Our People
Meet our team of multi-disciplinary experts.
Leadership Team
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Professor Cathy Vaughan
Director
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Professor Linda Rae Bennett
Education and Learning, Head
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Associate Professor Meghan Bohren
Gender and Women’s Health, Head
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Dr Angus Campbell
One Health, Head
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Katherine Gilbert
Health Systems Governance and Financing, Head
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Professor Sumit Kane
Social & Cultural Dimensions of Health Systems, Head
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Professor Ajay Mahal
Emerging Programs in Global Health, Head
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Matt Ralston
Chief Operating Officer
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Dr Alex Robinson
Disability Inclusion and Rehabilitation, Head
Principal Advisors
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Professor Barbara McPake
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Dr Reihana Mohideen
Principal Advisor, Social Implications of Technology (Infrastructure and Resilience)
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Clare Strachan
Disability, Inclusion and Rehabilitation
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Matthew Blanks
Coordinator, ReLAB-HS
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Katherine Dobson
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Advisor
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Dr Lindsey Gale
Research Fellow
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Professor Nathan Grills
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Dr Tilahun Haregu
Research Fellow
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Felix Kiefel-Johnson
Technical Advisor
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Dr Manjula Marella
Research Fellow
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Dr Kate Neely
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Wesley Pryor
Principal Advisor
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Fleur Smith
Senior Technical Advisor
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Chris Waterworth
Technical Advisor
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Sarby Veriah
Monitoring Focal Point
Education and Learning
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Professor Linda Rae Bennett
Education and Learning, Head
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Associate Professor Grant Blashki
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Andi Halfpapp
Project Officer
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Campbell McKay
Program Coordinator/ Curriculum Developer
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Dr Mitha Putri
Project Officer
Emerging Programs in Global Health
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Dr Timothy Adair
Principal Research Fellow, Health Statistics and Data/ Disease
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Professor Nick Crofts
Director, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health
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Sonja Firth
Technical Associate, Health Statistics and Data/ Disease
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Marie Ishida
Research Assistant
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Dr Dominika Kwasnicka
Senior Research Fellow, Behavioral change for NCD reduction
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Dr Reihana Mohideen
Principal Advisor, Social Implications of Technology (Infrastructure and Resilience)
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Carla Chan Unger
Technical Advisor, Envisioning the Future of Policing and Public Health
Gender and Women’s Health
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Dr Shahinoor Akter
Research Fellow
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Sarah Bergman
Research Assistant
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Associate Professor Karen Block
Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Lauren Carpenter
Research Fellow
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Isabel Chung
Research Assistant
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Martha Vazquez Corona
Research Assistant
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Erin Davis
Research Fellow
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Alya Hazfiarini
Research Assistant
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Jess Kirwan
Research Assistant
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Aish Ravi
Research Assistant
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Dr Mridula Shankar
Research Fellow
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Mary Stathopoulos
Research Assistant
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Gemma Tarpey-Brown
Research Assistant
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Ilundi Tinga
Research Assistant
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Genevieve Walker
Research Assistant
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Dana Young
Research Fellow
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Rana Islamiah Zahroh
Research Assistant
Health Systems Governance and Financing
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Andrea Boudville
Senior Technical Advisor
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Noor Shah Kamawal
Technical Advisor
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Min-Hui Law
Technical Advisor
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Alison Macintyre
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Tiara Marthias
Senior Technical Advisor
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Cormac Mercer
Technical Advisor
One Health
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Dr Melanie Bannister-Tyrrell
Principal Advisor
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Dr Max Barot Vibhani
Research Fellow
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Dr Anna Barrett
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Justin McKinley
Research Fellow
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Dr Juan-Pablo (JP) Villanueva-Cabezas
Honorary Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Social & Cultural Dimensions of Health Systems
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Dr Shazra Abbas
Technical Advisor
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Dr Greg Armstrong
Senior Research Fellow
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Prarthna Dayal
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Tori Oliver
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Matthew Reeve
Senior Technical Advisor
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Sarah Simpson
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Daniel Strachan
Senior Research Fellow
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Kirsty Teague
Technical Advisor
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Brigitte Tenni
Senior Technical Advisor
Business Services
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Hamzullah Elham
Coordinator – Projects
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Muthuni Fernando
Finance Manager
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Anh Le
Coodinator – Projects
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Steph Lim
Senior Coordinator – Projects
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Lindsay Morton
Lead - Programs
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Angela Mudford
Communications Coordinator
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Irene Templeton
People and Culture Coordinator
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Tom Wright
Executive Assistant to the Director / Institute Administrator
Australian Global Health Alliance
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Dr Selina Lo
Executive Director, Australian Global Health Alliance
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Prabhleen Kaur
Project Assistant
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Cindy Milford
Network Coordinator for the Australian Network of WHO Collaborating Centres
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Abbie Minter
Deputy Director
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Georgina Wawryk
Project Coordinator – Digital
PhD Students
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Sintayehu Abebe
Sexual violence against female victims in Ethiopia: health services’ response to the mental health effects
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Pratyasha Acharya
Public health insurance and long-term healthcare funding: Efficacy of Indian public health insurance programs.
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Amanda Blair
Exploring the current state of Australia’s postnatal care guidelines and quality of care measures.
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Prarthna Dayal
Understanding the response of public hospitals to reform initiatives in India: A Case study of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
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Salsawi Debela
Exploring the wellbeing of humanitarian migrants in regional Australia.
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Setiyani Dewi
The introduction and upscaling of an HPV vaccination program for early adolescent Indonesian girls.
