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

Parinaz Mehdipour

Parinaz aims to assess how adherence to antimalarial regimens influences the treatment efficacy.

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

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.

Ellen Kearney

This thesis seeks to validate the use of Anopheles-specific salivary antigens as a serosurveillance tool for malaria and mosquito exposure, and explore its programmatic application.

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

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

Linde Stewart

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