Marguerite Tracy was awarded an MRFF Grant for a project titled ‘Developing an integrated care model for opioid dependence treatment’. Marguerite and team are creating and maintaining links for people in opioid dependence treatment programs with general practice care through LINK – A co-designed integrated care model. ($1,466,168)

Carissa Bonner was named a CI on an NHMRC Synergy Grant to test innovative solutions to hypertension with Alta Schutte & team: ‘Solving Australia’s hypertension treatment’ problem” $5m (2024-2028)

Carissa Bonner named part of the team awarded a Genomics Health Futures Mission to build primary care capacity in genomics with Alan Ma & team: ‘The PRECISE (Practitioner Readiness, Education and Capabilities, with Implementation Science Evaluation) Genomics Research Project’ ($1.900,000)

Professor Kirsten McCaffery is a collaborator on a successful NHMRC Ideas grant led by Associate Professor Holly Seale, UNSW, 'Community driven communication and engagement during health crisis periods: co-designing enhanced and transferable strategies' $589,259 (2023-2025)

Jolyn Hersch’s team, Ilona Juraskova, Jolyn Hersch, Phyllis Butow (Emerita), Nicci Bartley, Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell, in a scheme offered by the university’s School of Psychology ($29,580)

Rachael Dodd received funding for the ‘Helping clinicians and patients make sense of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer: implementation of an information resource’. ($20,000)

Carissa Bonner named as a CI on a NSW Health Cardiovascular Research Capacity Program with Niamh Chapman & team ‘Empowering patients to self-manage blood pressure with education and support from pharmacists: a pilot cluster RCT’. ($750,000)

Julie Ayre and Danielle Muscat were a part of the team awarded an ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation Next Generation Researcher Network 2023 Seed Funding Scheme ‘Towards better access and equity in digital mental health: Understanding and addressing the impacts of health literacy in treatment’. ($19,753)

Rachael Dodd was awarded a Sydney Cancer Partners Seed Grant: Shifting clinical practice in the management of screen-detected abnormal cervical cells for women aged 25-40: could we start offering active surveillance? ($19,750)

Rachael Dodd’ grant will support co-design workshops for lung cancer screening decision support tools in regional and rural areas with First Nations Communities. Rachael recently took a two-day trip to Dubbo to engage with the communities there. ($9,450)

Provide support to 10 Net Zero Lead clinicians appointed to plan and conduct research projects in their workplace with a net zero lens - Kristen Pickles, Thomas Dakin et al $300,000 (2022-2024)

Transforming health literacy in Australia: a partnership approach - Kirsten McCaffery $2.8M (2023-2027)

Evaluation and implementation of a digital health literacy tool to improve written health information - Julie Ayre $600,000 (2023-2027)

INcreasing inFLUEnza immuNisation of Cardiovascular inpatiEnts (INFLUENCE): A multifaceted, multi-level systems approach to increasing adoption. Nelson A, Bonner C et al $90,000, (2022)

Co-creating critical health literacy interventions. Muscat D. $467,132 (2023-2025)

Understanding consumers and hospitals perspectives of Medibank patient reported experience measures (PREMs) data: a qualitative interview study, Nickel B, Copp T, Dodd R, McCaffery K, $204,000 (2022-2023)

NUDG-ED: Trial of behavioural ‘nudging’ interventions to reduce unnecessary care for low back pain in the Emergency Department. A Traeger, C Maher, L Cullen, K McCaffery, J Linder, R Buchbinder, I Harris, E Coiera, Q Li, K Howard.  $1,119,327 (2023-2027)

Reshaping the management of low back pain in emergency departments. Maher C, Rogan E, Machado G, Edwards J, Buchbinder R, Harris I, Williams C, Naganathan V, Howard K, McCaffery K, Billot L, Wiggers J, Harvey L, Kinsman L, Ghinea N.  $2.8M (2022-2025)

