Central and Eastern Sydney Primary and Community Health Cohort (CES-P&CH)

What we do

CES-P&CH has been created to answers health service relevant questions. The Resource is based on data from the 45 and Up Study linked to primary, secondary and tertiary administrative data (including MBS, PBS, hospitalisations emergency department, community health, out-patients, cancer registry, and death registry). The dataset was established in 2016 and was updated in 2018 and 2021. The resource contains data on 30.6K people living in Central and Eastern Sydney (250k in NSW) between 2006 and 2020 (most recent). All analysis is conducted within the secure environment of the Sax Institute’s SURE workspace.

Cohort Profile Report: Central and Eastern Sydney Primary and Community Health Cohort Profile

Recent studies based on the Resource include predictors of health service use amongst older people, understanding the relationship between social isolation, health service use and health outcomes, and the health of carers. The Resource has also led to competitive research grant applications, as well as early career and PhD student projects.

Management committee

The project management group oversees the project with representatives from all funding partners. All programs of work are agreed in advance by the management group and dependent on the specific research interests of the partners at a given time.

CPHCE: A/Prof Margo Barr (Lead), Emeritus Professor Mark Harris (Chair), A/Prof Fiona Haigh (HERDU and CPHCE), Dr Alamgir Kabir, Ms Margaret Williamson, Dr Cathy O’Callaghan, A/Prof Elizabeth Comino (adjunct) and A/Prof Elizabeth Harris (adjunct).

SPH: A/Prof Anurag Sharma, A/Prof Joel Rhee, Dr Luna Xu, Dr Joy Dai-Keller, A/Prof Ben Harris-Roxas, A/Prof Kylie Vuong (adjunct).

SLHD: Ms Lou-Anne Blunden, Dr Ann-Marie Crozier, Ms Deb Donnelly, Ms Lisa Parcsi, A/Prof Luke Knibbs, Mr Joe Van Buskirk.

SESLHD: Dr Marianne Gale, Mr Tony Jackson, Ms Lisa Woodland, Dr Damian Conway (SESLHD),

CESPHN: Dr Brendan Goodger