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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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Eliminating hepatitis C infection in Australia through harm reduction, education and treatment scale up

The project will aim to explore improved harm reduction strategies, workforce development and health...

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Elimination of hepatitis C through rapid testing and treatment

The project will aim to explore the role of rapid testing in improving the hepatitis care cascade fr...

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Exploring sexual and reproductive health needs of seasonal and long-term labour mobility workers from Vanuatu in Australia

This student project involves collection of primary data to describe experience of sexual and reprod...

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Germinal centre organoids to investigate human immune response to infection and vaccination

This project will use germinal centre organoid models to investigate human immune development to mal...

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Healthcare engagement following release from prison: A prospective cohort study of men with histories of injecting drug use

The study involved recruitment in-prison, with three possible points of follow-up: at 3, 12, and 24 ...

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Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies in Papua New Guinea (PNG): Understanding the causes of poor health among pregnant women and infants

A particular priority is to better understand and quantify poor nutrition and to identify the causes...

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Host directed therapy to boost protective immunity to malaria

This project will use human clinical samples collected during Phase 1b clinical trial to understand ...

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Identification and assessment of anti-malarial transmission blocking antigens

This project will identify the most efficacious gametocyte antigens to prioritise for TBV developmen...

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Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Africa

As part of an international collaborative program, this project will investigate immunity in cohorts...

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Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 post-vaccination and infection in people who live without a functioning spleen

Honours and PhD top-up scholarships available. The aim of this project is to profile the immune resp...

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Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 post-vaccination and infection in people with rheumatic diseases

Honours and PhD top-up scholarships available. The aim of this project is to profile the immune resp...

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Impact of malaria and other host factors on covid immune responses following infection and vaccination

This project will use human clinical samples collected from an NIH funded observational study to inv...

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Improving Hep C notifications: regulatory barriers and enablers

The study involves legislative and policy analysis from legal databases and other materials and anal...

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Improving menstrual health across the life-course

Systematic review, quantitative and qualitative projects are available and focus on addressing prior...

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Improving the quality and coverage of antenatal care globally

Available projects include exploring feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of safe maternal s...

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Improving the quality and coverage of intrapartum care globally

Available projects include understanding women’s values and preferences associated with calcium supp...

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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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