Team
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| Name | Role | Topic |
|---|---|---|
Prof Gavin Pereira  |
co-Head of Lab | Epidemiology. Website… |
Assoc Prof Gizachew Tessema  |
co-Head of Lab | Reproductive health |
Dr Kingsley Wong  |
Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate | Prediction of perintal mortality and morbidity with machine learning |
Dr Emmanuel Adewuyi  |
Research Fellow | Genomics and neurological morbidity |
Dr Sylvester Nyadanu  |
Research Associate | Air pollution, temperature extremes and health |
Dr Amanuel Gebremedhin  |
Project Lead (Edith Cowan University) | Pregnancy complications |
Dr Annette Regan  |
Project Lead (Kaiser Permanente) | Infectious disease |
Dr Bereket Adema  |
Research Fellow (Torrens University) | Prenatal substance use, offspring addiction and mental health |
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 | xxx |
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 |
| Teya Duggleby | Project Coordinator | Coordinates projects for the Epidemiology Research Lab |
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