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Recent projects
Commercial and Economic Determinants of Health Research Translation Centre: A/Prof Neera Bhatia and Others (Deakin University)
06 Feb, 2026
The Commercial and Economic Determinants of Health Research Translation Centre is a new 5-year collaboration between Deakin and VicHealth.
The Centre aims to better understand how businesses, industries, and market systems impact health, and explore practical solutions towards healthier, fairer and thriving communities. With an explicit focus on research translation for public health impact, the Centre hopes to drive change in policy systems and incentivise business models that can better support population health and equity.
We aim to do this by:
Generating targeted research, knowledge translation, and dissemination to understand and reshape commercial and economic determinants of health
Transdisciplinary collaboration and engagement with a wide range of interest holders across research, the public sector, non-government organisations, community groups and the business community.
The Centre seeks to be a platform to grow and sustain policy-relevant research activities that create meaningful societal change locally and globally.
Children’s Medical Tourism: Developing an Inclusive Base for International Study : A/Prof Neera Bhatia (Deakin University) and Others
18 Mar, 2024
This is a funded project that aims to develop a trans-national, trans-disciplinary understanding of children’s medical tourism. Children’s medical tourism is “the bi-directional movement of children (less than 18 years of age) to and from a country to seek advice, diagnosis and treatments”. The distinctively international nature of children’s medical tourism demands an international research base to understand the scale and extent of the phenomenon and competing questions it raises in different jurisdictions.
This project seeks to:
- Develop an expanding network of academics and practitioners with an interest in children’s medical tourism with apresence in Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and Oceania.
- To bring to light aspects of the many questions that children’s medical tourism raises in international law, philosophy and bioethics, social science and the provision of healthcare that may not be apparent in a single national context.
- To improve the diversity, inclusivity and coherence of research into children’s medical tourism