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A call to action: setting the research agenda for addressing obesity and weight-related topics in children with physical disabilities… Implementation and scale-up of a consumer co-designed physical activity promotion program for people with moderate-to-profound disabilities… Studies, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University, and the independent… this bias; however, it is not yet commonly used in the health sciences or disability fields. In this…
Professor John Cairney is the Head of School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. He is an academic leader in the field of paediatric exercise medicine and child health research and is particularly well-known for his work on developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and its impact on the health …
From 2012-2015, Professor John Cairney co-led the evaluation of the multi-ministerial Children’s Mental Health Strategy in Canada, and since 2013 he has been the Scientific Lead of the screening arm of the Special Needs Strategy for Children in Ontario. These roles have allowed him to influence po …
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Beating the Barriers: Recruitment of People with Intellectual Disability to Participate in Research… 'We need to talk' : Genomics and disability… Background: The health status of people with intellectual disability is poor, yet very little…
Assoc Prof Fran Boyle is a social scientist and health services researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences Research. Fran's background is in psychology and public health and her research focuses on people’s lived experiences of health, health services and the health system. Fran's research ex …
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Poor Functional Health Literacy: the Silent Disability for Older People… activity, screen time, health-related quality of life, illness and disability, health service use, sleep… Queensland, Australia, working in adult physical disabilities settings was surveyed with a structured…
A/Prof Leigh Tooth is a Principal Research Fellow who specialises in research on maternal and child health and general women's health, in particular on women carers, health inequalities and the socio-economic determinants of health, quality of life and comorbidity.
A/Prof Leigh Tooth is currently P …
I have successfully led several major research projects which have focussed on elements of the Australian health care system. Several of my research publications and reports have informed health policy, for example by:
· Delivering policy recommendations about the use and impact of Medicare and DV …
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Third-party disability in spouses of older people with hearing impairment… Communication impairment, disability and handicap in the ethnic aged… people. To date, most of the research on community access for people with disabilities has been on…
hearing impairment, hearing loss, hearing rehabilitation, evidence-based practice, family-centred hearing care
Louise Hickson, AM, is Professor of Audiology and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences at The University of Queensland. Professor Hickson has published over 280 …
Professor Hickson is a world leader in hearing rehabilitation research and her work has changed practice in Australia and overseas. For example, the Active Communication Education (ACE) program that she developed and evaluated has been used in many countries around the world including Australia, the …