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DrCarmen Vargas

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

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  • Research Fellow
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Co-design and participatory research methods
  • Participatory systems science and systems thinking
  • Food systems transformation and resilience
  • Public health and chronic disease prevention
  • Health equity and community engagement
  • Implementation science and knowledge translation
  • Community-led decision-making and governance
  • Evaluation of co-design processes and outcomes
  • Policy and practice translation
  • Stakeholder and consumer involvement in research

GRANTS

  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Consensus-based standards for co-design practice (CaSCoP)
    Institute for Health Transformation1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Small Business, Big Tech: Understanding Restaurant–Delivery Platform Relationships through a Commercial Determinants of Health Lens
    Institute for Health Transformation1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bennett R,
    • Vargas C,
    • Needham C,
    • Gupta A,
    • Sievert K
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of the Healthy Supermarkets Latrobe project Reach for the Stars
    15 Aug 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    LaTrobe Community Health Services Ltd - $34,139.77
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Part 2: Support in the design and delivery of systems thinking workshops
    1 Aug 2024 - 29 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Latrobe Health Assembly - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Systems thinking and Group Model Building (GMB) workshop and on-boarding for use of the software tool STICKE for research projects
    1 Jun 2024 - 1 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Latrobe Health Assembly - $26,000.00
  • GRANT
    Testing co-created implementation tools to support transformation of healthier food retail environments
    1 Oct 2022 - 30 Nov 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre - Rapid Response Research Grant Program - TAP2-22-0060 - $99,706.00