
Professor Gita Mishra
Chief Investigator and Director, University of Queensland
Professor Gita Mishra is the Head of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division at The University of Queensland and the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women and Non-communicable Disease. Her main research area are on life course epidemiology and women’s health.

Professor Martha Hickey
Chief Investigator, University of Melbourne
Professor Martha Hickey is the Director of the Women’s Gynaecology Research Centre based at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. Martha is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne (since Feb 2010) and an Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University, CT. She is in active clinical practice with research expertise in menstrual disorders and menopause.

Professor Annette Dobson
Chief Investigator, University of Queensland
Professor Annette Dobson is a Professor of Biostatistics at The University of Queensland. Her research interests are in biostatistics (generalised linear modelling, clinical biostatistics, statistical methods relevant to longitudinal studies) and epidemiology (tobacco control, cardiovascular disease, women’s health).

Professor Brenda Gannon
Chief Investigator, University of Queensland
Professor Brenda Gannon is a Professor and Director of Research at the School of Economics. She is also an Affiliate Professor in the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health at The University of Queensland. Professor Gannon is an international expert in the field of health and ageing economics and health econometrics.

Professor Jenny Doust
Chief Investigator, University of Queensland
Professor Jenny Doust is a medical practitioner and researcher based at The University of Queensland. Professor Doust has forged a high profile career combining her academic interests in evidence-based medicine, healthcare decision making and general practice.

Professor Jane Fisher
Chief Investigator, Monash University
Professor Jane Fisher is the Director of Global and Women’s Health and Head of the Division of Social Sciences in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She is an academic clinical and health psychologist with longstanding interests in the social determinants of health and healthcare participation.

Professor Flavia Cicuttini
Chief Investigator, Monash University
Professor Flavia Cicuttini is the Head of the Musculoskeletal Unit at Monash University and Head of Rheumatology at Alfred Hospital. Her principal research interests are the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, particularly osteoarthritis.

Professor Rachel Huxley
Chief Investigator, Deakin University
Professor Rachel Huxley is the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health at Deakin University. Professor Huxly’s main research interests are the determination and quantification of major and modifiable risk factors for chronic disease, sex and ethnic disparities in these relationships and evaluating the health impact of climate change and air pollution.

Associate Professor Leigh Tooth
Chief Investigator, University of Queensland
Associate Professor Leigh Tooth is a Principal Research Fellow who specialises in research on women’s health, in particular on women carers, health inequalities and the socio-economic determinants of health, quality of life and comorbidity.

Dr Helen Brown
Chief Investigator, Deakin University
Dr Brown is currently a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University in the Faculty of Health (Institute of Physical Activity and Nutrition). She has a PhD in Behavioural Epidemiology and her research foci are i) Behaviour change, specifically towards women’s participation in physical activity and ii) Knowledge Translation, particularly embedding research evidence into policy and practice. Dr Brown is currently President of the Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine.

Dr Sarah White
Investigator, Jean Hailles for Women's Health
Dr Sarah White was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health in November 2022. Dr White previously headed Quit, Australia’s most comprehensive tobacco control program, for eight years. Prior to that role, Dr White was the director of communications and fundraising at the Royal Women’s Hospital (Melbourne) for five years, where she also provided executive oversight of the hospital’s research portfolio, and the first director of communications of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (now Ludwig Cancer), an international research institute based in New York. Dr White started her professional life with a PhD in paediatric genetics undertaken at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and spent several years conducting molecular research in breast cancer at University College London (UK).
Dr White is a member of Australia’s National Women’s Health Advisory Council, the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s Women’s Health Products Working Group, and a member of the Victorian Women’s Health Advisory Council. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow with the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at The University of Melbourne.
Dr White has extensive experience in advocacy, communications, consumer engagement, policy development, program management, research translation, government relations and media relations. She is eager to apply this experience to further Jean Hailes’ mission to provide practical, accessible, expert information and education to improve the health and wellbeing for all Australian women and girls.
Associate Investigators
Dr Rachel Mudge
Professor Debra Anderson
Dr Elizabeth Carll
Associate Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis
Professor Margaret Rees
Professor Serge Rozenberg
Professor Shyamali Dharmage
Professor Susan Tett
Professor Tommaso Simoncini
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Diseases: Prevention and Detection
Level 3, Public Health Building
The University of Queensland,
266 Herston Road
Herston, QLD, 4006
General enquiries
wandcre@uq.edu.au