| Professor Anne Kavanagh |
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Head of Centre |
| Biography |
Professor Anne Kavanagh is a medically trained epidemiologist who is well-known for her work on cancer screening programs and social epidemiology.
In 2001 Professor Kavanagh was awarded a prestigious VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship for the topic "The importance of place in health inequalities". Her work is featured extensively in national and international media and she has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and seminars.
One of the key foci of Professor Kavanagh’s research program is gender and health inequalities. In 2006 she convened the First Australian Conference on Gender and Health Inequalities. She co-edited the special issue of the Australian Journal of Social Issues on papers arising from the conference.
Professor Kavanagh has received $8 million dollars in competitive grant funding including $2.4 million as co-investigator on a prestigious NHMRC Capacity Building Grant, The Australian Health Inequities Program.
She is the Principal Investigator on a number large projects including: the Victorian Lifestyle and Neighbourhood Environments Study; a project funded by the National Heart Foundation, ‘Environment predictors of biomarkers in the AusDiab study’ and an NHMRC funded project ‘Evaluation of the efficacy of the Australian mammographic screening program’.
She has extensive research collaborations within The Melbourne School of Population Health and The University of Melbourne. She also collaborates with researchers from other Australian and overseas universities including Flinders University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology, University of Tasmania, International Diabetes Institute and Queensland Monash, Deakin and Harvard Universities.