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Fields of Research (FoR)
Public Health and Health Services, Preventive Medicine, Health Promotion, Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance), EpidemiologySEO tags
Biography
Dr Eindra Aung is a Principal Hospital Scientist (Clinical Research) at the Pain Management Research Institute/ Kolling Institute, Northern Sydney Local Health District, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW. She has 20 years of international and Australian experience in health services research and health promotion in chronic and lifelong conditions in both...view more
Dr Eindra Aung is a Principal Hospital Scientist (Clinical Research) at the Pain Management Research Institute/ Kolling Institute, Northern Sydney Local Health District, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW. She has 20 years of international and Australian experience in health services research and health promotion in chronic and lifelong conditions in both academic and non-academic settings. Her experience spans from implementing and evaluating a multi-site, multi-donor behaviour change communication program for HIV prevention and care in the real-world setting in Thailand to examining the role of self-management ability and self-management support in improving clinical outcomes and quality of life in people with type 2 diabetes using data from a large prospective cohort study in Queensland. She is currently evaluating the implementation of a care coordination pathway for people with chronic pain and the effectiveness of a mobile health intervention for people with gout.
My Qualifications
MBBS, MIPH, PhD (Health Services Research)
My Research Activities
Current:
- Gout App (GAPP) Study: Patient-centred eHealth approach to improving outcomes for gout sufferers
- Pharmacist-led INtervention for people with gout (PIN-gout) Study
- Medication adherence in gout management
- Improving care for people with chronic pain frequently attending Emergency Departments
Past:
- Quality of chronic illness care and patient activation in type 2 diabetes
- Behaviour change communication in prevention of soil-transmitted helminthiases
- Health information systems
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
ILP, Honours, Masters, PhD
Areas of supervision:
- Health services research
- Chronic disease management (Self-management support, Patient activation)
- Patient-reported experience measures, patient-reported outcome measures
Research projects available:
PhD project:
- Users engagement of self-management mobile apps for people with gout and its impact on health outcomes
ILP, Honours, Masters:
- The role of testing serum urate: To estimate the prevalence of serum urate monitoring among smartphone owners experiencing gout attacks in Australia, identify factors related to serum urate monitoring in this population and examine the role of serum urate monitoring in achieving the target urate concentration and better patient-reported outcomes.
- Process evaluation of an intervention using a mobile app for people with gout (GAPP Study)
- University staff’s work quality and discrimination, satisfaction with life and mental health: Comparing culturally diverse staff and those from the majority culture
Currently supervising
Medication adherence in people living with gout
Association between serum urate and health outcomes
Pharmacists' perspectives on a pharmacist-lead intervention for people with gout
My Engagement
Community Engagement
Dr Eindra Aung speaks about Gout and the Gout App Study on SBS Burmese. Listen here.
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7297-5593
