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Staff
The Hub's staff members work under the direction of the HRH Hub Director Professor Richard Taylor.
Follow these links to read more about each
staff member and find their contact details:
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executive advisory role to the HRH Hub:
- James Buchan - Queen Margaret University, Scotland
- Jim Campbell - Integrare, Spain
- Mario Dal Poz - WHO, Geneva
- Jimmie Rodgers - SPC
- Suwit Wibulpolprasert - recent past President of AAAH and of the Ministry of Health, Thailand
- Arie Rotem - University of New South Wales
- Lee Ridout - Human Capital Alliance
- Beth Slatyer - AusAID
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 | Professor Richard TaylorDirector
T: + 61 2 9385 8659
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: r.taylor@unsw.edu.au
Richard has continuing international experience in the Asia Pacific, particularly in the Pacific Island region, but also in China, Mongolia and Vietnam, and has been involved in the epidemiology and disease control aspects of the health transition, especially concerning cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. He also has experience in control of communicable and vector-borne disease. Current research in the Pacific Islands focuses on mortality and cause of death analysis for the prioritization and evaluation of prevention and control activities. He is also involved in Indigenous health research in Australia. Before joining SPHCM UNSW in 2009, his public health career included Epidemiologist at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), numerous international health consultancies (especially with WHO), and in Public and International Health at the University of Sydney and University of Queensland where he was involved in international health teaching, research and service.
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 | Dr Graham Roberts Deputy Director
T: + 61 2 9385 8659
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: g.roberts@unsw.edu.au
Graham commenced his career in development as a young Patrol Officer in Papua New Guinea, where he conducted foot patrols to remote areas of the Western Highlands prior to PNG’s independence. That experience led him to return to PNG with the Save the Children Fund (UK) to work in human nutrition in the Southern Highlands, and later, after studying the Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Public Health at the University of Sydney, to work with the PNG Institute of Medical Research on the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age. Graham returned to Australia for further study leading to a Master of Health Administration by Research and eventually to a PhD in the UNSW School of Psychiatry (on national mental health policy). Graham has been the Australian Team Leader of three AusAID projects – two in Fiji and one in PNG. He joined the Fiji School of Medicine (FSM) in 2003, became Director of Research in 2006 and has since been engaged in many research and health service projects in Pacific Island countries. Over recent years Graham established three research centres within FSM – the Pacific STI and HIV Research Centre in conjunction with UNSW, the Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases in conjunction with Deakin University and the Centre for Health Information, Policy and Systems Research (CHIPSR) collaborating with WHO, AusAID, Equitap and the Nossal Centre for Global Health. CHIPSR completed the first 'in-house' National Health Accounts in the Pacific region. While writing the Health Systems in Transition Report for Fiji Graham decided to focus his career on the issue of human resources for health on the realisation that a country or region may have all the financial resources it needs but without skills ‘on the ground’ improvements to population health are not achievable. In 2012 Graham also became a member of the Steering Committee to Review Regional Strategies related to Health Systems, Division for Health Sector Development, WPRO.
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 | Dr Shanti Raman Senior Fellow
T: + 61 2 9385 8684
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: s.raman@unsw.edu.au
Shanti is a Senior Research Fellow with the HRH Hub and leads the research into Maternal, Neontal and Reproductive Health group. Her activities at the Hub include researching HRH issues in relation to maternal, newborn and child health with a particular focus on evidence-based interventions. Shanti is also a Consultant Paediatrician with Public Health training and expertise. In her current role as Community Paediatrician in charge of Child Protection services in Sydney South West Area Health Service, she has provided clinical leadership in this field, professional development and training in clinical aspects of child abuse and neglect and developed area-wide relevant policies on children’s rights and child protection. Dr Raman has maintained a strong interest in international health, provided consultancy services in international health (maternal, neonatal and child health), worked on population based research projects in India and been involved in teaching public health. She has been involved with policy development at national (with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians), State (NSW Health), and international (though International Society for Social Pediatrics, International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect) levels. She is currently completing a Master of Philosophy in international child public health (University of Sydney, School of Public Health).
