Dr Simone Spark

BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD
Senior Clinical Trials Manager, Monash University

Simone has been managing clinical trials for over ten years. Before that she has worked in the public health space as a molecular biologist specialising in outbreak investigations of food borne and hospital pathogens. Simone completed her MPH and PhD from Melbourne University and has a passion for disease prevention (both communicable and non-communicable). Her PhD involved the design of a plant based vaccine for a vaccine preventable disease in humans and animals. Her MPH specialised in epidemiology and statistical analysis.

Simone has worked in all aspects of clinical trials including design, initial trial set-up (document preparation, ethics, database development), recruitment and close-out. The trials have been large multi-centre trials across Australia and within General Practices.