Centre of Research Excellence in Achieving Health Equity for All People with Disabilities (AHEAD)

Project description

AHEAD envisions a world where disability-inclusive research and data analytics, spark sustainable, evidence-based solutions that dismantle barriers and open new opportunities to ensure health equity is an enduring reality for all people with disabilities. It aims to enhance health equity by implementing sustainable, co-designed solutions that address the social determinants of health for people with disabilities and are shaped through our expanded research capacity and new innovative research infrastructure.
AHEAD brings together those with lived experience of disability, advocacy groups, policy makers and leading academics in the fields of disability and policy research (disability studies, policy, epidemiology, health equity, health economics, implementation science, housing and built environment research) to find co-designed solutions.

Investigators

Hannah Badland; Dennis Petrie, Helen Dickinson, Anne Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Gang Chen, Kate Mason, Jodie Bailie, Sophie Yates, George Disney.  

SERC members involved but named as CIs: Amanda Alderton, Elroy Dearn

Partnering organisations

Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, Australian National University, University of Sydney

Funding body

NHMRC

Start Date

1 November 2024

Study duration

5 years

Amount

3 million