{"id":85,"date":"2018-06-26T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cre-health-equity\/?p=85"},"modified":"2018-06-26T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:36:29","slug":"southgate-undertakes-innovation-seed-grant-healthdirect-australia-digital-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cre-health-equity\/2018\/06\/26\/southgate-undertakes-innovation-seed-grant-healthdirect-australia-digital-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Southgate undertakes Innovation Seed Grant with Healthdirect Australia on digital equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-87\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cre-health-equity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/06\/Kristen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Foley, Project Officer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2017, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/medicine\/sites\/southgate\/\">Southgate Institute<\/a>\u00a0was successful in winning a Flinders University DVCR Innovation Seed Grant \u2018<em>Equity in access to, use of, and benefits from digital health strategies<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The investigators on the project are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/toby.freeman\">Dr. Toby Freeman\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/matt.fisher\">Dr. Matt Fisher\u00a0<\/a>from the Southgate Institute,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/paul.ward\">Prof. Paul Ward<\/a>, Professor of Public Health at Flinders University, an expert on trust and the health system,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deakin.edu.au\/about-deakin\/people\/richard-osborne\">Prof. Richard Osborne<\/a>, Deakin University, who is an expert in e-health literacy, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utas.edu.au\/profiles\/staff\/medicine\/anthony-lawler\">Tony Lawler<\/a>, Deputy Head of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. The partner investigators include Meghan Mann and Maureen Robinson from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.healthdirect.gov.au\/who-we-are\">Healthdirect Australia<\/a>, and Janice Biggs from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalhealth.gov.au\/\">Australian Digital Health Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Southgate Institute welcomes<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/directory\/index.cfm\/search\/info?userid=326639\">\u00a0Kristen Foley<\/a>, who is the project officer for the research. Kristen has completed a Masters of Public Health at Flinders University, and has extensive qualitative public health experience.<\/p>\n<p>Health information, health services, and other government services and resources are increasingly moving online. Thus, understanding who accesses, uses, and benefits from digital health strategies is critical to achieving equitable provision of health services. This research project will trial methods to investigate the effects of a range of social factors on equity in access to, use of and benefits from digital health services. The research will be conducted in partnership with Healthdirect Australia and the Australian Digital Health Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the\u00a0Southgate Institute\u00a0was successful in winning a Flinders University DVCR Innovation Seed Grant \u2018Equity in access to, use of, and benefits from digital health strategies\u2019. 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