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Sandra Olivia Frans
Integrating Cervical Cancer Prevention to the Family Planning Program in East Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Indonesia
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Jack Ganbaatar
LGBTQI+ health disparities in Mongolia
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Alya Hazfiarini
Adolescent pregnancy in Indonesia: Understanding maternity care use and quality.
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Helen Henderson
Beliefs, understanding and access to male family planning methods in Timor-Leste
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Marie Ishida
Unveiling the Hidden Costs: The Role of Physical Functioning on Households’ Economic and Social Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific in the Context of Population Aging
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Sarah Khaw
Community-based doulas’ and health care providers’ perspectives and experiences working together to support migrant women in maternity settings.
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Kimberly Lakin
Peoples’ expectations of responsive health systems: A case study of maternity care in Vietnam
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Meghan Lee
A community-based exploration of young migrant access to mental health services and support in Western Victoria
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Sheenagh McShane
Understanding the role of housing in mental health outcomes across the resettlement journey of people from refugee backgrounds
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Emily Munro-Harrison
Urban Invisibility: Identities of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Narrm
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Nabreesa Murphy
Youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and climate-related disaster risk reduction in the Pacific
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Hala Nasr
Women-only safe spaces as a response to gender-based violence: experiences, limitations and possibilities for refugee women
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Warwick Padgham
How do health justice programs in Indigenous community-controlled health organisations give effect to Indigenous self-determination?
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Ratih Eka Pertiwi
The role and place of alcohol consumption amongst young people in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
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Philcy Philip
Strategies to improve oral health among children & adolescents with Intellectual disabilities in rural Karnataka, India.
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Surender Prasad Pandey
Assessment of the completeness of death registration and estimation of national and subnational mortality in Nepal.
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Daniel Roitman
How do health systems change during periods of rapid economic growth?
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Thiago Melo Santos
Basic and safely managed water, sanitation, and hygiene services in low- and middle-income countries: current state and inequalities
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Farnaz Shahimi
Identity and resilience among Hazara and Afghan adolescents and young adults following childhood experiences of forced migration.
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Shuai Shao
Investigating Determinants of Health Provider Choices to Inform Health Policy Making: Eliciting Patient Preferences, India.
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Sian Slade
To understand the mechanisms and incentives being developed to enable patients to navigate their healthcare journey from primary care.
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Alexandra Stewart
The role of cytochrome polymorphisms in primaquine metabolism and effects on its activity in radical cure of Plasmodium vivax infection
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Claire Sullivan
Legal responses to family violence: experiences of refugee and migrant women in Victoria
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Nishtha Tewari
Within the Household: Catastrophic health events and their impact on households in Kumaon, India.
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Martha Vazquez Corona
Migrant mums and maternity care: A participatory research study
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Inoke Veamatahau
Recognition of the Local Church, Community-Based Participatory Care Activities as a Novel Approach to Health and Health Outcome: Understanding the Contextual Factors Influencing NCD amongst the Pacific Islanders living in the Melbourne West and Promote Healthy and Wellbeing through the local church.
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Champamunny Ven
An exploration of what Cambodian midwives need to provide disability-inclusive maternity care
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Ebony Johanna Verbunt
Improving the management of women experiencing anaemia in pregnancy: A case-study of Bangladesh
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Dana Young
Sports participation and social capital development for migrant women and adolescent girls
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Rana Islamiah Zahroh
Caesarean birth in Indonesia: understanding inequalities, inefficiencies, and intentionalities
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Xuemei Zhang
Is the health burden of NCDs shifting from rich to poor in China: implications for health policy and clinical practice?
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Xiaoying Zhu
The Role of Health Insurance in Shaping Health-Seeking Decisions and Its Effects on Health Expenditure in China
Honorary staff
Honorary appointees are highly valued members of the Nossal Institute. Our relationship with our honorary staff is one of mutual benefit in which the Institute benefits from the knowledge, skills and influence of the honorary staff member while the honorary staff member benefits from the opportunities, resources and reputation of the Institute.
Our current honorary appointees are listed below.
Mr Brendan Allen
Ms Judith Ascroft
Miss Zahra Aziz
Ms Sally Baker
Mr Christopher Bates
A/Prof James Black
PROF Graham Brown
Mr Samual Byfield
Ms Bethany Carr
Dr Kit Yee Chan
Prof John Crofts
Dr Fabrizio D'Esposito
Dr Gillian Dalgetty
Miss Allissa Desloge
A/Prof Peter Deutschmann
Ms Helen Evans
Ms Naomi Francis
Dr Danielle Green
Mrs Eunju Gweon
Dr Indrajit Hazarika
Dr David Hipgrave
Dr Wendy Holmes
Prof Caroline Homer
Dr Krishna Hort
A/Prof Ian Howie
Dr Leslie Johnson
Dr Muhammad Karim
A/Prof Michelle Kermode
Mr Rial Kidson
Mr Jongseok Kim
Mrs Kyunghui Kim
Dr Sundeep Manoth
Dr Kaaren Mathias
Dr Jane Maxwell
Dr Timothy Moore
A/Prof Alison Morgan
Dr Christopher Morgan
Dr Debbie Muirhead
Dr Michael Palmer
Prof George Patton
Prof Susan Sawyer
Dr Shilanthi Seneviratne
A/Prof George Shakarishvili
A/Prof Kabir Sheikh
Ms Bethanne Slatyer
Dr Simon Slota-Kan
Prof Richard Southby
Ms Elizabeth Sprunt
A/Prof Robyn Tapp
Dr K R Thankappan
Dr Badri Thapa
Dr Chamila Thilakarathne
Dr Sathish Thirunavukkarasu
Dr Nicholas Thomson
Ms Stephanie Topp
Ms Nicole Turner
Dr Joshua Vogel
Dr Helen Louise Walls
Dr Yang Zhao