About us
We are a multi-disciplinary group with expertise in biostatistics, epidemiology, health promotion, medicine, nursing, and psychology.
Through our Global Health research, we seek to promote health for all and to reduce health inequalities. In our Women’s Health research, we aim to understand the effects of gender on health and to reduce the health inequalities experienced by women and girls. We encourage and participate in research with other countries and with non-university groups and organisations. With our partners and collaborators we develop ways of using the results of research to inform policy and practice. Our research methods include those that encompass whole populations and those designed to understand the perspectives and experiences of individual people.
We collaborate with partners in universities, research institutes, government, the private sector, civil society, health services, and health professionals in Australia and globally. These partnerships enable our research to be informed by community perspectives, translated to inform policy and practice, and accessible to individuals, their families, and their healthcare providers.
Meet the team
Executive Assistant
Ms Karin Smith BPsychSc, GradCertHRMgt, DipHRMgt, DipBus
Research Project Officer
Ms Hau Nguyen BA(Hons)
Research Assistants
Ms Neve Davison BBiomedSc(Hons)
Mr Karan Varshney MPublicHlth(Analytics), BAAnthropology
Ms Hui (Florence) Yang BBiomed, BMedSc/MD (final year)
Research Affiliates
Dr Josefine Antoniades PhD, BSc(Hons)
Ms Madeleine Belfrage MDevelopment Practice (Advanced), BCreative Industries (Interdisciplinary)
Ms Hemavarni Doma MPublicHlth, BSc(Hons)
Dr Raie Goodwach MBBS, MPS
Dr Sarah Hanieh PhD, MBBS, FRACP
Dr Julie Hennegan PhD, MScEvidence Based Social Intervention, BPsychSci(Hons I)
Mr Tom Hvala BA/LLB (First Class Hons)
Dr Maryam Moradi PhD, MSc(Mid/Edu), BSc(Mid), Dip(SRH)
Dr Salmi Razali PhD, MD, MMed(Psych)
Dr Jonathan Sher Ed.M. & Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ms Ruby Stocker BBiomedSc(Hons)
Ms Pramasari Wijaya BBiomedSc(Hons)
Dr Eunice Wong PhD, MPublicHlth(Safety Promotion), MPsych(Clinical), GradDip(Psych), BSc(Psych)
PhD Students
Main supervisor from Global and Women's Health unit
Ms Natasha Davidson MPublicHlth(Practice), MPublicHlth&TM, GradDip(PopulationHealth), BScN
Ms Faye Forbes BAPsych(Hons)
Dr Harish Kalra FRANCP, DNB, MDPsych, MBBS
Ms Ezra Kneebone BSc, GradDipRepSc
Ms Chethana Mudunna BBMed(Hons), LLB
Ms Sally Popplestone MIPH, GradDip(PR), BSc(Biochemistry)
Mr Rohit Shah MPH(Social Epidemiology), BPT
Ms Medhavi Weerasinghe MIR, BA
Ms Sethini Wickramasinghe BBiomedSc(Hons)
Associate supervisor from Global and Women's Health unit
Ms Yeji Baek MPublicHlth(Nutrition), BScF&Nut
Ms Fiona Hore-Lacey
Ms Margaretha Margaretha
Honours student
Ms Sanjali Ponweeraarachchi BBiomedSc
Contact us
Global and Women's Health
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University
Level 4, 553 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
Phone: +61 3 9903 0291