| $32,000 p.a. (up to 3 years) |
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How to apply
Apply here.
The scholarship will be open until successful recipients are found. Once successful recipients are selected, the scholarship will be closed.
Benefits
The scholarship will provide a stipend allowance equivalent to $32,000 per annum for up to three years, subject to satisfactory academic performance. No extension is allowed.
Who's eligible
You must:
- have applied for admission or be enrolled to study full-time in a PhD at the Faculty of Medicine and Health. If you have an unconditional offer of admission or are currently enrolled to study part-time and will change to full-time enrolment prior to the scholarship commencement you will also be eligible
- be willing to conduct research into cardiovascular rehabilitation and secondary prevention fields
- be willing to conduct research closely in line with one of the aims of SOLVE-CHD Synergy Grant:
- Practice change amongst cardiac rehabilitation providers – barriers, enablers and learnings aiming to support patient level electronic record collection
- Potential and evaluation of data-driven quality improvement in sustained management of CHD and cardiac rehabilitation
- Evaluation of service and patient level data to improve reach and equity in sustained managed of CHD
- Virtual reality advice from future self in secondary prevention, and
- Expanding peer support in secondary prevention
- be primarily supervised by one of the chief investigators from SOLVE-CHD team member.
Background
This scholarship has been established to provide financial assistance to a PhD student to undertake research in the cardiovascular rehabilitation and secondary prevention fields as part of an NHMRC Synergy Grant.
The aim of SOLVE-CHD is to transform post-discharge secondary prevention and reduce the burden of heart disease by decreasing deaths, hospitalisations and costs via a program of work that integrates data, technology, partnerships and capacity building.
This scholarship is funded by an NHMRC Synergy Grant entitled Solving the long-standing evidence-practice gap associated with cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (SOLVE-CHD).
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