Health Minister names Monash University researcher top grant applicant

Associate Professor Julian Elliott fromCochrane Australia in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University has been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Awardfor Excellence in Health and Medical Research2017 at a ceremony in Melbourne last night. The medal is bestowed annually to the top-ranked Career Development Fellowship applicant through the National Health and Medical Research Council.A Career Development Fellowship (CDF) is a highly competitive, four-year fellowship that supports the most outstanding early- to mid-career health and medical researchers. The medal forbest application comes with an additional $50,000 research grant to be used by Associate Professor Elliott on top of his CDF funding.Associate Professor Elliott ’s work focusses on novel systems for translating research into practical healthcare solutions that positively affect patient health and quality of life. He says,“Doing research is not enough. We also need to make sure the findings of research translate into action and improved health – but there is now so much research it is hard for anyone to make sense of this ‘data deluge’. My team and our collaborators are developing and evaluating novel health data systems that make sense of health research and accelerate the translation of research into improved, evidence-based health care.”Associate Professor Elliott ’s work focusses on methods and systems to successfully gather, process and meta-an...
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