THE NOSSAL INSTITUTE
   FOR GLOBAL HEALTH

Current and Past Research Higher Degree Students with supervision by Nossal Institute staff

Somen Saha (PhD) - 2012
Supervisors: Professor Graham Brown, Dr Peter Annear, Dr Shakil Ahmed
Impact of credit with health access on health status of micro-finance clients in Gujurat and Karnataka, India

Naomi Francis (PhD) - 2012 
Supervisors:  A/Prof Jim Black, Dr Martha Morrow
Community-Led Total Sanitation in East Timor

Kylie Horne (PhD) - 2012
Supervisors: Professor Graham Brown, Professor Stephen Rogerson
HLA-G and Malaria in pregnancy

Indrajit Hazarika (PhD) - 2012
Supervisors: Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Professor Peter Brooks, Professor Graham Brown
Health workforce planning

Andrew Teo (PhD) - 2012
Supervisors: Prof Stephen Rogerson, Prof Graham Brown
Immunity to malaria in pregnancy at times of decreasing transmission

Eddy Karta (PhD) - 2011
Supervisors: Prof Peter Morley, Dr Louisa Remedios; A/Prof Jim Black
Improving the internship experience for Indonesian medical graduates

Geoffrey Quail (PhD) - 2011
Supervisors: Professor Graham Brown, Professor Joy Damousi
The contribution of the Australian military to the science and practice of tropical medicine, with special reference to malaria and preparedness for war.
Alison Morgan (PhD) - 2011
Supervisors: Peter Annear, Michelle Kermode and Eliana Jiminez (UQ)
Better measures for improved maternal health outcomes.

Shamista Selvarajah PhD - 2011 
Supervisors: Dr Michael Duffy, Dr Michaela Petter (Department of Medicine RMH); Professor Graham Brown
Characterisation of novel epigenetic pathways in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Gabrielle Josling (PhD) - 2011
Supervisors: Dr Michael Duffy, Dr Michaela Petter, Prof Graham Brown
Identifying important regulators of transcription in Plasmodium falciparum

Elke Mitchell (PhD) - 2010
Supervisors: Dr Linda Bennett, Nossal Institute; Dr Larissa Sandy, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (La Trobe University). “Understanding sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV risk among female university students in Suva, Fiji”

Stephanie Topp (PhD) - 2010
Supervisors: A/Prof Jim Black, Dr Martha Morrow
 Mechanisms of Effect: How and why HIV treatment services have affected Zambian Primary Healthcare Clinics

Jon Darby (PhD) - 2010
Supervisors: A/Prof Jim Black, A/Prof Kirsty Buising
Improving the clinical and public health management of tuberculosis in Australia

Forbes McGain (DMedSc) - 2010
Supervisors:  A/Prof Grant Blashki, A/Prof Jim Black
Reducing the environmental impact of hospitals and increasing sustainability

Justin Denholm PhD - 2010
Supervisors: A/Prof Emma McBryde, Prof Graham Brown
Latent tuberculosis infection in Australia: Can we achieve the MDG?

Keovathanak Khim - 2009
Supervisors Dr Peter Annear, Dr Eliana Jiminez, University of Queensland and Professor Graham Brown, Nossal Institute. "Determinants of sustainability of financing health services through CBH1 in rural Cambodia"

Amy Gray - 2009
Principal supervision at Department of Paediatrics. "Evaluation of incorporation of WHO guidelines into postgraduate medical curriculum and its impact on quality of care"

Abuchahama Saifodine (PhD) - Completed
Supervisor: A/Prof Jim Black
The epidemiology of tuberculosis in Mozambique

Sant Rayn Pasricha (PhD) - Completed
Supervisors: A/Prof Jim Black; A/Prof Bev Biggs; Prof Rob Moodie; Dr Arun Shet
Controlling anaemia and under-nutrition amongst tribal children living in rural Karnataka, India

Angelina Tabuteau-Moore (PhD) - 2008
Supervisors: Dr Catherine Bennett; Stephanie Brown; Prof Nick Crofts
Talking about Aboriginal pregnancy and postnatal care" Aboriginal women?s experience of antenatal and postnatal care in Victoria, Australia

Melissa Jardine (MPhil) - 2008
Supervisors: Dr Martha Morrow, Professor Nick Crofts
The Impact of Harm Reduction on Law Enforcement: What works and what doesn't? Vietnam
 
Lin Lin Chua  (PhD) - 2008 
Supervisors: Dr Philippe Boeuf, Stephen Rogerson, John Hamilton, Professor Graham Brown
Monocytes and macrophages in malaria infection: phenotype and functional analysis

Tom Connell (PhD)
 - Completed
Principal supervision at Department of Paediatrics. "Novel immunodiagnostic techniques for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis"

David Williams (PhD) - Completed
Principal supervision at Department of Pharmacology. "Managing snakebite in Papua New Guinea"

Sudirman Nasir (PhD) - Completed
Principal supervision at Key Centre for Women?s Health in Society (University of Melbourne); Dr Timothy Moore
Drug Use among Young People in a Slum Area (Lorong) in Makassar, Indonesia

Irani Ratnam (PhD) -
Principal supervision in Dept of Medicine; A/Prof Jim Black
The rates (and risk factors) of acquisition of viral infections in travellers from Australia to South and South-East Asia

Jonathan Richards (PhD) - Completed
Supervisors: A/Prof James Beeson, Professor Graham Brown
The role of antibodies to merozoite antigens in protection from symptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection

Leon Worth (PhD) - Completed
Principal supervision in Dept of Medicine; Prof Graham Brown; A/Prof Jim Black
The prospects and requirements for a system of on-going surveillance of intravenous-catheter-related bloodstream infections in people with hematological malignancies

Nick Thomson (PhD) - Completed
Principal supervision: Preventive Medicine, Monash University; Prof Nick Crofts, University of Melbourne HIV
Risks associated with amphetamine use in Thailand and Laos

Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda (PhD) - Completed
Supervisors: Dr Martha Morrow; Dr Michelle Kermode; Mrs Zibusisiwe Jokomo-Nyati Adherence and factors influencing adherence to anti-retroviral therapy among people living with HIV in rural Zimbabwe: implications for health policy and practice

Ana Hutchinson (PhD) - Completed
Principal supervision in Dept of Pharmacology; A/Prof Jim Black
The causes and consequences of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Li Lin (PhD) - Completed
Supervisors: Dr Martha Morrow; Dr Michelle Kermode
Vulnerable but feeling safe: HIV risk among male rural-to-urban migrant workers in Chengdu, China

Mubeen Syed Muhammed (MPH by research) - Completed
Supervisors: Dr Martha Morrow; Dr Simon Barraclough
Smoking among future doctors:  A tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes and practices study in Karachi, Pakistan

Naing Naing (DrPH) - Completed
Supervisors: Dr Martha Morrow; Ms Jenni Livingston
Using Theory-Based Behaviour Change Communication for HIV Prevention among Burmese Fishermen in Thailand:  an Evaluation Study

Helen Cox (PhD) - Completed
Supervisors: Dr Martha Morrow; A/Prof Peter Deutschmann
Tuberculosis treatment and control in Uzbekistan: DOTS and drug resistance

 

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