Dr Simon Graham
- Position:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Theme(s):
- Viral Infectious Diseases
- Discipline(s):
- Indigenous Health
- Unit(s):
- Department of Infectious Diseases
- Lab Group(s):
- Biggs Group
Simon is a National Health & Medical Research Council Fellow (NHMRC) and senior research fellow based in the Department of Infectious Diseases. He is the lead of the Indigenous Health Cross-cutting Discipline at the Doherty Institute. Currently he is working on a project that examines Aboriginal peoples’ perspectives of COVID-19 restrictions, mask wearing and vaccines. He led a community-based trial that successfully increased sexually transmitted infection (STI) and viral hepatitis testing and improved managed of these infections among young Aboriginal people attending Aboriginal Health Services in New South Wales.
He is a graduate of the Master of Applied Epidemiology, a field epidemiology degree where he evaluated Australia’s National perinatal surveillance system and investigated an outbreak in Western Sydney. Simon previously worked in international developed based in Bangkok and Hanoi. He has an interest in field epidemiology that has clear community benefits. Before academia Simon worked in international development with the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra, the Australian Embassy in Bangkok, a Thai non-government organisation in Bangkok and CARE international in Hanoi during the SARS outbreak.
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Simon has received over AUD $3 million in competitive funding and held externally funded fellowships since receiving his PhD. In 2015 he received a McKenzie postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Melbourne. Simon spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow overseas, including: 12 months as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at the PRIDE Health Research Consortium in New York City, two years as a NHMRC fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, and six months as an Endeavour Research fellow at the First Nations Health Authority in Vancouver.
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Biggs Group
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Lab Team
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Beth Hilton ThorpeBiggs Group Consultant
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Ricardo AtaideSenior Research Fellow in Global Health Trials
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Senior Research Fellow
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Janet PasrichaRefugee Health Fellow
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Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Hasthi DissanayakeResearch Fellow in Indigenous Health
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Infectious Diseases Physician
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Ben HarrapResearch Assistant - Refugee Health
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Christalla HajisavaAdministration support
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John HaymanHonorary
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Jennifer ShieldHonorary
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Dominic HarePhD student
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Victoria NikolakakisHonors student
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