Behaviours and Health Risks

Understanding risk behaviours through innovative research

Promoting improved health and wellbeing by reducing harms related to risky behaviours.

Focuses on the promotion of improved health and wellbeing by reducing harms related to risky behaviours.

Alcohol consumption among young people is a major focus of this program, as are injecting drug use, methamphetamine use, and sexual and reproductive health.

Through the Behaviours and Health Risks program Burnet is committing to making a major contribution:

To promote improved health and wellbeing by reducing harms related to alcohol and other drugs and sexual and mental health
To reducing risky behaviours related to alcohol consumption, with a particular focus on young people
To reducing risky behaviours related to drug use, with a focus on injecting drug use and methamphetamine use
To reducing risky behaviours related to sexual and reproductive health, with a focus on young people and key populations
To reducing risky behaviours related to emerging behavioural issues arising from work in other programs
To increase the capacity of health professionals, researchers, policy makers and the general community through education and training to achieve a reduction in harms related to alcohol and drugs in Australia and globally.

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Program Goals and Objectives (69.3 KB)

Contact Details

Professor Paul Dietze

Program Director, Behaviours and Health Risks

Telephone

+61392822134

Email

paul.dietze@burnet.edu.au

Projects

Children and teenagers' exposure to risk online and methods to reduce harm
Understanding experiences of parenting children in the age of online technology and pornography.
Health needs of deported U.S. military veterans in Tijuana, Mexico
Study using qualitative methods to examine their health status and health needs.
Ambulance demand: random events or predictable patterns
This project will examine patterns in ambulance demand from four years of data to inform ambulance practice.
Communicable disease screening and prevalence among migrants
A study to improve communicable disease health outcomes among migrants entering Australia.
CREIDU: Centre for Research Excellence into Injecting Drug Use
Improving the health of PWID through new research to inform public health policy and practice.
EC Australia: The vital missing link to eliminating hepatitis C
Australia’s first nationally coordinated response to hepatitis C aims to achieve elimination by 2030.
EDRS: Ecstasy and related Drugs Reporting System
EDRS aims to examine trends in the use of ecstasy and other drugs among regular users.
Engaging men to improve family health and prevent gender-based violence
ANCP project to contribute to the improvement of the health of men, their families and communities.
Evaluation of GLBTIQ-specific group counselling at the Victorian AIDS Council
Evaluation of GLBTIQ-specific group counselling for substance misuse and mental health issues at VAC.
Fitspiration and Social Media
“Fitspiration” promotes exercise and health, but emerging research shows this can impact body image.
HCV Elimination Modelling
Providing evidence-based policy recommendations for prevention, testing and treatment of Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C brief reports
Summaries of published hepatitis C research from Burnet Institute are now available to read and download.
IDRS: Illicit Drug Reporting System
A strategic early warning system identifying emerging trends related to illicit drugs.
Integrated multi-sectoral approach to improve the SRH of young people (10 to 18 years) in Magwey, Myanmar (IMSA)
This formative study provides evidence of current knowledge and attitudes among adolescents.
Intimate attitudes, practices and knowledge among Chinese-speaking international students
A survey of international students' sexual behaviors, knowledge of STIs, sexual education and pornography.
MIDY: The Mobile Intervention for Drinking in Young People (pilot)
Testing a mobile phone-based intervention delivered during drinking events in young people.
New media and technology in current health promotion practice
Investigating new media/technology interventions in health promotion practice in Australia.
Opportunities to improve the health of behaviourally bisexual men in Vientiane, Laos
Men with bisexual behaviour in Laos engage in high-risk behaviours with low access to sexual health care.
PATH Cohort Study
A cohort study of the trajectories of prisoners with a history of injecting drug use after release from prison.
Pornography and Young People
Exploring trends in pornography use among young people in the Australian context.
SCOPE - Social Connectivity: Online Perceptions and Experiences
Encouraging young people to discuss with peers issues relating to technology, sex and relationships.
Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll (Big Day Out Study)
A landmark study since 2005 of young people's risk behaviours including sex, drug use and alcohol.
Sexual Health And Risk Prevention (SHARP) Study
Assessing responses to HIV prevention measures among Australian MSM.
SimDrink: Using simulation modelling to perform alcohol policy experiments
An agent-based model of young, heavy drinkers for conducting alcohol policy experiments.
Substance use and related harms among young people in the Solomon Islands
Quantitative and qualitative research into youth substance use in the Solomon Islands.
SuperMIX: The Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study
A five-year study of the dynamics of cessation of injecting drug use and any subsequent relapse.
Transitions and Risk in Young People (TRYP) project
Investigating the influence of peer groups on behaviour in the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
VMAX: Understanding meth use in Victoria
Aims to determine meth use in Melbourne and three regional Victorian areas.
WHISPER and SHOUT - mHealth interventions among Kenyan sex workers
Mobile phone-based health promotions sent to sex workers in Mombasa.
Young Adults and Alcohol Study
This study examines patterns of risky drinking in a cohort of young Melburnians.

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Understanding risk behaviours through innovative research