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Ten4Ten: Because where you live shouldn't determine if you live Description: TEN4TEN is a 10-year, community-led program to transform cardiovascular health in Australia's smallest and most underserved towns. Funded by the Ian Potter Foundation TEN4TEN launched in 2026 with Brewarrina, NSW as the first of ten towns. The first community-wide health screening takes place in March 2026.
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TEN4TEN works with geographically defined communities — towns with fewer than 1,500 people — to co-design local interventions that address their specific cardiovascular health challenges. Each town is different. The program uses CHRI's proven co-design model to bring together community members, health providers, researchers, and local organisations to identify priorities, design solutions, and measure progress together. Our tech-first commitment means we bring cutting-edge health technology — wearable devices, AI-assisted screening, mobile health apps — to remote communities first, not last.
The first site of this project is Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia.STARDIT ID:
0202510090456
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2025-01-02
Form updated 2026-07-15
Location
Australia
Aims
implement proven cardiovascular disease prevention strategies that are acceptable, feasible, scalable and sustainable
Reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular disease at a community level
Delay onset of CVD and other chronic diseases
Proactive management of CVD and other chronic diseases
Category
research
Inputs
individual
Members of the public (link)
Task: partners in the project to help shape the future of the project
Compensation: other
individual
Kylie Gwynne (link)
ID: 0000-0002-6897-4528
Task: Research leadership and responsibility
Compensation: paid
individual
Connie Henson
Task: Methods and data collection and analysis
Compensation: paid
individual
Morwenna Kirwan
Task: Impact and translation
Compensation: paid
individual
Amanda Capes-Davis
Task: Ethics and reporting
Compensation: paid
individual
Sergey Alexeev
Task: Quantitative analysis
Compensation: paid
individual
Nida Afzal
Task: Budget and planning
Compensation: paid
individual
John Yealland
Task: Site development, resources, data cleaning
Compensation: paid
individual
Kerri Colegate
Task: WA manager, site development and support
Compensation: paid
individual
Evelyn Wolfenden
Task: Workforce, governance & compliance
Compensation: paid
individual
Blade Bancroft-Duroux
Task: Data collection
Compensation: paid
organisation
Science for All (link)
Task: Supporting with co-evaluating the co-design process, including co-reporting of the process using STARDIT reporting
Compensation: paid
group of individuals
Local community members
Task: Involved in shaping every stage of the project, including co-designing, evaluation and reporting
Compensation: gift
Impact: All stages
group of individuals
Consumer Advisory Group
Task: Advise on all aspects of the project
Method: Formal group with Terms of Reference
Recruitment: Public invitation via public URL
Communication: Online and in-person
Compensation: paid
group of individuals
Brewarrina Community Member Viewpoint (Bre-CMV) (Open (fluid membership, no fixed seats)) (link)
Task: TEN4TEN's local community governance group for Brewarrina. It provides a space for community members to share their viewpoint and guide decisions about the TEN4TEN study, especially how project data is managed, interpreted and used. The initial focus is data governance: TEN4TEN data is de-identified at the individual level but some information may still be visible at the community or town level, and Bre-CMV guides decisions about how that data is used, including advising on access arrangements for two project datasets (a curated dataset from publicly available sources such as the ABS, and data from the Brewarrina Health Screening Festivals of March and September 2026). CHRI is custodian of the data, which is held about the community and for the benefit of the community and cannot be used for commercial purposes | the data may help Brewarrina learn more about itself, track change over time, and set local targets. Established July 2026 (Terms of Reference Version 1, 8 July 2026), with the first meeting scheduled for 15 July 2026.
Method: Formal group with Terms of Reference | members attend as individual community members, not as representatives of an organisation, service, group or sector | fluid membership in which whoever attends a meeting has input into the discussion and decisions made on that day | no quorum required | each meeting begins by revisiting what was agreed at the previous meeting
Recruitment: Open membership | community members attend as individuals with no fixed seats
Communication: Meetings called by CHRI with the agenda sent in advance | no formal minutes taken, with agreed outcomes recorded in meeting slides and posted after each meeting on a password-protected project webpage
individual
Jack Nunn (link)
ID: 0000-0003-0316-3254
Task: Supporting Science for All with co-evaluation of co-design and co-reporting, using STARDIT
Method: Consultant
Communication: Online and in-person
Compensation: paid
Ethics approver
Bellberry Human Research Ethics Committee
ID: HREC2024-11-1980
Study title: 'Healthy Towns: Earlier Screening, risk reduction and better management of chronic disease - a whole of community approach'. Scope: Australia-wide, including the TEN4TEN work. Current approval period through to 21 July 2027. UNSW internal registration: iRECS10063.
Outputs and impacts
change
State: Prospective
Reduced morbidity and better management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) leading to lower morbidity and mortality of CVD and other chronic diseases within 10 years (link)
Impact: lower morbidity and mortality of CVD and other chronic diseases within 10 years
change
State: Prospective
Economic benefits to individuals and communities with less reliance on Fly-in Fly-out (FIFO), longer, healthier work-life for community member (link)
Impact: 1: Increased Quality-Adjusted Life Year and Disability-Adjusted Life Years 2: longer, healthier work-life for community member
Measurement: Quality-Adjusted Life Year and Disability-Adjusted Life Years
Contributors: Investigator team are involved in co-reporting data, with community members involved in co-designing outcome measure of importance
other
State: Prospective
Local community members report the co-design process was effective, done well and influenced and improved the project