Associate Professor Brahmaputra (Brahm) Marjadi

Position

Associate Professor of Community Engaged Learning
Associate Dean Global and Partnerships, Faculty of Health

Biography

Brahm has a medical degree and general practice training from Indonesia. He has been a medical academic since 1996. His teaching portfolio spans medical microbiology, infection control, epidemiology, research methods, evidence-based medicine, medical anthropology, and social determinants of health, and across medical, nursing, public health, and pharmacy courses. He has taught in the undergraduate, Honours, Master’s and PhD levels in Indonesia and Australia. Joining Western Sydney University in 2013, Brahm now serves as the Faculty of Health Associate Dean Global and Partnerships, where he leads partnerships and initiatives with community organisations, global institutions, alumni, and philanthropic bodies at the Faculty of Health which comprises the Schools of Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery, Health Sciences, and Psychology. Brahm is also the Senior Advisor of Medicine in Context, the School of Medicine’s flagship community engaged learning program. Brahm brings to his works at THRI his vast community engagement networks and his expertise in community engaged learning, cross-cultural knowledge translation, and diversity, intersectionality, equity and inclusion.

Research Interests

• Community engaged learning
• Diversity, intersectionality, equity and inclusion
• Cross-cultural knowledge translation

Memberships

• Australia and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) (Board Member and Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
• Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Community Engagement Community of Practice (Founding Member and Convenor)
• Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)
• Western Sydney University Ally Network; Rainbow Western (Founding Member); Sexualities and Genders Research; Social Justice Network; We-CALD (Founding Member)
• Australian Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Network
• Community Engagement Fellows Coalition, Western Washington University

Committees

• Faculty of Health Executive
• School of Medicine Executive
• School of Medicine Community Engaged Teaching, Learning & Research Panel
• Rainbow Western
• PHAA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Special Interest Group (Founding Member)
• PHAA International Health Special Interest Group

Qualifications and Awards

• Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement US Tier One Reviewer, 2023 and 2025
• Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement Australia Reviewer, 2024 and 2026
• Excellence in Academic Leadership, Western Sydney University, 2022
• Fellow of Public Health Association of Australia, 2022
• Public Health Association of Australia Mentor of the Year, 2022
• Highly Commended in Academic Leadership, Western Sydney University, 2021
• Advance Higher Education Fellowship UK Accreditor, 2021
• Excellence in Teaching Partnerships, Western Sydney University, 2020
• Citations for Meritorius Service to the University, Western Sydney University, 2020
• Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, UK, 2019
• Excellence in University Engagement and Sustainability, Western Sydney University, 2017 (double awards)
• Excellence in University Engagement and Sustainability, Western Sydney University, 2015
• PhD University of New South Wales, 2009
• UNSW Medicine Dean's List for Outstanding Research, 2008
• MPH University of New South Wales, 2001

Research and Publications

• For a complete list of my publications please see my publications page (opens in a new window)
• View my ResearchGate profile (opens in a new window)

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