Adjunct & Conjoint Members
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Kedir Ahmed is an Adjunct Fellow at the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI) of Western Sydney University. Kedir has expertise in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, with research interests focused on maternal and child health, childhood obesity, health risk factors, and remote and rural health.
Benedict is an adjunct fellow at the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University. Benedict has worked on various projects exploring the health and wellbeing of marginalised groups including the people experiencing homelessness, refugees, and people seeking asylum.
Professor Catherine Best is Chair in Psycholinguistic Research and currently the Director of Research at MARCS Institute. She also is leader of the Speech Production Laboratory at MARCS (AHAA Lab). Her research focuses on how adults’ and infants’ experience with their native language - and even their native regional accent - shapes their perception and production of the phonological elements of spoken words, including consonants, vowels, lexical tones and prosodic patterns.
Associate Professor Ilse Blignault
A/Prof Ilse Blignault is an Adjunct Associate Professor at THRI with qualifications in psychology and global health and broad expertise in clinical and population mental health and wellbeing, health services research and evaluation, and research translation.
Prof Brakoulias is a psychiatrist who is passionate about improving the mental health and well-being of his patients. He realises this involves research and teaching and strives for excellence.
Rose is an expert in behavioural neuroscience, with particular expertise in using rodent models of substance abuse, schizophrenia and neurodegeneration. She investigates novel treatments for mental illness and dementia as well as gene-environment interactions for these disorders.
Dr Denejkina's research focuses on intergenerational trauma transmission, specifically in military families. She is interested in military family wellbeing, including the psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing of children in military families.
Associate Professor Tinashe Dune
Dr Tinashe Dune (MAPS) is a multi-award-winning researcher, tertiary educator, and Senior Clinical Psychologist with extensive qualifications and experience who brings a unique, culturally-informed perspective to her work. Her expertise spans complex trauma, disability, and sexuality concerns, with a special focus on neurodiversity-affirming assessments for often overlooked groups.
Anton du Toit is an Adjunct Fellow at the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI) of Western Sydney University. He has expertise in smartphone passive data streams, R programming, and systematic reviews and meta-analysis. His research interests are focused on mental health and psychological wellbeing.
Associate Professor Carolyn Ee
I am a Principal Fellow at the NICM Health Research Institute and a practicing GP. My research focusses on chronic illness relevant in primary care especially the intersection between metabolic health, women’s health and cancer survivorship, with a growing focus on disparities in care.
I am an adjunct fellow in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. I have experience and qualifications including nursing, midwifery, child and family, law and health management.
Sandra Garrido is a Visiting Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain Behaviour & Development. With a background in both music history and psychology, her work focuses on the use of music for mood regulation and to improve mental health and wellbeing in both historical and modern day contexts.
Karleen Gribble is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a world leading researcher and policy and guidance developer in infant and young child feeding in emergencies and has provided advice to UN organisations, INGOs, health professionals, emergency responders and government bodies in many countries on how to protect infants and young children in emergencies. Karleen advocates for recognition of the importance of mothers to their infants and works to create environments that support breastfeeding and the mother-infant relationship, particularly in situations of adversity. She also believes in the importance of academic freedom and free speech for finding truth and enabling solutions to difficult challenges.
Dr Laynie Hall Pullin is a Registered Nurse and lecturer with extensive experience in undergraduate and post-graduate nursing education. She has a background in Spinal Cord Injury and rehabilitation nursing and held the position of School Disability Coordinator from 2015-2019.
Dr Karamacoska is a cognitive neuroscientist and and Adjunct Fellow at NICM Health Research Institute. She has strong interest in improving the health of individuals at risk of, or diagnosed with, conditions that affect the brain.
Dr Katherine Kent is an early career academic in the School of Health Sciences. Her research investigates dietary strategies to prevent and manage cognitive decline, with a particular focus on flavonoid-rich fruits.
Associate Professor Kenny Lawson
Kenny is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Translational Health Research Institute. His central focus is trying to support decision makers to improve population health and well-being by making better use of resources. He conducts economic evaluation of health and non-health sector policies to identify best value interventions, and works with decision makers to translate evidence into practice.
Professor Rosemary Leonard is Chair in Social Capital and Sustainability in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University.
Kate is a researcher, educator and Chinese medicine practitioner, specialising in women’s health and maternal health research. Her current NHMRC Early Career Fellowship involves leading a collaboration of investigators in a large prospective meta-analysis of independent childbirth education, which includes non-pharmacological pain relief methods, and its effect on maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Pranee Liamputtong is a medical anthropologist and an Adjunct Professor at THRI, Western Sydney University. She has a particular interest in issues relating to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing, motherhood, reproductive health, sexuality and sexual health.