COVID-19 Innovation Fund – Multicultural Communities and Hard to Reach Groups, Stream 2. Frawley J, Seale H, Maccartney K, Leask J, McCaffery K, Woodland L, Zachariah D, Mahimbo A, Abdi I. $167,291 (2022)

For the provision of development of a National Health Literacy Strategy to support the National Preventive Health Strategy. Redman S, McCaffery K, Nutbeam D, Rudge S. $414,000 (2022-2023)

Wiser healthcare: better value care for all Australians. McCaffery K; Carter S; Barratt A; Bell K; Moynihan R; O’Connor D; Maher C; Buchbinder R; Houssami N; Glasziou P. $2.5M (2022-2026)

Reducing the harms of inappropriate medicalisation of women’s reproductive health. Copp T.  $650,740 (2022-2026)

Informed choice for lung cancer screening in Australia. Dodd R. USD50,000 (2022)

Ensuring ethical and flexible consent in cancer genomic research and clinical practice.  Hersch J.  $590,000 (2022-2024)

Ready to screen. Targeting the high-risk population to improve lung cancer diagnosis.  Rankin N, … Dodd R $2M (July 2021-June 2025)

Determining the impact of a new primary care model for low back pain: A cluster randomised trial. French S, Hancock M, Zwar N, Miller J, Taljaard M, Graham P, Haines T, Blyth F, De Luca K, Willcock S, Clavisi O, McCaffery K, Jenkins H, Donnelly C.  $2.1M (2021-2025)

For career development and advancement activities.  Dodd R $15,000 (2021-2022) and Copp T $15,000 (2021-2022).

Understanding beliefs, barriers, and misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in the Australian community.  Pickles K, Copp T, Meyerowitz-Katz G, Seale H, Steffens M, Bonner C, Dodd R, Cvejic E, McCaffery K.  $15,000 (2021)

Parenting+ Improving health and service-use outcomes through health literacy training for new parents: an effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial.  McCaffery K, Muscat D, Nutbeam D, Schmied V, Wen LM, Raynes-Greenow C, Hayes A, Cvejic E, Shepherd H.  $495,760 (2021-2024)

Survey of services for the Independent Review of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Residential Aged Care Facilities.  McCaffery K.  $43,436.25 (2021)

The impact of breast density notification in Australia.  Nickel B.  $645,205 (2021-2025)

Understanding affective processing of scientific evidence to promote informed choice for breast cancer screening.  Scherer L, Lewis C, McCaffery K, Morse B, Cappella JN.  $3,416,387 (US$2.5M; Nov 2020-Oct 2025)

Optimising health communication for positive community responses to testing for COVID-19 and beyond. McCaffery K, Bonner C, Ayre J, Cvejic E, Dodd R, Nickel B, Pickles K, Isautier J, Copp T, Batcup C, Cornell S, Dakin T (SHLL COVID-19 Team).  $24,000 (2020)

Understanding hospital admission for low back pain. Machado G, Richards B, Needs C, Coombs D, Hayes S, Rogan E, Teng MJ, Dodd R, Ghinea N, Maher $10,000 (2020-2021)

SHeLL editor: An online real-time editor to improve the health-literate design of written materials. Muscat DM, Ayre J, Jansen J, Aslani P, Shepherd H, Mouwad D, Nothman J, McCaffery K.  $10,000 (2020-2021)

Supporting end-of-life conversations through improved communication for shared decision-making.  Egerton A, Muscat D, Maka K, Greenaway S, Datyner M, Weir K.  $50,000 (2020-2021)

Australian women and primary care clinicians’ knowledge, understanding on breast density relating to breast cancer, and their perspectives around messaging and notification of breast density. Nickel B, McCaffery K, Houssami N, Brennan M, Hersch J, Carter S, Kaderbhai, Verde A, Vaccaro L.  $69,988 (2020-2021)

Growing the health literacy skills of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and caregivers. Muscat DM, Lloyd J, McCaffery K, Dickson M, Abbott P. $111,250 (2020-2022)

