Australia Fellowship -

Evidence-based public health, early life intervention, research-policy nexus.

Closing the Gap: Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting for families of Aboriginal infants in an urban community.

Evaluation of home visiting program for aboriginal infants using a time-lagged comparison cohort. Project Grant RG 092170

The physiology of health systems: Port Lincoln as a case study.

Capture and describe comprehensively all health system activity relating to a sizeable and carefully-defined Australian population (that of Port Lincoln, in western South Australia, population ~14,000). Project Grant

Improving chronic disease outcomes for Indigenous Australians: Causes, Interventions, System Change 

This research will better understand the development of chronic conditions, and guide the development of diet, lifestyle, clinical and health system interventions. Program Grant; . (My involvement ended Sept 2012)

Early Life Factors in KIHD Study - 

This grant is to supplement data collection from archival records on early life factors that may be relevant to adult disease in an Eastern Finnish population.

SES and Health in Alameda County- 

Examines the lifecourse socioeconomic predictors of mortality, morbidity, functioning, health behaviors and psychosocial risk factors in a population-based sample that includes 6 waves of data collection over 35 years.

Community Health Assets Index - 

Involves the development of an index of key contextual level exposures that may help characterize communities as to their disease risk.

Marginalization and Health in Denmark - 

Random sample of the Danish population aged 40-50 years that prospectively examines the health consequences of economic and social marginalization.

Monitoring Cancer Disparities –

Project to conceptualize, develop and measure socioeconomic and race/ethnic disparities in cancer mortality, survival, screening, and risk behaviors.

Individual and Population Lifecourse Approach to Health –

Project for funding to write a book that brings together evidence from biology, medicine, epidemiology, psychology and sociology concerning a lifecourse approach to adult chronic disease.

My role: CIA

My role: CIA (Davey Smith CIB)

National Cancer Institute, USA

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation USA

$320,000; 2 years

$270,000; 3 years

The New Old Public Health-

Investigate the contributions of the theory of general susceptibility to levels and trends in population health.

Lifecourse Predictors of Psychosocial Function –

Investigates the lifecourse socioeconomic predictors of adult psychosocial functioning such as depression, hopelessness, hostility, aggression, sense of coherence, and social isolation.

Canada Research Chair -

Population health research.

Epirical Case Studies in Cancer Inequalities -

Compare how different health inequality measures perform in the assessment of trends in cancer disparities.

LOMAS -

Geographical, social and individual determinants of health and health care utilization – A longitudinal multilevel analysis. Agency: Swedish Govt. Grant for Medical Research (ALF);

Lifecourse SEP, Diabetes and Potential Gene x Environment Interactions - Examine interactions between early life disadvantage and genetic polymorphisms eg FTO, TCF7L2 in regard to NIDDM.

Framingham Offspring -

Investigate the inter-generational patterning of CVD risk factors.

Longitudinal analysis of the Quebec birth cohort - Project to examine links between social deprivation in childhood and CVD risk factors.

My Role: CIA

My Role: Co-Inv (Merlo CIA, Rastam, Rosvall Co-Inv)

My Role: CIB (Loucks CIA) (Abrahamowizc, Benjamin, Engert CoCIs)

My Role: CIC (Loucks, Fuhrer, Pilote, Muribato, Benjamin Co-CIs)

My Role: Co-Inv (Seguin CI) (Daniel, Gauvin, Zunzenegi Co-Inv)

NCI

SEK

CIHR Canada;

CIHR Canada;

CIHR Canada

$100,000; 2 years

12 million; 3 years.

$240,000; 3 years.

$680,000; 3 years

$345,000; 4 years.

SMART 

Microsimulation modeling of the effectiveness of different risk reduction strategies.

World Health Inequality -

Investigate the extent and correlates of global health inequality using the new World Health Survey data from WHO.

Does Nurse Home-Visiting Improve Infant Development in Rural and Remote Regions? An evaluation of the South Australian nurse home-visiting (SA-NHV) program.

The New England Family Study: Fifty Year Post-Perinatal Follow-Up for Life Course Effects on Aging, -. Early life factors and gene x environment interactions as predictors of early aging. US NIH # 1RC2AG036666-01

My Role: CIC (Moore, Harper Co-CIs)

CI-A Sawyer; My Role: CIB.

CI-A Loucks; My Role CI-F

CIHR Canada

Channel 7 Childrens Research Foundation

NIH

$40,000; 1 year

$72,500; 2 years

$1.7 million; 3 years

Data Linkage Seed Grant -

Support for fostering the use of data linkage for early childhood development research.

Preventing maternal and child overweight and obesity: InFANT-Extend.

Combined child care and preschool: What level of participation is needed to improve school readiness for disadvantaged children?

CI-A Campbell; My Role CI-E.

CI-A Krieg; My role: CIC.

World Cancer Research Fund

Channel 7 Childrens Research Foundation.

$450,000, 3 years

$61,700, 2 years

ALSPAC Core Funding. 

The effect of early life conditions and experiences on child development and learning: A whole of population study.

Does nurse home-visiting improve the longer term health and wellbeing of mothers and children?

CI-A Davey Smith; My Role: CIS

CI-A Guthridge; My Role CI-C

CI-A: Sawyer; My Role: CI-B

Wellcome Trust

Lowitja Institute;

Ch 7 Children’s Research Foundation;

£6 Million, 3 years

$100,000; 1 year

$70,000 1 year

eMums – Advancing the potential of nurse-guided internet support for young families.

Perinatal predictors of AEDI and NAPLAN. Proof of Concept Project #3.

CI-A; Sawyer,  My Role: CI-B

CI-A; Brinkman,  My Role: CI-B

Robinson Institute, Univ. Adelaide.

Population Health Research Network

$50,000; 1 year.

$280,000; 1 year.