Alliance for Healthy Ageing (AHA) in Western Queensland - PhD or MPhil Top-Up Scholarship

The Alliance for Healthy Ageing (AHA) aims to prevent, delay or reverse frailty in the community through a multidisciplinary, integrated, digitally supported, regional consortium that directly addresses identified community priorities. This scholarship provides opportunities for a PhD or MPhil student to work alongside the research team to evaluate the implementation of AHA in Western Queensland. The project builds upon established research and service delivery partnerships in providing evidence-based innovations in governance and workforce re-design for vulnerable populations in the rural and remote Western Queensland region. Supervisors will work with candidates to develop a PhD project aligned with the candidate's research interests, which may include healthy ageing, culturally appropriate screening and frailty management, implementation science, economic evaluations, or digital health services. Applications must demonstrate a sound understanding of the Australian healthcare system, with a clinical background being desirable. The research will be conducted at the MRI-UQ Centre for Health System Reform and Integration (CHSRI), which brings together research excellence in primary and secondary care integration and primary care quality, capacity building and governance. The Centre uses value co-creation to inform strategic approaches to service innovation through translation of evidence into health care policy and practice. This is a top-up scholarship worth $27,300 per annum for up to 3 years, requiring recipients to be in receipt of or awarded a living allowance scholarship of at least the Research Training Program rate.