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16 Sep, 17 tweets, 17 min read
#NHMRC funds investigator-led research, research that drives solutions to important health problems and changes lives. So, we wanted to hear directly from researchers about the important health problems they’re setting out to solve.

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Dr Kirsty Short @K_RenfreeShort

Virologist.

Broad research area: Basic science.

@UQ_News @UQscience

Aim? Pandemic proofing our future.

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vimeo.com/603016353
A/Professor Peter Azzopardi @peteazza

Paediatrician with Master of Epidemiology.

Broad research area: Public Health.

@BurnetInstitute @sahmriAU @UniMelbMDHS

Aim? Defining actions to improve health of adolescents.

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vimeo.com/603008826
Professor Julie Leask @JulieLeask

Social scientist.

Broad research area: Public health.

@Sydney_Uni @syd_health

Aim? To close gaps in vaccination coverage.

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vimeo.com/604409175
Professor Ric Price @ricprice99

Infectious diseases physician.

Broad research area: Clinical medicine and science.

@MenziesResearch

Aim? To eliminate Plasmodium vivax malaria.

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vimeo.com/603016025
Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia @VerdejoGAntonio
Psychologist.

Broad research area: Basic science.

@MonashUni @turnerinstitute

Aim? Decoding the drivers of food choices towards sustainable self-management of obesity.

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vimeo.com/603740699
Professor Julie Redfern @JRedHeart

Professor of Public Health and Physiotherapist.

Broad research area: Health services.

@Sydney_Uni @syd_health

Aim? Modernising cardiac rehabilitation.

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vimeo.com/611294627
Dr Zhichao Wu

Optometrist and clinical researcher.

Broad research area: Clinical medicine and science.

@EyeResearchAus

Aim? Preventing irreversible vision loss from age-related macular degeneration.

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vimeo.com/603760177
Professor Peter Croucher

Bone biologist + cancer researcher

Broad Research Area: Clinical medicine and science

@GarvanInstitute

Aim? To target dormant cancer cells & prevent disease relapse in patients with cancer.

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vimeo.com/603738676
Dr Andreas Kupz, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine at @jcu

Microbiologist.

Broad area of research: Basic science.

@AITHM_Research

Aim? Towards elimination of tuberculosis

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vimeo.com/610381545
Dr Georgia Atkin-Smith @SomeBlondeSci

Cell Biologist

Broad research area: Basic science

@WEHI_research @LIMSLTU

Aim? To investigate a new waste disposal system employed by key cells that line the vascular system.

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vimeo.com/603013812
Professor Anne Cust @AnneECust

Cancer epidemiologist

Broad research area: Public health

@Sydney_Uni @syd_health @CCNewSouthWales

Aim? To improve prevention and early detection of melanoma and other skin cancers.

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vimeo.com/604524510
Associate Professor Matt Field

Bioinformatics

Broad area of research: Basic science

@AITHM_Research @jcu

Aim? Developing bioinformatics capability to diagnose infectious diseases using clinical metagenomics.

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vimeo.com/610388929
Professor Gregory Fox @foxsimile

Respiratory physician

Broad research area: Clinical medicine and science

@Sydney_Uni @syd_health

Aim? New directions in global tuberculosis (TB) control.

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vimeo.com/604525464
Professor Peter Meikle

Cardiometabolic researcher

Clinical medicine and science

@BakerResearchAu

Aim? Optimal doses of physical activity and sedentary behaviour for prevention of non-communicable chronic diseases.

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vimeo.com/605192545
Dr Melody Ding @DrMelodyDing

Epidemiologist and population behavioural scientist

Broad Research Area: Public Health

@Sydney_Uni @syd_health

Aim? Creating an active Australia.

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vimeo.com/604410913
Dr @_MargaritaMB

Biostatistics & epidemiological methods

Public Health

@MCRI_for_kids @UniMelb

Aim? Developing biostatistical methods to extract new knowledge about disease causality from large-scale datasets.

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vimeo.com/618692232

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