Better Breathing Foundation (BBF), supported by the Lung Foundation Australia, is delighted to offer PhD scholarship funds for an evaluation of the feasibility of implementing pulmonary rehabilitation in primary care.   Congratulations to Jessica Walsh from the University of Sydney, who will be undertaking this research. &nbs[…]

Better Breathing Foundation (BBF), supported by the Waratah Foundation, is delighted to offer PhD scholarship funds for an evaluation of the usability and effectiveness of the mobile pulmonary rehabilitation (m-PR) platform in people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).  Congratulations to Sarah Brown from the U[…]

BBF congratulates Dr Sonia Cheng for graduating with a PhD at The University of Sydney on 20 April 2021. Dr Cheng was awarded the inaugural BBF scholarship in 2016 which allowed her to undertake several research studies to evaluate physical activity and sedentary behaviour in people with COPD. This work has led to 4 publications [[…]

The Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) was the featured not-for-profit organisation at a lunch hosted at State Parliament on 2 May, 2018 to celebrate the career of the Hon. Greg Pearce. Zoe McKeough, Managing Director of BBF, spoke to the audience about the support that BBF is providing to research in chronic lung disease by allied[…]

Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) and Lung Foundation Australia (LFA) is delighted to announce the winner of its 2018 PhD Scholarship in Allied Health Research.Congratulations to Fiona Coll from Curtin University who will be undertaking a research project titled “Stand up for COPD”. Her research will determine the impact of co[…]

Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) is delighted to announce a collaboration with Lung Foundation Australia (LFA), a national organisation that is dedicated to supporting anyone with a lung disease. This collaboration will ensure more research projects are funded in the area of chronic lung disease. Similar to BBF, LFA’s main obje[…]

To kick off marketing for the Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) in 2016, managing director Dr Zoe McKeough has decided to combine her passion for Motorsport with her passion for the Foundation. She has had a Porsche 911 turbo covered in a vinyl wrap artwork, designed by Merry Sparks, which places the Foundation logo front and cent[…]

Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) is delighted to announce the winner of its 2016 Scholarship Award.BBF’s Managing Director, Dr Zoe McKeough, announced that Sonia Cheng is the recipient of BBF’s inaugural scholarship. Sonia graduated from The University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Physiotherapy) (Honours Cla[…]

Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) is delighted to announce that it has obtained Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. As a consequence all donations to BBF are fully tax deductible.BBF has already raised $150,000 in funding and is currently considering applications for its 2016 Scholarship Award, which close on the 30th of Novem[…]

Dr Zoe McKeough had the pleasure of announcing the opening of the Better Breathing Foundation during a cardiorespiratory specific session focusing on exercise training in chronic lung disease, given at the Australian Physiotherapy Conference held on the Gold Coast in October 2015. BBF provides new avenues of funding for early care[…]

Better Breathing Foundation (BBF) congratulates its Managing Director, Dr Zoe McKeough, for winning an award at the National Physiotherapy Conference 2015 for her presentation on physical activity levels in people with COPD with exercise-induced oxygen desaturation.[…]

Director of the Better Breathing Foundation, Zoe McKeough, and her research colleagues in Sydney and Perth, Australia (Sally Wootton, Cindy Ng, Sue Jenkins, Kylie Hill, Peter Eastwood, David Hillman, Nola Cecins, Lissa Spencer, Christine Jenkins and Jennifer Alison) have published an article in the European Respiratory Journal exa[…]

Director of the Better Breathing Foundation, Dr Zoe McKeough, and her research colleagues at The University of Sydney and Concord Repatriation Hospital, Dr Regina Leung, Professor Jennifer Alison and Dr Matthew Peters, have published an article in the European Respiratory Journal examining the effects of Tai Chi in people with chr[…]