A National Heart & Diabetes Institute

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute is Australia's first health and medical research institute tackling the deadly trio of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Our work extends from the laboratory to wide-scale community studies.

Baker IDI fills a void in health and medical research by allowing traditionally disparate groups to work together and collaborate under one umbrella and one organisational culture.

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Test your Type 2 Diabetes risk online?

You can have type 2 diabetes and not know it because there may be no obvious symptoms. Test your risk with the Australian Online Type 2 Diabetes Risk Asessment Tool .

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Report card reveals Indigenous men dying at higher rates than non-Indigenous men

10 November 2009 Dr Alex Brown, head of the Centre for Indigenous Vascular and Diabetes Research speaks to the ABC about the prevalence and causes of cardiovascular disease amongst aboriginal males.

Diabetes Care at the Centre Educational Symposium- Professor Paul Zimmet

2 November 2009 Professor Paul Zimmet speaks to ABC about Baker IDI's commitment to improving the health of Indigenous Australian's and the Institute's role in organising a symposium designed to build capacity amongst local health care workers to improve prevention and enhance treatment protocols.

State's workers sicker than they think

30 October 2009 Professor Garry Jennings comments on the Government's workplace health check program, designed to identify the early stages of chronic disease.

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Events

Balance diabetes education program

10 November 2009  -  1 December 2009    6.30pm - 9.00pm

Baker IDI - Friday Breakfast Seminar

27 November 2009  -  27 November 2009    8am

Supermarket Tours for diabetes education

8 December 2009    7.00pm - 8.30pm

Counting the Carbs- Exchanges to Pumps

26 February 2010  -  26 February 2010    9.00am-3.30pm
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Dr Jeremy Jowett in the Genomics and Systems Biology laboratory
Dr Jeremy Jowett in the Genomics and Systems Biology laboratory
Baker IDI Annual Report 2009

The year 2008 will always be remembered as auspicious in our history.

Perspectives Volume 1 - Obesity

This edition of the Baker IDI perspectives includes the topics; "We are getting fatter as a nation", "It is indisputable we need to eat less and exercise more" and "McDonald's the internationally powerful and phenomenally successful fast-food chain".

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Greg Page Fund for Orthostatic Intolerance

– 2009 Paceline Ride for Cardiac Arrhythmias

– Healthy Lifestyle Research Centre- conquering diabetes, stroke and heart disease