HDR Graduates
Topic: 'Domestic violence and suicidal behaviour in Sri Lanka' Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page Co-supervisors – Dr Duleeka Knipe (University of Bristol), Dr Lalith Senarathna (Rajarata University), Professor Thilini Rajapakse (University of Peradeniya) |
Topic: 'Optimal care pathways to improve the effectiveness of primary mental health care services and reduce subsequent self-harm incidence in Western Sydney, Australia' Primary Supervisor – Dr Haider Mannan Co-supervisor – Professor Andrew Page |
Topic: 'Epidemiological and Economic Burden of Diabetes-related Foot Disease among Older Adults in New South Wales, Australia' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kathy Tannous Co-Supervisors – Associate Professor Kingsley Agho, Professor David Simmons, Professor Deborah Turner, Dr Frances Henshaw |
Topic: 'An Algorithm for Augmenting Cancer Registry Data for Epidemiological Research Applied to Oesophageal Cancers' Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page Co-Supervisors – Professor Glenn Stone (External), Associate Professor Thomas Astell-Burt (University of Wollongong) |
Topic: 'Modelling trends, determinants and health effects of infant and young child feeding practices in Ethiopia from 2000 to 2016' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kingsley Agho Co-supervisors – Dr Felix Ogbo, Professor Andrew Page, Associate Professor Amit Arora |
Mansi Dhami Topic: 'The Epidemiology of Infants and Young Child Feeding Practices in India' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kingsley Agho Co-supervisor – Dr Felix Ogbo, Dr Thierno Diallo |
Topic: 'Living with Breast Cancer: The Lived Experience and the Role of Social Support Among Women of South Asian Origin in Australia' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kate McBride Co-supervisors – Professor Pranee Liamputtong, Associate Professor Freya Macmillan |
Topic: 'Maternal health service utilization in Ethiopia: A secondary analysis of the Ethiopian Demographic and Health survey' Primary Supervisor – Dr Tinashe Dune Co-supervisor – Professor Janette Perz, Dr Felix Ogbo |
Topic: 'The Experiences of Parenthood Amongst Transgender Parents in Australia' Primary Supervisor – Professor Jane Ussher Co-supervisor – Professor Janette Perz, Professor Kerry Robinson |
Samantha Ryan Topic: 'Investigating women’s subjective experiences of embodiment in the premenstrual phase of the cycle in the context of body dissatisfaction' Primary Supervisor - Professor Jane Ussher Co-supervisors - Professor Janette Perz, Dr Chloe Parton |
Vikas Arya Topic: 'The Epidemiology of Suicide in India: Exploring National and Regional Determinants of Suicide to Inform Appropriate Suicide Prevention Strategies' Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page Co-supervisors – Dr Gregory Armstrong, Associate Professor Peter Mayer, Dr Haider Mannan |
Carlos El-Haddad Topic: 'Empowering patients in the development of entrustable professional activities' Primary Supervisor – Professor Wendy Hu Co-supervisor – Dr Iman Hegazi, Professor Kevin Pile |
Michael Hart Topic: 'A better method of classifying patients in hospitals' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Federico Girosi Co-Supervisors – Dr Shima Ghassem Pour, Dr David Dean |
James John Topic: 'Effectiveness of a patient-centred medical home model of primary care for improving patient and hospital outcomes in Australia' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kathy Tannous Co-supervisors – Professor Virginia Schmied |
Seyedamir Marashi Topic: 'Machine learning methods for the definition of more efficient Australian refined diagnosis-related groups (AR-DRGs)' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Federico Girosi Co-supervisor – Dr Shima Ghassem Pour |
Ludovico Pinzari Topic: 'Development of Tools for the Design of Customizable Catchment Area and the Analysis of Geographic Variation in Health Care' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Federico Girosi Co-supervisor – Dr Shima Ghassem Pour |
Marilyn Wise Topic: 'Identifying reasons for the persistence of inequities in health and implications for action by policy actors' Primary Supervisor – Professor Jane Ussher Co-supervisor – Professor Lyn Carson |
Farshid Hajati Topic: 'Detecting clusters and anomalies in medicare MBS claim trajectories' Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Federico Girosi Co-supervisor – Dr Evan Atlantis |
Topic: 'The experience of loneliness in the homeless population: An Australian study.' Primary Supervisor – Dr Elizabeth Conroy Co-supervisor – Professor Janette Perz |
Topic: 'White matter integrity and clinical correlates in people with Anorexia Nervosa. A prospective study.' Primary Supervisor – Professor Phillipa Hay Co-supervisors – Professor Vaughan Macefield, Professor Stephen Touyz, Dr Nasim Foroughi, Associate Professor Luke Henderson |
Topic: 'Investigating the application of protection motivation theory to the behaviour of animal owners and emergency responders in bushfire natural hazards.' Primary Supervisor – Dr Mel Taylor Co-supervisors – Professor Hilary Bambrick, Professor Kevin Rona |
