Research Findings

A community rugby league program has been found to improve mental health and behavioural outcomes in young men, according to new research supported by Australian Rotary Health (ARH). Professor Allison Waters and a team of youth mental health experts at Griffith University developed a [...]

ARH Scholar Dr Natasha Krishnadas has recently completed a PhD, revealing new insights that could prevent neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s, from emerging. In 2022, over a quarter of a million Australians were estimated to be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Accounting for about two thirds of [...]

Many young people feel inadequately prepared to help their peers with a mental health problem or crisis, according to a recent review of the research literature. With the peak onset for mental health problems estimated to be 14.5 years, and 20% of young people experiencing [...]

ARH has funded a project that has proven ways to extract several types of cells from stool in hopes that it will uncover a more effective, non-invasive way to screen for bowel cancer. Bowel, colorectal or colon cancer is the second most common cause of [...]

A recent project funded by the Australian Rotary Health has explored how to better provide online interventions to parents of children with behaviour problems. Only a third of parents experiencing child behaviour problems will engage in interventions to support their child, and of those who [...]

A recent research study funded by Australian Rotary Health has kick-started a revolutionary way we may treat blood clot formations in the brain. ARH Scholar, Jason Palazzolo, and a team from Monash University investigated a clot-busting agent, called ‘SCE5-scuPA’, uncovering significantly positive results. More than [...]

Dr Michelle Tye A new smartphone app has been found to reduce the severity of suicidal thoughts in young people, following a research study funded by Australian Rotary Health (ARH). The LifeBuoy app is the first smartphone app that uses dialectical behavioural therapy [...]

Associate Professor Judith Proudfoot For National Diabetes Week, Australian Rotary Health (ARH) throws back to a research project that has contributed to a successful program used now, called myCompass. This program also contains a module to help young people with Type 1 Diabetes [...]

Australian Rotary Health has partially funded research in a recent journal article that analyses the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since the introduction of the Federal Government’s Closing the Gap scheme in 2008. The narrative review was led by Dr Michelle Kennedy [...]

In commemoration of NAIDOC Week, Australian Rotary Health is highlighting one of our PhD Scholars, Mandy Gibson, who published her PhD research last year on the importance of cultural connectedness for Indigenous people’s social and emotional wellbeing. Dr Gibson has proven herself as an advocate [...]

In commemoration of Pride Month this year, Australian Rotary Health are highlighting a research publication they funded that has designed an intervention that hopes to improve the mental health of young LGBTIQ+ Australians. With 63.8% of LGBTIQ+ individuals aged 14 to 21 having been diagnosed [...]

The overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics can result in antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Resistant organisms are developing rapidly in local communities and the need for increased public awareness and ways to control AMR is highly necessary to prevent this threat to modern medicine from growing [...]