NHMRC Funding Success: The Pasifika Preventing Diabetes Programme

Western has secured $1.4 million to lead an NHMRC Partnership Project focused on tackling the diabetes epidemic within Sydney’s Pasifika communities.

Professor David Simmons (opens in new window) will lead The Pasifika Preventing Diabetes Programme with a team of multi-disciplinary researchers, including Dr Freya MacMillan (opens in new window) , Professor Jennifer Reath (opens in new window) , Dr Kathy Tannous, (opens in new window) , Dr Kate McBride (opens in new window) .

Thirteen partner organisations will collaborate with Western and contribute an additional $3.1 million to the project:

• NSW Health Office of the Chief Health Officer,
• NSW Health Point of Care Team,
• Sanofi,
• SPHERE,
• Wentworth Healthcare,
• Diabetes NSW-ACT,
• Western Sydney Primary Health Network,
• Central and Eastern Primary Health Network,
• South Western Sydney Primary Health Network,
• South Eastern Sydney Local Health District,
• Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District,
• Western Sydney Local Health District and
• South Western Sydney Local Health District.

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