Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Staff support Associate Professor Shuai Li November 30, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Associate Professor Li is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, a Dame Kate Campbell Fellow and a medically trained epidemiologist at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His research interest includes genetic and epigenetic epidemiology, twin and family research, cancer epidemiology and cancer risk modelling. Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Associate Professor Julia Steinberg November 30, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Associate Professor Steinberg is a Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow and leads the Genomics and Precision Health research stream at the Daffodil Centre. She co-leads the Australian Cancer Risk Study, a collaborative transdisciplinary program to evaluate the potential of genomic risk prediction for risk-based cancer screening and early detection in Australia. Her research programme […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Professor Melissa Southey December 2, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Professor Southey is Chair of Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Director Biobanking Victoria, based at the Monash Health Translation Precinct and Co-Director of the Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium. Professor Southey’s research program has a population-based focus that has been pivotal to the establishment of large genetic epidemiological research resources that […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Associate Professor Justine Gatt December 3, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Associate Professor Gatt is Director of the Centre for Wellbeing, Resilience and Recovery, Head of the Gatt Resilience Group at Neuroscience Research Australia and the School of Psychology UNSW, and is an External Fellow at the Black Dog Institute. She leads a research program that focuses on understanding the neuroscience of wellbeing and resilience to stress and trauma, and ways […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Professor Enes Makalic December 3, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Professor Makalic is a Professor of Machine Learning at the Department of Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He has a lifelong interest in theoretical computer science and a mission to enable global impact through quality teaching and research that emphasizes collaborative, inter-disciplinary partnerships. Since completing his PhD in machine learning, […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Professor Shyamali Dharmage December 3, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Professor Dharmage trained in Clinical Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology, leads the Allergy and Lung Health Unit at the University of Melbourne. She is a world-recognised leader in Life Course Epidemiology of Allergies and Chronic Respiratory Diseases, and Obstructive Lung Diseases. She is the current custodian and Principal Investigator of three of the world’s key […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Associate Professor Jesse Young December 3, 2024 / March 28, 2025 by epusr957t03 Associate Professor Young is a Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He also holds adjunct positions at The University of Melbourne, The University of Western Australia, Monash University, Curtin University, and the Murdoch Children’s Research […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Dr Jessica Miller December 3, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Dr Miller is Head of Epidemiology at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, at The Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity. Her research interests are in maternal/child health and in understanding the differential susceptibility to childhood infections. Much of her research has used population-level linked data from various countries to […] Read more »
Chief Investigators Chief Investigators and Suggested Topics Dr Lucas Calais-Ferreira December 3, 2024 / March 4, 2025 by epusr957t03 Dr Lucas Calais Ferreira is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. He holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Suicide Prevention Australia and has honorary appointments with the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and […] Read more »
