People of Burnet

Mary Padbury

CHAIR, BURNET INSTITUTE

BA, LLB(Hons). Chair since 2019. Director since 2011.

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

DIRECTOR AND CEO; CO-HEAD, MALARIA VIRULENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY GROUP; CHAIR AUSTRALIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE AND CHAIR PACIFIC FRIENDS OF GLOBAL HEALTH

Professor Brendan Crabb AC PhD FAA FAHMS FASM is an infectious disease researcher...

Alison Larsson

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

BEc, CPA, GAICD. Director since 2017.

Benjamin Foskett

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

BBus(Acc), FAICD. Director since 2013.

Professor Helen Evans AO

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

BA, BSocAdmin. Director since 2015.

Michael Ziegelaar

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

LLB(Hons), BEc, LLM. Director since 2015.

Robin Bishop

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

LLB(Hon), BCom, BA. Director 2012-2021, 2022-present.

Professor Sandra Eades AO

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

PhD, FASSA, FAHMS. Director since 2020.

Doctor Serge Scrofani

DIRECTOR, BURNET INSTITUTE

BSc(Hons), PhD, MBA, GAICD. Director since 2019.

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

DIRECTOR AND CEO; CO-HEAD, MALARIA VIRULENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY GROUP; CHAIR AUSTRALIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE AND CHAIR PACIFIC FRIENDS OF GLOBAL HEALTH

Professor Brendan Crabb AC PhD FAA FAHMS FASM is an infectious disease researcher...

Professor Margaret Hellard AM

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS; ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, MONASH UNIVERSITY, DEPM.

For almost two decades Margaret's work has centred around infectious diseases, preventing...

Professor James Beeson

DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PEOPLE); HEAD, MALARIA IMMUNITY AND VACCINES GROUP; ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, MONASH UNIVERSITY

James is a medical researcher and Public Health Physician (registered in Australia). He...

Doctor Alisa Pedrana

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW; DEPUTY DISCIPLINE HEAD, PUBLIC HEALTH; ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C AUSTRALIA COORDINATOR

Dr Pedrana BBmedSc (hons), PhD (Public Health) is a senior research fellow and public health practit...

Brendan Allen

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDING PARTNERSHIPS

Brendan Allen is an experienced executive and clinical and public health professional with...

Associate Professor Bruce Loveland

HEAD, INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Bruce Loveland is a cellular immunologist interested in the immune repertoire and...

Doctor Anna Hearps

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION

Dr Anna Hearps works at Burnet as the Deputy Program Director for the Disease...

Professor Caroline Homer AO

DEPUTY DIRECTOR (EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION); WORKING GROUP HEAD

Professor Caroline Homer AO is the leading midwifery researcher in Australia and...

Chad Hughes

HEAD, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL DIRECTOR, MEKONG REGION

A public health practitioner, Chad has specific expertise in strategic planning for...

Christine Elmer

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING

Christine Elmer is an award winning corporate affairs leader and an accredited Strategic...

Doctor David Harrison

HEAD OF LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES

David heads the Support Services group: Laboratory Operations and Facilities Support...

Doctor Elissa Kennedy

CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, MATERNAL, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH; CO-HEAD GLOBAL ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Elissa is a medical doctor with a Master of Public Health specialising in international health...

Professor Freya J.I. Fowkes

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, MATERNAL, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH; HEAD, MALARIA AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

An NHMRC Fellow, Professor Freya Fowkes is Deputy Program Director, Maternal and...

Geoff Drenkhahn

DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC FUNDING, PARTNERSHIPS, INNOVATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (SF PIC)

Geoff Drenkhahn is an executive with 20+ years of experience in the R+D sector with...

Professor Gilda Tachedjian

HEAD, LIFE SCIENCES DISCIPLINE; HEAD, RETROVIRAL BIOLOGY AND ANTIVIRALS LABORATORY

Awarded her PhD at Monash University, Professor Tachedjian received an NHMRC...

Professor Heidi Drummer

CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION; SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR, BURNET DIAGNOSTICS INITIATIVE; PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, BURNET VACCINE INITIATIVE; CO-HEAD, VIRAL ENTRY AND VACCINES GROUP

Professor Heidi Drummer is Program Director for Disease Elimination and co-Head of...

Ian Briggs

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Jennifer Barnes

DIRECTOR, BURNET DIAGNOSTICS INITIATIVE

Jen joined Burnet to lead the Burnet Diagnostics Initiative (BDI), an ambitious initiative...

Professor Joseph (Joe) Doyle

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION; CO-HEAD, VIRAL HEPATITIS ELIMINATION; NHMRC CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Professor Doyle is a clinician-researcher and dual-trained infectious diseases and public health phy...

Professor Joshua Vogel

SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW; CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, MATERNAL, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH; DEPUTY DISCIPLINE HEAD, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; CO-HEAD, GLOBAL WOMEN’S AND NEWBORN’S HEALTH GROUP

Joshua is a perinatal epidemiologist and public health researcher. He is a Senior Principal Research...

Doctor Kudakwashe Chani

COUNTRY DIRECTOR, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Dr Kudakwashe Chani is the Country Director for Burnet Institute in Papua New Guinea. He has extensi...

Professor Leanne Robinson

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, HEALTH SECURITY AND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS; SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, GROUP LEADER, VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES AND TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH

Professor Leanne Robinson BSc Adv (Hons) PhD MPHTM is a leading vector-borne diseases...

Doctor Margarete White

HEAD, OHS AND COMPLIANCE

Margarete’s background is in organisational psychology, specialising in occupational, health and saf...

Professor Mark A Stoové

HEAD OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Professor Stoové is Head of Public Health at Burnet Institute where he also and heads...

Mark Tennent

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER; DIRECTOR, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Mark joined Burnet’s Centre for International Health (CIH) in July 2007, bringing with him...

Mary-Ann Nicholas

CO-HEAD, STRATEGY INSIGHTS AND IMPACT; HEAD, DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS

Mary-Ann joined Burnet in 2009 with a proven track record in international program...

Associate Professor Megan SC Lim

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION; HEAD, YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH

Megan is Deputy Program Director (Behaviours and Health Risks) at Burnet Institute...

Professor Paul Dietze

CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION

Professor Paul Dietze is one of Australia's leading alcohol and other drug epidemiologists...

Associate Professor Paul Gilson

DEPUTY DISCIPLINE HEAD, LIFE SCIENCES; CO-HEAD, MALARIA VIRULENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY GROUP; HEAD OF BURNET CELL IMAGING FACILITY

Paul Gilson is a molecular biologist primarily interested in how malaria parasites invade...

Paul Rathbone

CHIEF OF STAFF

Paul is responsible for the initiation, general management and the implementation of key...

Peter Spiller

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND COMPANY SECRETARY

Peter Spiller works at Burnet as the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary...

Doctor Phone Myint Win

COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE, MYANMAR

Dr. Phone has been Burnet Institute's Myanmar Country Representative since 2013...

Rob Daly

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY AND SUPPORTER ENGAGEMENT

Rob is a senior leader with experience in philanthropy, marketing, community relations...

Serina Cucuzza

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, COMMERCIAL INNOVATION AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

Serina has a background in both business and science and has...

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar

CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER - COVID & HEALTH EMERGENCIES; DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, HEALTH SECURITY AND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS; PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar is Chief Health Officer of COVID & Health Emergencies, a Deputy P...

