Generating new knowledge to provide better patient outcomes
We aim to directly improve the health and wellbeing of communities across the globe by facilitating world-class discoveries that target the development of healthcare practice and survivorship. By translating evidence-based research into clinical practice, our researchers are continuing to improve patient care, experiences and outcomes. Our research spans cancer, ageing and neuroscience disorders such as dementia and brain trauma, patient safety of people in acute and community care, women’s health and lifestyle disorders such as obesity, and evaluation of current practices including acute wound care and integrated and holistic models of care. |
Our impact
Project 1
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Project 2
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Project 3
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Our mission
Our mission is to focus on globally significant research challenges to improve quality of life, survivorship and care of patients and their carers in the Australian and international community.
Program Director
Professor Wendy Moyle
Professor Wendy Moyle’s research expertise is in the areas of dementia, depression and delirium.
She has focused her research on psychosocial interventions to improve quality of life for people with dementia and their family carers, and to manage the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
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Research centres and groups
Changing Health Systems (CHESS)
Our purpose
We identify challenges in the health system and co-design person-centered, integrated and holistic models of care to improve client outcomes and inform best policy.
Key focus areas
- Health system
- Primary care
- Co-design
- Rural and remote
- First Nations community
Healthy Lifestyles
Our purpose
We use world-class research methods to understand and promote the positive relationships between lifestyle and health, including its role in reducing morbidity and mortality associated with the prevention and management of chronic health conditions.
Key focus areas
- pragmatic/real-life interventions
- accessible modes of delivery
- representative samples
Ovarian cancer clinical trial
We are seeking women aged 18 years and older who have been diagnosed with recurrent ovarian cancer to undertake supervised accredited exercise during chemotherapy.
Neuroscience, Ageing and Dementia
Our purpose
Our researchers investigate the links between mind-body functions. Our goal is to improve understanding and management of conditions that affect brain function and behaviour, such as normal development and ageing, dementia, delirium, stroke, traumatic brain injury, autism and schizophrenia.
Key focus areas
- The social brain
- Changes in brain function across the lifespan
- Living well with a neurological disorder
- Clinical practice and health care
AI and assistive technologies the answer to future dementia care
NHMRC CRE Wiser Wound Care
Our purpose
Our aim is to improve the delivery of acute wound care services in hospitals. To achieve this vision, we investigate how to prevent and treat these wounds and ensure this knowledge translates into both policy and practice.
Key focus areas
We focus on three high-volume, high-risk and high-cost acute wounds that occur in hospital.
- Pressure injuries
- Surgical wounds
- Intravascular devices
Director
Professor Wendy Chaboyer
Wendy is an experienced nurse researcher who has been inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and is a lifetime honorary fellow of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses.
Patient-Centred Health Services
Our purpose
We undertake innovative, responsive and collaborative research that optimises outcomes for patients and their families, and the delivery of health services across acute care and community settings.
Key focus areas
- Patient and family-centred care
- Development of theoretically-based cost-effective clinical interventions
- Knowledge translation and research synthesis
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Contact details
- Location and postal address
- G40 Griffith Health Centre, Level 8.86
- Gold Coast
- Griffith University QLD 4222
