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…
Genomics for undiagnosed infectious disease evaluation and diagnosis in northern Australia (GUIDED)
In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a significant risk for the introduction, emergence or ...
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Estimating the prevalence of diabetes diagnosed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youth aged <25 years, across northern Australia via an audit of all available primary health care, community-based and hospital-based resources.
This is a project to work out how many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, ...
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Antimicrobial resistance in remote Australia
More and more bacteria are becoming resistant (antimicrobial resistance) to the antibiotics that doctors and ...
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Prevalence of chronic moist cough in Kimberley Aboriginal children
Respiratory illnesses account for 8% of the health-gap in mortality between Aboriginal and other Australians ...
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A prospective study of the aetiology, associations, clinical features and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in children and adults in tropical Australia
Pneumonia is common in Australia and often requires admission to hospital. The germs that causes ...
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Immune responses in the neonate exposed to hyperglycaemia in utero
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasingly diagnosed in young Indigenous women (<25 years of age). ...
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