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

DIRECTOR AND CEO; CO-HEAD, MALARIA VIRULENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY GROUP; CHAIR AUSTRALIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE AND CHAIR PACIFIC FRIENDS OF GLOBAL HEALTH

Professor Brendan Crabb AC PhD FAA FAHMS FASM is an infectious disease researcher...

Abdul Haseeb Memon

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT

Haseeb has more than 10 years of experience in financial and project accounting...

Doctor Adam Thomas

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OFFICER - MALARIA VACCINES

After completing his Bachelor of Science majoring in microbiology and molecular biology...

Aimée Altermatt

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Aimée is a research assistant working on the Modelling and Biostatistics team and...

Alessia Hysa

PHD STUDENT

Alessia is a PhD student at the Burnet Institute and the University of Melbourne working...

Alexa Murray

FIELD TEAM LEAD - OPERATIONS AND M&E

Alexa is a passionate and experienced international development and global health professional...

Alexander Harris

HONOURS STUDENT

Alex completed his Bachelor of Science at Monash University, majoring in Immunology and Physiology.....

Alexander Thomas

HEALTH ECONOMIC MODELLER

Alex is currently working with the Modelling and Biostatistics group to build a health...

Alexandra (Ali) Head

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Alexandra is currently leading and supporting several studies that focus on menstrual health in Aust...

Alicia Hansen

COMPLIANCE & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY ADVISOR

Alicia works at Burnet as the Compliance & Occupational Health & Safety Advisor

Doctor Alisa Pedrana

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW; DEPUTY DISCIPLINE HEAD, PUBLIC HEALTH; ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C AUSTRALIA COORDINATOR

Dr Pedrana BBmedSc (hons), PhD (Public Health) is a senior research fellow and public health practit...

Alistair Deller-Blue

HONOURS STUDENT

Alistair Deller-Blue is an Honours Student at the Burnet Institute...

Doctor Allan Burrows

LABORATORY OPERATIONS MANAGER

As the Laboratory Operations Manager, Allan is part of the Laboratory Operations and Facilities Supp...

Allan Kuma

PROJECT LEAD COUNSELLOR

Allan Kuma is the RID TB Project Lead Counsellor with the South Fly TB Program in...

Professor Allan Saul

SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW (HONORARY)

Allan has worked on Infectious diseases since 1979. Before retiring in January 2020 and returning to...

Doctor Alyce Wilson

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW (HONORARY)

Dr Alyce Wilson is a Public Health Physician and Honorary Senior Research Fellow...

Professor Alyssa Barry

HONORARY PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Professor Alyssa Barry is Head of the Infectious Diseases Systems Epidemiology Working Group...

Amanda Blair

PHD STUDENT

After working as a physiotherapist in Sydney and California, Amanda completed a Master of Public Hea...

Amanda Fairbairn

ADMINISTRATION OFFICER

Doctor Amanda Roxburgh

NHMRC RESEARCH FELLOW

Dr Amanda Roxburgh (MPsychol [Clin] PhD MAPS) is a NHMRC Research Fellow. Amanda has 18 years' exper...

Doctor Amanda Wade

POST-DOC

Amanda is an infectious diseases physician who completed advanced training at The Alfred and Geelong...

Doctor Amrita Ronnachit

SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Amrita is an infectious diseases specialist with an interest in equity in health care, global health...

Amy Kirwan

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, SOCIAL IMPACT AND INNOVATION

Amy Kirwan is an applied researcher with a long history of operationalising research in sensitive an...

Amy Williamson

DEPUTY COUNTRY DIRECTOR – OPERATIONS.PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Amy joined Burnet in 2022 in the role of Deputy Country Director for Operations in Papua New Guinea....

Ana Orozco

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Ana completed a double degree in Arts and Science with a major in Mathematics and Psychology early i...

Andrea Eakins

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO GEOFF DRENKHAHN (DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC FUNDING, PARTNERSHIPS, INNOVATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (SF PIC))

Andrew Paruru

ADMINISTRATION AND TRAVEL COORDINATOR

Andrew Walter

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Doctor Andy Poumbourios

CO-HEAD, VIRAL ENTRY AND VACCINES GROUP

Dr. Andy Poumbourios is co-Head of the Viral Entry and Vaccines research group...

Angus Morgan

MANAGER MEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA

Angus joins Burnet Institute's Public Affairs department with extensive experience in media producti...

Aniba Koivaku

PEER COUNSELLOR

Aniba Koivaku joined Burnet Institute in July 2018 as a Peer Counsellor with the South Fly TB progra...

Anita Cranwell

HUMAN RESOURCES ADVISOR

Anita started her career in HR in 2007 as a Trainee as part of her Human Resource Management degree....

Anja Busse

HONORARY SENIOR FELLOW

In the first half of 2023, Anja Busse is on a sabbatical from her position as Programme Officer...

Doctor Anna Bowring

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Anna Bowring is a public health researcher committed to informing impactful health programs servi...

Doctor Anna Hearps

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION

Dr Anna Hearps works at Burnet as the Deputy Program Director for the Disease...

Anna Palmer

HONORARY ASSOCIATE

Anna completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) at the Burnet in 2016, researching cryst...

Anna Roberts

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Anna has degrees in Psychology, Public Health and is an admitted solicitor in both Australia and the...

Doctor Anna Wilkinson

RESEARCH FELLOW

Ms. Anna Wilkinson is an early career public health researcher, with interests in epidemiology, bios...

Doctor Annemarie Laumaea

SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Doctor Annie McDougall

RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Annie McDougall completed her PhD in 2012, investigating molecular factors involved in fetal lung...

Annie Tan

RESEARCH ASSISTANT / PHD CANDIDATE

Annie holds a Master's degree in Public Health with a specialisation in maternal and reproductive he...

April Holmes

PROJECT MANAGER

April joined Burnet Institute in October 2020 as Project Officer in the Tuberculosis Elimination and...

Ashleigh Stewart

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Ash completed a Bachelor of Nursing in 2013 and went on to complete her Master's in...

Ashley Sievwright

DONOR COMMUNICATION & CONTENT SPECIALIST

Ashley joined the Burnet Institute in June 2017 as a Donor Relations Officer. The role focuses on ad...

Aung Lwin

HEAD OF FINANCE - BURNET MYANMAR

Aung Lwin has been working with Burnet Institute (Myanmar) since 2006. Before and after...

Doctor Aung Aung

TB SPECIALIST – PUBLIC HEALTH

Aung Aung is a public health physician and an epidemiologist having clinical, research, and programm...

Doctor Aung Khine Zaw

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST (MALARIA AND HEALTH SECURITY TEAM)

Barry Karo

TB/HIV PROVINCIAL COORDINATOR (NEW IRELAND)

Barry Karo is a Health Extension Officer by profession and has experience in coordinating and implem...

Doctor Ben Coghlan

PROGRAM DIRECTOR / WORKING GROUP HEAD

Dr Ben Coghlan works on a variety of topics across epidemiological training and...

Ben Sanderson

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Ben is a research assistant in the Immunisation and Health Systems strengthening team. He has a grow...

Doctor Berhan Haile

RESEARCH OFFICER

Berhan was trained as laboratory scientist and in tropical and infectious diseases. He received his ...

