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News • 13 Nov 2015
NHMRC Partnership Projects 2016
Professor John Wiggers has been awarded more than $766,000 in NHMRC funding commencing in 2016 for his research a practice change intervention to increase the p
News • 10 Nov 2015
NHMRC funding success 2016
Associate Professor Luke Wolfenden has been awarded more than $1,044,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project A
News • 10 Nov 2015
NHMRC funding success 2016
Instead of receiving care to address factors associated with chronic low back pain, such as being overweight and smoking, patients are referred for expensive an
News • 11 Sep 2015
Public health excellence in research awarded
The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health has received a CAPHIA public health award.
News • 13 Aug 2015
$3.3m grant to improve dementia care and quality of life
A multi-institute research team, led by UON's Laureate Professor Rob Sanson-Fisher look to improve dementia care.
News • 24 Jul 2015
2015 Eureka Awards FInalist
Laureate Professor Rob Sanson-Fisher has been named a finalist in the Eureka awards as an Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers.
News • 25 Feb 2015
Managing back pain in children
New research shows that children and teenagers are just as likely as adults to report back pain.
News • 19 Nov 2014
ARC DECRA funding success
Dr Amy Waller has been awarded $359,000 for her research project Decision making in older people approaching the end of life
News • 11 Nov 2014
Alistair Briscombe a friend to Vietnam
Alistair Briscombe, a UON Master of Clinical Epidemiology graduate, is this year’s recipient of the Vietnamese Graduates from Australia Club ‘Friendship Award’
News • 06 Nov 2014
UON researcher takes out Research Australia Award
Internationally renowned cancer control and health behaviour researcher, Laureate Professor Robert Sanson-Fisher AO, has taken out the inaugural Research Aust
News • 14 Oct 2014
Survey to help parents tackle teen drinking challenges
Researchers have developed an online survey to help families navigate the challenges of teenage alcohol use.
News • 02 Sep 2014
Paracetamol and pain
Paracetamol does not speed recovery or reduce pain for people with acute low back ache, according to the results of a trial by HMRI researcher Chris Williams.
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