Data analytics and evidence synthesis to inform health policy and practice

Data analytics and evidence synthesis to inform health policy and practice
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Large-scale data analytics is the science of using a range of data types to inform community, practitioner and policy-maker decision-making. In the population health context, data types include routinely collected data (e.g. hospitalisation, cancer registry and death data) and cohort studies, or separate efforts such as quality registries. Analyses are conducted to quantify the role of modifiable risk factors for health conditions, to fill the gaps identified in major evidence assessments such as health technology assessments, guidelines and other reviews and to interpret patient data for a more people-centred integrated care approach in healthcare and implementation sciences. Both large data analytics and evidence synthesis help link between research and practice

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Project Status
Integration and Implementation Insights blog (i2Insights blog) Current
(S)WASH-D for WORMS Completed
A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Implementation of ‘The Patient Enablement Model’     Current
A systematic review of the literature examining the relative efficacy of peridischarge strategies to reduce unplanned 30-day readmission rates after knee and hip arthroplasty Current
AADRF Completed
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and tobacco control Potential
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander chronic disease management models Potential
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural determinants of health and wellbeing Potential
Absolute Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk and implementation Current
Ageing in China and Australia: Promoting health, productivity and wellbeing Current
Alcohol and other drug use and domestic and family violence Potential
An examination of the longitudinal changes in sulci morphology associated with ageing Potential
ARC DECRA Completed
Artificial shallow lakes, climate extremes, algal blooms and public health Current
Assessing mental health Current
associations between climate, changes in water quality and water-related disease Current
Building a network of leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations Current
Building capacity for evidence-based health development in Indonesia Current
Building research integration and implementation expertise Current
Building resources for Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S) Current
Cancer survivorship Potential
Cardiovascular disease: risk factors, outcomes and prevention. Potential
Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing (CREMA) Current
Chronic disease and healthy ageing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including tobacco Current
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) Current
Climate related risk factors for respiratory mortality Potential
Conquering schistosomiasis in China – the last mile (QIMR) Current
Consumer experience of General Practice in the ACT Potential
CVD risk, prevention and implementation Current
Developing technologies to support patients’ transition from acute to primary care: enabling orthopaedic patients and preventing unplanned 30-day readmissions.    Current
Dust storms, drought and spatio-temporal patterns in respiratory mortality Current
Effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and treatment of early childhood lower respiratory tract infections/pneumonia in low income countries Potential
Environmental change and the spread of diseases from animals to humans Current
Epidemiology of suicidal behaviour Current
Facial expression in determining severity of chronic fatigue Potential
Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research Current
Getting real about risk: using patient medical records for the geospatial analysis of chronic diseases Completed
GLOCAL Current
Health effects of Diabetes Potential
Health impacts of tobacco Potential
Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Potential
Identifying determinants of childhood primary health care coverage and uptake in humanitarian crises Potential
Improving understanding of unknown unknowns to support defence decision making Current
Large-scale data to improve Aboriginal child health: seeding success and beyond Completed
Latitudinal gradients in disease Current
Lifestyle influences of healthy ageing and chronic disease: Longitudinal predictors Current
Linked data for better health: Quantifying, monitoring and understanding variation in health and health care in the population Potential
Machine learning in correlated data Potential
Mathematical properties of the QQ plot Current
Medical students' attitudes to people who use drugs Potential
Missing data in multilevel models Current
Multiple causes of death and their contribution to population attributable fractions Potential
Multiple imputation algorithms for dealing with longitudinal panel data Potential
Multiple Sclerosis Vitamin D Metabolites Study Current
New uses of meta-analysis Potential
Our Health In Our Hands - personalised medicine transforming health care Current
Pharmacoepidemiology and chronic disease Current
PhoCIS Study (led at Telethon Kids Institute) Current
Predictors of hospital discharge to home following four main surgeries Completed
PrevANZ Study (led at University of Melbourne) Current
Productive Ageing in Australia and Asia Current
Quality and Efficiency in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Current
Reducing family violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities Current
Regression with kernel residual distributions Current
Risk factors and mortality in the Thai Cohort Study Potential
Sample size selection from pilot surveys Current
Small area estimation of health outcomes Potential
Small area estimation of health outcomes Potential
Smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults: health impacts, associated factors, and trends over time Current
Smoking and health: large scale data on important outcomes Current
Social engagement and workforce participation among cancer survivors Potential
Social fragmentation and mental disorders Completed
Social, cultural and health service determinants of adolescent family planning uptake in humanitarian crises Potential
Socio-economic and life course determinants of healthy and productive ageing in Australia and China Potential
Socioeconomic determinants of health and wellbeing across the life course: Australian and English comparisons Current
Spatial analysis of risk factors for child stunting and wasting in Myanmar Potential
Spatio-temporal modelling of infections associated with antibiotic use (e.g MRSA, Clostridium difficile) Current
Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health Current
Surveillance and Monitoring to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis from the Samoan Islands Potential
System thinking approach to evidence informed mental health care Current
Systematic review and meta analysis on loss to follow up during TB treatment Potential
Systematic review of patient autonomy and preferences related to genomics Potential
Systematic review on the role of social protection and TB Potential
TB in pregnancy and the post partum period Potential
Testing the I2S Framework Completed
Thai Health-Risk Transition Project Current
The Ausimmune and AusLong Studies Current
The effectiveness, acceptability and cost effectiveness of the 'BALatrine' Current
The Population Health Xchange Current
Time series analysis of TB notifications in Australia and description of historical TB control policies Potential
Vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis in travelers Potential
Variation in CVD risk, incidence, care and outcomes Current
Variation in fatal burden of disease, preventive CVD care and end-of-life care Current
Wind, dust and transport of allergens/pathogens Potential

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