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…

Community-guided and evidence-based strategies to reduce the burden of Group A Streptococcus in Australian Indigenous communities
The overall objective of our study is to provide community-guided and evidence-based recommendations to public ...
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Developing phylodynamic methods and tools for bacterial pathogens in Far North Queensland
Transmission of drug-resistant infectious diseases presents a significant threat for Northern Australia, particularly through the ...
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Social factors contributing to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in tropical northern Australia – a spatial epidemiology collaboration
An increasingly growing evidence-base of the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has uncovered inequality that ...
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Indigenous Development and Training Awards
The purpose of the Indigenous Development and Training Awards is to build long-term high-quality clinical, ...
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HDL miRNA as predictive biomarkers for diabetic vascular complications in Indigenous populations
The project is looking into Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as a significant chronic disease ...
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Evaluation of baseline data for SToP trial: See, treat, prevent skin sores and scabies
Primary aims To measure the baseline prevalence of impetigo and scabies in children aged between ...
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