Our People
Dr Marianne Gale
Executive
SESLHD
Mandy Williams
Acting Executive
SWSLHD
Our Streams
Country and health
Our research will blend Aboriginal storytelling with robust research that privileges the voices, lives and experiences of the Aboriginal community. We include these complex cultural perspectives into the healing pathways of urban planning frameworks, especially at a strategic level.
Spatial analytics and cities
We are accessing large datasets to understand how spatial structures determine health and people’s access to services. This will be shared with local health districts, public health networks and councils. The goal is to significantly improve health outcomes and access to services.
Place-based health interventions and smart cities
The Internet of Urban Things has great potential in supporting individual and community action for health and well-being. We work alongside clinicians and community agents to experiment with how these existing trials and programs can be optimised for even greater patient outcomes.
Targeting unhealthy urban environments
We are identifying issues that affect Sydney’s urban environment. We are focused on identifying ways we can support positive health outcomes through partnerships with state departments, local governments, and elected representatives.
Health precincts and health infrastructure users
We are focused on identifying ways we can support positive health outcomes through partnerships with state departments, local governments, and elected representatives.
Place-based planning for health precincts in NSW: Discussion paper
With support from HUE, the Institute of Sustainable Futures has developed a paper for Health Infrastructure NSW to facilitate discussions on NSW health precincts.
Healthy precincts research
HUE has started research into health precincts in South West Sydney Local Health District, with the focus on: Does hospital/healthcare infrastructure, directly or indirectly, impact on the health of patients, staff, their social networks and the wider community?
Please cllck here to read the latest report from our Health Precincts Research - Appraising health precinct audit tools: Rapid systematic review of evidence - by Edgar Liu, Malgorzata Lagisz, Andrew Reid and Evelyne de Leeuw
Place-based Health Interventions in NSW - A rapid review of evidence
This report describes a rapid review exercise on the place-based intervention approaches to improving the health and wellbeing outcomes of residents in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). The aim of this exercise is to inform the Cancer Institute NSW on their future policy and program developments in cancer prevention and screening. Specifically, it seeks to answer the following research questions:
1. What place-based interventions for health promotion and risk prevention and screening currently exist in NSW?
2. How effective have these interventions been in achieving their stated objectives?
Facilitating physical and non-physical connections to Country among older Aboriginal peoples living in urban Australia
This project (funded by the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute as part of its 2022 seed grant program) investigates how traditional walaays (ceremonial camps) and Augmented Reality technology may assist older, urban-living Aboriginal people to reconnect with Country, and contribute to cultural healing.
Assessing and addressing formal and informal care needs when diversities intersect
This project (funded by the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute as part of its 2023 seed grant program) will identify the care and support needs of older people at the intersection of age, ethnicity and sexuality, to uncover how their needs
are currently supported by formal services and informal networks. We will do
this through a mixed-method approach, by analysing and mapping data from the NSW
Gay Asian Men Survey Series and the GEN Aged Care Data, and gaining insights into the through in-depth
interviews with non-heterosexual men of Asian backgrounds living in Australia as well as stakeholders. The
outcomes will inform government and industries on how they may develop
strategies to better support diverse, ageing populations.A copy of the Project Information Statement can be downloaded here.
Conceptualising unhealthy urban places: The need for a systems approach
Climate change health and vulnerability assessment of South Eastern and South Western Sydney
NSW built environment practitioners’ perspectives on place-making opportunities that deliver health and wellbeing outcomes
Urban Planning and Design for the COVID-19 era: a rapid review for policy and practice
Carbon Accounting in Healthcare: The path to improving patient health, saving money and saving carbon
Effectiveness of community-based food hubs and peer support on food accessibility and dietary intake’
What causes significant changes in walking? Investigating macro and micro level drivers of walking in neighbourhoods
Urbanisation and health during the first 2000 days of life: Building a foundation for health in Sydney’s urban environment
Waterloo housing estate redevelopment: Assessment of residents’ health needs and circumstances
Hot Hospital Carparks – An Avoidable Risk for Patients and Visitors?
What stops and promotes cycling of children from lower socio-economic groups; A Blacktown (NSW) Case Study
Queering Cities in Australia - Making public spaces more inclusive through urban policy and practice
Professor Andrew Gorman-Murray, UWS
Edgar Liu, Malgorzata Lagisz, Andrew Reid, Evelyne de Leeuw
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- ABOUT MARIDULU BUDYARI GUMAL, SPHEREWe are Maridulu Budyari Gumal, the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Fourteen leading organisations on a mission to come together to solve this century’s biggest health challenges and move healthcare into the future.
Each partner is world-renowned for research, innovation and education. Each has specialist healthcare knowledge and a heritage of game-changing initiatives to their name. We’re building on this work, taking the best from each discipline to change the way we do healthcare – for good.
As partners, we are committed to working together in a spirit of collaboration. To accelerating life-changing research. To reducing healthcare costs and increasing healthcare value. To inspiring and training the next generation of health professionals. To improving economic prosperity in our region. And to creating real world benefits for our patients and communities.
