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 | Ashraful (Neeloy) Alam Neeloy is a health social scientist with expertise in integrating qualitative studies within randomised trials to improve their design, conduct and interpretation. He applies qualitative approaches to implementation science research to design and conduct complex health and nutrition interventions, and to evaluate how, why and for whom the intervention work. His current projects include implementation research in maternal, child and adolescent nutrition in South/Southeast Asia and Africa, i.e. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Lao PRD, Vietnam and Malawi. Neeloy has developed expertise in nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social safety net interventions. His research area also includes the impact of household air pollution on foetal growth and perinatal outcomes. His research on neonatal skincare translated into policy and practice on newborn care in Bangladesh, Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa. He engages in postgraduate teaching of qualitative and health social science methods, medical anthropology, development anthropology, and public health project management. He is the deputy leader of the Global Health and Nutrition Research Collaboration at the Sydney School of Public Health. Profile |
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 | Nadia Badawi Nadia is an internationally recognised expert in cerebral palsy (CP) and childhood disability, as well as the Medical Director and Co-Head of the Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care. She was appointed as the world’s first Chair of CP at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute. She was named as one of the “100 most influential women in Australia” for her contribution to international CP research, and develop research capacity in low and middle-income countries. Nadia has dedicated her life to provide high quality clinical care for critically ill children and to establishing a rights-based inclusive society for children with disability in both high and low income settings. In response to a chronic lack of CP research support for investigators all over the world, Nadia took a leading role in establishing the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation (CPARF), the largest funder of CP research globally to date, and supporting researchers from all over the world. In the last 10 years Nadia and her team have supported over 250 projects, over 50 early and mid-career researchers by dedicating over $30 million AUD to global CP research. A significant proportion of this funding was directed to researchers from low and middle income countries including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The discoveries made for CP are expected to have a transformational impact and advance our understanding of causal pathways, prevention, early diagnosis and intervention for children with CP. In 2015 Nadia helped to establish the International Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation in the USA and has been a Co-Chair of 7 International Cerebral Palsy Prevention and Cure Summits. Her expertise includes $23 million grants, 92 keynotes and 167 peer-reviewed journal articles. Profile |
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 | Louise Baur Louise is Professor and Head of the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney. She is Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH CRE) at the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney. Her work includes a focus on the prevention of obesity in childhood and adolescence; double burden of malnutrition in Indonesia; health systems and obesity in low and middle income countries (a new and growing area of interest); food marketing and obesity; and the NHMRC CRE in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood. Profile |
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 | Sarah Bernays Sarah is a lecturer in International Public Health at the University of Sydney. She was academic staff at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2005-2017, where she was the Adolescent theme lead for the Maternal Adolescent Reproductive Child Health Centre. She leads an international social science research programme focused on adolescent health, with a primary focus on sexual health and infectious disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of this research focuses on integrating social science and implementation science into large clinical trials, involving children and adults, to understand the impact of treatment adherence interventions and to maximise their efficacy and acceptability once rolled out beyond trial settings. Since coming to Sydney she is continuing her research in Africa and has begun also conducing collaborative research in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand on infectious diseases affecting young people. Profile |
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 | Kirsten Black Kirsten is Professor in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology at the University of Sydney. She is dedicated to capacity building in sexual and reproductive health and collaborates with colleagues to deliver clinical and public health training in the Asia Pacific region. Her research focuses on key areas of reproductive health including contraception, preconception health and antenatal care. Kirsten is involved in interdisciplinary collaborations that examine reproductive health issues facing women and adolescents in the Pacific. She leads a Maternal and Child Health research group that meets regularly with PhD students engaged in regional projects in maternal and reproductive health. Profile |