Doctor Betty Kouskousis

SPECIALIST MICROSCOPIST

Betty received her BSc from Victoria University of Technology with majors in physics and went on to ...

Bianca Whiteside

PHD CANDIDATE; RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Bianca is an early career researcher having completed a Bachelor of Public Health and Health Promoti...

Doctor Billie Bradford

RESEARCH STAFF

Billie is a perinatal researcher and practising midwife. She has focussed her career on research and...

Billy Inkharm

IT/DATA ENTRY OFFICER

I am working as an IT/Data Entry Officer in Burnet Institute's office in Daru, Papua New Guinea. I a...

Boe Calvert

RESEARCH MIDWIFE / RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Boe is a registered midwife who has experience working in urban, regional and remote Australia. She ...

Brendan Allen

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDING PARTNERSHIPS

Brendan Allen is an experienced executive and clinical and public health professional with...

Brendan Harney

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Brendan completed a Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) in 2016 through Burnet Institute and Monash...

Brianna Jesaveluk

PHD STUDENT

Brianna has been based at the Burnet Institute since 2018, where she first completed...

Doctor Bridget Draper

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Bridget works as a Senior Research Officer in the Disease Elimination program, with...

Associate Professor Bruce Loveland

HEAD, INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Bruce Loveland is a cellular immunologist interested in the immune repertoire and...

Doctor Bruce Wines

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER, IMMUNE THERAPIES GROUP

Dr Wines holds a leadership position within the Immune Therapies Group of Professor Mark...

Burnet Institute

COMMUNICATIONS@BURNET.EDU.AU

Burnet Institute’s Communications team can be contacted via email at...

Doctor Caitlin Douglass

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Caitlin is a Senior Research Officer in the Disease Elimination program, with a specific focus...

Caleb Muller

BUSINESS ANALYST, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Caleb brings a background in information technology management and business analysis to support the ...

Calllum Diamond-Smith

HONOURS STUDENT

Callum completed a double degree, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in...

Doctor Campbell Aitken

RESEARCH FELLOW

Campbell joined the Burnet Institute in 1995. Since that time he has conducted research...

Carol El-Hayek

EPIDEMIOLOGIST

Carol El-Hayek is an infectious diseases epidemiologist with a focus on surveillance and evaluation ...

Professor Caroline Homer AO

DEPUTY DIRECTOR (EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION); WORKING GROUP HEAD

Professor Caroline Homer AO is the leading midwifery researcher in Australia and...

Caroline Ndungu

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT

Caroline has many years' experience in accounting and project finance management in both commercial ...

Caroline Taunton

SURVEILLANCE OFFICER

Caroline has joined Burnet in a Field Epidemiology training position as part of the Master of Philos...

Doctor Caroline van Gemert

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Dr van Gemert is a senior research fellow working across both the International Health and Public He...

Catherine Ives

PHD CANDIDATE, RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN (RAP) MANAGER

Associate Professor Catherine (Kate) Cherry

BURNET STAFF PHYSICIAN AND CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST

Kate works part time at Burnet, where she is the staff physician and a clinical epidemiologist. Her ...

Doctor Celine Deffrasnes

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Celine completed her PhD in microbiology and immunology at the Infectious Disease...

Chad Hughes

HEAD, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL DIRECTOR, MEKONG REGION

A public health practitioner, Chad has specific expertise in strategic planning for...

Chanelle Warton

RESEARCH OFFICER

Chanelle Warton is Research Officer within the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Group at the Burne...

Chelsea Taylor

IMMUNISATION AND HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING SPECIALIST

Chiara Drago

HONOURS STUDENT

Chiara completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Monash University in 2021. She has a passion ...

Doctor Chris Morgan

HONORARY SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Dr Chris Morgan is a physician working in international public health with special interests in glob...

Doctor Chris Seaman

RESEARCH OFFICER

Chris completed his PhD at the Burnet Institute in 2023, with his thesis titled “Using mathematical ...

Chrissie Collins

EA TO JAMES BEESON

Previously worked at Jean Hailes for Women's Health.

Christine Elmer

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING

Christine Elmer is an award winning corporate affairs leader and an accredited Strategic...

Christine Langer

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Christopher Masah

REGISTERED NURSING OFFICER (RID TB NURSE)- PUBLIC HEALTH TEAM

Christopher is a Registered General Nursing Officer who had been working with different non-governme...

Claire Sidlow

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Claire was a part of Oregon Health Sciences University's (OHSU) Oregon HIV/Hepatitis and Opioid Prev...

Doctor Claretta D'Souza

COMMERCIAL PROJECT MANAGER, VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, COMMERCIALISATION, INNOVATION AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS (CIIP)

Dr Claretta DSouza is a neuroimmunologist with six year’s experience in the research commercialisati...

Clarissa Moreira

PHD STUDENT AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Clarissa Moreira is a PhD Candidate in the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies team. Her research is inve...

Doctor Clarissa Whitehead

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Claudia Barnes

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

After completing the Bachelor of Biomedicine at The University of Melbourne, Claudia undertook an Ho...

Claudia Shen

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Claudia is a Research Assistant working across the Infectious Disease Implementation Science & Clini...

Clodia Manorh

HEALTH EXTENSION OFFICER (HEO)

Clodia is a Health Extension Officer working within the TB program under Burnet Institute on Daru Is...

Connor Allen

HONOURS STUDENT

Connor is an honours student undertaking a systematic review with the Global Women's and Newborn's H...

Doctor Coralie Boulet

RESEARCH OFFICER

Coralie is currently working under the Malaria Virulence and Drug Discovery group, investigating the...

Cristal Hall

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Cristal has worked in the not-for-profit and community mental health sector for a number of years ac...

Doctor Damian Pavlyshyn

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OFFICER

Damian is a postdoctoral researcher in the Disease Elimination Program, where he does statistical wo...

Doctor Damian Oyong

RESEARCH OFFICER

Doctor Dani Lin

INFECTIOUS DISEASES SPECIALIST

Doctor Daniel O'Keefe

SENIOR PROJECT OFFICER

Initially working in mental health and homelessness service provision in Australia and the...

Doctor Daniela van Santen

HONORARY FELLOW

Daniela Katinka van Santen earned her bachelor's degree in Nursing and soon after completed the pre-...

Doctor Daniela da Silva Goncalves

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Daniela has substantial experience in mosquito biology, vector control, tissue culture...

Doctor Danielle Horyniak

HONORARY STAFF MEMBER

Danielle is a Senior Research Officer in the Behaviours and Health Risks Program. Drawing on...

Daphne Tanimia-William

RESEARCH RADIOGRAPHER

Associate Professor David Anderson

HONORARY BURNET INSTITUTE FELLOW

Associate Professor Anderson was trained in Microbiology and Molecular Virology at the University of...

Doctor David Harrison

HEAD OF LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES

David heads the Support Services group: Laboratory Operations and Facilities Support...

Doctor David Leitinger

HONORARY FELLOW

David (he/him) is a junior doctor and early career researcher with a special interest in sexual heal...

Professor David Wilson

CO-HEAD, STRATEGY INSIGHTS AND IMPACT

Professor David Wilson completed his PhD on infectious disease modelling in 2003

Dawson Ling

PHD CANDIDATE

Dawson's key research interest focuses on malaria drug discovery. Dawson is currently working on his...

Dean Cassano

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Dean is a research assistant in HIV Prevention at Burnet. He has a background in digital communicati...

