Research Findings

Without the support from Australian Rotary Health (ARH), the Australian site for an international study investigating the effectiveness of a treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients would not have been possible. The study was conducted across 5 countries and 15 different treatment centres, treating [...]

Australian Rotary Health PhD Scholar, Zhenyu Zhang, has published her work on developing a nonpharmacological digital intervention for treating patients suffering from dementia. Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, with nearly half a million Australians living with dementia in 2022. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new study funded by Australian Rotary Health has found an agent that could potentially be used to treat bowel cancer patients who have had the tumour spread to their liver. The liver is the most common site for colorectal cancer metastases, which occurs in [...]

Funding from Australian Rotary Health has supported the development and validation of a new screening tool to help professionals identify psychosocial risk during the perinatal period. The Antenatal Risk Questionnaire-Revised (ANRQ-R) was developed by ARH Geoffrey Betts Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient [...]