University of Melbourne researchers with an interest in Global Health
Name | University Department | Geographic Region | Health Issue/s of interest |
| A/Prof Beverley-Ann Biggs | Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals | South East Asia | Anaemia, Nutritional deficiencies, Parasitic Diseases including hookworm and malaria, Tuberculosis, Refugee Health, HIV; Maternal and child health, infectious diseases |
| Dr James Black | Nossal Institute for Global Health | Southern Africa, East Timor | Disease surveillance and outbreak preparedness, public health informatics and research ethics |
| Prof Graham Brown | Nossal Institute for Global Health | Asia, Pacific, Sub-saharan Africa | Tropical Diseases, Surveillance; Malaria, Immunology of Malaria; Infectious Diseases |
| Dr Gerard Casey | Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals | Asia Pacific | Maternal and Child Health/Mental Health, women's health, community development, program delivery, sanitation, scaling-up, government policy; Nutrition, Malaria, Helminthic infection |
| Ms Alexandra Devine | Nossal Institute for Global Health | South East and South Asia | Mental Health and HIV |
| Dr Michael Duffy | Medicine (RMH/WH) | SE Asia, PNG & Africa | Severe malaria & Malaria in pregnancy |
| Prof Lesleyanne Hawthorne | Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; Arts | OECD nations, Asia Pacific, India | Global health workforce supply; foreign credential recognition in the health sciences (including competency based assessment); health workforce policy in sending and receiving countries; Global health workforce supply |
| Dr Michelle Kermode | Nossal Institute for Global Health | South East and South Asia | HIV; injection safety and mental health |
| A/Prof Martha Macintyre | Centre for Health and Society, Population Health | Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands | Medical Anthropology; Health in Developing Countries, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Communicable diseases; Health transition; Tuberculosis, HIV, Malaria, Nutrition; Service provision in remote areas. |
| A/Prof Harry Minas | Centre for International Mental Health | Asia; Pacific | Mental health system development; Mental health |
| Dr Seema Mihrshahi | Department: International and Immigrant Health Group, Department of Medicine RMH/WH | South East Asia and South Asia (Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Nepal) | Maternal and child Health in developing countries, infant feeding Anaemia, diarrhoeal disease, respiratory illness |
| Prof Rob Moodie | Nossal Institute for Global Health | Australia, Africa, Asia and the Pacific | HIV prevention, Health Promotion |
| Dr Martha Morrow | Nossal Institute for Global Health | Asia; Pacific | Maternal and child health; youth health; tobacco control; nutrition; HIV |
| Dr Chee Ng | International Unit, Department of Psychiatry | Asia-Pacific including east Asia and southeast Asia | Mental Health; Workforce and mental health service development, psychoses, affective disorders, and psychopharmacology |
| A/Prof Stephen Rogerson | Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals | Papua New Guinea, sub-Saharan Africa, Indonesia | Malaria, maternal and child health, Malaria in pregnancy; malaria HIV interactions |
| Dr Fiona Russell | Pediatrics Royal Children's Hospital | The Pacific | Child health; Vaccine preventable diseases, Pneumonia, Diarrhoea, Meningitis |
| Prof Roger Short | The Dean's Ganglion, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, India, Thailand, China. | HIV Prevention, Contraception, Abortion, HIV, Population |
| Dr Julie Simpson | Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health | Southeast Asia & Africa | Clinical Pharmacology; Epidemiology; Malaria |
| Dr Susan Skull | Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin; Department of Public Health; Medicine - R.M.H. & W.G.H. | Australia, Asia Pacific | Vaccinology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Research Methods, Maternal and Child Health, Indigenous health, Infectious diseases, refugee health |
| Professor Elizabeth Waters | McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health | Global | Child public health, Public health evidence and equity, Population level interventions and evaluations, Obesity, Oral health, Injury prevention and mental health. |
| Gillian Webb | Physical Disability | Sub continent and Asia Pacific | Health professional education, health promotion, rehabilitation; Physical Disability |
| Dr Andrea Whittaker | Asia Institute, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society | Thailand, East Timor, SE Asia | Medical Anthropology of health, Reproductive health, RTIs/STIs HIV, unplanned pregnancy, infertility and medically assisted reproductive technologies; medical anthropology |
| Dr Helen Cahill | Youth Research Centre, Senior Lecturer in Student Wellbeing | Australia, Hong Kong, Viet Nam | National and international drug education and mental health promtion, HIV Prevention, Adolescent Health, Health promotion research |