Research Interests
The academic staff of the Department of General Practice have a wide range of interests. Selection of any of the following will take you to the staff contact for that area of research.
Professor Richard Reed
- chronic care and ageing
- diabetes mellitus
Associate Professor Libby Kalucy
- translation of general practice and primary health care research into practice and policy
- realistic evaluation of primary health care services - 'what works for whom, in what circumstances, and why'
- health outcomes in primary health care and general practice, especially in relation to complex health service interventions such as coordinated care trials
Associate Professor Ellen McIntyre
- effective dissemination of research findings
- reducing barriers to breastfeeding
- development and implementation of lactation management courses for health professionals
Associate Professor Malcolm Bond
- health psychology (reltionship between psychosocial factors and disease, influence of psychosocial factors in adapting to a chronic illness, quality of life and activity patterns of the elderly, stress, psychosocial effects of caregiving)
- applied statistics
- quantitative research methodology
- social theory
Dr John Litt
- implementation of preventive activities in the GP setting (driving force behind the RACGP's recent publication Putting prevention into practice (the Greenbook)
- GP skills in counselling about lifestyle behaviours especially, smoking and hazardous drinking: both research and training
- influenza: vaccine coverage and strategies to improve it at a GP and population level
Dr Leigh Roeger
- therapeutic approaches for child and adolescent mental health
- research design and methodology
- the application of advanced statistical methods (HLM, SEM, IRT) to the health sciences