Welcome to 2022 McKenzie Fellow Kate Mason

The McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme aims to attract doctoral graduates from around the world to lead priority research projects at the University of Melbourne. The University will fund the recipients for a three-year appointment and provide additional funding of up to $25,000 for project costs over the term of their Fellowship.

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Kate Mason is among those awarded the 2022 Fellowship.

Dr Kate Mason is a social epidemiologist with a PhD in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She will join the Healthy Housing Unit in the Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.

Project title: Housing, place, and health inequalities across the life course

This project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role housing and residential contexts play in health equity, by examining the extent to which inequalities in physical and mental health are explained by differential access to affordable, secure, suitable housing in Australia, and by exploring the interplay between housing and people’s wider residential context in relation to health.