Doctor Debra ten Brink

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Debra ten Brink completed her Master of Public Health at Imperial College London with a focus on ...

Desmond Gul

PHD STUDENT

Des is currently a PhD student under the supervision of Associate Professor Leanne Robinson, Profess...

Desmond Samson

PEER COUNSELLOR

Desmond Samson is a Peer Counsellor with the South Fly TB program, Western Province, Papua New Guine...

Doctor Dilini Rathnayake

RESEARCH OFFICER

Dina Moussa

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Dina is a Master of Public Health graduate with hands-on experience in public health research and he...

Dominic Delport

HEALTH MODELLER

Dominic's undergraduate studies were in physics and applied mathematics, and during his postgraduate...

Doriano Raffaele

MASTERS STUDENT

Doriano is currently a Masters student under the supervision of Associate Professor Peter Higgs and ...

Dorish Walsh

RESEARCH OFFICER (CLINICAL)

Dorish has a background in clinical and public health, and clinical research. In 2012, while working...

Edwin Kwong

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Edwin is a Research Assistant on the Optimise Study at Burnet Institute. He is also a Research Fello...

Associate Professor Edwina Wright

HEAD, WRIGHT GROUP

Edwina is an infectious diseases physician and clinical researcher at the Alfred Hospital and the Bu...

Elice Adimain

SENIOR FINANCE OFFICER

Senior Finance Officer

Doctor Elissa Kennedy

CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, MATERNAL, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH; CO-HEAD GLOBAL ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Elissa is a medical doctor with a Master of Public Health specialising in international health...

Doctor Elizabeth Armari

PHD CANDIDATE AND SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Elizabeth is a medical doctor with background in primary health and obstetrics, who is passionate ab...

Ellen Kearny

PHD CANDIDATE

Ellen completed a Bachelor of Arts and Science at Monash University in 2016 with interests...

Ellen Ploeger

MASTERS STUDENT

Ellen obtained her BSc in Molecular Life Sciences in 2021 from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Ne...

Doctor Elly Layton

PUBLIC HEALTH REGISTRAR

Dr Elly Layton is a Public Health Registrar at the Burnet undertaking her advanced training through ...

Doctor Elmaretta Kemba

TUBERCULOSIS MEDICAL OFFICER

Elmaretta is currently seconded to the Western Provincial Health Authority (Papua New Guinea) as a T...

Doctor Elsie Williams

SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Elsie is a Research Officer with the Burnet Diagnostics Initiative (BDI). Her research interests...

Emilia Simankowicz

SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT OFFICER

During the third year of her degree Emilia was offered a summer internship at the Bundoora campus of...

Emily Adamson

PROGRAM MANAGER, HEALTH PROMOTION, EC AUSTRALIA

Emily joined the Burnet Institute in 2019 and is part of the Eliminate C Australia Partnership team....

Doctor Emma Beavon

PUBLIC HEALTH REGISTRAR

Dr Emma Beavon is a public health registrar at the Burnet Institute undertaking her advanced trainin...

Eremas Amos

DRIVER

Driver

Evelien Rosens

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Evelien works as Senior Research Officer – International Health in the Vector Borne Disease and Trop...

Evie Kayes

MASTERS STUDENT

Evie is a Masters of Public Health student at Deakin University, she is undertaking a...

Doctor Ewa Michalak

COMMERCIALISATION PROJECT MANAGER

Dr Ewa Michalak is a molecular biologist whose career spans 20 years in cancer-focused research...

Doctor Farah Houdroge

RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Farah Houdroge is a mathematical modeller at the Burnet Institute working across a variety of pro...

Doctor Felicia Schlotthauer

SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Dr Felicia Schlotthauer works at Burnet as a Senior Research Scientist...

Felicity Copeland

MIDWIFERY CONSULTANT

Fenella McAndrew

MATHEMATICAL MODELLER

Fenella completed a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics in 2017 and a Master of Science in Ap...

Filip Djordjevic

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Filip joined Burnet Institute in 2019 on the Disease Elimination and Behaviours and Health Risks pro...

Doctor Fiona Angrisano

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Fiona completed her PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, with Professor Jake Baum...

Doctor Fiona Bruinsma

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Freya Saich

LEAD POLICY OFFICER, EC AUSTRALIA

Freya joined Burnet Institute in March 2020 as Lead Policy Officer with EC Australia. Her role is to...

Professor Freya J.I. Fowkes

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, MATERNAL, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH; HEAD, MALARIA AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

An NHMRC Fellow, Professor Freya Fowkes is Deputy Program Director, Maternal and...

Gabbi Hamilton

PROJECT OFFICER

Gabbi has a background in International Development and Public Health working on health programs aim...

Doctor Gabriela Khoury

THEME LEADER, ANTIVIRAL IMMUNITY

Dr Gabriela Khoury is an emerging research leader in clinical and translational immunology...

Geoff Drenkhahn

DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC FUNDING, PARTNERSHIPS, INNOVATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (SF PIC)

Geoff Drenkhahn is an executive with 20+ years of experience in the R+D sector with...

Geoffrey Chan

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

Geoff spent from 2011 to 2013 based in Papua New Guinea, working on a range of Burnet...

Professor Gilda Tachedjian

HEAD, LIFE SCIENCES DISCIPLINE; HEAD, RETROVIRAL BIOLOGY AND ANTIVIRALS LABORATORY

Awarded her PhD at Monash University, Professor Tachedjian received an NHMRC...

Grace Baining

FINANCE MANAGER

Finance Manager

Professor Gregory Tannock

EMERITUS PROFESSOR, BURNET INSTITUTE VISITING FELLOW

Emeritus Professor Gregory Tannock's current research interests include the causes of variability in...

Hans Kek

PHD STUDENT

Doctor Hayley Bullen

After completing her Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree in 2006, Hayley went on...

Heidi Sanford

BURNET AIID PROJECT MANAGER

Professor Heidi Drummer

CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION; SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR, BURNET DIAGNOSTICS INITIATIVE; PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, BURNET VACCINE INITIATIVE; CO-HEAD, VIRAL ENTRY AND VACCINES GROUP

Professor Heidi Drummer is Program Director for Disease Elimination and co-Head of...

Doctor Helen Zihui Wei

SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Helen works in the Global Health Diagnostic Laboratory. Her project aims to develop...

Doctor Herbert Opi

POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST

Following completion of his Bachelor of Science degree and a short stint as a research...

Doctor Hla Htay

SENIOR TECHNICAL MANAGER

Homiri Dorogori

DATA OFFICER

Homiri joined Burnet Institute in 2018 as a TB Patients and Contacts Interviewer for the RID Program...

Ian Briggs

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Doctor Imogen Elsum

RESEARCH PROGRAM MANAGER

Irene Boo

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, DRUMMER/POUMBOURIOS LABORATORY

Irene works at Burnet as a Research Assistant in the Drummer/Poumbourios Laboratory...

Iru Tofinga

PEER COUNSELLOR

Isabella Kruspe

PROJECT OFFICER

Isabella joined the Burnet in 2022 as a Project Officer in the Vector Borne Diseases and Tropical Pu...

Doctor Jack Wallace

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Jack Wallace's research looks at hepatitis B as a phenomenon where the biomedical...

Jacob Cumming

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Jacob has a background in Mathematics and Statistics, and has recently completed a Bachelor of Scien...

