The ROSA research team were honoured and thrilled to have their work recognised at the 2019 SAHMRI annual Awards Night. The ROSA team were awarded the Research Translation award for their contributions to the Royal Commission. The ROSA Director, A/Prof Maria Inacio, was awarded the Diane Ranck Leadership Award (Research Leader) and the Mid Career Researcher Award, and the ROSA Project Manager and Consumer Engagement Officer, Dr Sarah Bray, was awarded the Community Engagement Award for excellence in meaningful consumer and community engagement in health and medical research.
We are looking for a Research Assistant to join the ROSA team!
We are currently advertising for a Research Assistant to join the ROSA team at SAHMRI. This exciting role will support ROSA’s research and research administration activities (0.6 FTE), and the coordination (0.4 FTE) of the establishment of the ROSA Aboriginal governance structure under the guidance of a Senior Research Fellow from the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity group at SAHMRI. If you know of any suitable candidates for this role, please encourage them to apply.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applications close 13 January 2020.
For more details, and to apply for this position, please visit the position description on the SAHMRI website.
A new 2-year Postdoc position with the ROSA Research Team!
We are looking for another awesome Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the growing ROSA research team at SAHMRI to conduct high quality research with a focus on health and health services for older people living with dementia and accessing aged care. If you are interested in being part of an ambitious and supportive research team working with ‘big data’ to improve the outcomes for Australians in aged care then this could be the perfect role for you!
For all the details, and to apply, please visit the job vacancy notice on the SAHMRI website or the advertisement on SEEK.
Join the ROSA Team as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow!
We are looking for an awesome Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the ROSA team at SAHMRI to conduct high quality research with a focus on health and health services for older people with dementia and cognitive decline accessing aged care, including planning, execution, statistical analyses and publication. For all the details, and to apply, please see the information HERE on the SAHMRI Careers webpage. Applications are open now and will close on 10th May 2019.
Prevalence of Dementia is decreasing for People Accessing Aged Care Services in Australia
By analysing de-identified data from the Historical National cohort of the Registry of Older South Australians (ROSA), we found that the age- and sex-standardized prevalence of dementia fell from 50% to 47% in long-term care 2008-2014 and from 26% to 21% in home care 2005-2014. This decline in dementia occurred in concurrence with a decline in cerebrovascular disease in long-term care but despite the prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, malnutrition, obesity, depression and head injury increasing during this period. The decline in prevalence of dementia in these settings is critical to future projection estimates and for planning of services in Australia.
The original scientific article is published HERE.
You can read the SAHMRI press release about this research HERE.
Various traditional and online news channels have reported on the research, for example, the ABC news, the Advertiser newspaper, and the Lead.
ECR Poster Award for Research into Dementia Prevalence
Congratulations Dr Stephanie Harrison from the ROSA Research Team for winning the SAHMRI Early Career Researcher poster presentation award at the SAHMRI Annual Scientific Meeting 2018 for her work looking at the prevalence of dementia in Australians accessing aged care services!
We are looking for a talented Data Scientist/Senior Data Scientist to join the ROSA team!
Want to join the ROSA Research Team at SAHMRI? We are hiring! We are currently looking for a talented data scientist (or senior data scientist) with experience in machine learning + statistical experience working with large longitudinal datasets.
Click HERE for more details about the position and to apply. Applications close on 25th October 2018.