Centre Director Professor Peter Sly

The University of Queensland will launch its first World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre today with a WHO flag-raising ceremony.

29 November 2013
The sitting pad: Prompts workers to stand up.

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded $136,000 for two innovative ideas designed to get people off their seats to combat ‘chair disease’.

13 November 2013

A collaborative research project aimed at discovering a drug to treat a highly resistant form of breast cancer is one of two projects given the green light by the Queensland Emory Development (QED) Alliance.

7 November 2013

Using social media to tell the history of the Paralympic movement in Australia is the focus of a new research project at The University of Queensland.

25 September 2013

The following statement is attributable to Dr Coral Gartner, Leader of the Health and Addictive Behaviour Interventions research group from The University of Queensland’s Centre for Clinical Research.

16 September 2013

Injecting a ‘breath of fresh air’ into cardiorespiratory physiotherapy education has placed a University of Queensland lecturer among the best in the country.

4 September 2013

Mental and substance use disorders were the leading cause of non-fatal illness worldwide in 2010, according to a new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study, published in The Lancet today.

29 August 2013

Thousands of Australians suffer communication and swallowing disorders for various medical reasons that make the field of speech pathology more complex than ever before.

21 June 2013

With World Kidney Day being celebrated tomorrow, University of Queensland researchers are investigating the health effects of intense interval training in people with chronic kidney disease, with the aim to reduce the high mortality rate associated...

13 March 2013

A new book written by researchers from The University of Queensland and Queensland Health offers a unique guide for therapists and professionals to successfully work with children.

28 February 2013

People with Parkinson’s disease who receive Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) therapy in the early stages of the condition will benefit from a significant increase in quality of life, a revolutionary study from The New England Journal of Medicine has...

13 February 2013