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 | Dr Alison Short Hub Manager/Research Fellow
T: + 61 2 93858928
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: a.short@unsw.edu.au
In the role of Hub Manager, Alison is working across all work themes to assist with the delivery of HRH Hub outputs. Alison has a background of experience in health services research, and has worked in many roles including leadership and management of research projects and the presidency of a national peak body. Alison’s research work includes a number of projects addressing language and cultural issues related to health, and evaluation of interprofessional strategies assisting community self management for people with chronic diseases. Her further interests include health communication and literacy; the clinician-researcher interface; psychosocial aspects of health care; and clinical settings such as cardiac, emergency, palliative and aged care. Bridging the gap between music and medicine, Alison has a particular interest in pursuing the linkage between auditory environment and public health issues. Her initial clinical training was in allied health, specifically professional music therapy (University of Melbourne, New York University). Alison’s outputs include several funded projects and over 58 publications (22 peer reviewed journal articles).
Dr Augustine Asante Research Fellow
T: + 61 2 9385 8683
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: a.asante@unsw.edu.au
Augustine is a Research Fellow in Human Resource for Health Knowledge Hub at the University of New South Wales (HRH Hub @ UNSW) researching HRH issues in relation to Leadership & Management in healthcare systems. Augustine is a PhD graduate at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine @ UNSW. He has a wide range of interests and experience in the public health field; in particular, health economics and policy issues including resource allocation
and equity, global health issues especially health workforce migration, access to Malaria, TB and HIV prevention and therapy, and health of disadvantaged groups & communities. His PhD research was on health resource allocation and equity under decentralisation. The quantitative component of the study has since been published in Health Policy. Augustine has a professional background from the Finance and Economic Planning Ministry of Ghana and research experience in communicable diseases from Sweden. He has also held research fellow position at the UNSW National Centre in HIV Social Research prior to his joining the HRH Hub @ UNSW.
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 | Ms Lois Meyer Technical Group member
T: + 61 2 9385 8756
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: l.meyer@unsw.edu.au
Lois Meyer has worked as a consultant in human resource development and strategic learning systems for a range of public and private organisations for over twenty years. For the last five years she has drawn on that body of work to undertake curriculum development and research in areas related to HRD, and professional education and development, particularly within the health sector. She has increasingly focused her research on professional formation and development in public health and health service management in local and international contexts. Lois is involved in researching teaching and learning practice within the postgraduate education programs with the School. Lois has undertaken research on behalf of the Hub, in working to identify effective strategies for enhancing leadership and management capacity in health service contexts in the Asia-Pacific Region.
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 | Dr John Dewdney Visiting Fellow
T: + 61 2 9385 8455
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: j.dewdney@unsw.edu.au
John has had more than forty years experience as a practitioner, consultant, researcher and trainer in health service development in general and human resource planning and development, in particular. Under contracts with the World Bank, WHO, DFID, ADB, AusAID he has participated in international organization funded health development projects in more than thirty countries. His computer based health workforce planning model has been employed in the development of national health workforce plans in countries in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe and Oceania.
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 | Ms Lorraine Kerse Advisor
T: + 61 2 9385 8464
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: lkerse@gmail.com
Lorraine is an International Specialist in the development of Human Resources for Health and Health Systems in developing countries. She has worked with governments throughout the Asia and Pacific regions to help resolve a range of health-systems management, human-resource development and health-professional education issues. Part of her experience includes a lengthy period of time working for the World Health Organization. Lorraine’s involvement with some of the most controversial and extensive health reforms give her a unique insight into health systems and human resources planning.
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 | Dr Jennifer Doyle Research Associate
T: + 61 2 9385 8684
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: jennifer.doyle@unsw.edu.au
Jennifer is a Research Associate with the HRH Hub. Her activities at the Hub include researching HRH issues in relation to the migration of skilled health workers. She has worked and studied in the areas social policy and social welfare for 25 years. During that time she was involved in a variety of qualitative and quantitative research projects concerned with income distribution, allowances and pensions, and paid and unpaid care labour. She completed her PhD (a sociological study of caregiving motivations) at the University of Wollongong. In 2011 she was awarded the Professor Jim Hagan Memorial Prize for the most successful PhD thesis completed in the Faculty of Arts in 2010.
