Background

Steph is a public health registrar at the Burnet Institute undertaking her advanced training through the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM). She has a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine with particular interests in communicable disease and epidemiology. She is passionate about the social determinants of health and improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and those in the Pacific Island nations.

Positions

• 2020 – present: Public Health Registrar, Burnet Institute
• 2018: Senior Resident Medical Officer, Central Australia Health Services
• 2015 - 2017: Hospital Medical Officer, Alfred Health

Qualifications

• 2019: Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University
• 2018: Emergency Medicine Certificate, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
• 2014: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Deakin University
• 2010: Bachelor of Biomedicine, University of Melbourne

Awards

• Rural Australian Medical Undergraduate Scholarship (RAMUS)

Projects (1)

Current (1)

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  Optimising Quarantine Study

Publications (13)

2022 (2)

• Chlamydia prevention and management in Australia: reducing the burden of disease.
  Munari SC, Goller JL, Hellard ME, Hocking JS
  Med J Aust. 2022 Nov; 217(10):499-501
• Quarantine preparedness - the missing factor in COVID-19 behaviour change? Qualitative insights from Australia.
  Davis A, Munari S, Doyle J, Sutton B, Cheng A, Hellard M, Gibbs L
  BMC Public Health. 2022 Sep; 22(1):1806

2021 (11)

• The Optimise Study:- Impacts of the COVID-19 response on culturally and linguistically diverse communities.(PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Heath K, Altermatt A, Menon V, Munari S, Merner B, Hill S, Shearer F, Gibbs L, Coelho A, Fletcher-Lartey S, Stoové M, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Dec; Report 13(Dec):1-12
• COVID-19 testing and vaccination. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S, Merner B, Hill S, Stoové M, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Oct; Report 11(Mar):1-11
• The Optimise Study: Information access and communication about COVID-19. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Kwong E, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S, Merner B, Hill S, Stoové M, Wilson A, Caddy C, Lim M, Vogel J, Power R, Coghlan B, Cheong M, Bradfield Z, Homer C, Pedrana A, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Sep; Report 10:1-13
• The Optimise Study: Vaccination knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Kwong E, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S. Merner B, Hill S, Stoové M, Griffiths D, Collie A, Lim M, Eddy S, Meagher N, McDougall C, Marinkovic Chavez K, Carpenter L, Fletcher-Lartey S, Price D, Gibbs L, Shearer F, Power R, Cheong M, Caddy C, Pedrana A, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Aug; Report 9:1-15
• The Optimise Study: Impact of government restrictions on risk mitigation strategies. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Kwong E, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S. Merner B, Hill S, Power R, Cheong M, Caddy C, Griffiths D, Collie A, Stoové M, Pedrana A, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Jul; Report 8:1-12
• The Optimise Study: The impact of COVID19 on income and finances. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Kwong E, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S. Merner B, Hill S, Griffiths D, Collie A, Stoové M, Pedrana A, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Jun; Report 7:1-9
• The Optimise Study: Gendered differences in coping and responding to COVID-19. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Kwong E, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S. Merner B, Hill S, Stoové M, Pedrana A, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 May; Report 6:1-10
• Rethinking the use of 'vulnerable'.
  Munari SC, Wilson AN, Blow NJ, Homer CSE, Ward JE
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2021 Apr; 45(3):197-199
• The Optimise Study: Social networks and mixing patterns. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Heath K, Altermatt A, Munari S, Merner B, Hill S, Lusher D, Radhitio Sadewo G, Wang P, Pedrana A, Gibney K, Hellard M
  The Optimise Study. 2021 Apr; Report 5:1-12
• The Optimise Study: Vaccine preparedness. (PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Heath K, Altermatt A, Merner B, Hill S, Pedrana A, Munari S, Horyniak D, Walker S, Wallace J, Block K, Gibbs L, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2021 Mar; Report 4:1-8
• The phases of hepatitis C elimination: achieving WHO elimination targets.
  Pedrana A, Munari S, Stoové M, Doyle J, Hellard M
  Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Jan; 6(1):6-8

News Articles (3)

2022 (1)

• Reducing the impacts of chlamydia in Australia

2021 (1)

• Taking actions towards Reconciliation

2020 (1)

• Burnet's COVID-19 self-isolation study