mainstream is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary research and translation team from across Australia that has been created with a united purpose to better understand eating disorders and improve treatments for people with a lived and living experience of eating disorders, their families, carers and supports. 

mainstream is partnering with clinical and research leads in states across Australia to locate research capacity within frontline service settings.

This project will build a data collection infrastructure for Queensland Eating Disorder Service (QuEDS). The project aims to unify QuEDS' data collection for separate programs and add new data capture time points, such as at intake and assessment.

Collaboratively developing, embedding and evaluating research to support evaluation of consumer-led programs within a community-based eating disorder organisation.

Engaging the voice of the lived experience in research is crucial for engagement, accuracy and quality of our work.

A key focus of mainstream has been the creation of structures and supports to grow and develop new research talent with linkages to frontline health services, to genuinely build a research workforce that is passionate, experienced, and innovative.

Several medical candidates have been involved conducting research projects in eating disorders.

The mainstream team is working with epidemiologists and data linkage specialists to evaluate 15 years of Australian health system data to establish the first national comprehensive and population-based surveillance system of people with EDs.

The mainstream team, in collaboration with Sydney Health Economics Collaborative, is developing health system and economic models to inform decision making about effective, cost-effective, and equitable access to healthcare for this population.

InsideOut is establishing a National Eating Disorder Lived Experience Lifetime Survey (aka livED), similar in scope to longitudinal feedback studies in other major illness groups such as Multiple Sclerosis.

Eating disorders are internationally reported to be amongst the highest mortality and suicide rates in mental health, although there is limited Australian mortality data reported and no research to date into the factors that may promote premature death.

COVID-19 and its attendant restrictions have had a unique impact on individuals suffering from mental illne

InsideOut Institute recently designed and validated a new high risk screening tool for early identification of disordered eating behaviour in all ages and genders.

InsideOut Institute is collaborating with headspace National to upskill frontline mainstream mental health workers to identify and support treatment of eating disorders.

Over two-thirds of people present to their primary care physician (or general practitioner) as a first point of contact for mental health concerns.

Extension of the 2017 C&A pathways project to 2018-2019 to investigate the impact of Phase 1 of the NSW Service Plan and workforce development which aimed to increase availability of evidence-based care for this population​.

This project evaluates an online psychoeducation program for carers of children and adolescents on the CYMHS-EDP waitlist.

This project will evaluate an online Supportive Meal Therapy training program for carers of people living with EDs.

The aim of this project is to further evaluate Eating Disorder Victoria's Peer Mentoring Program (PMP), after promising early pilot results in 2019. 

Evaluation of a co-designed, consumer-led support program for carers supporting a young person with an eating disorder (the "Carer Coaching Program")

Health care guidelines are intended to promote health, prevent harm, encourage best evidence-based care and economise the delivery of such care.

Establishing translation hubs across multiple cities provides opportunities for our early career researchers to develop local connections and collaborations. In Queensland, our postdoc Dr Morgan Sidari has worked with researchers in the Genetic Epidemiology and Psychiatric Genetics laboratories at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.