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Stream Five

Seven projects were funded under the Stream Five program of commissioned research. Funding for this round was offered to researchers who had already participated, or were actively participating in, Streams One through Four, for the purposes of developing their work further. The $1.5 million worth of funding was announced at the General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference in July 2006.

Research funded in this round included:

• A project to help GPs recognise and treat mental illness that arises from drug and alcohol disorders (Professor Helen Christensen, The Australian National University)
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• The creation of a portfolio of interventions for primary care providers aimed at children aged 2-5 to prevent obesity developing in childhood, (Professor Donna Cross, Edith Cowan University)
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• An evaluation of the impact of practice nurse-led adolescent health clinics in general practice (Associate Professor Kelsey Hegarty, University of Melbourne)
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• An investigation of rural and remote health successes and how to sustain them (Associate Professor John Wakerman, Flinders University)
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• Developing smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical exercise (SNAP) management programs as part of the new over-45 health check (Professor Mark Harris, University of New South Wales)
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• Process tools for evidence-policy transfer in Indigenous-mainstream primary health care partnerships (Dr Jeffrey Fuller, University of Sydney)
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• Organising care for depression and related disorders in the Australian primary health care setting – Tasmanian and cross-cultural component (Professor Jane Gunn, University of Melbourne)
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