Stream Seven
APHCRI Linkage & Exchange Travelling Fellowships
Australian primary health care researchers took their research results to the world, visiting world renowned international health centres as a result of APHCRI Linkage and Exchange travelling fellowships in 2007 and early 2008.
Eleven researchers were successful in being awarded funding to develop their research through international contacts and collaborations.
More than $300,000 of funding was invested in this program of work, which involved researchers travelling to Canada, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Geneva and the United States to share research results with international colleagues. These countries are common comparator countries for Australia in general practice and primary health care research.
The travelling fellowships offer researchers involved in an earlier program of work examining issues like mental health, chronic illness and multidisciplinary teams to take their work to an international audience.
The APHCRI Linkage and Exchange Travelling Fellows were:
- Sarah Dennis, University of New South Wales, travelled to universities in the UK to expand on work led by Professor Nicholas Zwar which looked at chronic disease management.
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- Julie McDonald, University of New South Wales, looked at comprehensive primary health care models in Canada.
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- Elizabeth McDonald, Menzies School of Health Research, participated in the Ross Bailie led project examining growth faltering in remote indigenous communities and followed up on the research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization.
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- Lydia Hearn and Margaret Miller - Edith Cowan University - looked at childhood obesity in Stream Four and then travelled to the UK, Canada and the US to develop the research further.
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- Gawaine Powell Davies, University of New South Wales, examined coordination of care within primary health care and secondary care in The Netherlands, which is a good comparator country for Australia in this research area.
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- Lucio Naccarella, University of Melbourne, examined systems innovation and reviews of evidence in primary health care at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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- John Wakerman and John Humphreys, Flinders University, looked at rural and remote health care programs sustainability, comparing health concerns in remote Australia issues with a Canadian research team also dealing with remote populations.
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- Helen Christensen and Kathleen Griffiths, ANU, were involved in a Stream Four project examining the use of Internet tools for the management of anxiety and depression and then further developed their research in the UK and The Netherlands.
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Stream Seven participants were part of a half-day presentation to the Department of Health and Ageing in April 2008. Their presentations can be found here.
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