Sasha Odoi

Sasha Odoi is a Research Coordinator at Burnet Institute, where she supports the delivery of the ELUCIDAR clinical trial – a multi-site study evaluating germicidal ultraviolet light as an environmental intervention to reduce COVID-19 transmission in residential aged care facilities.

Sasha brings more than 15 years of experience in clinical research coordination, population-based epidemiology and allied health. She has coordinated phase 2 and phase 3 sponsor-led and investigator-initiated clinical trials at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, working across multi-site international studies with sponsors including ICON/PRA Health Sciences, AstraZeneca and NOVARTIS. Her expertise spans ethics and governance submissions, protocol management, regulatory compliance, data management and stakeholder engagement across clinical and research settings.

Sasha is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics, where her research – 'Capturing infant food allergy in a diverse population: The role of sociodemographic factors in allergy prevention' – examines the real-world implementation of allergy prevention strategies and the sociodemographic factors shaping health outcomes in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. She is first author on peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of allergy and clinical immunology: in practice and has 27 co-authored publications across population allergy, clinical trials, and paediatric health.

Sasha is committed to equitable, community-responsive health research, with a particular focus on ensuring that culturally and linguistically diverse populations are meaningfully represented in research design, data collection and knowledge translation.

• 2020–present: Doctor of Philosophy (Epidemiology, in progress), Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2010: Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience (Honours), Monash University, Australia

• 2024–2026: Mentor, Research Student Association Mentorship Program, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia
• 2021–2026: Junior Member, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)
• 2020–2022: Committee Member, Early and Mid-Career Researcher Committee, Centre for Food and Allergy Research (CFAR), Australia

• 2026–present: Research Coordinator, Know-C19 (ELUCIDAR study), Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
• 2017–2023: Research and Clinical Trials Coordinator/Research Assistant, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
• 2017–2022: Sleep Scientist, Respiratory and Sleep Department, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
• 2011–2016: Research Assistant, Ritchie Centre, Monash University/Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

• 2021, 2025, 2026: Conference and Travel Grants (×4), Centre for Food and Allergy Research (CFAR), Australia
• 2026: Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2025–2026: 3-Minute Thesis First Place, Department of Paediatrics Heat, The University of Melbourne (2025); Second Place Finalist, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Final, The University of Melbourne (2026
• 2023: First Place Talk, Melbourne Children's Campus Student Symposium, Australia
• 2021: Second Place Oral Poster and Poster Award, Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) Annual Conference, Australia
• 2020: Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, The University of Melbourne
• 2020: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, PhD top-up scholarship
• 2018: Outstanding Volunteer of the Year, Centre for Multicultural Youth, Victoria, Australia