DrElizabeth Kirkwood

2024 - SAPPHIRE 

The SAPPHIRE Program (Sydney Asia-Pacific Partnerships for Health Innovations and Resilient Ecosystems) aims to enhance public health systems across the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on Vietnam, Fiji, Cambodia, and Kiribati. The DFAT funded program's vision is to be a trusted partner in developing resilient and equitable health systems, capable of adapting to the region's evolving health needs. Through research and practical actions, SAPPHIRE seeks to embed and amplify efforts to promote greater gender, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) and equity throughout the program, including through partnerships and research practices to enhance disease detection and prevention, and strengthen institutional health response capacities by mid-2028.

2023 - Cornell Ignition Grant 

"Assessing the impact of nutrition behaviour change communication activities on maternal, infant, and young child feeding knowledge and behaviour among the neighbouring non-participants in the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling Trial in rural Bangladesh". This project extends a research collaboration between USYD, Cornell, and icddr,b on the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling (SCC) Trial. The SCC Trial involves an unconditional cash transfer and nutrition counselling delivered on a mobile app, aiming to reduce childhood stunting in rural Bangladesh. Previous work has shown when nutrition counselling is provided in-person, knowledge "spills-over" to non-participant households.

2023 - Study to Understand Mechanisms to Improve the Quality of Diet of Children 6-23 months in Timor-Leste,

CIA Kirkwood, UNICEF Timor-Leste/Client Commissioned Research

2021 - Reducing household air pollution exposure to improve early child health and development; extending the intervention and follow-up of the "Poriborton: CHANge trial".

Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia.

2018 - Addressing critical failures of Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) in South Asia: IYCN challenges faced by working women in urban areas. Funding: SAFANSI/World Bank.

2017- Cash transfers and behaviour change communications to reduce child undernutrition in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial to determine the most effective combination of interventions.

Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia.

2017 - The impact of cleaner cookstoves to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes in low resource settings.

Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia