Health and Wellbeing Research Priority Area.

The Deakin University Health and Wellbeing Research Priority Area includes research on health and illness from the molecular level to the level of the individual as well as examining how the broader society impacts on attitudes and behaviours.  Research being conducted covers a broad range of illness and health related areas, including diabetes, obesity and mental illness.  Our approaches address both disease prevention and disease management; and include community-based interventions, economic evaluations biomedical to psychophysical methods, epidemiologic studies and policy-based research.  Our research is solution-focused with a goal of knowledge transfer of research findings to inform policy, practice and teaching.

The Health and Wellbeing Research Priority Area is comprised of six research clusters that work with national and international partners in health communities, business, industry and government to bring about evidence-based practical, equitable health outcomes globally, nationally and in local communities.  The clusters are engaged in research programs related to patient care, mental health, molecular medicine, public health research and evaluation, population health, and social determinants of health and wellbeing.  The six clusters encompassed by the Health and Wellbeing Research Priority Area are Molecular Medicine and Nutrition; Public Health Research; Policy and Evaluation; Mental Health and Wellbeing; Physical Activity and Nutrition; Promoting Social Justice and Equity, and; Quality and Risk Management in Clinical and Aged Care