| ARC Discovery Project Grants |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Butler JRG, Colagiuri S. |
| Scientific Title: |
Chronic disease prevention and treatment - cost-benefit model systems to assist with priority setting. |
| Funding: |
$524,500 over 5 years commencing 2005. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Butler JRG, Smith J. |
| Scientific Title: |
The economics of mother’s milk. |
| Funding: |
$258,000 over 3 years commencing 2004. |
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| ARC Linkage Project Grants |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Strazdins L, Broom DH, Glover JD, Banwell C, Dixon JM, Griffin AL, Korda R, Shipley MA, Paolucci F, Esler MT, Corbett SJ. |
| Scientific Title: |
Time scarcity in Australian families: another inequity? |
| Funding: |
$581,000 (ARC funding - $325,000; Industry Partner contributions (Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs; Sydney West Area Health Service) - $256,000) over 4 years commencing 2010. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Smith JP, Mortensen KF, Broom DH, McIntyre E, Javanparast S, Craig JP, Strazdins L. |
| Scientific Title: |
Working while breastfeeding: best practice strategies for workplaces and childcare centres |
| Funding: |
$144,104 (ARC funding - $132,056; Industry Partner contribution (Australian Breastfeeding Association) - $12,048) over 3 years commencing July 2009 |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Butler JRG, Connelly LB. |
| Scientific Title: |
Motor vehicle injuries: Economic evaluation of a new treatment modality. |
| Funding: |
$166,791 (ARC funding - $87,236; Industry Partner contribution (NRMA – ACT Road Safety Trust) - $79,555) over 3 years commencing July 2008. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Sterling M, Jull GA, Kenardy JA, Connelly LB. |
| Scientific Title: |
Prediction of outcome following whiplash study: A multicentre international prospective study. |
| Funding: |
$1,100,000 (ARC Funding - $522,011, Industry Partner contribution (Motor Accident Insurance Commission, Suncorp-Metway, Centeno Clinic) – $577,989) over 3 years commencing 2005. |
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| Land & Water Australia Innovation Call Project Grant |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Hajkowicz S, Butler JRG |
| Scientific Title: |
A standardised metric to value environmental services. |
| Funding: |
$307,343 over 3 years commencing July 2009 |
| (In May 2009, the Government decided to cease funding Land & Water Australia. While this grant had been won through the usual competitive selection process, it had not commenced at the time that decision was made. Consequently, the grant was rescinded.) |
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| NHMRC Capacity Building Grant |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Jorm L, Roberts C, Preen D, Simpson J, Moorin R, Haines M, Bambrick H, Holman D. |
| Scientific Title: |
OSPREY: Building capacity for research to improve health services for mothers, babies and children |
| Funding: |
$2,261,542 over 5 years commencing 2009 |
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| NHMRC Centres of Clinical Research Excellence Grant |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Hodges PW, Jull GA, Gibbon WW, Sterling M, Kenardy J, Vicenzino B, Brooks PM, Cresswell AG, Connelly LB. |
| Scientific Title: |
Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health. |
| Funding: |
$2,000,000 over 5 years commencing 2007. |
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| NHMRC Health Services Research Program Grants |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Butler JRG, Connelly LB, Holman D, McKibbin W, Sidorenko A. |
| Scientific Title: |
Australian Centre of Economic Research on Health (ACERH) – Innovative analysis of health insurance, ageing and the economic burden of illness and injury. |
| Funding: |
$4,500,000 over 5 years commencing 2005. |
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| NHMRC Partnerships For Better Health Project Grants |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Holman CDJ, Emery JD, Saunders SM, Walter FM, Moorin RE, Auret KA, Preen DB, Bulsara MK. |
| Scientific Title: |
Partnership intervention trial to redress treatment delay and improve outcomes in rural cancer patients |
| Funding: |
$2,216,262 (NHMRC funding - $1,215,262; Industry Partner contributions (Cancer Council Western Australia (CCWA), WA Department of Health) - $1,001,000) over 5 years commencing 2010.
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| NHMRC Project Grants |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Lancsar E, Gyrd-Hansen D, Butler J, Donaldson C, Bulfone L |
| Scientific Title: |
Social and decision maker preferences for priority setting in health care resource allocation |
| Funding: |
$264,593 over 3 years commencing 2013. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Christensen H, Glozier N, Griffiths K, Butler JRG |
| Scientific Title: |
A novel intervention targeting insomnia to prevent Major Depressive Disorder in the community |
| Funding: |
$913,390 over 4 years commencing 2011. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Banks E, Bauman A, Butler JRG, Jorm L, Wade V, Fernando D, Clements M, Korda R,
Liu B, Bambrick H. |
| Scientific Title: |
Obesity, overweight and hospitalisation: Identifying targets for interventions to prevent adverse health outcomes |
| Funding: |
$581,750 over 3 years commencing 2010. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Zwar N, Richmond R, Halcomb E, Furler J, Smith J. |
| Scientific Title: |
Quit in Generel Practice: A cluster randomised trial of enhanced in-practice support for smoking cessation. |
| Funding: |
$1,123,952 over 3 years commencing 2009. |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Maher CG, Sterling M, Jull GA, Latimer J, Connelly LB. |
| Scientific Title: |
A promising new treatment for chronic whiplash |
| Funding: |
$589,025 over 3 years commencing 2009 |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Sterling M, Vicenzino B(G)T, Souvlis T, Connelly LB. |
| Scientific Title: |
Dry-needling, advice and graded exercise for chronic whiplash |
| Funding: |
$297,875 over 3 years commencing 2009 |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Vicenzino B (G.), Brooks P, Connelly LB, Bisset L. |
| Scientific Title: |
Optimising corticosteroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia with physiotherapy: A randomised placebo-controlled trial |
| Funding: |
$373,394 over 3 years commencing in 2007 |
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| Chief Investigators: |
Jull GA, Sterling M, Kenardy JA, Cohen M, Connelly LB, Beller E. |
| Scientific Title: |
A clinical trial investigating individualised treatments for people with an acute whiplash injury |
| Funding: |
$378,450 over 3 years, commencing in 2005. |
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| Other Grants |
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| Program: |
New Independent Researcher Infrastructure Support (Department of Health, Western Australia) |
| Chief Investigator: |
Moorin R |
| Purpose: |
Assist with infrastructure costs of health research |
| Funding: |
$10,000 awarded in 2009 |
