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The Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research comprises four research centres: Centre for Behaviour, Environment, & Health Research; Centre for Human Metabolism & Performance, Healthy Brain & Mind Research Centre; and Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury, & New Technologies (SPRINT) Research Centre.

Our research emphasises the complex interactions between individuals, social and physical aspects of their communities and health care systems.

Learn more about our research projects, and how to get involved.

Our broad-based approach

  • improving and maintaining muscle health
  • improving and maintaining metabolic health
  • the prevention and management of the adverse effects of cancer
  • Focus on the interactions between human performance; fatigue, sleep and recovery interventions; and the prevention, risk identification and rehabilitation of injury
  • Translate its findings into practical applications that benefit athletes, sports organisations, and the wider community, ensuring that our research leads to measurable improvements in health and performance
  • Innovate it is at the heart of what we do. We use cutting-edge technologies and innovative approaches to solve real-world problems in high performance sport
  • Drive innovation across three core translational multidisciplinary research programs-mental health, addiction neuroscience, and development and disability-aimed at creating meaningful real world impact
  • Advance mental health, social participation, and well being through research that improves understanding, prevention, and treatment of brain related and psychological disorders across the lifespan
  • Translate at scale: Co designed, evidence based and digitally enabled interventions that reduce suffering and empower individuals, families, practitioners, and communities
  • identifying key physical and social aspects of urban environments which promote physical and cognitive health across the lifespan
  • understanding how genetic, psychosocial and behavioural factors interact with the environment to impact on health identifying optimal person- and environment-tailored
  • intervention strategies for the promotion of health-related behaviours

Research areas

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Centre for Behaviour, Environment and Health Research Centre

The Centre for Behaviour, Environment and Health Research explores the interaction between urban environments and physical and cognitive health.

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Centre for Human Metabolism and Performance

The Centre for Human Metabolism and Performance investigates the roles of exercise and diet in the prevention of chronic lifestyle-related diseases.

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SPRINT Research Centre

The Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury and New Technologies (SPRINT) Research Centre focuses on the interactions between human performance, fatigue, sleep and recovery interventions, and the prevention, risk identification and rehabilitation of injury with a strong emphasis on findings that directly translate into practice.

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Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre

The Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre (HBMRC) aims to advance knowledge critical to improving mental health, participation and well-being. HBMRC brings together three programs of research excellence in mental health, addiction neuroscience, and disability and development.

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