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Cohort 2008

Claire Tobin
Claire Tobin

Qualifications: BN/BApplSc (Health Promotion) (Deakin), MPH (Melb) 
Prior Position: Registered Nurse, Emergency Dept, Royal Children's Hospital
Secondary School Nurse

Placements:
  • Drugs, Policy and Services Branch, Department of Human Services (Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dobbin)
  • Communicable Disease Control Unit, Public Health Branch (Supervisor: Michelle Cullen)
  • Office for Children (Supervisor: Sharon Goldfeld)
  • Nossal Institute for Global Health (Supervisor: Professor Rob Moodie)
  • VicHealth (Supervisor: John Fitzgerald)

Professional Interests: Public health policy, child and adolescent health, health promotion
Kate Gibson
Kate Gibson

Qualifications: BN (Latrobe)RN, Grad Dip Adv Nursing-Crritical Care (LaTrobe), MPH (Monash)
Prior Position: Public Health Nurse, Communicable Disease Comtrol, Department of Human Services

Placements:
  • Funding, Health & Information Policy Branch, Department of Human Services and BioGrid Australia (Supervisors: David Quin, Marienne Hibbert)
  • Nossal Institute for Global Health (Supervisor: Dr Michelle Kermode)
  • Department of Human Services, Office of the Director, Public Health (Supervisor: Dr Jim Hyde)
  • Monash Institute of Health Services Research (Supervisor: Damien Jolley)
  • CSL Limited (Supervisor: Jane Hocking)
  • Heart Foundation (Supervisor: Kellie-Ann Jolly)

Professional Interests: International health, health equity and inequalities, infectious disease, program and economic evaluation, social determinants of health
Susan Heywood
Susan Heywood

Qualifications:ApplSc (Hons) (Deakin), MPH (Monash)
Prior Position: Senior Project Officer, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease, Department of Human Services

Placements:
  • Environmental Health Unit, Department of Human Services (Supervisor: Rodney Dedman)
  • School of Public Health, La Trobe University (Supervisor: Vivian Lin)
  • Department of Human Services, Office of the Director, Public Health (Supervisor: Dr Jim Hyde)
  • Burnet Institute (Supervisor: Isabel Bergeri)
  • Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies (Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldenburg)

Professional Interests: health promotion, health policy

Katie Dale
Katie Dale

Qualifications: BSc DipMus (Melb), MCIAud (Melb), MPH (Menzies)
Prior Position: Audiologist/clinical tutor, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital

Placements:
  • BBV/STI Unit, Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Unit, Public Health Branch, Department of Human Services (Supervisor: Maria Karvelas)
  • Water Policy Section, Environmental Health Unit, Public Health Branch, Department of Human Services (Supervisor: Rodney Dedman)
  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (Supervisor: Associate Professor Karin Leder)

Professional Interests: Social and environmental health determinants, epidemiology, health of marginalised populations, program evaluation
 

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