Topic: 'A Qualitative exploration of pathways through an eating disorder in men.' Primary Supervisor – Professor Phillipa Hay Co- Supervisors – Professor Janette Perz, Associate Professor Paul Rhodes |
Sabrina Naz Topic: 'The impact of indoor air pollution on child mortality in South Asia.' Primary Supervisor - Professor Andrew Page Co-supervisor - Dr Kingsley Agho |
Alexandra Hawkey Topic: 'Experiences and constructions of sexual and reproductive health of culturally and linguistically diverse women' Primary Supervisor – Professor Janette Perz Co-supervisors – Professor Jane Ussher, Dr Renu Narchal Zoi Triandafilidis Topic: 'Young women's experiences of cigarette smoking' Primary Supervisor – Professor Jane Ussher Co-supervisors – Professor Janette Perz, Dr Kate Huppatz |
Topic: 'Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women in Australia: - Health care Professionals' Perspectives' Primary Supervisor – Professor Janette Perz Co-supervisors – Professor Jane Ussher, Dr Tinashe Dune |
Topic: 'Providing culturally appropriate Mental Health First Aid for non-health trained community-based workers assisting Iraqi refugees: development of expert consensus guidelines and initial training evaluation' Primary Supervisor – Dr Shameran Slewa-Younan Co-supervisor – Professor Anthony Francis Jorm (University of Melbourne) |
Felix Ogbo Topic: 'Determinants of suboptimal breastfeeding practices in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis.' Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page Co-supervisors – Dr Kingsley Agho, John Idoko |
Topic: 'Variation in outcomes for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people after ischaemic heart disease: Where can interventions have the most impact?' Primary Supervisor – Professor Louisa Jorm Co-Supervisor – Alastair Leyland |
Topic: 'Planning for the mitigation of the effects of climate change in disadvantaged urban populations greater western Sydney: Minimising health impacts in urban Australia' Primary Supervisor – Hilary Bambrick Co-Supervisor – Tony Capon and Sharon Friel |
Lauren Kadwell Topic: 'Constructions of sexuality in the context of palliative cancer care: Health professional perspectives' Primary Supervisor – Professor Jane Ussher Co-Supervisors – Professor Janette Perz, Adjunct Professor Liz Lobb Kate Churruca Topic: 'The bulimic body: Constructions of bulimia and women's embodied experiences of bulimic practices.' Primary Supervisor – Professor Jane Ussher Co-supervisors – Professor Janette Perz, Professor Phillipa Hay |
Chloe Parton Topic: 'Women's experiences of sexual embodiment in the context of cancer' Primary Supervisor – Janette Perz Co-Supervisors – Jane Ussher, Emilee Gilbert |
Seyed Morteza Shamshirgaran Topic: 'Type 2 Diabetes in Migrant Groups: Population-Based Study of Life Style Factors, Complications and Hospital Use' Primary Supervisor – Louisa Jorm Co-Supervisor – Hilary Bambrick, Annemarie Hennessy |
Linda Burnett Topic: 'Thinking through motherhood' Primary Supervisor – Jane Ussher Co-Supervisor – Valerie Walkerdine |
Michael Falster Topic: 'The impacts of primary care, health service accessibility, and personal health characteristics on potentially avoidable hospitalisations' Primary supervisor – Louisa Jorm |
Shima Ghassempour Topic: 'Adaptive data mining approach for anomalous patterns in admissions data' Primary Supervisor – Anthony Maeder Co-Supervisors – Federico Girosi, Louisa Jorm |
Caroline Joyce Topic: 'The relationship between mental health conditions, psychological distress and Coronary Heart Disease' Primary Supervisor – Kathryn Nicholson-Perry Co-Supervisors – Ian Wilson, Alys Havard |
Marlee King Topic: 'Men's construction and experience of their partner's premenstrual change' Primary Supervisor – Jane Ussher Co-Supervisor – Emilee Gilbert, Janette Perz |
Jan Marie Topic: 'An evaluation of health professional's perspectives on sexual changes after the diagnosis of cancer' Co-Supervisor – Emilee Gilbert, Ian Wilson |
Lisa McCallum Topic: 'Perinatal risk factors for pertussis in early childhood: An investigation using routinely collected linked administrative data' Primary Supervisor – Louisa Jorm Co-Supervisors – Bette Liu, Peter McIntyre |
Arshad Muhammad Mehar Topic: 'Data Mining and Data Management for Large Collections of Health Data' Primary Supervisor - Anthony Maeder Co-Supervisor - Kenan Matawie |
Zia Rahman Topic: 'Exploring the Correlation of Demographical, Health and Lifestyle parameters of Individuals in relation to self-rated memory using the '45 and Up Study' Survey Database' Primary Supervisor – Gerald Muench Co-Supervisor – Louisa Jorm, Phillipa Hay |
Danielle Tran Topic: 'An epidemiological study of diabetes related health outcomes among the Vietnam-born Australians' Primary Supervisor – Louisa Jorm Co-Supervisor – Maree Johnson, Hilary Bambrick |
Steven Trankle Topic: 'An interview study exploring the experiences and practices of doctors regarding end of life care decisions' Primary Supervisor – Janette Perz Co-Supervisor – Emilee Gilbert, John Haw |