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Government funding for innovative sun safety online tool for teensThe Kids researcher Dr Shelley Gorman has received a Healthway grant to develop an online tool to promote safe sun behaviours to teenagers.
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The Sun Safe app: a new online tool to promote safe sun behaviours by teenagersGail Prue Shelley Alvares Hart Gorman PhD BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc (Hons) PhD Principal Research Fellow Honorary Research Fellow Honorary Research
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$12 million grant puts WA research team in the hot seat to help wipe out malaria foreverA world-leading research team built to tackle malaria has relocated from Oxford University to Western Australia to take advantage of the state’s growing big data talent pool.
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Big data expert appointed Kerry M Stokes Chair of Child Health ResearchAn international leader in the analysis and mapping of big data sets to tackle disease has been appointed The Kerry M Stokes Chair of Child Health.
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Piloting a self-compassion program to promote physical and psychological wellbeing in youth with T1DAmy Keely Liz Asha Finlay-Jones Bebbington Davis Parkinson BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) MClinPsych/PhD MBBS FRACP
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Skin health situational analysis to inform skin disease control programs for the KimberleyThe aim of this project is to conduct a situational analysis of the skin health services and activities currently available for managing skin infections within the Kimberley.
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Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) aims to disseminate free, accurate and up-to-date geographical information on malaria and associated topics. Our mission is to generate new and innovative methods to map malaria, to produce a comprehensive range of maps and estimates that will support effective planning of malaria
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Funding boost to help turn research into practical changeResearch projects sharing in a $2.1 million funding boost will seek to translate research findings into changes that benefit patients and help the health system run more efficiently.
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Bilingualism, Parental English Skills and Child and Adolescent DevelopmentThis project will provide important policy directions for design of language educational programs in Australian schools, developing a multi-cultural society, multi-lingual workforce, sourcing of immigrants from different language backgrounds and English abilities in order to obtain the best developmental outcomes
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NEET in Australia: Characteristics of Social Security Payment Recipients who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET)Australian adults who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) represent a significant proportion of income support recipients, yet little is known about them.