Background

Elizabeth’s professional interests relate to operational research and public health action to reduce health and social inequalities in maternal and child health, health system strengthening and partnerships for development. She has a background in clinical medicine and holds a Master of Social and Economic Sciences, specialising in international development, and a Master of Public Health.

Appointments

• Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM)

Positions

• Research Project Manager, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Burnet Institute, Papua New Guinea
• Public Health Registrar, Burnet Institute, Melbourne
• Public Health Registrar, Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Warrnambool
• Public Health Intern, Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World, Paris
• Resident Medical Officer, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria
• Intern, the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

Qualifications

• 2013: Master of Public Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney
• 2011: Master of Social and Economic Sciences (specialty: international development), Institute Catholique, Paris
• 2006: BMBS, Flinders University, Adelaide
• 2002: Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Monash University, Melbourne

Awards

• 2019: Gerry Murphy Prize of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
• 2018: Graham Rouch Award of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (Victoria), of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).

Projects (3)

Current (2)

• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
  A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in PNG.
• Improved point-of-care test to eliminate congenital syphilis
  Optimising and validating an innovative test to enable immediate treatment at the point of care.

Past (1)

• Substance use and related harms among young people in the Solomon Islands
  Quantitative and qualitative research into youth substance use in the Solomon Islands.

Publications (8)

2019 (1)

• Point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections to improve birth outcomes in high-burden, low-income settings: Study protocol for a cluster randomized crossover trial (the WANTAIM Trial, Papua New Guinea)
  Vallely AJ, William S. Pomat WS, Homer C, Guy R, Luchters S, Mola GDL, Kariwiga G, Vallely LM, Wiseman V, Morgan C, Wand H, Rogerson SJ, Tabrizi SN, Whiley DM, Low N, Peeling R, Siba P, Riddell M, Laman M, Bolnga J, Robinson LJ, Morewaya J, Badman SG, Batura N, Kelly-Hanku A, Toliman PJ, Peter W, Babona D, Peach E, Garland SM, Kaldor JM
  Well Open Res. 2019 May; Epub ahead of print (Awaiting Open Peer Review)

2018 (2)

• Aiming for 90-90-90 - the importance of understanding the risk factors for HIV exposure and advanced HIV infection in migrant populations and other groups who do not report male-to-male sex.
  Peach E, Lemoh C, Stoové M, Agius P, El Hayek C, Higgins N, Hellard M
  Sex Health. 2018 Oct; 15(5):441-450
• Blood-borne virus transmission in an urban, culturally diverse neighbourhood: results from a cross-sectional bio-behavioural survey using innovative outreach methods in a hard-to-reach population.
  Peach E, Cogger S, Byron K, Francis P, O'Keefe D, Higgs P, Stoove M, Elmore K, Dietze P, Hellard M
  Sex Health. 2018 Oct; 15(1):54-60

2017 (1)

• Alcohol and other substance use among a sample of young people in the Solomon Islands.
  Quinn B, Peach E, Wright CJC, Lim MSC, Davidson L, Dietze P
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2017 Aug; 41(4):358-364

2016 (1)

• Safeguarding maternal and child health in South Africa by starting the Child Support Grant before birth: Design lessons from pregnancy support programmes in 27 countries.
  Chersich MF, Luchters S, Blaauw D, Scorgie F, Kern E, Van den Heever A, Rees H, Peach E, Kharadi S, Fonn S
  S Afr Med J. 2016 Dec; 106(12):1192-1210

2013 (2)

• A comparison of Australian rural and metropolitan cardiovascular risk and mortality: the Greater Green Triangle and North West Adelaide population surveys.
  Tideman P, Taylor AW, Janus E, Philpot B, Clark R, Peach E, Laatikainen T, Vartiainen E, Tirimacco R, Montgomerie A, Grant J, Versace V, Dunbar JA
  BMJ Open. 2013 Aug; 3(8):e003203
• Does the shortage of diabetes specialists in regional and rural Australia matter? Results from Diabetes MILES--Australia.
  Skinner T, Allen P, Peach E, Browne J, Pouwer F, Speight J, Dunbar JA
  Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2013 May; 100(2):222-229

2012 (1)

• The disparity called rural health: what is it, and what needs to be done?
  Dunbar JA, Peach E
  Aust J Rural Health. 2012 Dec; 20(6):290-292

News Articles (9)

2018 (3)

• Major milestone for Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
• HMHB researcher wins award
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: On the road with Kerryanne Tokmun

2017 (2)

• Burnet hosts High Commissioner
• Health challenges for women in PNG focus of IWD lunch

2016 (3)

• This Mother's Day spare a thought for mums in PNG
• From heartbreak to hope: A personal insight from Kokopo
• HMHB attracts Principal Supporter

2015 (1)

• MRDC supporting HMHB program