What role do you play in Public Health Unplugged?
I provide academic oversight to the journal and podcast content and strive to keep Public Health Unplugged student-led and academically-backed.

What excites you about public health?
Engaging with students and emerging health professionals. I deeply value the reciprocal learning that comes from sharing diverse perspectives and experiences—public health is richer when we learn from one another.

How do your skills and background contribute to your role?
I am a co–course director of postgraduate Public Health programs at Deakin University. I teach undergraduate Epidemiology and Biostatistics and postgraduate Public Health. My research focuses on trends and disparities in population health indicators, mortality, and causes of death, with the aim of informing disease prevention and control efforts. I work with the Epidemiology and Biostatistics team within the Advancing Health and Social Justice domain at the Institute for Health Transformation (IHT). I am motivated to continue learning and growing professionally.

What’s your vision for public health?
I want to expand peoples’ awareness of issues that have been largely invisible or considered ‘taboo’. So much work remains to achieve universal health coverage and health equity globally. This is not just about providing more health services—it is also about addressing social and structural determinants, including education and empowerment (particularly for women). We need well-functioning systems for generating high-quality data in public health. Accurate data are foundational to evidence-based decision-making. And importantly, we need greater collaboration! Collaboration with communities, governments, researchers, public health practitioners, and technical experts. Developing the skills to build and sustain relationships is challenging—but essential.