2022
Graduate Research degree conferrals
Successfully examined theses by our graduate research students in 2022.
| Graduate | Thesis Title | Principal Supervisor |
| Penelope Hill, PhD | Characterising opioid overdose and mortality in cohorts of people who use drugs | Prof Paul Dietze |
| Dashiell Gantner, PhD | Translation of Australian research into practice in severe traumatic brain injury | Prof Jamie Cooper |
| Asmare Gelaw, PhD | Chronic physical health conditions following serious orthopaedic injury | Dr Christina Ekegren |
| Emily Gilbert, PhD | Evidence to improve the management of reproductive health issues among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women | A/Prof Jacqueline Boyle |
| Sarah Carmody, PhD | Determining the conditions necessary for health promotion project sustainability across different project locations, settings and populations | A/Prof Ben Smith |
| Hansoo Kim, PhD | Health economic modelling of oncology therapies | Prof Danny Liew |
| Peter Lee, PhD | An economic evaluation of quality improvements in cardiac care | Prof Danny Liew |
| Catriona Parker, PhD | The personal and financial burden of acute myeloid leukaemia | Prof Danny Liew |
| Jason Watterson, PhD | Reducing alcohol-related harm in Royal Australian Navy trainees | Prof Belinda Gabbe |
| Naomi Komadina, DPH | Understanding the likely population impact of new and improved influenza vaccines | Prof Karin Leder |
| Ashleigh Stewart, PhD | Mental illness and mental health service contact among men leaving prison who have histories of injecting drug use in Victoria, Australia | Prof Mark Stoové |
| Joy Lee, PhD | Factors contributing to difficult asthma | Prof Mark Hew |
| Natasha Lakaev, PhD | Refinement and development of the Lakaev Academic Stress Response Scale-2 (LASRS-2) for research, clinical and educational settings using Rasch analysis | Dr Chris Barton |
| Brian Haskins, PhD | The importance of bystander participation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Victoria, Australia | Prof Karen Smith |
| Pallavi Prathivadi, PhD | The opioid prescribing knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Australian general practitioners | Prof Danielle Mazza |
| Nicholas Dempsey, PhD | The analysis of skeletal trauma in medicolegal contexts: Issues, novel approaches, and future directions | Prof Soren Blau |
| Emma Galvin, PhD | Generating and implementing knowledge of a trauma-informed model into practice, in a large community service, residential out-of-home care setting | Prof Helen Skouteris |
| Peter Chan, PhD | Non-contact patient monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit using infrared thermography | A/Prof Ingrid Hopper |
| Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo, PhD | Health-related quality of life in later life: Predictors, trajectories, and health outcomes | Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli |
| Louisa Chou, PhD | Improving outcomes in musculoskeletal conditions | Prof Flavia Cicuttini |
| Jemma Keeves, PhD | The tyranny of distance: Geographic variation in access to health care and service utilisation for people with serious injury | Prof Belinda Gabbe |
| Prasanna Venkataraman, PhD | Assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis to improve primary prevention in familial coronary artery disease | Prof Thomas Marwick |
| Bridget Draper, PhD | Strengthening hepatitis C testing and treatment in resource-constrained settings: Implementation and health service delivery research | Prof Margaret Hellard |
| Clara Marquina Hernandez, PhD | Optimisation of cardiovascular care In Australia: A health economics perspective | Prof Zanfina Ademi |
| Ashwini Kannan, PhD | The prognostic significance of hormone-naïve prostatic adenocarcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation: A histopathological and epidemiological re-evaluation | Prof Sue Evans |
| Phuong Hua, PhD | The relationship between childhood exposure to external cause parental death, including suicide, and subsequent suicidal behaviour in adulthood | A/Prof Lyndal Bugeja |
| Kushan Kumara De Silva Ranakombu, PhD | Data-driven research for personalizing diabetes care: Towards precision diabetes medicine | Dr Joanne Enticott |
| Daniel Epstein, PhD | Game design and behaviour change using Vaxcards: A collectable card game to increase vaccine confidence | Dr Chris Barton |
| Lauren Pearson, PhD | The potential of bike riding: Using mixed methods to measure interest, and identify barriers and enablers | A/Prof Ben Beck |
| Desmond Gul, PhD | Optimising malaria surveillance in Papua New Guinea by understanding spatial variability of key indicators | Prof Leanne Robinson |
| Alexandra Mullins, PhD | My Health Record In the Emergency Department: An investigation of use and utility | Prof Helen Skouteris |
| Jedidiah Morton, PhD | Understanding the natural history, burden, and trends of major diabetes-related complications In Australia | Prof Dianna Magliano |
| Eve Denton, PhD | Difficult-to-treat asthma: Improving assessment and outcomes in the era of personalised medicine | Prof Mark Hew |
| Mabel Yan, PhD | Optimising preventive strategies for melanoma | A/Prof Victoria Mar |
| Marta Woolford, PhD | Investigating causes and prevention of deaths from unexplained absences among nursing home residents – incorporating principles of public health and Dignity of Risk | Prof Joseph Ibrahim |