Collaborations
- Collaboration with the health services and organisations in the Greater Green Triangle region and beyond is essential to achieving the GGT UDRH's mission and is also viewed as the key to the Department's first class research program. Staff co-operate with leading national and international researchers, educators and clinicians who are working in the fields of public health, health service research and workforce, and have developed excellent networks and relationships with local rural services and practitioners. Current collaborations encompass a range of institutions and organisations.
Active Health:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training for staff
Alchester Crescent Medical Centre:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
Anglicare (Warrnambool, Port Fairy):
- UDRH Mental Health project
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training to staff
Australian College for Rural and Remote Medicine:
- John Flynn Scholarship Scheme program support
Australian Dental Association:
Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL):
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing:
- Pharmacy Academics at UDRH (PAUDRH) program
- University Department of Rural Health (UDRH) program
- UDRH Mental Health project
Australian Journal of Rural Health:
- Reviewers
Australian Occupational Therapy Association:
Australian Physiotherapy Association:
Australian Podiatry Association:
Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) (Australian National University):
- APHCRI Linkage & Exchange Travelling Scholarship - Chronic Disease Management Models as Examples of Organisational Developmental Approaches in Primary Care (Stream 10)
- The Contribution of Organisational Change to Optimising the Workforce in Primary Care project (Stream 6)
- Project work on organisational development (Stream 16)
- Centre for Excellence in Primary Health Care Research - building quality, governance, performance and sustainability in primary health care
Australian Psychological Society:
Australian Rural Health Education Network (AHREN) - all UDRHs
Barwon South West Clinical Placement Network:
- Student Support services
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
beyondblue: the National Depression Initiative:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training for staff
Churinga Village Medical Centre:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
- CPD for Allied Health
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of student accommodation
- Provided short term accommodation to locum nursing staff
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
Colchester Medical Centre:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (Formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
- Orientation tours for students on placement in Camperdown
- Health and Wellbeing Planning Training and assistance from our Public Health Physician Trainee
Country South Medicare Local SA:
- Health & Wellbeing Planning. Training assistance from our Public Health Physician Trainee
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science's Public Health Research, Evaluation and Policy Cluster
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- UDRH partner
- Population Health Strategic Research Cluster
- EPI-FIND Pilot study (Epigenetic Factors in Diabetes)
- Support of IMMERSe Medical students
- Promotion of Student Support services with NOMAD
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training for IMMERSe Medical students
- Adjunct Lecturer, Rachel Boak
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
Department of Health Victoria:
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- CPD for Allied Health
- Victorian Clinical Placement Networks
- Clinical Placement Network Profile Advisory Group
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- EPI-FIND Pilot study (Epigenetic Factors in Diabetes)
Dhauwurd Wurrung Elderly & Community Health Services Inc:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training
Diabetes Australia - National Diabetes Service Scheme:
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes Australia - Victoria (DAV):
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- Life! - helping you to prevent diabetes, heart disease and stroke Program
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- Orientation tours for students on placement in Millicent
East Grampians Health Service:
- CPD for Allied Health
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of student accommodation
Edenhope & District Memorial Hospital:
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of student accommodation
- Flinders Medical School - NHMRC Partnership Project Grant - Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study
Faculty of Australasian Public Health Medicine:
- Public Health Medicine trainee
- Primary Health Care Research Information Service (PHCRIS)
- UDRH partner
- Prevention, Promotion and Primary Health Care Cluster
- Support of PRCC Medical students in Hamilton, Mount Gambier and Millicent
- Support of IMMERSe students in Mount Gambier
- Worked with Rural Health Club, (FURC) to promote Student Support services
- NHMRC Partnership Project Grant - Mothers after Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) study
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
General Practice South Australia (GPSA):
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- TrueBlue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage 2))
General Practice Victoria (GPV):
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
- TrueBlue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage
- GGT UDRH Indigenous Health Program
Grampians Clinical Placement Network:
- Representative for Clinical Placement Network Profiling Advisory Group
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
Great South West Coast Medicare Local:
- Mental Health Tertiary Curriculum (MHTC) project
- Health & Wellbeing Planning Training and assistance
Hamilton Medical Group:
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer, post held by Dr Dale Ford
- Collaborative care work
- TrueBlue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage 2))
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- CPD for Allied Health
Hills Medical Service (South Australia):
- Dr Mark Morgan, part-time Senior Research Fellow, GGT UDRH
- Global Health Policy Forum
Improvement Foundation Australia (IFA):
International Diabetes Federation:
- Gestational diabetes screening and prevention
Knoxfield Medical Centre:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- Co-location with UDRH staff in Hamilton
Millicent & District Hospital:
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of student accommodation
- A Controlled Evaluation of the Australasian Peers for Progress Diabetes Program (PfP-DP) and its Transferability to Other Countries project
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Pharmacy Academics at UDRH (PAUDRH) program
- NICS Fellowship for Kevin McNamara and the associated project "Controlling Hypertension through Innovation in Primary Care", see the PAUDRH program
- Pharmacist Assessment of Adherence, Risk and Treatment & Increasing the involvement of community pharmacy in the prevention of cardiovascular disease projects, see the PAUDRH program
