Grants Awarded to the School of Public Health
School of Public Health
Novel functional foods and biomaterials from sorghum
Granted to: Stuart Johnson (Food science and Technology)
To Investigate: “Novel functional foods and biomaterials from sorghum - defining digestibility characteristics to guide new product development”.
Funding: Curtin IRG scheme: $11,800.
Developing system dynamics models of major health incidents Esperance lead pollution case study
Granted to: Yang Miang Goh, Jeff Spickett, Dean Bertolatti
To Investigate: "Developing system dynamics models of major health incidents Esperance lead pollution case study".
Funding: $11551
Collaborative Grant: Importance of high vegetable consumption in controlling appetite
Granted to: L. Tapsell & T. Worsley (Uni Wollongong) M. Gidley UQld, S. Johnson (Curtin), A. Houlihan & T. O’Hare (Qld PI&)
To Investigate: “Importance of high vegetable consumption in controlling appetite”.
Reducing Aboriginal children’s exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in Port Hedland
Investigators: Larson, A, Rumchev K.
Funding: Healthway, Held at Edith Cowan University. $450,000.
Detoxification of Jatropha curcas seed cake, protein characterization
Investigators: Suntornsuk W and Jayasena V.
AusCAN risk assessment for sitting acquired ulcers
Granted to: Delia Hendrie and UWA
Funding: $1.6 million
“Social norms regarding HIV/STI risk and risk reduction behaviours among men who have sex with men in Australia”
Granted to (Investigators): Dr Iryna Zablotska (UNSW), Prof John De Wit (UNSW), Dr Graham Brown (Curtin University), Assoc Prof Garrett Prestage (UNSW), Assoc Investigators include Prof Bruce Maycock
To Investigate: “Social norms regarding HIV/STI risk and risk reduction behaviours among men who have sex with men in Australia”
Funding: $667,56 A NHMRC grant (a collaborative project with the, University of NSW)
The effectiveness of a mobile phone intervention to promote dietary change
This research will build on an earlier Healthway starter grant focusing on the use of mobile phone technology to collect dietary information from young people. The study will
include trialling a health promotion program that will use mobile phones to provide dietary
feedback and deliver tailored nutrition messages as well as collecting information on
food intake. The program aims to reduce junk food consumption among young people
and increase their fruit and vegetable consumption.
Investigators: Deb Kerr , Christina Pollard, Peter Howat , Carol Boushey , Ed Delp , M Pickering , Satvinder Dhaliwal, AI's J Wright, S Pratt
Funding: $349,481 over 3 years
Social norms regarding HIV/STI risk and risk reduction behaviours among men who have sex with men in Australia
Granted to: Graham Brown
Funding: $667,563 awarded through UNSW
Development of novel healthy foods
Investigators: Jayasena V.
Granted to: Centre for Food and Genomic Medicine
Epidemiology and community consequences of asbestos exposure in WA
Investigators: Musk AW, de Klerk NH, Palmer L, Howat P et al
Centre: National Research Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases
Funding: Held at UWA. $850,000
Health, Safety and Environment
The Effectiveness of Health Impact Assessments Conducted in Australia and New Zealand
Investigators: Jeff
Spickett
Funds Awarded: $100,00 in 2010 and $90,000 in 2011
Project Summary: Health impact assessment (HIA) has been internationally recognised as one of a limited number of preventive interventions that can be used to enhance the health benefits of health and other sector activities - policies, programs and projects; before they are implemented. The issue of how effective HIA is in changing decision-making and implementation remains largely unresolved however. This study will examine the effectiveness of HIA’s that have been completed in Australia and New Zealand between 2005 and 2009. The findings will guide the use of HIA by the public and private sectors in Australia and internationally, and improve HIA’s ability to
strengthen Australia’s social and economic fabric.
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