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Explore research projects for 2024 below. Honours, Masters and PhD projects available across life sciences, public health and international development. Find out more about study options.

 

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Achieving highly efficacious vaccines for malaria by exploring cellular immune mechanisms

The aim of this project includes identifying the phenotype of T-follicular helper cells involved in ...

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Adolescent Menstrual Health: Tracing the impacts of unmet needs in Bangladesh

A broad focus on menstrual health needs, including: knowledge and education; water, sanitation and h...

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Analysis of changes in age of initiation of illicit drug use in Australia

The objective of this project is to update analysis of NDSHS survey data over time (2001 to 2022) to...

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Barriers to hepatocellular carcinoma screening uptake

In this study, we explore barriers to HCC screening adherence and attendance by quantitative analysi...

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Bat Antiviral Defenses Against Viruses

This project seeks to further characterise the interactions between bat restriction factors and the ...

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Blood borne virus and sexually transmissible infection self-testing among key population groups

In order to inform the potential implementation and upscale of self-testing and overcome the well-es...

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Cost-effectiveness of maternal and perinatal health interventions for global implementation

This project will allow the student to gain experience in global maternal and perinatal health epide...

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Data surveillance and modelling for hepatitis B elimination

Projects include mathematical modelling of cost effectiveness and impact of interventions on hepatit...

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Developing new medicine for pregnancy-related conditions affecting women in low and middle-income countries

Assess and synthesise research on the design and development of new medicines for use in pregnancy, ...

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Developing novel drug treatments for pregnant women

Work on advancing the ‘drug pipeline’ for innovative medicines in maternal and perinatal health.

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Development of novel vaccines against malaria

This project will use our recently developed technologies and approaches to identify targets and epi...

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Discovering targets of human immunity that block malaria transmission

The aim of this project is to identify key targets and mechanisms of antibodies that block malaria t...

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Discovering the mechanisms and targets of immunity against malaria

This project will use our recently developed technologies and approaches to identify targets and epi...

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Discovering the targets of drugs that stop malaria parasites invading red blood cells

This project will involve discovering the MoA of several invasion inhibiting drugs identified in a l...

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Discovery of a new drug class for HIV treatment and prevention

The aim of this study is to further characterize the inhibitory activity of our compounds including ...

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Eliminating Hepatitis C in Cairns – how to reach the final 30%?

The project will allow you to develop your coding and data management skills, learn and apply epidem...

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Why study at Burnet?

When you study at Burnet, you broaden your impact working across our three Institute-wide programs: Disease Elimination; Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness; Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health.

Train with internationally recognised experts in a structured student support system, and gain a holistic research experience along the way.

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