CRE REACH.
A centre for research excellence leading the evidence to improve Aboriginal child and adolescent health.
Our Purpose
CRE REACH is leading the research and evidence to improve Aboriginal child and adolescent health. Our research will generate the knowledge to inform policies and programs to improve health outcomes while building the Aboriginal Research Workforce.
Our Priorities
Our work is conducted through four research nodes focusing on the priority areas of smoking, infant nutrition and development, youth mental and physical health, and injury prevention. Projects span systematic reviews, observational studies, data linkage studies and interventions. Each node supports places for a post-doctoral researcher, PhD students and Aboriginal research traineeships.
Smoking
Tobacco use is the largest modifiable risk factor contributing to the gap in disease burden for Aboriginal people. It is unclear what strategies are effective in reducing smoking among Aboriginal people. This node focuses on smoking in pregnancy, passive smoke exposure in childhood and adolescent smoking.
youth mental + physical health
Adolescents are a population group too long ignored in Aboriginal health with young Aboriginal people over represented in a range of risk factors and determinants of health. This node focuses on the drivers of adolescent health and opportunities for change.
infant nutrition + Development
Aboriginal infant and child mortality and hospital admissions are too high. This node focuses on the 0-5 years addressing malnutrition and food insecurity and improving access to health services and early childhood education in this critical developmental period.
injury prevention
Aboriginal children are hospitalised for burns twice as often as other children. Road injuries are a leading cause of death among young Aboriginal people. This node focuses on injury prevention for burns and road safety in children and adolescents.
Our Impact
CRE REACH is leading the research to demonstrate how best to improve Aboriginal child and adolescent health, providing the evidence for timely regional and national policy making. We're having an impact through knowledge generation, research translation and workforce capacity building.
build
knowledge for improved health
Generating new knowledge in the Aboriginal Community priorities of smoking, nutrition, youth health and injuries using a range of research methodologies alongside health economics and biostatistics.
apply
Transfer into policy + practive
Rapid transfer into policy and practice through adoption ready research, rigorous methods and dissemination of findings to the research and wider community.
grow
Aboriginal research workforce
Growing the Aboriginal research workforce through post-docs, PhDs, traineeships, professional development and Community partnerships. Strengthening collaborations and bringing fresh perspectives.
Our Team
Meet our Chief Investigator team of nine leading public health researchers from institutions from across Australia.