TTRA partner AusHSI leads health services research into diabetes and cardiovascular disease

The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) is a leading health services research centre, based at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) within the Faculty of Health. The Centre is working with our Targeted Translation Research Accelerator Program providing support and mentoring to TTRA applicants and awardees with standalone behavioural interventions focused on diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Operations Director Megan Campbell joins the podcast to discuss how AusHSI’s research and implementation science is improving health services and patient outcomes. Megan gives an update on ‘Cardiac Month’ held in August highlighting how AusHSI’s Cardiac Health Services is addressing the burden of CVD.Megan explains how the Centre is supporting LISTEN, a TTRA – funded research project led by Deakin University’s Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes, aiming to be the world’s first national helpline providing mental health support via telehealth for adults with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. MTPConnect’s Dr Mana Liao, Acting Senior Director of the Targeted Translation Research Accelerator (TTRA) program discusses the importance of working with AusHSI and flags that the third funding round of TTRA research projects will focus on indigenous communities, once priorities are set with guidance from the Lowitja Institute in a newly announced partnership