Team and Alumni
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| Name | Role | Topic |
|---|---|---|
Prof Gavin Pereira  |
co-Head of Lab | Epidemiology. Website… |
Dr Gizachew Tessema  |
co-Head of Lab | Reproductive health |
Dr Annette Regan  |
Project Lead (USFCA) | Infectious disease and vaccination |
| Dr Michael (Luke) Marinovich |
Project Lead | Health service technology |
Dr Amanuel Gebremedhin  |
Project Lead | Pregnancy complications |
Sylvester Nyadanu  |
Research Associate | Air pollution, temperature extremes and health |
Jennifer Dunne  |
Research Associate | Application of simulation in perinatal epidemiology |
Dr Bereket Adema  |
Research Fellow (UniSA) | Prenatal substance use, offspring addiction and mental health |
Dr Damien Foo  |
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Yale, USA) | Vaccination and child health |
Kalayu Mruts  |
PhD Candidate | Family planning in Ethiopia |
Lydia Kaforau  |
PhD Candidate | Perinatal mortality and morbidity in the Pacific Islands |
Dr Kingsley Wong  |
PhD Candidate | Prediction of perintal mortality and morbidity with machine learning |
Dr Ravisha Srinivasjois  |
PhD Candidate, Neonatologist and Paediatrician | Probiotics to reduce morbidity among preterm infants |
Tsegaye Haile  |
PhD Candidate | Incidence and costs associated with of adverse perinatal outcomes in Australia |
Kendalem Asmare  |
PhD Candidate | Investigating trends and risk of prenatal and early life exposures on child development in Australia |
Bereket Kefale  |
PhD Candidate | Under-five mortality in the era of sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries: burden and trends |
Melaku Birhanu Alemu  |
PhD Candidate | Stated preference research on reproductive and sexual health services for adolescents and young people: A discrete choice experiment |
Bir Doj Rai  |
PhD Candidate | Epidemiology of zoonotic diseases events and their spatio-temporal trends in Bhutan |
| TBA | PhD Candidate | Perinatal and pediatric health outcomes following exposure to influenza and other respiratory viruses in utero |
Scott Sims *  |
PhD Candidate | Alcohol-related harm in children and young adults |
| Marwan Ahmed * | PhD Candidate | Epidemiology of gestational diabetes in Western Australia |
| Barbara Zileni * | PhD Candidate | Continuity of antenatal care in Malawi |
| Wei Shan (Cassandra) Chong * | PhD Candidate | Allergens, phenolic composition, and anti-microbial properties of Australian wattle seed species |
* Higher degree student research led by an academic external to the lab
Funders of the lab
- GP is supported with funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council Project and Investigator Grants #1099655 and #1173991, institutional funding for the WA Health and Artificial Intelligence Consortium, the Health Effects Institute USA, and the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme #262700.
- GAT is supported with funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant #1195716.
- AKR and MS are supported with funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, project grant #1141510.
- MLM is supported with funding from the the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the WA Health Translation Network.
- LK is supported with funding from an Australia Award, Commonwealth of Australia
- DF was supported with funding from the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines & Infectious Diseases at the Telethon Kids Institute and is currently supported by Yale University and grants obtained by Prof Michelle Bell
- GD was supported with funding from Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence
- BA was supported with funding from the Raine Medical Research Foundation and is currently supported by the Australian Centre for Precision Health
- RS is supported by Ramsay Health as Head of Neonatology.
- All other students are supported by full scholarships from the Commonwealth of Australia Research Training Program.
Affiliations of research leaders
Gavin Pereira 1,2,3 Gizachew Tessema 1,2,4
- Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, WA, Australia
- enAble Institute, Curtin University, WA, Australia
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Impact Assessment. Faculty of Health Science, Curtin University, WA, Australia
- School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia