Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health SciencesMelbourne School of Population Health

Ms Simone Poznanski

Research Fellow
Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society
School of Population Health
Level 2, 723 Swanston St
University of Melbourne, 3010
Parkville, Australia
Email: sypozn@unimelb.edu.au
Ph:  +61 3 8344 0792
Fax: +61 3 9347 9824


Biography
Simone Poznanski has a background in infectious diseases and molecular biology and discovered an interest in Public Health whilst researching her PhD. Completed in 2005, her PhD involved developing a plant based vaccine that could prevent human tapeworm infections in developing countries. Her interest in this area continued and she completed a Masters in Public Health in 2008 whilst working in a public health laboratory. Her main research interest is the prevention of infectious diseases.

She is currently employed as a Research Fellow on a Commonwealth department of health and ageing funded project led by Dr Jane Hocking. This project involves the design and evaluation of a chlamydia testing pilot program (ACCEPt) to determine whether screening is acceptable, feasible and cost-effective .


 
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