Our research

Working with health services and community members, we are forging pathways from local insight to local impact. We strive to undertake world-class research that makes a genuine difference to the lives of rural people.

Themes

At the Violet Vines Marshman Centre for Rural Health Research, our research themes help us organise and communicate the core areas we focus on to improve the health and wellbeing of rural communities. Themes make it easier for people to understand what we do, how projects connect, and where our expertise lies. They guide our planning, strengthen collaboration, and ensure our work remains purposeful and aligned with community needs. By grouping our research this way, we can share our impact more clearly and support stronger partnerships across the sector.

Preventative and Primary Health Care

Our research focuses on improving equity and access for rural people. We will develop and test cost effective, flexible models of service delivery that increase access and eliminate disparity.

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Improving Oral Health Outcomes for Rural People

Our research improves oral health care for rural people by supporting policy change and improvement in service access, treatment, prevention and promotion to reduce disaprities in oral public health measures in rural communities.

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Strengthening the Rural Health Workforce

The research projects in this area focus on rural workforce including the current and future workforce needs. These projects also look at what impacts the rural health workforce by looking at recruitment, retention and quality.

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Reducing Gender-Based Violence (ReGEN)

Our research program aims to build a body of evidence for effective interventions to prevent and reduce the effects of gender-based violence, especially those that can be delivered in rural and regional health and social settings.

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Global Health and Equity Development

We aim to achieve health equity by developing methods and tools to support health and community organisations in co-designing implementable health solutions. Our focus is on health literacy and its impact on health experiences in rural communities and around the world.

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Digital Health for Rural Equity and Innovation

This research aims to reduce health inequities between rural and metropolitan communities by co-designing culturally safe, low-burden digital health solutions with rural populations.

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