I want to use biostatistics and public health to help prevent and alleviate suffering for the sickest, poorest, and most vulnerable people. I have an MBBS(Hons), MBiostat, and MPhil in Epi, and I am doing my PhD in Mental Health Services for Socially Disadvantaged People.
I have over 8 years of experience in biostatistics/public health in government and university settings.
I also have 4 years of experience as a medical doctor in clinical psychiatry, treating patients with mental illness. My main field of research is social psychiatry.
My research has also included the areas of poverty, crime, social disadvantage, prenatal drug abuse, prematurity, children with disabilities, mental health, out-of-home care, addiction, Aboriginal Health, communicable diseases, cancer, heart disease, smoking cessation, breastfeeding, health and well-being, health education and aged care.
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (WHO Collaborating Research Centre), UNSW
January 2020
to December 2020
Sydney
Investigating the role of Social Disadvantage in Criminal Trajectories of those using Drugs as the index offence.
Evaluation of an Aboriginal Cultural Competency Program for non-Aboriginal Drug Rehabs
Supervising an Aboriginal PhD Student in research for a Continuous Quality Improvement of Aboriginal Residential Drug Rehabs
RCT Evaluating Health Education Videos for Breastfeeding delivered by "Mentor Mothers" for Poor Mothers in South Africa. In collaboration with Stanford University and Heidelberg University