Two researchers from ҹɫÊÓƵ have secured more than $2.4 million in funding from the (NHMRC) to support research partnerships and improve health outcomes for women and infants.
from ҹɫÊÓƵ’s School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work and Mater Research will lead a research team developing a recovery program for women who have survived breast or reproductive cancer.
The project will create and evaluate an evidence-based, digitally enabled lifestyle program to support the long-term health outcomes for women following treatment.
from the ҹɫÊÓƵ Child Health Research Centre will lead a research team assessing the use of pasteurised donor human milk for term-born infants requiring supplementation in hospital.
The project, in partnership with Lifeblood and Ramsay Health Care, will help to determine whether the practice should be adopted in Australian hospitals.
The scheme supports collaboration between researchers and partner organisations to address specific research questions and implement findings into health policy and practice.
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