When I started at QUT, exploring opioid use after spinal cord injury, I thought I was signing up to learn new methods, generate outputs, and deepen my expertise. And while all of that has been true, it’s not what has stayed with me most. What I didn’t expect was how much a PhD would shape the kind of person and academic I want to become.
A new international study led by Dr Qing Xia and published in JAMA Surgery has found that bariatric surgery improves work productivity and employment rates in the short term—but these gains may not last beyond five years without targeted support.
Latest e-scooter injury data released by Queensland’s peak injury research body, Jamieson Trauma institute (JTI), shows presentations to hospital emergency departments continue to escalate, with private e-scooter riders now compromising two-thirds of hospital presentations. The research findings will play a critical role in JTI’s submission to the State Parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility safety and use.
A/Prof Zephanie Tyack has been awarded $992,441 from the MRFF Survivorship Care and Collaborative Research Prioritisation Grant program for the project, ‘Ember to Empower’: developing and piloting a one-stop burn recovery toolkit for burn survivors. A consumer advisory group of burn survivors will advise on all aspects of the study.
A global Commission published in the Lancet, which involved more than 20 experts around the world including Prof Will Parsonage, has called on the medical profession to change the way it treats coronary artery disease – the most common form of heart disease – encouraging clinicians to shift the focus towards early prevention and cure.
AusHSI researchers, Professor Anne Chang AM and Professor Adrian Barnett, have been announced as members of the NHMRC Research Committee for 2024 to 2027. AusHSI Adjunct Professor Ginny Barbour has been appointed to the NHMRC-Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Public Health and Health Systems Committee.
Megan Campbell has been welcomed as the new Chair of the Deeble Institute Advisory Board. Her extensive experience in health services research and commitment to stakeholder engagement will be instrumental in guiding future initiatives.
QUT Associate Professor Susanna Cramb was recently honoured with the Judges’ Award at the Queensland Women in STEM Prize Awards. Susanna received the Judges’ Award for her groundbreaking work in developing statistical methods to identify, understand, and address health inequities across Australia.
A new QUT-made film commissioned by the Jamieson Trauma Institute presents the Institute’s vision of how trauma care and a mass casualty event in Queensland should be responded to in the future.
QUT is celebrating the awarding of $7.7 million in ARC Discovery grants to fund 15 research projects. Researchers from AusHSI are among the recipients, with their project aimed at Addressing significant product safety knowledge gaps for older Australians receiving a grant of $533,965.
