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Steph is an epidemiologist currently completing Australia’s Field Epidemiology training program, the Master of Philosophy (Applied Epidemiology), through the Australian National University, placed at Burnet. Her current projects focus on TB among healthcare workers in Yogyakarta Indonesia, TB screening in high incidence settings, and latent TB surveillance in LMICs.
Steph was seconded to the Victorian Department of Health and Human services for the first half of 2020 and worked as an outbreak epidemiologist on the COVID-19 response.
Prior to the specialist training, she was a Research Officer in Burnet’s Health Security Program and International Development discipline, with a specific focus on tuberculosis. She has worked on the RID-TB project, a FIND clinical trial in Port Moresby assessing the diagnostic capacity of a new TB diagnostic tool, innovative TB elimination projects in Indonesia, and Operational Research and Australia Awards training programs.
Building a Centre of Excellence for Research and Training for DR-TB in Daru, Papua New Guinea
Diagnostic accuracy of Molbio Truenat for diagnosis of TB and rifampicin resistance
Major advances in understanding malaria immunity and biology
PRIME-TB: Papua New Guinea & Republic of Indonesia for the Micro Elimination of TB
RID-TB: Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant TB in Western Province, PNG
Zero TB initiative Yogyakarta
To create and translate knowledge into better health, so no-one is left behind.
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