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| Dr John Rule Research Associate
T: + 61 2 9385 8682
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: j.rule@unsw.edu.au
John is a Research Associate with the HRH Hub. His activities at the Hub will include researching HRH issues in relation to Leadership and Management in health care systems. Before joining the Hub he was Deputy Director of the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Australia and responsible for managing an international program of activities, including, capacity building projects in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. He has work published in community education, community development and HIV/AIDS and is also currently the Principle Investigator on a study on Human Rights and HIV Related Stigma and Discrimination in Papua New Guinea. John is a qualitative researcher and completed his PhD in Education through the University of Technology, Sydney.
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 | Dr Brahmaputra (Brahm) Marjadi Research Associate
T: + 61 2 9385 9687
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: b.marjadi@unsw.edu.au
Brahm is a medical doctor from Indonesia with backgrounds in microbiology, healthcare-associated infection control, epidemiology and medical education. He obtained his Master of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from UNSW under AusAID scholarships. Brahm is a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) researcher with a special interest in health service quality issues in low-resource settings. He has been involved in addressing challenges faced by religious, charity-based private healthcare facilities across Indonesia since 1994. Brahm’s teaching portfolio of over 15 years that includes microbiology, epidemiology, research methods, evidence-based medicine and medical anthropology in faculties of medicine, nursing and pharmacy has been a source of his insights into the development of health professions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
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 | Ms Lisa Thompson Project Officer
T: + 61 2 9385 8459
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: lisa.thompson@unsw.edu.au
Lisa is currently employed as a Project Officer for the Human Resources for Health Knowledge Hub. She has worked on several public health research projects in: public health nutrition, diabetes, disadvantaged communities and immunisation and has contributed to the evaluation of several community based projects. Lisa has wide ranging public health experience having worked in NSW Area Health Services, the Centre for Health Equity Training and Evaluation (CHETRE), Nepal and Malaysia. Her interests include: public health in developing country issues, social justice and equity.
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 | Ms Donna Gersbach Communication Officer
T: + 61 2 9385 8687
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: d.gersbach@unsw.edu.au
Donna has has extensive experience in journalism and communications. Following an early career in newspapers and magazines, she branched out into communications marketing working with a wide range of sectors including lobbying, business and health. Donna would love to hear from you if you have any enquiries or suggestions with regard to the Hub's activites or possible new initiatives and collaborations. |
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Alexandra Iljadica Research Assistant
T: + 61 2 9385 3266
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: a.girdwood@unsw.edu.au
Alexandra is a Research Assistant at the HRH Hub and is currently researching HRH issues in maternal, neonatal and reproductive health. Alexandra is currently completing her Masters of Public Health with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW, and holds a nutrition degree. Her experience includes researching migrant health issues, with a focus on food security, in a humanitarian context. She has a personal interest in how social and environmental conditions around food behaviours and attitudes affect health.
Jed Horner Research Assistant
E: jed.horner@unsw.edu.au
Jed is a Research Assistant at the HRH Hub and a post-graduate research student at the School of Public Health & Community Medicine, UNSW. He has worked in the community and voluntary sector, within immigrant community organisations, and holds degrees in political studies and health sciences.
Sophia Lin Research Assistant
T: + 61 2 9385 8206
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: sophia.lin@unsw.edu.au
Sophia is currently a Research Assistant at the HRH Knowledge Hub. With a background in human nutrition and dietetics, she has also completed her Master of Public Health with a particular focus on non-communicable disease control. Her experience includes working in community based research in the fields of obesity, diabetes, physical activity and workplace health; clinical care and NGOs.
Michelle Sams Executive Assistant
T: + 61 2 9385 8464
F: + 61 2 9385 1104
E: m.sams@unsw.edu.au
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In addition to our core staff, the Hub's work is strongly underpinned and driven by the involvement of a number of academic and professional staff within the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
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