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. 

The core team has developed the overall structure and governance processes of mainstream, consulted with content experts, state organisations and lived experience peer researchers, and set the research agenda for the Centre.

The core team meets on a fortnightly basis, hosted by the InsideOut Institute of Eating Disorders at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, with the New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria translation teams monthly, and with the wider investigatory team on a project-by-project basis to co-ordinate all projects listed below.

mainstream is articulating the need for thorough and meaningful research into Australia’s health care systems by investigating all publicly available data to identify knowledge gaps prior to linking previously siloed health system data into the national surveillance system.

Publications:

Bryant E, Touyz S, Maguire S. Public perceptions of people with eating disorders: Commentary on results from the 2022 Australian national survey of mental health-related stigma and discrimination. J Eat Disord. 2023 Apr 16;11(1):62. doi: 10.1186/s40337-023-00786-z.

Presentations:

Bryant E, Koemel N, Martenstyn JA, Marks P, Hickie I, Maguire S. Mortality and mental health funding – do the dollars add up? Eating disorder research funding in Australia from 2009 to 2021: a portfolio analysis. Lancet Ref Health West Pac. 2023;100786. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100786, 2023 International Conference on Eating Disorders, Academy of Eating Disorders, Washington, DC & 2023 London Eating Disorder Conference.

Maguire S, Miskovic-Wheatley J, Nassar N, Scheuer F, Cunich M, Ahmed M, Aouad P, Sidari M, Dann K, Mainstream Collaboration. The MAINSTREAM Collaboration: Treatment journeys and outcomes from a national surveillance system for people with eating disorders receiving treatment within the Australian health care system. 2023 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders Annual Conference, Gold Coast.