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Doctor Aoife Hurley

Public Health Registrar
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Background

Dr Aoife Hurley is a Public Health Registrar at the Burnet undertaking her advanced training through the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM). After 6 years of practicing medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology, general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery she chose to focus on public health to contribute to upstream, inequity reducing health interventions. Prior to joining the Burnet she held a range of roles within the Victorian Department of Health in COVID-19 Case Contact and Outbreak Management, Strategy and Policy, Environmental health, and Communicable Disease. She is a current member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Climate Change and Health Policy and Advocacy Advisory Group.

Qualifications
  • 2022: Master of Public Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2018: Master of Surgery, University of Sydney, Australia
  • 2013: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Obstetrics, University College Cork, Ireland 
Appointments
  • 2024-ongoing: Burnet Institute, Public Health Registrar
  •  2024-ongoing: Subject Coordinator Environmental Health, University of Melbourne
  • 2023: Communicable Disease, Principal Public Health Medical Officer, Victorian Department of Health
  • 2022: Environmental Health, Principal Public Health Medical Officer, Victorian Department of Health
  • 2021-2022: COVID-19 Strategy & Policy, Medical Adviser, Victorian Department of Health
  • 2020-2021: COVID-19 Case Contact and Outbreak Management, Medical Lead, Victorian Department of Health
  • 2016-2019: Surgical Registrar:
    • Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Austin Health, Melbourne
    • Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
    • General Surgery Werribee Mercy Hospital, Melbourne
    •  General Surgery Maroondah Hospital, Melbourn
  • 2014-2015: Resident Medical Officer:
    • Obstetrics & Gynaecology Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne
    • Surgery Maroondah Hospital, Melbourne
    • 2013-2014: Intern, Medicine/Surgery/Obstetrics & Gynaecology Cork University Hospital, Ireland
Positions
  • 2023-ongoing: Research Coordinator, Connect C, Burnet Institute
  • 2021-2022: Project Coordinator, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis/ Doherty Institute
  • 2017-2020: Project Coordinator, Clinical Panels, WorkSafe Victoria.
  • 2015-2016: Operations Manager, Precision Brain Spine and Pain
  • 2011- 2014, HR & Staff Development Manager, Eye Surgery Associates

 

Awards
  • 2022: Capstone Excellence Award Public Health in Practice University of Melbourne
  • 2013: Title of College Scholar, University College Cork, Ireland
  • 2013: Second Prize Henry Hutchinson Stewart National Essay Prize, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Ireland
  • 2013: Nominated for William Kearney Prize for Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Ireland