Submission to improving alignment between the Medical Research Endowment Account and the Medical Research Future Fund
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Computational linguistics methods to enhance process evaluations of cardiovascular interventions
Background
Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, requires complex evidence-based interventions to be implemented sustainably in local settings. However, effective interventions are often not fully implemented, and some not at all, due to factors that could have been identified during process evaluations.
Process evaluations can help to design interventions, optimise implementation, and inform sustainability and scale but are also time and resource intensive. Thus, most process evaluations are commonly performed at or near study end, and findings are not rapidly fed back to end-users. Computational linguistics could be a potential solution to enhance the process evaluation in a timely and valid manner. Computational linguistics uses advanced text mining and machine learning to discover linguistic patterns in natural language and link these patterns to process evaluation domains such as implementation measures of fidelity, acceptability, and appropriateness.
Aim
This study aims to use e
Submission on the National Climate and Health Strategy
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Response to Government consultation on the National Preventive Health Strategy
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Preventing and managing falls across the life course
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Assessing system capacity for implementing interventions for safe school routes in a Tier II city in Madhya Pradesh, India
Globally, road traffic collisions are the leading cause of death among adolescents. India has an increasing burden of road injuries among adolescents. Our previous qualitative work found that understanding context is critical to enable implementation of effective interventions to reduce the burden of road injury among adolescents. On 29th July 2020, the New Education Policy was introduced by the Government of India which proposes accessible education for special groups by providing bicycles. Knowing the vulnerability of pedestrians and cyclists, we need measures to ensure equitable and safe routes to school, to achieve the goal of accessible education for every child.
We will use a sequential, mixed methods approach to evaluate the road environment quantitatively using the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) Star Rating for School App, followed by qualitative investigation with key stakeholders to assess system capacity for implementation of safe school routes in Madhya Pradesh. The proposed met
Project Bhasa - Ending the drowning epidemic in Barishal division, Bangladesh
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Policy recommendations to improve vaccine acceptance and reduce vaccine hesitancy
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Strengthening health systems in China and Australia using Health Technology Assessment
The aim of the project is to promote China-Australia co-operation in HTA through knowledge exchange and research collaboration
The George Institute submission on ‘Policy Guidance for Menu Labelling in Australia and New Zealand’
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TESTING-ON: Therapeutic Evaluation of STeroids in IgA Nephropathy Global, Post-Trial ObservatioNal Cohort Study
BackgroundImmunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common type of kidney inflammation worldwide and a leading cause of kidney failure, often requiring dialysis or transplant. • The TESTING trial showed that significant kidney problems like kidney failure or a major decline in kidney function often start appearing two-to-three years after starting treatment. A post-trial observation study is a crucial and efficient way to answer key questions about whether the benefits of steroids continue over time and if lower steroid doses provide similar long-term benefits safely for kidney health.AimsTo follow TESTING study participants for a longer period to see if taking methylprednisolone for six to nine months leads to lasting benefits in preventing end-stage kidney failure. To resolve persisting uncertainties regarding the use and long-term benefits of corticosteroids as a therapy for IgA nephropathy.MethodsTESTING-ON is a post-trial observational study of participants randomised into the TEST
Research on climate change and health in India: a priority setting exercise
BackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) has identified climate change as the greatest threat to human health in the twenty-first century, with an estimated 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea, and heat stress alone. Climate change is contributing to increase adverse impact not restricted to human health, but also extending to social, economic, and political domains.It is widely recognised that identifying practical solutions to handle the health aspects of climate change needs trans- and multi-disciplinary research. As the window for effective responses is rapidly closing, identifying priority research questions on climate change is key from the point of both resourcing and action for funders and academics.AimsTo identify priority research questions on climate change and health in India in the following domains:Impact of climate change on health and diseaseInterventions to protect health from climate changeClimate change adaptation and mitigat