CERI capabilities

Research themes

  • Planetary health
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Climate change
  • Conception to age five
  • Maternal health
  • Infants
  • Young children
  • Health service use
  • Health services research
  • Health system capacity building
  • Health service implementation
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Health economic evaluation
  • Alcohol use
  • Cardiovascular disease prevention
  • Diet and nutrition
  • Obesity and weight
  • Physical activity
  • Mental health
  • Tobacco control
  • Infertility
  • Menopause (early menopause & management of menopause)
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Preconception lifestyle
  • Pregnancy lifestyle
  • Reproductive health

Target populations

  • Children Aged 0-5 Years
  • Children/youth aged 5-18 years
  • General population
  • Working population
  • Health promotion officers
  • Clinicians
  • Allied health, clinicians
  • Health service managers
  • People who smoke
  • People with mental illness
  • People with primary and co-morbid chronic health conditions
  • People in social housing
  • Local government
  • State/territory government and agencies
  • Non-government organisations and charities
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds populations
  • Older Australians
  • People on low incomes
  • Regional/rural populations
  • Women

Target settings

  • Centre-based childcare services, such as preschools and long day care centres
  • Family day care
  • Food retail
  • Digital food retail
  • Food marketing
  • Local government
  • State government
  • National government
  • Acute care services e.g. hospitals
  • Primary care services including community health centres
  • Housing
  • Aged care
  • Workplaces
  • Sporting clubs
  • Primary schools
  • High schools

Methodological expertise

  • Policy mapping to identify gaps and opportunities
  • Stakeholder consultation
  • Submission drafting
  • Advocacy across a range of areas and sectors
  • Policy/legal analysis and development
  • Legal advice
  • Co-design practices with various stakeholders from a range of areas including health, social care, policy and consumers, policy makers, industry
  • Co-design/co-creation methods to identify gaps
  • Digital health promotion
  • Innovative data collection
  • Machine learning and AI
  • Algorithm development for: prediction leveraging from large datasets for diagnosis and care planning; nutrient profiling; and environmental sustainability profiling
  • Mobile health (mHealth)
  • IPD meta-analysis
  • Knowledge/evidence synthesis
  • Meta-analyses
  • Systematic reviews/living systematic reviews
  • Survival analysis
  • Observational cohort studies
  • Monitoring changes to population risk factors
  • Using proportional multi-state life table modelling
  • Modelling patterns of multimorbidity
  • Prediction modelling of cardiovascular disease risk
  • Multi-state, multiple-cohort Markov models
  • Econometric modelling
  • Economic evaluation including cost-effectiveness analysis; cost-utility analysis; cost benefit analysis
  • Cost minimisation studies
  • Budget impact assessment
  • Estimating economic impacts for a variety of stakeholders
  • Multi-state, multiple-cohort Markov models
  • Mapping health systems policy and practice against clinical practice guideline recommendations
  • Using qualitative methods to identify evidence practice gaps
  • Identifying gaps in practice and recommending additional support