Danielle Borg is the program coordinator for the Queensland Family Cohort Study at the Mater Research Institute. Here she talks us through the large scale project, as well as her career journey and trying to manage work and life!

Interview with Associate Professor Gregor Devine, QIMR Berghofer

Feb 20th, 2022 27m 4s

Greg took some time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about all things mosquitos. Hear about his career journey and the current work happening in vector borne diseases here!

Interview with Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Paul Kelly

Feb 2nd, 2022 15m 16s

Dr Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer for Australia, took time out of his busy schedule to talk with 'Stories in Public Health' about his career journey and what it's been like leading throughout a global pandemic.

Interview with Professor Robyn Littlewood, Chief Executive Officer, Health and Wellbeing Queensland

Nov 22nd, 2021 25m 34s

Professor Littlewood talks us through the role of Health and Wellbeing Queensland, her career journey to CEO and what it has been like working in preventative health through a pandemic.

Interview with Dr Astrid Rodriguez-Acevedo, Founder, Project Huitaca

Oct 19th, 2021 19m 31s

Astrid is a post doctoral researcher at the Translational Research Institute and founder of Project Huitcaca, a non-for-profit aiming to support Latin American women in Science. She talks to us about her career journey, the mission of Project H

Interview with Dr Astrid Rodriguez-Acevedo, Founder, Project Huitaca

Oct 19th, 2021 19m 37s

Interview with Professor Elizabeth Eakin, Head of School of Public Health, University of Queensland

Aug 10th, 2021 24m 29s

Professor Elizabeth Eakin is Head of School of the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. She is a behavioural scientist who's work focuses on interventions in chronic disease prevention and management. She sat down with me to talk

Interview with Hayley Mundeva and Annalise Mathers from ThriveHire

Apr 11th, 2021 28m 57s

Hayley is the founder and CEO of ThriveHire, a curated job board for those looking to build a career in global health. She built the company with a strong team, including Program Officer, Annalise Mathers. They talk with us here about their own

Interview with Assoc. Prof. Lisa Whop, Research School of Population Health, ANU

Dec 29th, 2020 26m 4s

Associate Professor Lisa Whop is an epidemiologist, leading research into cervical cancer control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. She shares her important research and career lessons with us here.

Interview with Dr Naveen Thacker, International vaccine expert and Deep Children Hospital Director

Nov 9th, 2020 21m 49s

Dr Naveen Thacker is a pediatrician, and internationally recognised expert in vaccination. He played a key role in Polio eradication in India and is now working to fight misinformation online. He shares here, lessons from his career as well as

Interview with the host of Stories in Public Health, Dr Amalie Dyda

Jul 13th, 2020 18m 54s

I swapped seats for this episode and gave my usual hosting hat to Dr Melina Georgousakis. I have tried to share how I got my start in public health, why I started the podcast and a few lessons I have learned along my journey!

Interview with Dr Lindsey Reece, School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Dec 3rd, 2019 24m 32s

Dr Lindsey Reece is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. She is the Director of a collaborative research partnership between the University and the NSW Office of Sport known as SPRINTER (Sport and Active Recre

Interview with Dr Erica Crome, Chief Operating Officer at Sleepfit/Clinical Psychologist

Nov 18th, 2019 22m 39s

Ever wondered what it's like to transition from academia to private industry? Dr Erica Crome has done just that. She shares her journey and lessons learned with us at Stories in Public Health!

Interview with Associate Prof. Lesley Russell, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Uni of Sydney

Sep 9th, 2019 29m 49s

Adjunct Associate Professor Lesley Russell has a wealth of experience working in health policy both in Australia and the US. She currently works at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney. Lesley shares tips as to how w

Interview with Adjunct Professor Bill Bellew, The University of Sydney

Aug 6th, 2019 28m 26s

Professor Bill Bellew shares the story of his career working in non-communicable diseases, the success stories and the challenges.

Interview with Julie Anne Mitchell, National Director of Prevention at the Heart Foundation

May 17th, 2019 27m 15s

Julie Anne Mitchell has dedicated her career to the prevention of chronic diseases. She is currently the Head of Prevention at The Heart Foundation and shares her story and insights with us here!

Interview with Associate Professor Anne Cust, Cancer Epidemiology & Prevention, University of Sydney

May 6th, 2019 24m 45s

Associate Professor Anne Cust heads the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research group at the Sydney School of Public Health. She specialises in cancer epidemiology and shares her research and career journey with us here!

Interview with Catharine Lumby, Professor in Media, Macquarie University

Apr 1st, 2019 29m 37s

Interview with Catharine Lumby, author and Professor in Media, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. Catharine shares with us some amazing tips on how to write for a larger audience and how to nav

Interview with Rosemary Hegner, Director NSW Health Emergency Management Unit

Mar 5th, 2019 28m 1s

Rosemary is the Director NSW Health Emergency Management Unit, with extensive leadership experience. She shares her career journey and insights with us here!

Interview with Andrew Hayen, Professor of Biostatistics in the Faculty of Health at UTS

Feb 18th, 2019 31m 26s

Andrew Hayen is the coordinator of the Master of Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and an experienced biostatistician.He talks to us to demystify statistics in Public Health and shares some tips to help those of use w

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care with Enrico Coiera

Nov 30th, 2018 21m 26s

Professor Coiera is a Director at The Australian Institute of Health Innovation, and also my boss!After training as a medical doctor, and completing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Enrico has dedicated his career to further developing

Interview with Associate Professor Melissa Kang, University of Technology Sydney

Nov 2nd, 2018 30m 36s

Associate Professor Melissa Kang is a passionate public health academic, medical doctor and an advocate. Her research focuses on young people, in particular access to health care and young people’s sexuality and sexual health.

Interview with Dr Robin Miller, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham

Oct 17th, 2018 27m 54s

Dr Robin Miller is the Deputy Director of the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. His main research focus is evaluating and learning from change initiatives.

Interview with Dr Chatu Yapa, MSF field worker and PhD student, ANU

Sep 18th, 2018 18m 24s

Dr Chatu Yapa trained as a medical doctor and worked in New Zealand and Australia before joining Medecins sans Frontieres in 2012. She has since completed the Australian Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP)/MAE program and is currently en