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 | Elizabeth Elliott Elizabeth is Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Throughout her career she has been dedicated to improving health and quality of life for children in Australia and beyond, through education, research, clinical care and advocacy. During 30 years she has established an international reputation for high quality laboratory, clinical and public health research and holds a prestigious senior National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship and is the Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) for the study of chronic, complex and rare diseases frequently associated with disability. APSU has been used by >400 clinicians and researchers throughout Australia and has been funded by the NHMRC, the Australian Research Council and the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA). She established and co-leads the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) system for inpatient disease surveillance, which was invaluable in monitoring pandemic influenza in 2009 pandemic. This project was named one of the ’10 of the Best’ of thousands of NHMRC funded projects for 2013. A major research theme is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – the neurodevelopmental disability that results from prenatal alcohol exposure, including its epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention. She has current research and education projects relating to chronic disease and disability in Vietnam. Profile |
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 | Tanvir Huda Dr Tanvir Huda is an epidemiologist and global public health researcher. He is currently an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. He has a PhD degree in Global Health, an MSPH degree in Epidemiology, an MSc in Health Economics, an MBA in Finance and an MBBS. Before joining the University of Sydney, he worked for over 12 years at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease, Research, Bangladesh, an internationally renowned research organization. Dr Huda has extensive experience in independent research in maternal and child health & nutrition. He has conducted several large community based randomized control trials and clinical trials on micronutrient deficiencies in women & children & their effects on health. He co-led a large RCT in Bangladesh with 36,000 participants that looked at the impact of initiating iron folic-acid supplements early in pregnancy and sustained throughout pregnancy on reducing neonatal mortality. He was also the lead investigator of a large clinical trial in Bangladesh that examined whether Lactoferrin can effectively reduce iron deficiency anaemia in women. Since 2016, he has received over AUD 6.8 million in funding. He has been awarded three NHMRC grants, two as CIC and one as AI. He has also received two highly competitive grants from the Gates Grand Challenge Exploration Award and the MRC Joint Global Health Trials scheme, both as first named lead investigator. He has led several others research projects in Bangladesh and Malawi funded by USAID, DFID, Rockefeller Foundation, WHO, & UNICEF. He has authored quality publications in high impact peer-reviewed journals, including Lancet, NEJM, Plos Medicine. Overall, he has over 100 publications including 60 journal articles in reputed Journals. His papers have been cited 2247 times. Profile |
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 | Mu Li Mu is Professor of International Public Health and Director of Master of the International Public Health program at Sydney School of Public Health. Her major research interests are maternal and child nutrition, micronutrient deficiency disorders and public health program evaluation. Recent projects include a collaboration between Fudan University, China and the University of Sydney in healthy infant feeding promotion project, a mobile health (mHealth) project, in China, published in the Lancet Global Health. Currently, she leads the human nutrition component of a multi-disciplinary research project improving maternal and child food and nutrition security in Tanzania and Zambia. Profile |
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 | Ben Marais Ben works in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He is Deputy Director of the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and helps to lead the Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis at the University of Sydney. His research has focussed primarily on how children are affected by the global tuberculosis epidemic and the spread of drug resistant M. tuberculosis strains. Profile |
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 | Joel Negin Professor Joel Negin, PhD, is Head of School at Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. Joel has been at the School for 10 years during which time he has conducted research and capacity building activities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Solomon Islands and Fiji. His current research focuses on health system development, infectious disease and the social determinants of health. Before moving to Australia, he was awarded degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and then worked for six years in sub-Saharan Africa on various health and development programs. Profile |
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 | Amanda Sayan Amanda is the Director of Partnerships in the Office of Global Engagement at the University of Sydney. She has worked in international education for 15 years and is responsible for managing the implementation of the University’s international partnership strategy. A key objective of her role is to help the University build and monitor alliances with leading universities around the world, bringing together researchers to work on collaborative projects and creating innovative education opportunities. She presented to the Association of International Education Administrators conference at Washington in February 2018 on strategies to defend international cooperation in turbulent times. Amanda is an active member of the University’s India Advisory Group and has been responsible for leading the University’s engagement with prominent institutions in India. She holds a Master’s in Comparative Religious Studies from the University of Sydney. |
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 | Phoebe Williams Phoebe is a Consultant Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and NHMRC Fellow whose research focus is on neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance, particularly in resource-constrained settings. After completing her Masters and PhD through The University of Oxford, based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Institute in rural Kenya, she returned to Australia where she is working to establish collaborations across South East Asia and the Pacific. Phoebe also works in the policy team at the National Centre for Immunisation and Research Surveillance at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Profile |
