Current Health @Business projects & network opportunities

Current projects & network opportunities

Current Projects & Team Members

Health@Business in partnership with UNSW Medicine currently has 14 projects underway. These projects provide an indicative outline of the types of collaborations that we are capable of in fostering health care outcomes.

Network opportunities

With this focus, the group can generate possible interest or needs based projects by working alongside streams to generate sector- or hospital-specific driven projects. These initiatives could include several themes such as:

• Organizing hospitals for VUCA Integrated way of understanding how the components of health care can work together to balance change [Streams: Behaviours/Economics]
• Commercializing healthcare e-medicine, taxation and patent management, innovating beyond care, medical device commercialisation [Streams: Services/Economics]
• Promoting wellbeing beyond the hospital space

• Research team

  • Anurag, Sharma (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Jackson Chris (Management)

  Title

  Setting the table for change: Encouraging consumers to spend more on healthy food and less on sugary drinks

• Research team

  • Buchan, Jenny (Taxation and Business Law)
  • Walpola Ramesh (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Sharma, Anurag (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Hoellerer, Markus (Management)

  Title

  Who knows what’s in your medicine? Harmful excipients in medication and the overlooked consequences for public health in Australia

• Research team

  • Dong, Songting (Marketing)
  • Reppermund, Simone (School of Psychiatry)
  • Jiang, Veronica (Marketing)
  • Meltzer, Ariella (Centre for Social Impact)
  • Shuptrine, Rebecca (EDI), 

  Title

  Harnessing Virtual Reality for Disability Inclusiveness

• Research team

  • Foster, Gigi (Economics)
  • Woolfenden, Susan (NSW Health)
  • Lingam, Raghu (Bright Alliance)

  Title

  The Healthier Wealthier Families Fairfield (HWFF) program: Addressing child poverty through innovation in health care service delivery

• Research team

  • Hall, John (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Sanders, Karin (Management) 
  • Lian, Teng (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Vuong, Kyle (Public Health & Community Medicine)

  Title

  Regional & Rural NSW International Medical Graduates (IMGs) - career paths, CPD, work satisfaction and career intentions

• Research team

  • Hanewald, Katja (Risk & Actuarial Studies)
  • Chenoweth, Lynn (Psychiatry)
  • Beard, John (CEPAR)
  • Liu, Zhixin (Stats Central)

  Title

  Intrinsic capacity: Validation of a new WHO concept for Healthy Ageing

• Research team

  • Harrison, Reema (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Schwarz, Gavin (Management)
  • Houng, Le-Dao (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Minbashian, Amirali (Management)
  • Walpola, Ramesh (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Chauhan, Ashfaq (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Richards, Ian (Clinical Excellence Commission)
  • Stern, Adrienne (NSLHD)
  • Allan, Juliane (WNSWLHD)
  • Kirkwood, Lea (Agency Clinical Innovation)

  Title

  Translation and change: Embedding effective change management in health

• Research team

  • Heslin, Peter (Management)
  • Taylor, Silas (Medicine)
  • Lim, Renee (Changineers)

  Title

  Promoting wellbeing in the business coaching environment using AI-driven non-verbal communication behaviour (NVCB) analysis of interactions

• Research team

  • Kayis-Kumar, Ann (Taxation and Business Law)
  • Deady, Mark (Black Dog Institute)
  • Noone, Jack (CSI)
  • Walpole, Michael (Taxation and Business Law)
  • Harvey, Samuel (Black Dog Institute)
  • Mackenzie, Gordon (Taxation and Business Law)
  • Lin, Youngdeok (Accounting)

  Title

  Improving mental health outcomes for small businesses in financial distress

• Research team

  • Land, Lesley (SISTM)
  • Chenoworth, Lynn (Psychiatry)

  Title

  Exploring Adoption and Functional Outcomes of Technology in Persons 60 years and above

• Research team

  • Meyer, Lois (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Dhaenens, Andrew (Management)
  • Harrison, Reema (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Pervaz, Iqbal Maha (Public Health & Community Medicine)

  Title

  Mapping Health Leadership Mentoring Relationships as a Diagnostic Tool to Support Change Management

• Research team

  • Mo, Ce (Jacky) (SISTM)
  • Concha, Oscar Perez (Centre for Big Data Research in Health)
  • Yu, Ting (Marketing)
  • Tania, Bucic (Marketing)

  Title

  Improving health care delivery by bridging the knowledge and skills gaps for health professionals in applied business analytics

• Research team

  • Ortmann, Andreas (Economics)
  • Chambers Georgina (Centre for Big Data Research in Health)
  • Keller, Elena (Centre for Big Data Research in Health)
  • Jorm, Louisa (Centre for Big Data Research in Health)

  Title

  Economics experiment exploring the demand for fertility treatments

• Research team

  • Seale, Holly (Public Health & Community Medicine)
  • Shinkle, George(Management)
  • Jackson, Chris  (Management)

  Title

  Examining new ways to improve immunisation uptake amongst culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) individuals: identifying new actors to promote acceptance and uptake