IMPACT CRE is seeking applicants for the ‘Leon Piterman, AM PhD Scholarship in Primary Health Care’, a 3 year PhD, supported by Monash University Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences.
Getting access to primary health care is important for everyone, but not everyone can find care that matches their needs. Gaps in equitable primary care particularly affect vulnerable groups such as people on low incomes, refugees and indigenous communities. As a consequence, poor access to health care translates into unmet needs, delayed or inappropriate treatments and avoidable emergency department admissions. The “Innovative Models Promoting Access-to-Care Transformation” (IMPACT) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) is a collaboration between researchers, policy makers and clinicians in Australia and Canada that aims to generate organisational innovations to promote access to primary health care for vulnerable populations.
The successful candidate will pursue a topic of their own interest whilst receiving strong support from an international research team. We encourage you to visit http://www.impactresearchprogram.com/ for more information about the research program. Example study areas:
- International comparison of primary health care systems and appropriate access care (survey analysis).
- National comparison of how three health systems identify and prioritise access-related need in their region (mixed methods case study) The Principal Supervisor is Professor Grant Russell and a second Monash University academic with relevant expertise will be identified. External co-supervision is also possible.
The project will be undertaken within the Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit at Monash University (Dandenong).
A stipend will be paid at the APA equivalent rate of $25,849 per annum (2015 rate). An additional annual amount of $10,000 is available each year; $5000 will be allocated as a salary top-up and $5000 will be allocated to research costs and capacity building. The total stipend is tax-free.
Please contact IMPACT’s National Project Manager Jennifer.Hester@monash.edu<mailto:Jennifer.Hester@monash.edu> for more details.
Jennifer Hester
National Research Project Manager (Australia), IMPACT Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit, Monash University
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