About Our Home2Health Team
The Home2Health research team is multi-disciplinary, spanning public health, economics, criminology, biostatistics and clinical health expertise. Our underlying research ethos is “to undertake research that is useful and relevant to the real world to reduce health inequalities”.
We work closely with health and homelessness services at the coalface, and critically, with those with a lived experience of homelessness.
We are involved in a growing program of research, evaluation and evidence informed advocacy policy work around homelessness, in WA, nationally and internationally.
There are enormous life expectancy and health gaps for people experiencing homelessness, but these can be prevented. This lies at the heart of our team’s existence and its research.
We have been intentional in creating a team research culture that is focused on research being relevant to the real world, timely, driven by evidence gaps at the health coal-face, and committed to reducing health inequalities.
Research that makes a difference.
“Homelessness is precipitated by a wide array of social determinants, and mirrored in substantial health disparities and a revolving hospital door. Connecting people to safe and secure housing needs to be an urgent part of the health system response”.
Get Involved in Our Climate Research
Our Under the Weather research explores how extreme weather affects people experiencing homelessness or living in unstable housing. As summers become hotter and more intense, we’re shifting our data collection from winter to heat, climate, and survival in extreme weather.
Summer Data Collection: Understanding Heat Impacts
We’re currently collecting summer-specific data to understand how heat affects health, safety, daily survival, and access to essential services for people without stable housing.
We’re working alongside homelessness services to:
Capture real-world impacts of extreme heat
Understand how people cope day-to-day in hot weather
Identify gaps in current responses
Photovoice Project: Partner with Us
We’ve developed a Photovoice Flyer that homelessness and community services can share with those that they support. The project invites people to document their experiences of hot weather through photos and stories.
Services can get involved by:
Sharing the flyer with people they support
Hosting or supporting participation in the project
Download the flyer here.
Share your Experience: Take the Survey
If you’ve experienced homelessness or unstable housing, we want to hear from you.
You’re the one living through it so you’re the best person to tell us what it’s really like and what’s really needed.
This survey helps us:
Understand the real impacts of heat
Reduce climate-related harm
Improve services and responses for people without a home
Support Our Research
Some of our most important research and evidence-led advocacy is unfunded, such as the crucial data collection and work we have been doing around deaths among people who have experienced homelessness. If you would like to support our team’s work, donations are greatly appreciated, and are a tax deductible when made as a gift (no matter how small!) through The University of Notre Dame. Donated funds are solely used to directly support our homelessness research.
If you would like to donate to the work of our team, please click the link below to get in contact with us to find out more.
We acknowledge we are situated on Noongar land, and that Noongar people remain the spiritual and cultural custodians of their land, and continue to practice their values, languages, beliefs and knowledge. We pay our respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we live and work across Western Australia and Australia.
