Research Fellows
Dr Louise Wilson
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Louise Wilson is an early-career epidemiologist, completing a PhD at the University of Queensland in women’s health in 2019. While doing her PhD, she worked part-time at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute doing research on cancer prevention. Prior to this, Louise had an extensive career in program planning and implementation in the Australian government across the health, aged care, housing and education sectors.
Email: l.wilson8@uq.edu.au
Dr Mridula Bandyopadhyay
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Mridula Bandyopadhyay is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Her PhD in Public Health focused on how social determinants of health influenced maternal and child health. She has worked in Australia and several Asia-Pacific countries in women’s health in various settings, including government, universities, and not-for-profit organisations. Her interests are in immigrant and refugee health, health services strengthening and delivery, and research translation and application.
Email: mridulab@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Karin Hammarberg
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Karin Hammarberg is a Registered Nurse with 20 years’ experience as clinical coordinator of IVF programs. She completed a PhD in 2006 is now Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and Senior Research Officer at the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority. Her main areas of research interests are women’s health; health promotion relating to fertility and preconception health; the psychosocial aspects of infertility and infertility treatment; and the health and development of children born as a result of assisted conception.
Email: karin.hammarberg@monash.edu
Dr Karin Stanzel
Research Fellow
Dr Karin Stanzel (RN, RM, BHSs, MPH, PhD), is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Dr Stanzel sees equality and equity for women as one of the most important global health issues and believes that collaboration is key. Her PhD examined the health literacy and health care needs in midlife among migrant women from low and middle income countries. Dr Stanzel’s work with CRE WaND focuses on the translation of the Centre’s research findings.
Email: karin.stanzel@monash.edu
Professional Staff
Megan Ferguson
Research Program Manager
Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre, UQ School of Public Health
As Research Program Manager for the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre (AWaGHR Centre). Megan provides operational oversight of legal and financial aspects of the CRE activities.
Email: m.ferguson@sph.uq.edu.au
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