New funding for research aimed at improving health care in WA
A total of $2.2 million has been awarded to Western Australian researchers through the Translation Fellowships 2021 program.
This program provides three-year Fellowships to high performing early- to mid-career researchers to conduct projects that facilitate the translation of research findings into policy and/or practice in the Aboriginal health or country and regional WA health areas.
The program is funded by the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund which provides a secure source of funding to drive health and medical research, innovation and commercialisation.
Four Fellowships of up to $600,000 have been awarded as outlined in the table below.
|
Coordinating Principal Investigator |
Administering Institution |
Project Title |
Funding Awarded |
|
Dr Timothy Barnett |
Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia |
Development of a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test to reduce the burden of antibiotic-resistant skin infections in remote Aboriginal communities |
$600,000 |
|
Dr Jonathon Bullen |
Curtin University |
Dandjoo Waanginy, Dandjoo Walbarniny (talking together, healing together): Co-designing Aboriginal digital health solutions |
$600,000 |
|
Dr Tim Inglis |
The University of Western Australia |
CHIP: the Country Health Infection Programme |
$408,734 |
|
Emma Jamieson |
The University of Western Australia |
Co-design of a family centred self-management support program for pregnant Aboriginal women with prediabetes |
$600,000 |