Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit Monash University, NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow, Associate Professor, Monash University
Associate Professor Darshini Ayton is the Deputy Head of the Health and Social Care Unit at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and an National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) emerging leader fellow (2021-2025). Darsh is leading the Health and Social Care Unit ageing and health services research work and is a chief investigator on an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence and primary investigator on Medical Research Future Fund and National Centre for Healthy Ageing funding and multiple industry, health service and aged care provider funding.
Her program of research links acute care to the community and residential aged care and encompasses dementia prevention, innovative diagnostics for dementia and sector-spanning models of care to improve quality of care and quality of life.
Darsh has a strong track record in health and social care research and methodological approaches including qualitative research, consumer and community involvement, clinical registries, randomised controlled trials and implementation science.
Experience
2009–present
PhD Candidate; Research Assistant and Assistant Lecturer, Department of Health Social Science, Monash University
2007–2009
Research Assistant, Department of General Practice; Melbourne University
2005–2007
Research Assistant, Burnet Institute
Education
2009
Monash University, Master of Public Health
2005
Monash University, Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours)
Publications
2011
The association between chronic illness, multimorbidity&depressive symptoms..., Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology DOI 10.1007/s00127-010-0330-z
2011
Partnering with not-for-profit organisations in Australia: critical issues for health promotion, Health Promotion International (submitted Dec 17 2010)
2011
Exploring the partnership networks of churches & church affiliated organisations in health promotion, Australian Journal of Primary Health http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY11016
2011
Historical overview of church involvement in health and wellbeing in Australia: Implications for hea, Australian Journal of Primary Health http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY11079
2008
Enhanced case detection for newly acquired hepatitis C infection, Communicable Diseases Intelligence: 32:250-256
2007
Cambodian-born individuals diagnosed with HIV in Victoria, Sexual Health: 4; 209
Grants and Contracts
2011
The impact of the C.O.A.C.H mentoring program on child and youth health and wellbeing