Public Health and Health Services Research

The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) will help transform health delivery by focusing on preventing chronic disease, improving health and wellbeing, as well as promoting efficiency in the health system.

Social Work in General Practice is a research project that aims to improve how primary care supports consumers who are identified as having non-medical areas of need, which that are otherwise challenging to address through stand-alone primary care services.

The National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking (NBPU TIS) is a core element of the federally funded Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) Program. NBPU TIS provides tailored support to teams across Australia that use population health promotion activities to reduce the prevalence of tobacco use, leading to improved health outcomes for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  University of Canberra provides technical support and advice around matters such as population health promotion, tobacco control, behaviour change, and monitoring and evaluation.

The LOOK study is a longitudinal study beginning in childhood and finishing in old age.

Participants were initially 8 years of age and living in Canberra when the study started in 2005. Measurements were taken at age 8, 10, 12 and 16 years of age. Over this period, we assessed their physical activity, fitness, and nutritional intake to determine relationships with their bone health, risk of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, motor coordination, and wellbeing.