Graduate Researchers

Dr Daniel J Tan

Daniel's doctoral work will utilise data from the population-based Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study (TAHS) and aims to identify the lifetime patterns and parameters of asthma that lead to fixed airflow obstruction

Abby-Rose Cox

The main body of this research will be based on a new project in the Kimberley where the Chief Investigator Professor Juli Coffin, will utilise an approach around EAL (Equine Assisted Learning).

Diego J. Lopez

Diego's doctoral research aims are twofold: to investigate the effects of air pollution, hard water and temperature and humidity in atopic and non-atopic eczema development and to determine eczema phenotypes, their associated risk factors and associations with other outcomes.

Sabrina En-Hsun Wang

Using data from the Melbourne collaborative Cohort Study, this PhD aims to investigate risk factors for GERD and Barrett’s oesophagus, and to understand how might obesity, Helicobacter pylori infection and GERD affect the risk of Barrett’s oesophagus.

Jingwen Zhang

Aiming to explore potential risk factors, phenotypes of chronic cough in adults, using the Tasmania Longitudinal Healthy study.

Sabrina Idrose

Aiming to investigate the short-term relationships between outdoor pollen exposure, lung health and allergic diseases in different age groups using community-based studies.

Jo Luke

This PhD focuses on the largely quantitative scientific disciplines of epidemiology, evidence-based practice and evaluation and their longstanding histories with Aboriginal people.

Louise Bourchier

This PhD seeks to understand the sexual health needs of people aged 60 and older in Australia, and the types of health promotion that would best serve this demographic.

Rong Zeng

Rong's doctoral research aims to better understand the association of vitamin D in early life and the subsequent childhood and adolescent asthma and allergic disease, and to identify potential effect modifiers in the pathway from vitamin D to allergic disease outcomes.

Jonathan Pham

Contributing to understanding the relationship between ethnicity and asthma risk, expression and response to treatment.

Adrian Marcato

Adrian's doctoral research aims to implement and evaluate a first few hundred pilot study for seasonal influenza.

Zhoufeng Ye

This project aims to explore the causes of the variance of a fully automated measure (named Cirrus) of the textural features of mammograms.

Ben Harrap

Ben's doctoral research seeks to examine trends in Indigenous child removals in Western Australia and explore their health outcomes before and after entering the child protection system.

Tessa Cutler

This PhD will examine access to mental health resources for young Aboriginal people using existing data from the Next Generation study and linked data from WA.

Karen Alpen

This project will undertake a sex-stratified genome wide association study using a novel machine learning algorithm called DEPTH which can identify genomic risk regions missed by conventional GWAS methods.

Chris McKay

Urgent action is required to understand factors influencing health trajectories for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in Australia to improve long-term cardiometabolic disease outcomes.

Matthew Palmer

Globally, cervical cancer is the 4th most common cause of cancer in women. In Japan it is the 9th most common cause of cancer, and the 2nd most common cause of cancer in women of reproductive age.

Claire Gallagher

The differential effects of BMI trajectories on the risk of anxiety and depression

Vikas Wadhwa

Interactions between early life allergic sensitisation and respiratory infection in causing asthma

Vivienne Esser

This PhD aims to further develop ICE FALCON, both methodologically and to allow use by the wider research community.

Jayamalar T Thurai Rathnam

Jeyamalar’s PhD will focus on zoonotic P. knowlesi which has been responsible for the increase in malaria infections in Malaysia.

Ye Zhang

This PhD aims to comprehensively understand the risk factors for mCRC based on large prospective studies with sufficient follow-up years.

Linde Stewart

This MPhil aims to investigate the impact of bacterial vaginosis on Australian postmenopausal women.

Yaoyao Qian

Yaoyao's doctoral work will utilise Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study (TAHS) to establish life-time BMI trajectories, smoking trajectories and asthma allergy trajectories and to explore their longitudinal effect on OSA among the general population of adults.

Gulshan Ali

My PhD project will investigate the relationship between obesity, and asthma, chronic pulmonary disease (COPD).

Yaqi Lin

Using data from The Australian Paediatric Exposure to Radiation Cohort (Aust-PERC) study, this doctoral research aims to explore the relationship between low-dose radiation exposed from CT scans and site-specific solid cancers.

Frances Albers

Frances doctoral research aims to take advantage of recent advancements in causal inference methods to improve causal inference in observational studies of physical activity and cancer risk and survival after diagnosis.

Stephanie Munari

Steph's PhD is looking at the prevention and management of chlamydia in Australia.

Carol El-hayek

Carol's PhD evaluates the application of data driven methods to sentinel surveillance to better identify risk populations for blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections.

Mr Xirun Yang

The overall aim of Xirun's project is to explore the effectiveness of meditation apps for management of anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders, in young adults.

Gethmini Siriwarde

Gethmini's project will use the estimand framework to bring clarity to research questions in trials, and align trial objectives with the design, conduct, statistical analysis, and interpretation of results.

Jessica Xu

This PhD project will evaluate statistical methods to optimise DTRs using data from SMARTs with missing data.

Rukshala Gunaratne

This PhD will use the statistical technique of network meta-analysis to enable comparison of multiple interventions in order to determine the one that is most effective.

Ziyu Wang

Ziyu doctoral research focuses on estimating the effects of various dietary factors on bladder cancer risk through a pooled analysis.

Sami Howe

This work aims to identify the most effective policies to achieve a ‘tobacco endgame’ while reducing current inequities in smoking rates.

Jiacheng Liu

Findings from this PhD project could inform preventive strategies and reduce the burden of obstructive lung diseases in future generations.

Ye Kyaw Aung

Ye's PhD will develop a risk prediction model for a subsequent primary cancer in Colorectal cancer survivors.

Max Schuran

In this project, a novel machine-learning algorithm will be developed to address shortcomings in the predictive performance of PRS.

Shuhan Peng

This project will systematically investigate and identify risk factors causally associated with overall, early- and late-onset breast cancer, and improve the polygenic risk prediction of breast cancer.

Gagandeep Kaur

Shania Rossiter

Natalie Chang

Using data from the Prevention of Eczema By a Barrier Lipid Equilibrium Strategy (PEBBLES) study, Natalie will examine the association between early-life skin lipids and eczema and food allergy in children.

Sandra Sursock

Our aim is to develop and test conversational voice AI systems to assist the bowel cancer screening follow-up process.

Ziyao Ge

Aiming to simulate the effects of FOP nutrition labeling intervention to improve free sugar consumption and reduce socioeconomic inequalities in oral health.