March 2020

Researcher awarded fellowship to explore innovative testing for wet cough

Menzies researcher Dr Robyn Marsh is working hard to ensure that kids have better access to testing and care to improve their respiratory health. She has recently been awarded the 2020 Al & Val Rosenstrauss Fellowship, a four-year research grant that will enable her to improve...
2019 Harry Christian Giese Research into Action Award announced

The 2019 recipient of the Harry Christian Giese Research into Action Award, Dr Nicholas Fancourt, is a paediatrician with degrees in medicine and bioethics, and a PhD in heatlh systems which was achieved while an International Fulbright Science and Technology Fellow at Johns Hopkins...
Researcher profile | Abbey Diaz

Dr Abbey Diaz began her research career with the Brisbane-based cancer research team, and is currently a Postdoctoral Early Career Research Fellow, having graduated with a Menzies PhD from Charles Darwin University in 2018. Her research is focused on better understanding cancer...
Helping farming communities to weather the drought

The Weathering Well app is an innovative digital mental health and wellbeing tool designed to address the mental health and wellbeing of Australian farming communities experiencing adversity from drought and other climatic events. The new app evolved from the Menzies Stay Strong app,...
Catalyse | Photo Gallery

HOT NORTH’s Catalyse program aims to champion the advancement of women in STEM, in particular women scientists working in Aboriginal and Tropical Health. Catalyse has recently celebrated it’s one-year milestone bringing together thirty mentors and mentees from around...
Associate Professor Jaqui Hughes - NHMRC Award

Congratulations to Associate Professor Jaqui Hughes who has been nationally recognised for her work to address the high rates of chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults. Associate Professor Hughes received the 2019 NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort...
New reference guide to promote mental health and wellbeing in Tiwi language

Mental health and wellbeing are not concepts often discussed in Tiwi culture, but a group of elders, researchers and school children hope to change that with a new reference guide. Ngawurramangajirri (we care for each other) is a phrasebook featuring Tiwi to English translations and...
Webinar Series| Briefing on Menzies response to COVID-19

Globally we are living in unprecedented times, and in Australia Menzies School of Heath Research is at the forefront of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as it applies to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. At Menzies, our work in health is led and driven by...

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