2023 Churchill Fellowship award recipients named
Monday, 18 September, 2023
Recipients of the 2023 Church Fellowship have been announced, including 15 recipients of the award for health-related topics.
The 2023 Churchill Fellowships have been awarded to 22 people from NSW, 24 from Victoria, 16 from Queensland, 13 from Western Australia, six from the ACT, eight from South Australia, eight from Tasmania, six from the Northern Territory and one from Norfolk Island. This year鈥檚 104 Fellows will travel for up to eight weeks as they explore their passion projects.
鈥淭he Churchill Fellowship is a celebration of curiosity, awarding passionate and inquisitive minds in many different fields. Our Fellows are extraordinary in their passion and drive, as are the range of topics, which is incredibly vast and diverse,鈥 said Adam Davey, CEO of the Churchill Trust.
鈥淭hese people are the genuine change-makers of Australia and they are determined to innovate and bring new ways of doing things to improve Australia.鈥
This year, Churchill Fellowships are awarded to the following people on health-related topics:
- (NSW) 鈥 To develop a model of anticoagulation stewardship for implementation across Australian hospitals.
- (NSW) 鈥 The Dr Dorothea Sandars Churchill Fellowship to investigate injectable opioid agonist treatment models and best practice implementation.
- (NSW) 鈥 To investigate how to provide high-quality primary care to disadvantaged communities in Australia.
- (Vic)听鈥 To investigate public health systems to link people with newly diagnosed hepatitis C with treatment.
- (Vic) 鈥 The Dr Lena Elizabeth McEwan and Dame Joyce Daws Churchill Fellowship to develop advanced neuro-modulation and lesioning techniques for epilepsy and brain tumour surgery.
- (Vic) 鈥 To improve dementia assessment and management for people living with an intellectual disability.
- (Vic) 鈥 The Sir William Kilpatrick Churchill Fellowship to learn how drug-impacted communities engage governments to save lives using health-based solutions.
- (Qld) 鈥 The Bob and June Prickett Churchill Fellowship to examine how involving young people in decision-making can help address rising mental ill-health.
- (Qld) 鈥 To investigate best practice museum programs sustaining wellbeing of people with dementia.
- (Qld) 鈥 The James Love Churchill Fellowship to investigate international house-like residential aged care models and their Australian viability.
- (WA) 鈥 The Paul Tys Churchill Fellowship to study effective community models for the treatment of chronic loneliness.
- (SA) 鈥 The Dr John and Mrs Joy Yeo Churchill Fellowship to advance molecular imaging of the spinal cord to predict neurological outcomes following injury.
- (SA) 鈥 To explore innovative models that respond to complex trauma on systemic and therapeutic levels.
- (SA) 鈥 The Churchill Fellows Association of SA to investigate the use of emergency mental health centres for suicidal patients.
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(Tas) 鈥 To educate people to measure blood pressure at home to prevent heart disease.
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The was formed in 1965, in honour of wartime UK Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Since the inception of the Churchill Trust, more than 4700 Australians been awarded Churchill Fellowships and have identified projects where overseas research allowed them to bring back vital networks and skills.
Each Fellowship celebrates Churchill鈥檚 wish for ordinary people to do extraordinary things, travelling and gaining valuable knowledge and experience, bringing their learnings back to Australia to benefit both their local communities and more widely across the nation.
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