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ProfessorBruce Armstrong

Emeritus Professor

Faculty of Medicine and Health

  • Emeritus Professor
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

cancer causes and control, measuring and improving the performance of cancer services

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Improving methods to evaluate evidence in support of public health guidelines to protect Australians from environmental health hazards
    DVC Research1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    The D-Health Trial: a large-scale population-based trial of vitamin D supplementation for improving the health of older adults
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Neale R,
    • van der Pols J,
    • English D,
    • Venn A,
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Patterns of care and health outcomes: Opportunities for epidemiology and health services research using whole of population, cross-jurisdictional linkage of routinely collected data
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    FIMDM Inc USA Shepherd
    General Practice Education & Training Ltd1 Jan 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Feasibility of tailored Skin Cancer Prevention in General Practice
    Royal Australian College of General Practitioners1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vuong K,
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Relationships between prostate specific antigen, sun exposure and vitamin D
    Cancer Council NSW1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clements MS,
    • Seibel M,
    • Kricker A,
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    The Premiers Award for Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow 2008
    Cancer Institute NSW1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Trial of high-dose vitamin D in the primary treatment of melanoma at high risk of recurrence
    Royal Australasian College of Physicians1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    A polypill to prevent genome damage
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Fenech M,
    • Armstrong B,
    • Forder P
  • GRANT
    Patterns of cancer care for Indigenous people in NSW
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Supramaniam R,
    • Newman C,
    • Treloar C,
    • O'Connell DL,
    • Dillon A
  • GRANT
    Sun exposure, vitamin D and the outcome of prostate cancer.
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kricker A,
    • Steginga S,
    • Kimlin M,
    • Armstrong B,
    • Smith D
  • GRANT
    A national case-control study of the causes of childhood brain tumours
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashley D,
    • Ashton L,
    • Scott RB,
    • Milne E,
    • Fritschi L
  • GRANT
    Development of The University of Sydney Cancer Research Network
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Head-of CN,
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    investigation into the cluster of breast cancer at the ABC's Brisbane premises at Toowong
    ABC1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B,
    • Swan N
  • GRANT
    Medical Bioinformatics, Genomics and Proteomics. The Australian medical bioinformatics resource
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hopper JL,
    • Eisman JA,
    • Stanley F,
    • Semmens J,
    • Palmer L
  • GRANT
    Melanoma RAS/BRAF Mutation: Heterogeneity-Risk-Prognosis
    National Institutes of Health USA1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Partnership in patterns of care for melanoma
    Cancer Institute NSW1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Curtin A,
    • Thompson JF,
    • Beard J,
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Prostate Cancer Care and Outcomes Study
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stricker P,
    • Berry M,
    • King MT,
    • King M,
    • Smith D
  • GRANT
    Solar exposure and Melanoma Survival (Genes, Environment and Melanoma (GEM) - an International Study)
    NIH (US National Cancer Institute) via University of New Mexico)6 May 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B,
    • Kricker A
  • GRANT
    Genetic polymorphisms in genes controlling innate immunity as risk factors for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Milne E,
    • Ashton L,
    • Palmer LJ,
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Sun exposure and NHL: a pooled analysis
    Cancer Council New South Wales1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B
  • GRANT
    Sun exposure and non-hodgkin lymphoma: a pooled analysis
    Cancer Council New South Wales1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Armstrong B,
    • Kricker A
  • GRANT
    Sydney Water Corporation - Assessment of health outcomes for employees working in the Sydney sewage system
    Sydney Water Corporation1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Jalaludin B,
    • Davison A,
    • Nossar G,
    • Cowie C,
    • Mitchell S
  • GRANT
    Australian Melanoma Family Study
    Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kefford RR,
    • Mann G,
    • Hopper J,
    • Armstrong B,
    • Aitken J
  • GRANT
    Australian melanoma family study
    Queensland Cancer Fund1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hopper J,
    • Mann G,
    • Kefford RR,
    • Giles G,
    • Aitken J