HOT NORTH promotes a number of activities that promote the improvement of health outcomes across the tropical north of Australia. The first three years of funding has provided for the establishment of 97 pilot/translation projects and funded individual fellowships, scholarships, and Indigenous Development and Training Awards for researchers and health professionals. The funded researchers have formed collaborations…
Governance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers across Northern Australia – A case comparison
Who's steering the ship? A case comparison of the governance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
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Who’s steering the ship? A case comparison of the governance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers across Northern Australia
Aims: The overarching aim of this project is to extend and enhance work already conducted ...
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Developing spirometry and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) reference values for Indigenous Australians: Phase II – adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Lung diseases, the second most common chronic problems, are also major causes of death in ...
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Evaluating the impact of policy change for preventing malaria after splenectomy and characterizing the hidden splenic parasite burden in patients undergoing splenectomy in Papua, Indonesia
Just 250 kilometers north of Australia, Papua has the highest number of malaria cases in ...
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Portable genome sequencing as a point-of-care diagnostic test in remote tropical Australia
Respiratory disease, fevers, and sepsis are common in tropical northern Australia, and treatment often requires ...
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Shorter treatments for latent tuberculosis in the Northern Territory: a pragmatic effectiveness study
Australia has achieved considerable progress in the control of TB. Despite this, the Northern Territory ...
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