Peter O'Loughlin (Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science)

A randomised trial of DHA in pregnancy to prevent postnatal depressive symptoms and enhance neurodevelopment in children: The DOMInO trial (collaborating with the Child Health Research Institute)
Dr Amy Salter, Ms Lisa Yelland, Professor Philip Ryan, Professor Maria Makrides, Professor Robert Gibson

Resilience and uptake of smoking in high risk groups (collaborating with the Cancer Council of South Australia and the SA Department of Health)
Professor Janet Hiller, Associate Professor Peter Baghurst, Professor Deborah Turnbull (School of Psychology), Ms Caroline Miller

Lead and cancer (collaborating with Monash University)
Associate Professor Dino Pisaniello

Work and vision (collaborating with the University of Milan)
Associate Professor Dino Pisaniello

Risk assessment for environmental health in Adelaide based on weather, air pollution and population health outcomes (collabortaing with the South Australian Department of Health and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Dr Peng Bi, Associate Professor Dino Pisaniello

Geno-toxicity of dust extracts and nanoparticles (collaborating with Flinders University Pilbara Iron Pty Ltd, WA)
Associate Professor Dino Pisaniello, Dr Ian Musgrave (School of Medical Sciences), Dr Andreas Schmidt Mumm (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences)

Exhaled nitric oxide and lung function in underground coal miners (collaborating with the University of New South Wales)
Associate Professor Dino Pisaniello

Assessing equitable and efficient solutions to reduce hospital demand
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

The Eye Services Improvement Project (ESIP)
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Primary Care Services Improvement Project (PCSIP)
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Cancer epidemiology (breast, colorectal) screening, guidelines, policy 
Professor Janet Hiller

Climate change & environmental epidemiology
Dr Peng Bi

Clinical epidemiology
Professor Janet Hiller

Community participation in decision making in policy & research
Dr Jackie Street

Community views in pandemic influenza planning
Dr Jackie Street

Cost effectiveness analysis 
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Data linkage
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Data management and analysis
Professor Philip Ryan, Dr Amy Salter

Decision modelling
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Developments in epidemiological theory
Professor Janet Hiller 

Discrete event simulation
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Economic evaluation
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Epidemiology
Associate Professor Vivienne Moore, Professor Janet Hiller

Ethics of publication, authorship and peer review 
Dr Jackie Street

Evaluation of health services 
Associate Professor John Moss

Health economics 
Associate Professor John Moss, Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Health management information systems
Dr Afzal Mahmood

Incentives for enhancing equity and allocative efficiency
Associate Professor John Moss

International health
Dr Afzal Mahmood, Dr Peng Bi

Markov models
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Measurement of patient survival and health-related quality of life
Associate Professor John Moss

Multivariate survival analysis
Dr Amy Salter

Occupational & environmental health & safety
Associate Professor Dino Pisaniello

Participatory appraisal & community development 
Dr Afzal Mahmood

Program & project planning & evaluation
Dr Afzal Mahmood

Public health ethics and policy
Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer

Public health within the Australian health system
Associate Professor John Moss

Screening evaluation
Associate Professor Jonathan Karnon

Social & behavioural influences on health
Associate Professor Vivienne Moore

Social justice & ethical practice in research
Dr Jackie Street

Statistics in public health
Dr Amy Salter

Women's health
Associate Professor Vivienne Moore, Dr Karin Ried

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Rural Health

Rural Health is a regional multi-disciplinary school of health science created as a joint initiative between the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.

Rural Health is supported by the Australian federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing through the Rural Clinical Schools program (RCS), the University Department of Rural Health program (UDRH), the Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination program (RUSC) and the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development program (PHC_RED).

Rural Health has established a number of sites within the Spencer Gulf region:

Visit the Rural Health website for more information

Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies

Prevalence Studies
Professor Sandy McFarlane, Dr Miranda Van Hoof

Longitudinal Health Studies
Professor Sandy McFarlane, Dr Miranda Van Hoof, Dr Carol Davy

Disaster Studies
Dr Miranda Van Hoof, Professor Sandy McFarlane

Neuro-biological Studies
Professor Sandy McFarlane, Dr Carol Davy

Neuro-cognitive Studies
Dr Carol Davy, Professor Sandy McFarlane

Occupational Mental Health
Dr Carol Davy, Professor Sandy McFarlane, Dr Miranda Van Hoof

Visit the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies website for more information

Institutions with Affiliated Researchers

• Child Health Research Institute
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• The Centre for Men's Health
• CCRE for Nutritional Physiology
• Hanson Institute
• Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science
• Repatriation General Hospital
• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Women’s and Children’s Hospital