Engine Rooms

PC4 has two Engine Rooms which drive the development of our new research. These Engine Rooms are focused on key areas of a cancer journey – Prevention and Early Detection, and Survivorship and Palliative Care (Living With and Beyond Cancer). Each group is led by a small group of co-chairs (below) that help steer the groups towards their overarching mission to drive new research through innovative ideas generation, collaborative concept development, and to support the submission of high-quality patient-centred practice-relevant grant applications.

Engine Room Co-Chairs

Dr Beck Bergin

Health services researcher focused on reducing inequalities in cancer outcomes particularly for rural Australians.

A/Prof Kylie Vuong

Academic Lead for Primary Care at Griffith University focused on teaching and research that uses a whole person patient-centred approach to care.

Dr Meena Rafiq

Academic GP and Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and University College London (UCL)

This group is supporting a range of new projects some of which include developing inclusive translational research on genomically-targeted population cancer screening, developing interventions that can be tested to reduce disparities in participation in cancer screening, investigating factors that can delay a cancer diagnosis and what role can general practice in reducing diagnostic delay.

Prof Patsy Yates

A Distinguished Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health at QUT

A/Prof Joel Rhee

Leads the Discipline of General Practice at UNSW Sydney. An expert in palliative and supportive care research

A/Prof Carolyn Ee

Academic GP with a leading role at Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute

The Living with and Beyond Cancer Engine Room is currently supporting a portfolio of more than 35 studies, including the development of SMS interventions delivered in primary care for breast cancer survivors and several projects to support cancer patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to improve outcomes.