Doctor Jacqui Richmond

PROGRAM MANAGER, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, EC AUSTRALIA

Jade Lane

ENGAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING COORDINATOR, THE FOREST

Jake Franklin

PHD CANDIDATE

Jake has a background in social psychology and public health, having completed a Master of Applied S...

Jake Turvey

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Jake joined the Burnet Institute in 2023, working alongside the Young People’s Health Group on a num...

Professor James Beeson

DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PEOPLE); HEAD, MALARIA IMMUNITY AND VACCINES GROUP; ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, MONASH UNIVERSITY

James is a medical researcher and Public Health Physician (registered in Australia). He...

James Lawson

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER & ACTING HEAD, HEALTH EMERGENCIES

Jamillah Yamani

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION OFFICER

Jamillah joined Burnet Institute in September 2016 as a Research & Administrative Assistant. In July...

Doctor Jane Greig

SENIOR OPERATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST

Jane Raymond

MIDWIFERY SPECIALIST

Jason Asselin

MANAGER, SURVEILLANCE AND EVALUATION GROUP

Jason joined Burnet Institute after eight years of working in HIV community-based prevention...

Jason Hearn

DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER

Jenna Wilson

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Jennifer Barnes

DIRECTOR, BURNET DIAGNOSTICS INITIATIVE

Jen joined Burnet to lead the Burnet Diagnostics Initiative (BDI), an ambitious initiative...

Jenny Bodolo

PEER COUNSELLOR

Jenny Bodolo joined Burnet Institute in December 2018 as a Peer Counsellor with the South Fly TB pro...

Jenny Cao

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROJECT OFFICER

Jenny Jung

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, PHD CANDIDATE

Jessica Horton

PHD STUDENT

Associate Professor Jessica Howell

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Jessica is consultant gastroenterologist at St Vincent's Hospital and The Royal Melbourne...

Jessica Hamlyn-Harris

VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Jessica works within Burnet's Strategic Funding and Partnerships team as a Visual Communications Off...

Doctor Jo-Anne Chan

SENIOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST

After completing her Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree in 2007, Jo-Anne went on...

Joanna Wilson

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Joanna completed her Bachelor of Psychological Science in 2020 at the University of Queensland. She ...

Doctor Jocelyn Chan

PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIAN AND RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Chan is a public health physician and epidemiologist. She is currently undertaking specialist...

Joey McGregor

PHD STUDENT

Joey joins Burnet as part of the Viral Entry and Vaccines working group...

Professor Joseph (Joe) Doyle

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION; CO-HEAD, VIRAL HEPATITIS ELIMINATION; NHMRC CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Professor Doyle is a clinician-researcher and dual-trained infectious diseases and public health phy...

Doctor Joshua Hayward

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr. Hayward is a molecular virologist and computational biologist working within the Retroviral Biol...

Professor Joshua Vogel

SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW; CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, MATERNAL, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH; DEPUTY DISCIPLINE HEAD, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; CO-HEAD, GLOBAL WOMEN’S AND NEWBORN’S HEALTH GROUP

Joshua is a perinatal epidemiologist and public health researcher. He is a Senior Principal Research...

Doctor Judy Gold

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Doctor Julie Hennegan

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW; CO-HEAD, GLOBAL ADOLESCENT HEALTH WORKING GROUP

Dr Julie Hennegan is a mixed-methods researcher specialising in global adolescent and women's health...

Julie Tartaggia

PROGRAM MANAGER, LAO PDR AND THE AUSTRALIAN NGO COOPERATION PROGRAM (ANCP)

Prior to joining Burnet in 2015, Julie worked with the Australian Red Cross in...

Kaitlin Pekin

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Research Assistant

Kara Blackburn

RESEARCH MIDWIFE

Kara is a Registered Midwife and Nurse with a Master of International Public Health. She is part of ...

Karly Cini

RESEARCH OFFICER

Karly works as a Research Officer in the Global Adolescent Health group, with...

Kate Allardice

SENIOR RESEARCH NURSE

Kate has a background in reproductive health, midwifery and research. Her focus has been to work wit...

Kate Mills

RESEARCH OFFICER

Kate is a Research Officer in Global Women's and Newborn's Health. She has a background in public he...

Katelyn Stanhope

HONOURS STUDENT

Katelyn completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Deakin University in 2021 majoring in Infect...

Katherine Eddy

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROJECT OFFICER

Katherine commenced as a research project officer in maternal and child health at Burnet Institute w...

Doctor Katherine O'Flaherty

POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST

Katherine completed a PhD at Burnet Institute and the University of Melbourne in 2019...

Doctor Katie Heath

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Katie Heath MA MSc DPhil is a Senior Research Officer under the Viral Hepatitis...

Kelvin Burke

MATHEMATICAL MODELLER

Kelvin is a mathematical modeller in the Modelling and Biostatistics team. He primarily works on the...

Doctor Khai Huang

INFECTIOUS DISEASES SPECIALIST; ACTING CO-HEAD, TUBERCULOSIS ELIMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE; SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Kico Chan

RESEARCH NURSE/ EC NURSE

Kico completed her Bachelor of Nursing at La Trobe University in 2012. Kico is a registered nurse an...

Doctor Kirsten Small

SENIOR RESEARCH LEAD

Kousa Aruba

DRIVER AND LOGISTICS SUPPORT OFFICER

Kousa joined the Burnet Institute in June 2019 as a Driver and Logistics Support Officer. He has dri...

Doctor Kudakwashe Chani

COUNTRY DIRECTOR, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Dr Kudakwashe Chani is the Country Director for Burnet Institute in Papua New Guinea. He has extensi...

Kyrol Kaisan

HEALTH PROMOTER

Kyrol was born and raised in Daru. After completing high school he worked in as a storeman and wareh...

Doctor Kyu Kyu Than

SENIOR TECHNICAL COORDINATOR, MYANMAR PROGRAM

Lachlan Faktor

HONOURS STUDENT

Lachlan is a current medical student at Monash University, who has taken a year off his MD program t...

Laura Rikard-Bell

HONOURS STUDENT

Layqah Khan

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Layqah completed her Biomedicine Honours degree (Microbiology and Immunology) at the Peter Doherty I...

Professor Leanne Robinson

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, HEALTH SECURITY AND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS; SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, GROUP LEADER, VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES AND TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH

Professor Leanne Robinson BSc Adv (Hons) PhD MPHTM is a leading vector-borne diseases...

Doctor Lee Yeoh

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Doctor Lilian Hor

SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Lilian is part of the Burnet Diagnostics Initiative (BDI) working on the development of...

Lily Aboud

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Lily commenced working as Research Assistant n the Global Women' and Newborn's Health Working Group,...

Doctor Lily Lee

IP AND CONTRACTS MANAGER

Lily brings to the Institute her extensive scientific, legal and commercial education and experience...

Limya Eisa

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Limya joined Burnet in 2021 as a Research Assistant working on the Optimise Study. She is a data col...

Doctor Linda Reiling

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER, MALARIA RESEARCH: IMMUNITY, VACCINES AND NEW THERAPIES

Doctor Lindi Masson

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Doctor Liriye Kurtovic

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Liriye Kurtovic works at Burnet as a Postdoctoral Research Officer.

Lisa Davidson

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SPECIALIST

Lisa has more than 18 years experience in international health and development with...

Liz Nicol

PERSONAL ASSISTANT

Liz is a personal assistant to Deputy Director (Programs) Professor Margaret Hellard. Coming from a ...

Long Nguyen

DATA MANAGER

Long has worked as a business and data analyst across the public, private and not-for-profit...

Doctor Louisa Walsh

EVALUATION OFFICER

Louisa has a background in physiotherapy, communications and public health research. She has had ver...

Professor Margaret Hellard AM

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS; ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, MONASH UNIVERSITY, DEPM.

For almost two decades Margaret's work has centred around infectious diseases, preventing...

Doctor Margarete White

HEAD, OHS AND COMPLIANCE

Margarete’s background is in organisational psychology, specialising in occupational, health and saf...

Marie Habito

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Marie Habito is a postdoctoral researcher with experience in qualitative and...

Mark Deasey

BUSINESS MANAGER

Mark has worked in international development and humanitarian relief since the early 1980s, spending...

Professor Mark Hogarth

HEAD, IMMUNE THERAPIES GROUP

Professor Hogarth is researching the role of immune system in intractable human...

Doctor Mark Ziemann

HEAD OF BIOINFORMATICS

Mark is a bioinformatician with over 10 years experience in the analysis of genomics data. His PhD w...

Mark Tennent

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER; DIRECTOR, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Mark joined Burnet’s Centre for International Health (CIH) in July 2007, bringing with him...

Professor Mark A Stoové

HEAD OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Professor Stoové is Head of Public Health at Burnet Institute where he also and heads...

Marvad Ahad

HONOURS STUDENT

Marvad completed her Bachelor of Biomedicine at the University of Melbourne in 2018. She is currentl...

Mary Malek

HONOURS STUDENT

Mary is a postgraduate medical student at Monash University currently taking a year off to complete ...

Mary-Ann Nicholas

CO-HEAD, STRATEGY INSIGHTS AND IMPACT; HEAD, DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS

Mary-Ann joined Burnet in 2009 with a proven track record in international program...

Doctor Maureen Makama

RESEARCH OFFICER

Maureen is a public health professional with research experience in maternal health, nutrition and l...

Associate Professor Megan SC Lim

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION; HEAD, YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH

Megan is Deputy Program Director (Behaviours and Health Risks) at Burnet Institute...

Megan Sechtig

MASTERS STUDENT

Megan completed a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) in 2017, co-majoring in Criminology at Deakin Uni...

Mei Hawe

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Mellissa Bryant

SENIOR RESEARCHER

Mellissa has a clinical nursing background as a senior research coordinator in infectious diseases, ...

Merryn Roe

RESEARCH OFFICER

Merryn completed a Bachelors of Medical Science at the Australian National University in 2016 and we...

Mia Flynn

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Doctor Michael Curtis

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OFFICER

Michael completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) at Monash...

Professor Michael Toole AM

HONORARY STAFF

After a stellar career spanning decades in infectious disease research and international health at B...

Michael Traeger

RESEARCH OFFICER

Michael has worked at the Burnet Institute since 2017, and is an epidemiologist and...

Doctor Michelle Boyle

HEAD, CELLULAR RESPONSES TO DISEASE AND VACCINATION GROUP

Michelle completed her PhD in at the University of Melbourne in 2012, and received...

Doctor Michelle Scoullar

HMHB PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR; PHD CANDIDATE

Michelle is a Principal Investigator on Burnet's flagship Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB) pro...

Miika Coppard

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Miika has valuable experience working in public health policy, advocacy and research...

Milena Dalton

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, IMMUNISATION AND HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING

Milena has a decade of experience in health systems strengthening and public health research and pro...

Doctor Minh Pham

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Dr Pham was trained as medical doctor in Vietnam and completed his PhD at Burnet...

Mohammad Shah

HONOURS STUDENT

Mohammad has completed his Bachelor of Health Sciences with La Trobe University in 2021 specialising...

Molly Schneider

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Molly completed her Bachelor of Science with Honours in 2016 at the University of Melbourne. Her res...

Mona Kheng

SURVEILLANCE OFFICER – ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Mona Kheng has a background as a pharmacist with more than seven years of experience working in both...

Monica Zhang

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

Monica is a qualified Accountant with intensive experience in financial management and budgeting/for...

Naanki Pasricha

PROGRAM ENGAGEMENT MANAGER

Naanki is an experienced project and program manager in public health and international...

Nadine Barnes

MANAGER, RESEARCH GRANTS AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY OFFICE

Naomi Pank

TB NURSING OFFICER- SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

Naomi has a background in clinical nursing and is now pursuing a career in public health and operati...

Natasha Stephenson

DIGITAL CONTENT ASSISTANT

Natasha has over four years of experience in Digital Marketing and three years working in the third ...

Doctor Natasha Pereira

QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST

Nazzy Ruhi

PEER COUNSELLOR

Nazzy Ruhi is a Peer Counsellor with the South Fly TB program, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. H...

Doctor Ned Latham

HONORARY STAFF

Ned is a medical doctor and research assistant with a particular interest in hepatitis C. In 2017, h...

Nee Sin Aye

HR & ADMIN MANAGER

Nee Sin Thwet Aye has been associated with Burnet Institute Myanmar since 2007. She worked as an adm...

Neeru Varese

PROGRAM MANAGER

Neeru joined the Immune Therapies Group in 2022. She will support projects for COVID-19 antiviral th...

Associate Professor Nick Scott

HEAD, MODELLING & BIOSTATISTICS

Associate Professor Nick Scott, BSc (hons), PhD (Mathematics) is the Head of Modelling & Biostatisti...

Nicole Matthews

RESEARCH COORDINATOR CONNECT C

Nisa Wulan

HEALTH MODELLER

Nisaa completed a Master's in Public Health specialising in Biostatistics and Epidemiology...

Nomin-Dora Tenakanai

MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST

A medical laboratory scientist with over 8 years of experience in the hospital & health care industr...

Doctor Nomvuyo Mothobi

TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Nomvuyo is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist with diverse expertise who j...

Nyssa Watson

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Nyssa is a Research Assistant on the ACCESS Project (The Australian Collaboration for Coordinated En...

Doctor Oliver Looker

POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST

After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in 2013, Oliver completed an honours project under Prof...

Olivia Wilhelm

HONOURS STUDENT

Olivia Ventura

Onawuta Kesuwao

PROJECT OFFICER, GROW HEALTHY GROW STRONG PROJECT

Onawuta has a background in Food and Nutrition. He is a recent graduate at the University of Goroka,...

Oretha Paye-Mehngonzeh

TB SPECIALIST (NURSING & COUNSELLING)

Oretha has a strong background in public health and Nursing. She has worked as a nurse for more than...

Ourania Mohr

DONOR DIRECT MARKETING MANAGER

Parker Hou

KEY POPULATIONS TRAINING OFFICER, SRHIP

Parker has been working with the key populations for the past 17 years in the field...

Associate Professor Paul Agius

HONORARY PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Paul is a public health researcher with over 15 years of research experience. He is an Honorary Fell...

Paul Daly

PROJECT MANAGER

Paul Daly is an experienced international development project manager, protection, gender & inclusio...

Professor Paul Dietze

CO-PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DISEASE ELIMINATION

Professor Paul Dietze is one of Australia's leading alcohol and other drug epidemiologists...

