ProfessorHasantha Gunasekera
Professor
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Research projects & supervision summary
SEARCH: Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (ear health, development and speech and language assessment sections of this Cohort Study).
WATCH Non-inferiority RCT: Watchful waiting for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children with acute otitis media without perforation (Collaboration with Western Sydney University)
INFLATE RCT: Autoinflation for bilateral otitis media with effusion in Aboriginal children.
DEADLY Ears at discharge:RCT of Aboriginal health worker for discharge planning for Aboriginal children with chronic ear infections (Darwin)
ACCESS: Aboriginal Community Controlled Earhealth Support System: developing, embedding and evaluating best practice models of care
ATOMIC AI: Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of otitis media
PATHWAYS project: Collaboration with Flinders University
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCo-creating a Health Navigator model of care to address social determinants of ear health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: addressing upstream drivers rather than downstream symptoms
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDrumBeat.ai: Artificial intelligence to triage ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in rural and remote Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPaediatric pneumonia, clinical outcomes and predictors of severity