David’s program of health policy and health service research is in appropriate Emergency Department and public hospital utilisation.
Karen Liu is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University. She has over 30 years of clinical and research experience in rehabilitation in Australia, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Karen conducts research using various strategies to enhance people’s daily task performance.
A clinical and health psychologist, Professor Meade's clinical and research expertise is in complex physical and mental health co-morbidities.
Zelalem Mengesha is an Adjunct Fellow at the Translational Health Research Institute. He has an interest in the areas of equity in health, refugee and migrant health, critical public health, and qualitative and mixed methods research.
Associate Professor Deborah Mitchison
Deb Mitchison is an Adjunct Associate Professor and a Clinical Psychologist. She has a research interest in eating disorders and related body image problems, and has a track record using epidemiological research methods to uncover the population burden, risk factors, and need for treatment associated with eating and body image disorders.
Associate Professor Rebecca O'Reilly
Dr Rebecca O'Reilly is a Registered Nurse and Midwife as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has a passion for advancing women's and family health and has pursued research in this area.
Dr Simone Ormsby is an Adjunct Fellow at NICM Health Research Institute. Simone runs a busy Traditional East Asian Medicine (acupuncture) practice, whilst also pursuing her academic career interests: epi-/genetics, fertility, obstetrics, nutrition, women’s and men’s perinatal health, infant outcomes, and postnatal sequelae.
Dr Ogbo is an Adjunct Research Fellow at THRI, Western Sydney University. His research interests include global health, and maternal and child health, including childhood undernutrition.
I am an adjunct in the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Science. My work is in the areas of dynamic data-driven computer simulation and systems science. Focus of my research is on policy and planning decision support and modelling of health systems.
Dr. Lal Rawal is currently a Senior Lecturer-Public Health with School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity. He is an Adjunct Fellow with School of Social Science, Western Sydney University. Dr. Rawal has over 16 years of experience in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of large-scale intervention and observational studies across countries of Asia and Australia.
Emeritus Professor Jennifer Reath
Jennifer Reath an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University. Her areas of research/teaching interest and expertise include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, Health service development and evaluation, Educational policy, Curriculum development and implementation, and Medical education in a developing world context
Associate Professor Anoop Sankaranarayanan
A/Prof Anoop Sankaranarayanan a general adult psychiatrist with extensive clinical and senior managerial experience of working in Australia and overseas. He is presently consultant psychiatrist in Melaleuca Unit of Blacktown Mental Health Service and is actively involved with the Clozapine clinic and Diabetes and Mental Health Forum.
Virginia Schmied is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her program of scholarship, teaching and research is grounded in social science theory and methods and focuses on transition to motherhood, perinatal mental health, breastfeeding and infant feeding decisions, postnatal care, effective models to support vulnerable families, family centered care in NICU, strengthening the universal health services for families and children and the role of the child and family health nurse.
Professor Gemma Sharp established and has led the Body Image, Eating & Weight Disorders Research Program since 2018. She is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow (2023-2028) and a former NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow (2018-2022).
Emeritus Professor Caroline Smith
Professor Caroline Smith has a background in evidence based research in relation to acupuncture, complementary therapies, integration of Chinese medicine and biomedical research protocols, predominantly in the areas of women's health. She has extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of randomised controlled trials.
Stephen Tomsen is a sociologist and criminologist, and Professor of Criminology at Western Sydney University. He is an acknowledged international figure in research on violence, gender/sexuality, and drinking and drug use (AOD) and has delivered numerous papers at national and international conferences and meetings on these topics. His output includes eight books/research monographs and dozens of refereed articles and papers.
Jane Ussher is an Adjunct Professor of Women's Health Psychology. Her research focuses on examining gendered factors underlying mental health problems, subjectivity in relation to the reproductive body and sexuality, and the gendered experience of cancer and cancer care.
Adjunct Professor Lesley Wilkes
Professor Lesley Wilkes is the Professor of Nursing at the Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research. Her research has received high community recognition nationally and internationally through extensive media coverage showcasing her research expertise in areas such as organisational violence, family and community health, prostate cancer, and child-to-mother violence, through both radio and television networks.
Professor Anna Williams is an applied health researcher and an adjunct professor with the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Prof Carlos Zubaran Jr is the medical director of Sunnyside Clinic in Sydney, with branches in the Upper North Shore and Northern Beaches. He holds a conjoint professorial appointment with the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University.