About Us

Research into the social determinants of health has been a key concern of NIPH since it was established in 1998. Projects have included health services and policy research for various groups and communities, curriculum development around determinants of health through the lifecourse, and the development of methods to bring equity considerations to public health, health services and clinical decision-making.

The Health Inequalities Research Group is led by Dr Rosemary Aldrich, a public health physician working in the Hunter New England Area Health Service and conjoint senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, and Professor Graham Vimpani, who is the Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Newcastle and Clinical Chair, Kaleidoscope in Greater Newcastle, Hunter Children's Health Network (part of the Hunter New England Area Health Service). Rosemary and Graham belong to national and international networks of researchers working in health inequalities research; their special interests include child health, quality and safety of health care, and equity-focused health service decision-making.

Teaching lifecourse determinants of health through film and literature

This project is a link project to a PHERP project on lifecourse determinants of health of which Queensland Institute of Technology is the lead institution.

This project aims to develop, teach and evaluation a 10-credit point undergraduate subject exploring theories of determinants of health across the lifecourse. Based on evidence that students learn from storytelling, we use contemporary mass media to communicate ideas and concepts, as well as to teach students skills in critical...

Using socioeconomic evidence in clinical practice guidelines

We were contracted by the National Health and Medical Research Council to develop a guide for guidelines developers on using socio-economic evidence in clinical practice guidelines.

April to September 2002.

Dr Rosemary Aldrich (Newcastle)
Ms Elizabeth Harris (UNSW)
Ms Jenny Stewart Williams (Newcastle)
Dr Lynn Kemp (UNSW)
Ms Sarah Simpson (UNSW)
Prof Julie Byles (Newcastle)
Dr Julie Lowe (Newcastle)
Ms Amanda Wilson (Newcastle)
Dr Terri Jackson (LaTrobe)

Equity-focused Health Impact Assessment: working collaboratively to develop a strategic framework

The Australasian Collaboration for Health Equity Impact Assessment was formed by researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of New South Wales and Deakin University to develop a framework to inject equity considerations into policy, planning and service decision-making. Funded for the most part by the public Health Education Research Program of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, the project brought together research partners and project advisors from...

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• CHETRE - http://chetre.med.unsw.edu.au
• CHETRE Health Inequalities - http://chetre.med.unsw.edu.au/...
• Deakin University - http://64.233.167.104/u/deakin...
• BMJ - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi...