Natalia started her PhD journey with research ideas that would help local councils in regional Australia to address the inequity barriers experienced by people with disabilities. Having now finished her PhD, she is certainly not done with the subject and more work is always needed in this field.
For Dr Eloise Hummell, AusHSI Research Fellow - Implementation Science, health services innovation is not about change for the sake of change, but about striving for improvement and achieving better outcomes for people within the constraints of available resources.
AusHSI recently hosted its inaugural Implementation Science in the Real World Colloquium. Headlined by world-leading experts Prof Gregory Aarons and Prof Trish Greenhalgh, the Colloquium presented the latest research and evidence on how health services can better implement, measure, and sustain change.
In June 2024, Dr Sunny Naicker was invited to speak at the Dutch National Implementation Science colloquium in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Sunny also visited the Amsterdam Centre for Implementation Science, and attended an invite-only knowledge translation meeting in Sweden.
One of Robin Blythe’s digital health PhD research objectives was to understand how to make clinical decision support systems more useful without adding to clinicians’ workloads, allowing them to spend their time on more meaningful work.
Hear about AusHSI PhD candidate Adele Van den Hoek’s running journey with the AusHSI running group, and what inspired her to complete the QUT Classic, in a recent interview with QUT Graduate Research Education + Development (GRE+D).
What questions about research funding would you like to see answered by research? The Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) is asking people to vote to collectively find the most important questions in research funding.
Dr Paul Kuwornu, AusHSI Senior Research Fellow - Health Economics, thinks of innovation in health services as embracing technology and change to create the right framework to deliver and improve health care.
When patients fall, their health can decline rapidly. As part of his recently completed PhD, Rex Parsons explored a decision support tool that supports the provision of value-based health care, and discovered an interest in software development.
AusHSI PhD students attended the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre's Curiosity Camp at Lake Crackenback in NSW, which brought together emerging leaders, consumers, innovators and researchers to address real-world healthcare problems.
