Healthcare Systems

Driving Change in Healthcare

The question of how to integrate new research findings and education in healthcare is crucial for ensuring optimal patient care and the sustainability of our healthcare systems.

Many of these systems, including those ranked among the best in the world, are faced with rising pressures from the overuse, underuse, different use and waste of healthcare practices and services with varying outcomes.

An interdisciplinary team of experts at Monash and Warwick have united to lead a local and international program of research and education to revolutionise healthcare improvement.

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Physical Health

Building a research community of global excellence through drug discoveries

Our commitment to a stable, ongoing partnership enables both institutions to strategically plan, develop and harness capabilities in world-relevant fields.

One such field is polymer chemistry where the need for polymers stretches across global priorities in energy, food security, innovative manufacturing, and science and technology for health.

The Alliance has developed a joint strategy to establish a world-class collaborative polymer chemistry research programme that brings together talented researchers, facilities and networks to leverage existing and new capabilities.

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Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
The Monash Warwick Alliance AMR Training Programme in Emerging Superbug Threats	Professor Ana Traven	Professor Greg Challis
Phage therapy - a viable therapy for urinary tract infections, pneumonia, bloodstream infections and inflammatory bowel disease	Professor Trevor Lithgow	Dr Eleanor Jameson
Penicillin binding proteins and peptidoglycan structure in Clostridium difficile	Profesor Dena Lyras	Professor David Roper
Improving the efficacy and efficiency of cancer drug treatments	Professor Colin Pouton	Professor Sebastien Perrier
Understanding the cascade of care in tuberculosis patients: A focus in migrants	Dr Shaun Lee (Monash University, Malaysia)	Professor Jason Madan
Identification of diagnostic markers for severe disease risk in Helicobacter pylori-infected patients	Dr Terry Kwok-Schuelein	Professor Mark Achtman
Development of a scale-up human eye model to investigate aqueous humour hydrodynamics due to outflow obstruction within the trabecular meshwork	Dr Ooi Ean Hin (Monash University, Malaysia)	Dr Isaac Kuo-Kang Liu
Engineering Cardiovascular Systems	Professor Adrian Neild	Dr Jerome Charmet

Mental Health

Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
Social networks among people with borderline personality disorder (BPD)	Professor Jakob Hohwy	Dr Lukasz Walasek
Behavioural activation - adolescents with mild-moderate intellectual disability	Professor Katrina Williams	Professor Richard Hastings
False Remembering in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Developing an Innovative Program of Research; The Monash-Warwick Trauma Memory and Law Research Program	Dr Laura Jobson	Dr Kimberley Wade

Energy Solutions

Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
Developing efficient mechanisms for energy storage to create a greener future	Dr Jie Zhang	Professor Patrick Unwin
Electrochemical nanoparticle formation in ionic liquids for catalytic applications	Dr Ekaterina Pas	Dr Reinhard Maurer
Joint Research Development on Metal-Organic Frameworks Functionalised Silicon Anodes for Advanced Energy Storage	Professor Matthew Hill	Dr John Low

Novel Materials

Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
Sensing and catalysed destruction of chemical warfare agents	Associate Professor Kellie Tuck	Professor Michael Ward
Pilot forecast modelling for hydraulic performance of waste containment barriers	Dr Ahmad Mousa (Monash University, Malaysia)	Dr Gary Fowmes

Cyber Technologies and Security

Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
Securing smart wearable devices from motion-based eavesdropping attacks	Dr Li Li	Dr Hongkai Wen

Developing innovative research-led educational teaching platforms

World history is a rapidly growing scholarly and teaching field in the humanities that seeks to understand the globalised and connected world in which we exist.

The Monash History program and Warwick Global History and Culture Centre have a longstanding relationship focused on delivering joint research and teaching in global history.

Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
Inclusive Economies and Enduring Peace: The Transformative Role of Social Reproduction	Professor Jacqui True	Professor Shirin Rai
Improving Earth Systems Governance through “Purpose Ecosystems”	Dr Wendy Stubbs	Dr Frederik Dahlmann
Sustainable Development of Informal Settlements and Citarum Basin Ecologies	Professor Rob Raven	Professor Joao Porto de Albuquerque
Creating the possible: interdisciplinary methodologies for futures research, experimentation and impact	Professor Sarah Pink	Professor Noortje Marres
Beyond Autonomy: Understanding How New Social, Scientific and Technological Influences are Shaping the Future of Freedom	Dr Christopher Watkin	Dr Oliver Davis
Using behavioural economics to improve sexual health	Dr Jason Ong	Professor Daniel Read
Harnessing community expertise in designing decision support systems to understand and act on food insecurity in local government settings in the UK and Australia	Dr Sue Kleve	Dr Martine Barons

Project Title	Monash University Principal Investigator	University of Warwick Principal Investigator
Monash Warwick Alliance in Particle Physics	Professor Ulrik Egede	Professor Tim Gershon