Research Programmes
We conduct research in the following areas.
- Digital solutions for brain health
- Stroke epidemiology and prevention
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Dementia epidemiology and prevention
The goals of NISAN and the themes of its research, are as follows:
- Advancing knowledge in the field of health and rehabilitation, through high quality innovative research into living with a neurological condition
- Trials of management and rehabilitation interventions, to test affordable and widely applicable treatment strategies to inform recovery
- Population health research (e.g., epidemiological studies) and systematic reviews, to inform future clinical trials
- Fostering collaborative public health and rehabilitation research into prevention, restoration and adaptation associated with neurological illness and injury
- Exploring the impact of neurological disease (including TBI) and impairment on people and their family/whanau, in relation to their ability to participate in activities and roles that are important to them
- Encouraging students to undertake research in population/community health and rehabilitation
- Promoting and disseminating findings of population health and neurorehabilitation research at a national and international level
- Developing and promoting professional and public brain injury/neuroscience education, including development and implementation of Public Health curricula