Team
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Prof Gavin Pereira and Assoc Prof Gizachew Tessema
Co-Heads of Epidemiology Research Lab
Ms Teya Duggleby (Coordinator)
Dr Kingsley Wong (Senior Research Fellow) Machine Learning
Dr Emmanuel Adewuyi (Senior Research Fellow) Genomics
Dr Sylvester Nyadanu (Senior Research Fellow) Environmental Health
Dr Amanuel Gebremedhin (Senior Research Fellow ECU) Reproductive Complications
Dr Annette Regan (Adj Associate Professor Kaiser Permanente) Infectious disease
Dr Bereket Adema (Senior Research Fellow Torrens University) Substance Use
Meet the higher degree research students
| Name | Role | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Bereket Kefale | PhD Candidate | Under-five mortality in the era of sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries: burden and trends |
| Tsegaye Haile | PhD Candidate | Economic Burden of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes from Births to Age Five Years in Australia |
| Melaku Birhanu Alemu | PhD Candidate | Stated preference research on reproductive and sexual health services for adolescents and young people: A discrete choice experiment |
| Kendalem Asmare | PhD Candidate | Investigating trends and risk of prenatal and early life exposures on child development in Australia |
| Getaneh Baye Mulu | PhD Candidate | Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in the Northern Territory: Evidence Synthesis, Risk Prediction, and Policy Recommendations |
| Daniel Gashaneh Belay | PhD Candidate | TBA |
| Nandin-Erdene Bayart | PhD Candidate | Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular disease in Mongolia |
| Almaw Genet Yeshiwas | PhD Candidate | Wellbeing of children vulnerable to health disparities in Western Australia |
| Tomas Yeheyis Ferede | PhD Candidate | TBA |
| Anna-Lisa Baker | PhD Candidate | Integrative evidence on the effects of ambient temperature and air pollution on adverse perinatal outcomes |
| Nicole Catalano | PhD Candidate | The influence of maternal lifestyle practices throughout pregnancy on pregnancy, birth and neonatal outcomes |
| Barbara Zileni | PhD Candidate | Effectiveness Midwife Led Continuity of Care (MLCC) Caseload Model: An Interventional Sequential Mixed Methods Study at Mchinji District Hospital, Malawi |
| Maha Shaya M Alshahrani | PhD Candidate | Improving Vaginal Birth after Caesarean Prediction Models Using Machine Learning Techniques |
| Tongyang (Eric) Wu | PhD Candidate | Long-term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants and the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Elevated White Blood Cell Count among Adults in Liangshan, China |
| Wei Shan (Cassandra) Chong | PhD Candidate | Allergens, phenolic composition, and anti-microbial properties of Australian wattle seed species |
| Julian Harrison | MPhil Candidate | Untangling the association between dementia and dementia: timing, population attributable fractions and risk modelling |
Consumer and community representatives
- The lab acknowledges the valuable contributions from the following consumer and community representatives: Catherine Hughes, Hayley Hawkins, Katarina Barjaktarevic, Zoe Malski, Shirouz Elango
Funders of the lab
- Lab members are supported with funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Health Effects Institute USA, Commonwealth of Australia - Australia Award, Australian Research Council, Raine Medical Research Foundation, Commonwealth of Australia - Research Training Program, Medical Research Future Fund.
Affiliations of lab leaders
Gavin Pereira 1,2,3,4,5 ORCID Gizachew Tessema 1,3,5,6 ORCID
- Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment, Perth, Australia.
- enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia.
- Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia
- School of Population Health, College of Health, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia