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, Unit Head
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Associate Professor Meghan Bohren
Gender and Women’s Health, Unit Head
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Dr Angus Campbell
One Health, Unit Head
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Katherine Gilbert
Health Systems Governance and Financing, Unit Head
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Professor Sumit Kane
Social & Cultural Dimensions of Health Systems, Unit Head
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Professor Ajay Mahal
Emerging Programs in Global Health, Unit Head
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Matt Ralston
Chief Operating Officer
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Dr Alex Robinson
Disability Inclusion and Rehabilitation, Unit 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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Dr Greg Armstrong
Senior Research Fellow
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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
Education and Learning
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Professor Linda Rae Bennett
Education and Learning, Unit 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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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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Sangita Chakraborty
Research Assistant
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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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Dr Kate Gomersall
Research Fellow
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Marie Ishida
Research Assistant
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Dr Hang Li
Research Fellow, Health Statistics and Data/ Disease
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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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Martha Vazquez Corona
Research Assistant
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Erin Davis
Research Fellow
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Gemma Tarpey-Brown
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
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Dr Mridula Shankar
Research Fellow
Health Systems Governance and Financing
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Andrea Boudville
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Louise Freijser
Research Fellow
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Noor Shah Kamawal
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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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 Technical Advisor
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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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Min-Hui Law
Coordinator - Projects
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Steph Lim
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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Sarby Veriah
Coordinator - Projects
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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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Abbie Minter
Deputy Director
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Piyali Somaia
Network Director, Australian Network of WHO Collaborating Centres; Advisor - Gender Equality, Australian Global Health Alliance
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Georgina Wawryk
Project Coordinator – Digital
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Prabhleen Kaur
Project Assistant
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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Setiyani Dewi
The introduction and upscaling of an HPV vaccination program for early adolescent Indonesian girls.
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Helen Henderson
Beliefs, understanding and access to male family planning methods in Timor-Leste
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Kimberly Lakin
Childbearing Indian Migrant Women’s Expectations and Experiences of Care: Implications for Health System Responsiveness.
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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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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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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
Exploring the training needs of Cambodian midwives in relation to providing inclusive maternity care services for women with disabilities
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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
PhD Candidate
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