2020
Graduate Research degree conferrals
Successfully examined theses by our graduate research students in 2020.
| Graduate | Degree | Specialisation | Thesis Title | Principal Supervisor |
| Suzanne Willey | PhD | Nursing – Midwifery | Implementing perinatal mental health screening for women of refugee background: an evaluation | Jacqueline Boyle |
| Tafireyi Marukutira | PhD | Epidemiology | Beyond the fast-track targets: Gaps and opportunities for HIV epidemic control – focus on migration and HIV | Margaret Hellard |
| Christopher Brzozek | PhD | Epidemiology | Assessment of uncertainties in radiofrequency electromagnetic energy exposure assessment | Geza Benke |
| Rebecca Morris | PhD | Health Promotion | A program evaluation of a falls prevention program for older adults | Ilana Ackerman |
| Afsana Afroz | PhD | Epidemiology | Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Bangladesh: cost-of-illness and complications assessment | Baki Billah |
| Angela Davis | PhD | Public Health | Online pornography and young people's sexual health: evidence-informed and needs-based public health approaches in the Australian context | Megan Lim |
| Amanda Johnson | PhD | Epidemiology | Associations between coal mine fire smoke and public health | Yuming Guo |
| Yayehirad Melsew | PhD | Epidemiology | Heterogeneity in tuberculosis infectiousness: Understanding its impact on epidemiology and control | James Trauer |
| Mohammed Alramadan | PhD | Medicine | Glycaemic control, complications, and well-being among people with type 2 diabetes in Saudi Arabia | Baki Billah |
| Claire Tipping | PhD | Public Health | Optimising the effect of early mobilisation and rehabilitation in critically ill patients | Carol Hodgson |
| Claire Blewitt | PhD | Psychology | A pedagogical intervention to support social and emotional development and health in early childhood: an intervention mapping approach | Helen Skouteris |
| Alisa Higgins | PhD | Economics | An economic evaluation of resuscitation in sepsis | Jamie Cooper |
| Sara De Menezes | MPhil | Medicine | Population trends in biopsy techniques used to diagnose melanoma: impacts on microstaging and management | Victoria Mar |
| Eleanor Thong | PhD | Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences | Optimising bone and reproductive health in individuals with type 1 diabetes | Helena Teede |
| Jessica Lockery | PhD | Public Health | Innovative data solutions to support community-based prescription medication research | John McNeil |
| Matthew Brain | PhD | Internal Medicine | Optimising filter life in intensive care continuous renal replacement therapy | John McNeil |
| Rosamond Dwyer | PhD | Public Health | Emergency and prehospital care for older people living in residential aged care homes | Belinda Gabbe |
| Karin Stanzel | PhD | Public Health | Health literacy and health care needs in midlife among women who have migrated from low- and middle-income countries to Australia | Jane Fisher |
| Stephanie Pirotta | PhD | Nutrition and Dietetics | Informing the development of a lifestyle program for women with polycystic ovary syndrome | Siew Lim |
| Satish Ramkumar | PhD | Medicine | Facilitation of Atrial Fibrillation screening by risk assessment using clinical, echocardiographic and strain variables | Thomas Marwick |
| Frances Ampt | PhD | Epidemiology | Prevention of unintended pregnancy among female sex workers in low- and middle-income countries | Stanley Luchters |
| Ashika Maharaj | PhD | Public Health | Quantifying quality of care for patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer | Susan Evans |
| Sinjini Biswas | PhD | Medicine | The role of clinical registries in optimising outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention | Dion Stub |
| Peter Fransquet | PhD | Biomedical Science | Epigenetic biomarkers in pre-symptomatic and diagnosed dementia | Joanne Ryan |
| Adelle Gadowski | PhD | Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences | Relationships between physical activity, diet and use of lipid-lowering drug therapy in cardiovascular disease | Alice Owen |
| Angela Melder | PhD | Health | Institutional entrepreneurship, innovation, implementation and scale-up for healthcare improvement – Transforming the health care system | Helena Teede |