Our Health Services Research and Implementation Platform supports a system-wide approach to implementing evidence-based change that can lead to improvements in the health and social care outcomes of Australians.
Implementing change in clinical practice by health professionals, and change in community health behaviours, requires understanding how to translate knowledge and implement evidence-based interventions at an organisational level and across settings.
This Platform will provide leadership in the gathering of data, evidence, and tools to make healthcare affordable, safe, effective, equitable, accessible and patient-centred.
Our aims and priorities are to:
- Provide leadership in health services research, implementation, science and innovation
- Increase collaboration, pace and scale of health services and healthcare improvement research
- Promote sharing of interests, learnings and best practice
- Promote capacity building in health services research
- Undertake priority setting and deliver on a flagship program within the platform
- Engage with the Australian Health Research Alliance Health Systems Improvement and Sustainability Steering Committee
- Facilitate collaborative links with relevant bodies and initiatives
- Leverage Monash Partners reach, breadth, thematic structure, expertise and population.
The Platform is led by
Professor Helena Teede (Interim Lead)
Professor Helena Teede holds leadership roles across health care, research and policy including as the Director of Monash Centre for Health Research Implementation, School of Public Health and co-director of the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering, an Endocrinologist at Monash Health, and Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre.
The Health Services Research and Implementation Steering Committee brings together researchers, innovation leads and clinicians from across Monash Partners. They include:
- Professor Helena Teede (Interim Lead)
- Dr Alisa Pedrana ( Co-Chair)
- Professor Tracey Bucknall
- Associate Professor Neale Cohen
- Professor Ian Davis
- Professor Sally Green
- Dr Katherine Harding
- Dr Ingrid Hopper
- Associate Professor Monique Kilkenny
- Ms Angela Melder
- Dr Denise O’Connor
- Professor Grant Russell
- Dr Paul Sadler
- Associate Professor Carlos Scheinkestel
- Professor Helen Skouteris
- Professor Nick Taylor
- Dr Victoria Team
- Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton
- Professor Nik Zeps
Monash Partners is proud to support the following projects within this Platform:
Building capacity to optimise pressure injury prevention and surveillance across Monash Partners healthcare services
Professor Carolina Weller
Integrating care via a volunteer-based patient-centred program for hospitalised patients with dementia and/or delirium: The MIcare Ageing Project
Professor Helen Skouteris
Building workforce capacity for culturally response clinical practices across Monash Partners health services
Ms Angela Melder and Ms Joanna Ong
Research and translation on workforce capacity building for health systems improvement and sustainability
Ms Angela Melder and Ms Joanna Ong