Welcome to The Sax Institute
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The Sax Institute is a unique organisation in Australia. We build partnerships between researchers and health policy and service delivery agencies for better health. Through these partnerships, we develop research assets and programs and strengthen policy and practice focused research. The Institute has at its foundation a coalition of University and research groups undertaking population health and health services research in NSW. |
Highlights
45 and Up Study completes recruitment
Australia’s largest study into healthy ageing has now recruited over 260 000 participants aged 45 and over from across NSW – representing approximately 10% of this target age group. Forty-three applications using data from the 45 and Up Study have been approved, and 20 projects are already under way.
Closing the Gap
The Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH ) has been established in four urban Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services across NSW. During the last 12 months over 500 children from more than 200 families have joined this long-term study of the health of 2000 Aboriginal children.
Increasing capacity to build research
Scholars from across NSW utilised the Sax Institute’s research assets and capabilities to develop 20 applications to competitive grant funding agencies, and to generate 35 peer-reviewed journal articles. The work of the Institute also contributed to supporting 25 early career researchers.
Embedding the use of evidence in policy
The Sax Institute undertook 13 Evidence Check reviews for six government agencies in diverse health policy areas. This brings the total number of reviews undertaken to 48. A review of the Institute’s Evidence Check program demonstrated a high level of satisfaction with the evidence reviews among health policy clients and researchers, and peer reviews of the work confirmed the program’s quality and reliability.
Bringing together clinicians and researchers
Over 150 senior policy makers, managers, clinicians and researchers participated in a high-profile Hospital Alliance for Research Collaboration (HARC ) forum and discussed ways of improving public confidence in our hospital system.
For more information please refer to our recent Annual Report online.
Hot Topics
- VACANCY Senior Epidemiologist, Chronic Disease, NSW Health, Sydney
The Senior Epidemiologist will work collaboratively with health professionals across the Department and NSW Health generally, including the Chronic Disease Management Office, the Centre for Epidemiology and Research, the Demand, Performance and Evaluation Unit and Primary and Community Partnerships in respect to data quality and integrity and manage diverse research projects relating to chronic disease management. - VACANCY Knowledge Translation Fellow
An exciting opportunity exists for a post-doctoral Research Fellow to lead the translation of dementia research into clinical practice for the Dementia Collaborative Research Centres. - INVITATION: Chronic Disease - A global problem in need of a global solution
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy is pleased to welcome Richard Smith Director, United Health Chronic Disease Initiative and former Editor of the British Medical Journal presenting the topic of Chronic disease; a global problem in need of a global solution. - Invitation: Annual Research Showcase entitled "Advances in Public Health and Health Services Research at UNSW"
Research Showcase from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity and the Australian Institute for Health Innovation. - Career Opportunities with the Bureau of Health Information
The BHI is an independent organisation, established by the NSW Government, to be the leading source of information on the performance of the public health system in NSW. BHI is offering a challenging opportunity for experienced, skilled and enthusiastic researchers to work within a newly established Bureau of Health Information (BHI). BHI is recruiting for highly talented individuals to join its new team in Chatswood, NSW. - More Hot Topics
