SOLVE-CHD PhD Scholarship

This scholarship has been established to provide financial assistance to a PhD student to undertake research in the cardiovascular rehabilitation and secondary prevention fields as part of an NHMRC Synergy Grant. The aim of SOLVE-CHD is to transform post-discharge secondary prevention and reduce the burden of heart disease by decreasing deaths, hospitalisations and costs via a program of work that integrates data, technology, partnerships and capacity building. The scholarship is funded by an NHMRC Synergy Grant entitled Solving the long-standing evidence-practice gap associated with cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (SOLVE-CHD). Successful applicants must be willing to conduct research closely in line with one of the aims of SOLVE-CHD Synergy Grant, including practice change amongst cardiac rehabilitation providers, evaluation of data-driven quality improvement in sustained management of CHD and cardiac rehabilitation, evaluation of service and patient level data to improve reach and equity in sustained managed of CHD, virtual reality advice from future self in secondary prevention, and expanding peer support in secondary prevention.