Maximising the academic and societal impact of novel health literacy interventions for chronic conditions through strategic research priority setting (Maxi-HL).  McCaffery K, Robb K.  $33,631 (2020)

Can delayed screening disrupt routine (over)use of the prostate screening test?  Developing a new model of care.  Barratt A, Brodersen J, Pickles K, McCaffery K, Hersch J, Malmqvist J, Smith R;  $40,000 (2020)

Exploring GP perspectives on two decision aids for prostate cancer screening and their integration into routine workflow. Pickles K, McCaffery K, Barratt A $50,000 (2020)

Assisting patients with knee osteoarthritis to make informed choices about total knee arthroplasty and non-operative management. Harris I, Karunaratne S, Zadro J, Trevena L, Solomon M, Horsley M, Hoffmann T, McCaffery K;  $258,256 (2020-2022)

Low Back Pain Centre of Research Excellence. Maher C, Buchbinder R, Hancock M, O’Sullivan P, McAuley J, Blyth F, Jorm L, Collie A, McCaffery K, Hayes A; $2,499,189 (2020-2024)

Maximising organ donor offer utility system-wide (the MODUS study). Webster A, Wyburn K, Morton R, McCaffery K, Kelly P, Clayton P, Muscat D, De La Mata N; $369,182 (2019-2022)

The Vaccine Barriers Assessment Tool (VBAT): a vaccine acceptance and barriers tool for optimisation of vaccine uptake for parents of children under the age of five; Danchin M, Costa D, Trevena L, Bonner C, Durrheim D; $630,256 (2019-2022).

Supporting adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (SUCCESS): A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the SUCCESS intervention. Sud K, Muscat D, Webster A, Shepherd H, Lambert K, McCaffery K, Robbins A, Kelly P, Liu N, Kim J; $609,846 (2019-2020)

Evaluation of the Statewide Mental Health Literacy Initiative; Redman A, Newell S, Lines K, Muscat DM, Dodd R, Cvejic E, McCaffery K; $465,000 (2019-2021).

Development of a Health Literacy Programme. McCaffery K, Muscat D, Shepherd H, Nutbeam D.  March 2019. $50,000.

Development and randomised trial evaluation of an online engagement tool for CVD risk; Bonner C, Trevena L, McCaffery K, Doust J, Vanguard Grant $75,000 (2019-2020).

Addressing inequalities in diabetes self-management with a health-literate action plan; Bonner C, McCaffery K, Ayre J, Schier N, Gudorf K, Turner R, Research Program $59,856 (2019).

Supporting culturally–diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase iib); Webster A, Sud K, O’Lone E, Shepherd H, McCaffery K, Muscat DM, Sydney Health Partners. RART Round 3. $110.000 (2019).

Evaluating two decision aids for Australian men to support informed decisions about prostate cancer screening. McCaffery K, Barratt A, Pickles K.  $56,700 (2018)

Supporting culturally–diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase II); Webster A, Sud K, O’Lone E, McCaffery K, Shepherd H, Muscat DM, Sydney Health Partners. Medical & Scientific Research Funding $50,000 (2018).

Supporting culturally–diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase II); Webster A, Sud K, O’Lone E, McCaffery K, Shepherd H, Muscat DM, Sydney Health Partners. Project Grant: G197871 $172,440 (2018).

Parenting Plus: Embedding health literacy into New Parents Groups; Tunchon L, Nutbeam D, McCaffery K, Muscat, DM $46,000 (2018).

Medico-legal drivers of low value care.  Ries N, Jansen J (co-leads), McCaffery K, Elshaug A, Doust J.  $102,000 (2018).

Examination of the impact of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) label on psychosocial outcomes and decision making. Jansen J, Copp T, Hersch J, McCaffery K, Doust J, Dokras A, Mol B. $10,000 (2018).

Identifying the barriers and facilitators to high value physiotherapy. Zadro J, Maher C, McCaffery K, Dodd R, Wortley S. $15,000 (2018).