Associate Professor Paul Gilson

DEPUTY DISCIPLINE HEAD, LIFE SCIENCES; CO-HEAD, MALARIA VIRULENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY GROUP; HEAD OF BURNET CELL IMAGING FACILITY

Paul Gilson is a molecular biologist primarily interested in how malaria parasites invade...

Paul Rathbone

CHIEF OF STAFF

Paul is responsible for the initiation, general management and the implementation of key...

Paul Armstrong

CO-LEAD POLICY AND ADVOCACY, ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C AUSTRALIA

Paul has held several policy and leadership roles in the public sector including at NSW Health (i.e....

Doctor Paula Ellenberg

LABORATORY MANAGER

Dr Paula Ellenberg is a mid-career researcher with 12 years of post-doctoral experience...

Pele Ursila Melepia

HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES TEAM LEADER, ENB FOCAL POINT

Penny Burke

RELATIONSHIPS MANAGER

Penny has worked in the profit-for-purpose and fundraising realms for over 15 years, focusing in mor...

Penny Hill

PHD CANDIDATE; RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Penny commenced her PhD in 2017, under the supervision of Professor Paul Dietze. Her work focuses on...

Associate Professor Peter Azzopardi

HONORARY FELLOW

Peter Azzopardi MEpi FRACP PhD leads a program of research around global adolescent...

Associate Professor Peter Higgs

BURNET SENIOR FELLOW. SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY

Peter has a background in community development and has worked with marginalised populations...

Doctor Peter Newman

LABORATORY MANAGER

Peter has an interest in creating and developing diagnostic assays, with a focus on...

Peter Patchala

IT SUPPORT / PROJECT OFFICER

IT Support / Project Officer

Peter Spiller

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND COMPANY SECRETARY

Peter Spiller works at Burnet as the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary...

Doctor Philipp du Cros

CO-HEAD TUBERCULOSIS ELIMINATION & IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE; PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Philipp is a Principal Research Fellow and Co-head of the Tuberculosis Elimination and Implementatio...

Phillip Luong

MATHEMATICAL MODELLER

Phillip originally started working at the Burnet in the summer of 2015-16 on some holiday research p...

Phoebe Nguyen

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Phoebe holds a Master degree in Public Health / International Public Health with a specialisation in...

Doctor Phone Myint Win

COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE, MYANMAR

Dr. Phone has been Burnet Institute's Myanmar Country Representative since 2013...

Doctor Phyo Aung

PHD CANDIDATE

Dr Phyo Aung is a doctoral research candidate with the Monash University's School of Public Health a...

Possawat Jorakate

TECHNICAL COORDINATOR

Possawat possesses a professional background in the field of medical technology, with specialized kn...

Priscah Hezeri

RESEARCH OFFICER

Priscah Hezeri graduated as an Environmental Health Officer in 2011. Since then, she has worked with...

Rachael Farquhar

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT OFFICER, PROJECT MANAGER

Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Rachel Sacks-Davis is a Senior Research Officer at the Burnet Institute in the...

Rachel Smith

MIDWIFERY SPECIALIST

Rachel joined the Burnet Institute in 2019 as a Midwifery Education Consultant involved...

Doctor Raffi Gugasyan

CHAIR OF EDUCATION; HEAD OF DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS AND CHRONIC IMMUNE DISORDERS GROUP (GUGASYAN LABORATORY)

Dr Gugasyan obtained his PhD from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute (Melbourne) and...

Rebecca Narokobi

SENIOR MOLECULAR SCIENTIST

Rebecca works at Burnet as a Senior Molecular Scientist in PNG...

Doctor Rebecca Winter

DEPUTY HEAD JUSTICE HEALTH GROUP

Rebecca Winter has over 15 years of experience in public health research...

Doctor Rebecca Mathews

PUBLIC HEALTH REGISTRAR

Rebekka (Bek) Petrovic

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Bek joined Burnet in 2022 as a Research Assistant on SuperMix: The Melbourne Injecting...

Reema Bajaj

PROTEIN CHEMIST

Reema is a Protein Chemist in Immune Therapies Group. She has a background in...

Rob Daly

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY AND SUPPORTER ENGAGEMENT

Rob is a senior leader with experience in philanthropy, marketing, community relations...

Doctor Rob J Center

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Center is a molecular virologist whose interests include characterising the structure...

Robert Franzone

PROJECT MANAGER - TB ELIMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE (INDONESIA)

Professor Robert Power AM

PROJECT CONSULTANT, FLEMING FUND PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Professor Power retired (Dec 2019) from his key leadership roles at Burnet but...

Rodney Stewart

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Doctor Romesh Abeysuriya

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Romesh joined Burnet at the start of 2018 to work on Optima TB and HCV modelling...

Doctor Rona Weerasuriya

MONITORING AND EVALUATION LEAD

Rona is a monitoring and evaluation specialist, with extensive skills and experience in...

Doctor Rowan Martin-Hughes

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Rowan Martin-Hughes comes from a background in mathematics and computer science...

Rudy Viriu

SENIOR DATA ENTRY OFFICER

Rudy Virui joined Burnet Institute in 2017 as the Data Entry Officer. In 2019 he was...

Ruth Fidelis

LABORATORY SUPERVISOR

Ruth has a technical trade certificate in science technology (general lab procedures and...

Sam McEwen

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SURVEILLANCE RESEARCH OFFICER

Sam is the epidemiology and surveillance officer for the STRIVE PNG project where...

Doctor Samantha Colledge-Frisby

RESEARCH FELLOW

Samantha completed her PhD at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre...

Samantha Timms

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR & CEO, BRENDAN CRABB AC

Samantha works at Burnet as the Executive Assistant to Director & CEO...

Samara Griffin

PHD STUDENT/RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Samson Poesi

SR TB/HIV MANAGER/TECHNICAL TEAM LEADER

Samson is a Health Extension Officer (Physician Assistant) who recently joined Burnet...

Sandra Chishimba

PHD STUDENT

Sandra is currently working on the role of monocytes and neutrophils in acquired immunity...

Sandra Esparon

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Sandra is a long-term member of the Immune Therapies group and has worked with...

Sarah Amir Hamzah

HONOURS STUDENT

Sarah has completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree majoring in Immunology and...

Sarah Eddy

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Sarah completed her Bachelor of Science in 2019 at the University of Melbourne...

Sarah Hess

RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Sarah has recently completed her Bachelor of Science with a focus in biochemistry and...

Sarah Cheang

HONOURS STUDENT

Sarah is a medical student from Monash University, who is joining the Global Women's...

Doctor Sayaka Horiuchi

RESEARCH COLLABORATOR

Sayaka Horiuchi is Japanese paediatrician and epidemiologist. She has more than 15 years...

Scott Umali

RESEARCH OFFICER

Scott is a research officer working with the Tuberculosis Working Group and the Know C-19...

Sean Perera

TALENT ACQUISITION LEAD

Sean began his HR career working in recruitment for the School of Engineering at...

Serina Cucuzza

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, COMMERCIAL INNOVATION AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

Serina has a background in both business and science and has...

Shady Abdelsalam

MASTER’S STUDENT

Shady is a Master of Public Health (MPH) student at La Trobe University. Having completed...

Doctor Shahidul Islam

TB SPECIALIST-PUBLIC HEALTH

Dr Shahidul Islam works at Burnet as a TB-Specialist...

