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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Associate Professor 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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Nesha Nanu
Institute Manager
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Matt Ralston
Chief Operating Officer
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Dr Alex Robinson
Disability Inclusion and Rehabilitation, Head
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Muthuni Fernando
Finance Manager
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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Katherine Dobson
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Advisor
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Professor Nathan Grills
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Felix Kiefel-Johnson
Technical Advisor
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Dr Manjula Marella
Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Wesley Pryor
Principal Advisor
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Fleur Smith
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr 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
Global Health Stream 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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A/Prof Dominika Kwasnicka
Principal Research Fellow, Health behaviour change, digital health and science implementation
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Dr Reihana Mohideen
Principal Advisor, Social Implications of Technology (Infrastructure and Resilience)
Gender and Women’s Health
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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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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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Dana Young
Research Fellow
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Rana Islamiah Zahroh
Research Fellow
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Dr Nicole Minckas
Research Fellow
Health Systems Governance and Financing
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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
Lecturer in Global Health
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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A/Prof Greg Armstrong
Senior Research Fellow
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Prarthna Dayal
Senior Technical Advisor
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Dr Tilahun Haregu
Research Fellow
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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
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Cearet Sood
Research Assistant
Business Services
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Hamzullah Elham
Coordinator – Projects
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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 Namchee 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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Katherine Eddy
Preventing pre-eclampsia: exploring economic and implementation barriers to effective maternity care
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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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Phuong Hoang
The correlation between male perpetrators and social services: impact in reducing family violence rates in Western Melbourne
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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
‘the little things’: strategies for holistic, everyday wellbeing with young people from recent migrant and refugee backgrounds in rural 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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Nabreesa Murphy
Youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and climate-related disaster risk reduction in the Pacific
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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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Philcy Philip
Strategies to improve oral health among children & adolescents with Intellectual disabilities in rural Karnataka, India.
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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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Sanjana Santosh
Living with Major Illnesses in Urban India
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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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Siân Slade
To understand the mechanisms enabling patients to navigate healthcare.
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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
The role of Christian faith communities in promoting health in the Western suburbs of Melbourne.
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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
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Reihaneh Moniri
Mass Media Representation of Suicide in Iran: A Comprehensive Analysis
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.
Dr Greg Adamson
Prof Peter Annear
Ms Sally Baker
Ms Kim Barnes
Mr Christopher Bates
A/Prof James Black
Dr Elizabeth Brooke
Prof Nick Crofts
Dr Gillian Dalgetty
Ms Helen Evans
Ms Naomi Francis
Dr Danielle Green
Dr Indrajit Hazarika
Dr Julie Hennegan
Dr Wendy Holmes
Prof Caroline Homer
Dr Philomena Horsley
Dr Krishna Hort
Dr Melissa Jardine
Dr Ta-Yu Lee
Dr Maureen Makama
Kristie Marie Mammoliti
Dr Suzanne Mavoa
Dr Annie McDougall
Elke Mitchell
A/Prof Alison Morgan
Dr Tori Oliver
A/Prof Tilman Ruff
Sian Slade
Elizabeth Sprunt
Dr Joelle Tan
A/Prof Robyn Tapp
Dr Naveen Tenneti
Stephanie Topp
A/Prof Lakshmi Vijayakumar
Dr Sajjan Singh Yadav
A/Prof Xiaocong Yang