The Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health is an initiative of the Freemasons Foundation Inc, the charitable arm of Freemasonry in South Australia and the Northern Territory, in partnership with the University of Adelaide. We acknowledge the major funding support of the Foundation and the University since 2007, and the broader support of the Freemasons community.

What health services work for Indigenous men

A lack of published evaluations of strategies used to improve primary health care utilisation by Indigenous men deters wide spread rollout to advance men's well-being. View abstract

Prostate cancer drugs formidable potential

Despite lab evidence of their formidable potential, drugs targeting nucleic acids that control gene expression in prostate cancer may be a distant reality, View abstract

The microenvironment of prostate cancer

Changes in tumour micro-environment thought to hamper the efficacy of therapeutics, confirmed using prostate cancer patient derived explant (PDE) model.  View abstract

Measuring engagement in e-health technology

Study makes recommendations for valid and reliable methods to better evaluate engagement with, and effectiveness of, e-health technology to advance the field. View abstract

Integrating need for cognition into APPs

APP based health messaging tailored to the recipient to improve a range of health behaviours can be further enhanced by targeting recipients' "need for cognition"  View abstract

New PBK drug target for  prostate cancer

Global team identify a potential new drug target; the PBK enzyme that is associated with variants of the androgen receptor that drives agg-ressive prostate cancer.View abstract 

Predictors of prostate cancer metastasis

Collaboration finds dual biomarkers predictive of prostate cancer outcomes and that PSA relapse is an inadequate surrogate for metastasis or death due to disease. View abstract

Benefits of treating sleep apnoea in schizophrenia 

Pilot study indicates that treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea likely to address cognitive impairment and sleep disturbance in people with schizophrenia.  View abstract

Summer Scholarship Awardees 

The Centre congratulates Neha Kasture, Ser Yee Ang, Ashley Merkin and Suraiya Onnesha on being awarded a 2018-19 FFCMH summer vacation scholarship, Read more

The Conversation: Unscrambling the egg

While in Boston on his Fulbright Fellowship, Dr Sean Martin penned a review on a local study to highlight epidemiology's role in unscrambling the determinants of disease. Read more

Medvet grant to develop new blood test 

Prof Lisa Butler and colleagues have received grant funding from Medvet  to develop a new blood test for aggressive prostate cancer, Prostate Cancer Research Group newsletter 

PhD scholarship top-up to Mr Reza Ghodski 

Reza was awarded a scholarship top-up from FFCMH to support his PhD on androgen receptor reprogramming for prostate cancer using 3D bioengineered models, Read more 

Final of Series 1: Men's Health Matters podcast 

In the final of the first series of the Men's Health Matters, host Cameron Gyss talks to his friends Tom and Callum about young men's health.

Men with prostate cancer to trial program

Study seeks men who have completed prostate cancer treatment to participate in a trial of an online structured physical activity program.  Read more

Spring edition of The Healthy Male Newsletter featuring articles on male fertility and the vasectomy

Pre-conception factsheet for Dads-to-be

Latest report on "How men want to receive health information"