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Professor Power AM is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Burnet and Adjunct Professor at Monash University. He has been at Burnet since 2005, with his main current role being that of Program Director of the Fleming Fund Country Grant for Papua New Guinea, focusing on antimicrobial resistance. He is a social scientist who has worked in the field of international health and social behavioural research since 1985, with previous posts at medical schools and colleges within the University of London.
His primary focus has been on community-level public health interventions and research into social determinants of health amongst marginalised populations. He has been the Technical Director on major Australian Aid and USAID bilateral programs in Indonesia, as well as being Program Director for Australian Aid's Tibet Health program. He also completed seven years as Technical Director of UKAID's main regional HIV prevention program in Central Asia. Robert has consulted for major international donors in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans, South-East Asia and China. During the early years of HIV he was instrumental in developing rapid assessment and response methodologies for the WHO and United Nations, completing such studies in Croatia and Egypt, the Czech Republic and Vietnam.
Other areas of his work include: the broad empirical and theoretical aspects of harm reduction; monitoring and evaluation; ethnography, innovative participatory research methods, implementation research, program development, and the use of social media to assess community responses to critical health issues.
2021 (2)
BMJ Open
Alisa Pedrana, Anna L. Bowring, Katherine Heath, Alexander Thomas, Anna L. Wilkinson, Stephanie Fletcher, Freya Saich, Stephanie Munari, Aimée Altermatt, Thi Nguyen
PLoS ONE
Cassandra Caddy, Marc Cheong, Megan S. C. Lim, Robert Power, Joshua P. Vogel, Zoe Bradfield, Benjamin Coghlan, Caroline Homer, Alyce N. Wilson
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
Nakhornphet Pasomsouk, Anna L. Bowring, Peter Higgs, Margaret Hellard, Robert Power, Anna L. Bowring, Nakhornphet Pasomsouk, Peter Higgs, Margaret Hellard, Robert Power
By 2050, antimicrobial resistant bacteria (AMR) could cause 10 million deaths annually. Our collaborative project supports Papua New Guinea’s domestic AMR response.
Burnet Institute is leading the Papua New Guinea Country Grant component of the Fleming Fund, a UK Aid program tackling antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries.
Implemented in partnership with the Tibet Regional Health and Family Planning Commission, this is the latest in a decade-long relationship between agencies, funded by the Australian government, working together to strengthen the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) health system.
This study explored what health messages and advice people received during pregnancy and after birth about COVID-19.