A total of 51 HOT NORTH health research projects have been announced in 2017 and to date in 2018. The new projects will examine some of Australia’s most pressing health concerns affecting Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the north of Australia and our regional neighbours abroad.
The impact of a health information campaign to improve timely health seeking of families of Aboriginal children with chronic wet cough in the Kimberley
Background: Bronchiectasis and its precursor, chronic suppurative lung disease (CSLD) are prevalent in the Aboriginal ...
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Consultation to translation: Evaluation of an environmental health video to promote the role of environmental health activities for healthy skin
Environmental health activities are key activities in the prevention of skin infections. Skin infections are ...
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Tracking drug resistant infections in northern Australia: Mapping and data to inform policy and practice
Infections that no longer respond to treatment are increasingly common across the world and within ...
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Antimicrobial Resistance and rheumatogenicity of Group A Streptococcus isolated during SToP trial baseline sampling
Indigenous Australian children suffer the highest rates of skin sores in the world. Skin sores ...
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Prevention of acute respiratory infections among Indigenous children: Intervention phase
Goal: To reduce the burden of early-onset and recurrent acute respiratory infection (ARI) and close the ...
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Metagenomics for Pathogen Detection and Dynamics in Australia’s Tropical North
People living in Australia’s tropical north have higher burdens of disease and poorer health outcomes ...
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