2021
Graduate Research degree conferrals
Successfully examined theses by our graduate research students in 2021.
| Graduate | Thesis Title | Principal Supervisor |
| Kirthi Menon, PhD | Low-cost interventions for prevention of metabolic diseases | Prof Danny Liew |
| Ruth Magaye, PhD | Sphingolipids in cardiac remodelling: Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets | A/Prof Bing Wang |
| Anthony Pease, PhD | Towards optimal utilisation of technology in type 1 diabetes mellitus from a clinical and Australian health economic perspective | Prof Sophia Zoungas |
| Sharmayne Brady, PhD | Low back pain: Novel risk factors and treatments | Prof Flavia Cicuttini |
| Simon Turner, PhD | Examination of statistical methods to analyse interrupted time series studies in public health | A/Prof Joanne McKenzie |
| Feby Savira, PhD | Cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and the "Cardiorenal Syndrome": Epidemiological modelling and emerging therapeutic targets | A/Prof Bing Wang |
| Yonatan Mesfin, PhD | Syndromic vaccine safety surveillance: An alternative approach for vaccine safety signal detection | Prof Jim Buttery |
| Elizabeth Potter, PhD | Targeted echocardiographic screening for subclinical left ventricular dysfunction to prevent incident heart failure | Prof Thomas Marwick |
| Rebecca Goldstein, PhD | Obesity, gestational weight gain and healthy lifestyle in pregnancy | Prof Helena Teede |
| Stelliana Goutzamanis, PhD | The impact of curative hepatitis C treatment on the health and wellbeing of people who inject drugs | Prof Margaret Hellard |
| Alison Markwick, PhD | Determinants of the gap in health and wellbeing between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults who live in the Australian state of Victoria – The contribution of the social determinants of health | Prof John McNeil |
| Reena Sarkar, PhD | Orofacial injuries in family violence homicide in Victoria – An epidemiologic and forensic approach | Prof Joan Ozanne-Smith |
| Catherine Bailey, PhD | Cost-effectiveness studies for the improvement of intergenerational health and wellbeing | Prof Helen Skouteris |
| Jillian Chau T Tay, PhD | Improving health outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome | Dr Anju Joham |
| Danielle Berkovic, PhD | A mixed-methods study examining the work and financial burden borne by working-age adults with arthritis | Prof Ilana Ackerman |
| Rebecca Blackmore, PhD | Perinatal mental health in women of refugee background | Dr Melanie Gibson-Helm |
| Alexandra Chung, PhD | Informing a policy response to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity among Australian children | Prof Anna Peeters |
| Michael Di Donato, PhD | Best practice care in compensated Australian workers with low back pain | Prof Alex Collie |
| Susan Paudel, PhD | Physical activity participation and chronic diseases among Nepalese adults | Prof Ben Smith |
| Shamil Cooray, PhD | Prediction modelling for risk-stratified care in gestational diabetes mellitus | Prof Helena Teede |
| Oyunchimeg Buyadaa, PhD | Diabetic chronic kidney disease: Using diverse data to understand the gaps in knowledge | Prof Dianna Magliano |
| Win Wah, PhD | Developing innovative statistical models to predict cancer incident cases and outcomes at the small-area level | A/Prof Arul Earnest |
| Kim Jachno, PhD | Analysis of treatment effects and event rates that change over time in clinical trials | Prof Rory Wolfe |
| Kelsey Grantham, PhD | Statistical methods for the design and analysis of longitudinal cluster randomized trials | Prof Andrew Forbes |
| Fumitaka Yanase, PhD | An assessment of possible interventions to optimise haemodynamics in patients receiving major surgery | - |
| Sajal Saha, PhD | Optimising antimicrobial use in primary care utilising collaboration between general practitioners and pharmacists | Prof Danielle Mazza |
| Rongbin Xu, PhD | Outdoor environmental factors and human epigenetic modifications | Prof Yuming Guo |
| Veronique Roussy, DPH | The community health sector in Victoria, Australia: An evolving model of primary health care | A/Prof Charles Livingstone |