Shan Huang

GLOBAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

Shan is a Public Health Practitioner specialising in Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition...

Shannon Christensen

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C AUSTRALIA (EC AUSTRALIA)

Shannon joined the Burnet Institute in March 2022 as a Project Officer before...

Sharol Ronkentuo

PROJECT OFFICER – AIHSS PROJECT

Sharon works at Burnet as a Project Officer...

Doctor Shazia Ruybal

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Dr Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez is a Postdoctoral Scientist in the Vector-Borne Diseases...

Doctor Shelley Walker

RESEARCH FELLOW

Shelley has a background in nursing, having worked in clinical settings in Australia and the...

Doctor Sherrie Kelly

HONORARY STAFF

Dr Sherrie Kelly is an infectious disease modeller specialising in applied health economics...

Shuning Zheng

RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Shuning completed her Bachelor's Degree of Pharmaceutical Engineering at...

Sieyin Phung

PROGRAM MANAGER

Prior to 2017, Sieyin was the Centre for International Health's Administration...

Doctor Soe Moe Aung

PROJECT MANAGER (SURVEILLANCE AND RESEARCH)

Sophia Schröeder

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Sophia completed a Master of Public Health at Lund University in Sweden in...

Soula Drummond

MANAGER, TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

Stalbek Aiylchiev

TB SPECIALIST - CARE AND TREATMENT

Stalbek currently works in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea as a TB...

Doctor Stefanie Vaccher

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW – IMMUNISATION AND HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING

Stefanie is an epidemiologist currently working in Papua New Guinea. She has experience...

Doctor Stenard Hiasihri

TEAM LEADER, FLEMING FUND COUNTRY GRANT

Dr Stenard Hiasihri is public health medical doctor in Papua New Guinea who has...

Stephanie Curtis

SURVEILLANCE OFFICER / MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY (APPLIED EPIDEMIOLOGY) SCHOLAR

Steph is completing Australia's field epidemiology training program, the Master...

Stephanie Franet

EC AUSTRALIA PROJECT MANAGER

Stephanie Levy

HEALTH EMERGENCIES PROJECTS MANAGER

With over ten years' international project coordination and management experience...

Doctor Stephanie Munari

PUBLIC HEALTH REGISTRAR

Steph is a public health registrar at the Burnet Institute undertaking her advanced training...

Stephanie Routley

RESEARCH OFFICER

Associate Professor Stephen Bell

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

A/Prof Stephen Bell is a senior social scientist, with 22 years’ experience across South-East Asia, ...

Professor Steve Graham

SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Steve Graham is a paediatrician with 20 years of clinical and research experience...

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar

CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER - COVID & HEALTH EMERGENCIES; DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, HEALTH SECURITY AND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS; PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar is Chief Health Officer of COVID & Health Emergencies, a Deputy P...

Professor Suzanne Crowe AO

HONORARY STAFF

Professor Suzanne Crowe AO retired from Burnet Institute in 2018 following...

Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen

HONORARY PRINCIPAL FELLOW

Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen (BPharm BPharmSc[Hons] PhD MPS) is the Deputy...

Doctor Tafireyi Marukutira

TB SPECIALIST – PUBLIC HEALTH

Tafi is a public health physician with more than 15 years of experience in public health...

Tanya Cugura

PROGRAM MANAGER

Tanya joined Burnet in 2021 as Program Manager for the Global Women's...

Tasmin Gordon

PHD STUDENT

Tamsin completed her Bachelor of Science Advanced with Honours at Monash University in...

Doctor Tasmyn Soller

RESEARCH OFFICER

Dr Tasmyn Soller is a medical doctor with interests in paediatrics, public and global health...

Tasnim Zakir

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Tasnim has a key interest in vaccine and potential antibodies development...

Tess Keam

SOCIAL WORKER

Tess has a varied career in social justice campaigning, education support and...

Tessie Clip

TB TREATMENT SUPERVISOR COORDINATOR (NEW IRELAND)

Tessie Clip is a Health Extension Officer by profession and is attached to the Global...

Thalia Wat

COORDINATOR - ACCELERATING IMMUNISATION AND HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING PROJECT

Thalia works at Burnet as a Coordinator for our Accelerating Immunisation and Health Systems...

Doctor Tharindu Wickramaarachchi

MATHEMATICAL MODELLER

Dr. Tharindu Wickramaarachchi is a health modeller based in Melbourne specialising...

Doctor Thi Nguyen

DATA MANAGER

Dr Thi Nguyen joined Burnet Institute in 2019 as a Data Manager. Before...

Doctor Thin Mar Win

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Dr. Thin Mar Win is a registered medical doctor specialising in public health...

Doctor Thomas Mikeska

QUALITY SYSTEMS MANAGER, BURNET DIAGNOSTICS INITIATIVE

Thomas is an experienced Professional in Quality Management...

Thomas Walsh

HEALTH MODELLER

Tom's undergraduate studies were in Biomedical sciences with a focus on neuroscience...

Thuy Chao

ADMINISTRATION OFFICER

Thuy Vy Nguyen

MASTER STUDENT

Thuy Vy has a background as a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology. Because of her curiosity, she is...

Tianhui Ke

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Tianhui joined Burnet in 2021 as a Research Assistant working on the...

Tim Spelman

BIOSTATISTICIAN

Tim works at Burnet as a Biostatistician...

Timothy Ho

PHD STUDENT

Tim graduated with an Honours degree from the University of Auckland...

Tommy Tran

IT SUPPORT OFFICER

Tommy works at Burnet as an IT Support Officer...

Trevor Aselai

LOGISTICS SUPPORT OFFICER AND DRIVER

Trevor works at Burnet as a Logistics Support Officer and Driver...

Doctor Tricia Diggle

IP PROCESS MANAGER

Tricia works at Burnet as a IP Process Manager...

Troy Combo

PROGRAM MANAGER, ABORIGINAL HEALTH PLAN, EC AUSTRALIA

Troy has a joint appointment with both Burnet Institute and the University...

Usha Savur

ACCOUNTS OFFICER

Usha works at Burnet as an Accounts Officer...

Doctor Victoria Polkinghorne

DATA PROGRAMMER

Victoria is a Research Officer at Burnet Institute and has a PhD in medical sciences...

Wai Chung Tse

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Wai Chung is a current MD candidate at Monash University School of Medicine...

Doctor Win Han Oo

REGIONAL PROGRAM MANAGER (HEALTH SECURITY) FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA

Dr Win Han Oo is a registered medical doctor and a senior program manager...

Doctor Win Yee

CLINICAL SERVICES MANAGER

Win Lei worked as a medical doctor in her early career years, involved in primary...

Doctor Win Htike

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER (HEALTH SECURITY & MALARIA) AND PHD STUDENT

Yafinimbo Yaninen

FINANCE OFFICER

Yaf has a Bachelor Degree in Business majoring in Accounting...

Yanqin Zhang

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Yanqin joined Burnet in 2021 as a bilingual research assistant working on...

Ye Min Latt

SENIOR DATA OFFICER

Doctor Yinzong Xiao

RESEARCH OFFICER

Yinzong is a public health researcher and mathematical modeller…

Doctor Zay Yar Swe

PROGRAM MANAGER (ADOLESCENT HEALTH)

Zeshi Fisher

TECHNICAL OFFICER

Zeshi is a midwife with expertise in community and tertiary education, health...