- Australian Clinical Educator Preparation Program
- Support of Pharmacy students placed in region with Orientation Tours, Population Health Seminars and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training
- Orientation tours, information packs and student privilege card for students on placement in Mount Gambier
- Mount Gambier and District Tertiary Education Grant
- Partnership for facilities and resource sharing
- Development of a continuing pharmacist education network
- Health and Wellbeing Planning Training and assistance from our Public Health Physician Trainee
Muna Paiendi Primary Health Care Services:
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
Naracoorte and Lucindale City Council:
- Orientation tours for students on placement in Naracoorte
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of student accommodation
National Health and Medical Research Council:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerlyGDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR):
National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), Finland:
- Award of honoris causa, the Degree of Doctor of Science to Professor Erkki Vartiainen
- Appointments of Professor Erkki Vartiainen and Adjunct Professor Tiina Laatikainen to Flinders University as honorary members of staff
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Other diabetes prevention initiatives
- Annual Writing Retreat fortnight
National Rural Health Student Network:
- Promotion of Student Support services and health careers
Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health:
Optometry Australia (Vic branch):
Otway Division of General Practice:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Cultural Awareness Training
- GGT UDRH Indigenous Health Program
Primary Mental Health Team, Warrnambool:
- SW Heart Connection Project
- Consultancy on diabetes prevention (Professor James Dunbar)
Regional Allied Health Works (RAHWorks) Barwon-South West:
Regional Allied Health Works (RAHWorks) Grampians:
Regional Allied Health Works (RAHWorks) Loddon Mallee:
Regional Allied Health Works (RAHWorks) Gippsland:
Regional Allied Health Works (RAHWorks) Hume:
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners:
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
Rural Health Education Foundation:
- Regular satellite broadcasts available to medical and allied health professionals and students at the Mount Gambier facility
Saint Josephs Catholic Church:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
Saint Judes Catholic Church:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
Scoresby Medical Centre:
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH):
- Supporting the Transition of Allied Health Professionals to Remote & Rural Practice
- CPD for Allied Health
Shire of Southern Grampians Council:
- Orientation tours for students on placement in Naracoorte
Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (Vic branch):
South Australian Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee:
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 DiabetesSouth East Regional Country Health Services
- Corangamite Managed Clinical Network
- UDRH Mental Health project
- CPD for Allied Health
- Working on incorporating student accommodation facilities
St John of God Hospital, Warrnambool:
- Shared Decision-Making Project - UDRH Mental Health project
Terang and Mortlake Health Service:
- Corangamite Managed Clinical Network
- UDRH Mental Health project - Mental Health Tertiary Curriculum (MHTC) project
- Centre of Clinical Research Excellence: Clinical Science in Diabetes project
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- PEACH - Patient Engagement and Coaching for Health: An Intensive Treatment Intervention for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Disadvantaged Communities project
- NHMRC Partnership Project Grant - Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) study
- EPI-FIND Pilot Study (Epigeneticvs Factors in Diabetes)
- Co-supervision of Public Mental Health Medicine trainee, Dr Liz Peach
University of New South Wales:
University of North Carolina, USA:
- APHCRI Centre of Research Excellence for building quality, governance, performance and sustainability in primary health care through the Clinical Microsystem Approach
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Efectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
- Support of Spencer Gulf Rural Clinical School Medical students in Mount Gambier
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
- Analyses of cytokines in GGT DPP samples - NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
- Pharmacist Assessment of Adherence, Risk and Treatment & Increasing the involvement of community pharmacy in the prevention of cardiovascular disease projects, see the Pharmacy Academics at UDRH (PAUDRH) program
- NHMRC Partnership Project Grant - Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) study
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Efectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project)
University of the 3rd Age (Ferntree Gully):
- Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS); A Randomised Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (formerly Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (Life! Diabetes Prevention Program: A Randomised Cluster Control Trial of its Efficacy, Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness project
University of Washington, USA:
- Collaborative care using the IMPACT Model/ True Blue (Chronic Disease Management of Co-morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes project (National Project, Stage 2))
- Orientation tours, information packs and student privilege card for students on placement in Warrnambool
- Health and Wellbeing Planning Training and assistance from our Public Health Physician Trainee
West Vic Division of General Practice:
Western District Health Services (WDHS):
- UDRH Mental Health project
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- CPD for Allied Health
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of Hamilton office, use of facilities and resource sharing
- Clinical Supervision Training
- Assist students with accommodation needs in partnership with WDHS
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
- Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) Study: Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes: Macrolevel System Change in South Australia and Victoria (formerly GDM NHMRC Partnership, Preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy from Progressing to Type 2 Diabetes
- EPI-FIND Pilot Study (Epigeneticvs Factors in Diabetes)
- Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Professor Edward Janus
Wimmera Health Care Group (WHCG):
- UDRH Mental Health project
- CPD for Allied Health
- Partnership for establishment and maintenance of student accommodation
- Adjunct Professor, position held by the Director of Medical Services, Professor Alan Wolff
- HWA Distributed Simulation Project
- Social support for new professionals to the region
For more information about the GGT UDRH's research collaborations contact Professor James Dunbar
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