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)

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  Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies

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  Improved point-of-care test to eliminate congenital syphilis

Publications (14)

2023 (1)

• Low knowledge of newborn danger signs among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea and implications for health seeking behaviour in early infancy - findings from a longitudinal study.
  Eghrari D, Scoullar MJL, Wilson AN, Peach E, Elijah A, Melepia P, SupSup H, Vallely LM, Siba PM, Kennedy EC, Vogel JP, Homer CSE, Robinson LJ, Fowkes FJI, Pomat W, Crabb BS, Beeson JG, Morgan CJ
  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2023 Jan; 23(1):71

2021 (3)

• Point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted and genital infections during pregnancy in Papua New Guinea (WANTAIM trial): protocol for an economic evaluation alongside a cluster-randomised trial.
  Batura N, Saweri OP, Vallely A, Pomat W, Homer C, Guy R, Luchters S, Mola G, Vallely LM, Morgan C, Kariwiga G, Wand H, Rogerson S, Tabrizi SN, Whiley DM, Low N, Peeling RW, Siba PM, Riddell M, Laman M, Bolnga J, Robinson LJ, Morewaya J, Badman S, Kelly-Hanku A, Toliman PJ, Peter W, Peach E, Garland S, Kaldor J, Wiseman V
  BMJ Open. 2021 Aug; 11(8):e046308
• Mycoplasma genitalium and Other Reproductive Tract Infections in Pregnant Women, Papua New Guinea, 2015-2017.
  Scoullar MJL, Boeuf P, Peach E, Fidelis R, Tokmun K, Melepia P, Elijah A, Bradshaw CS, Fehler G, Siba PM, Erskine S, Mokany E, Kennedy E, Umbers AJ, Luchters S, Robinson LJ, Wong NC, Vallely AJ, Badman SG, Vallely LM, Fowkes FJI, Morgan C, Pomat W, Crabb BS, Beeson JG
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Mar; 27(3):894-904
• Risk factors and knowledge associated with high unintended pregnancy rates and low family planning use among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea.
  Peach E, Morgan C, Scoullar MJL, Fowkes FJI, Kennedy E, Melepia P, Homiehombo P, Au L, Luchters S, Umbers AJ, Vallely A, Vallely LM, Kelly-Hanku A, Robinson LJ, Crabb BS, Elijah A, Siba PM, Pomat W, Beeson JG
  Sci Rep. 2021 Jan; 11(1):1222

2020 (2)

• Phylogenetic clustering networks among heterosexual migrants with new HIV diagnoses post-migration in Australia.
  Sacks-Davis R, Chibo D, Peach E, Aleksic E, Crowe SM, El Hayek C, Marukutira T, Higgins N, Stoové M, Hellard M
  PLoS One. 2020 Sep; 15(9):e0237469
• Strengthening routine immunization in Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional provincial assessment of front-line services.
  Morgan CJ, Saweri OPM, Larme N, Peach E, Melepia P, Au L, Scoullar MJL, Reza MS, Vallely LM, McPake BI, Beeson JG
  BMC Public Health. 2020 Jan; 20(1):100

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; 4:53

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 (13)

2021 (3)

• 2021 in Review: January to June
• New STI affecting pregnant women in PNG
• New study highlights family planning needs in PNG

2020 (1)

• New plan for PNG immunisation

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)

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

2015 (1)

• MRDC supporting HMHB program