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Dr Sarah Hanieh

Position:: Infectious Diseases Physician
Discipline(s):: Global Health, Indigenous Health
Unit(s):: The University of Melbourne
Lab Group(s):: Biggs Group

Dr Sarah Hanieh is a paediatric infectious diseases physician and post-doctoral Research Fellow in the International and Immigrant Health Group in The University of Melbourne’s Department of Medicine at the Doherty Institute. Sarah was awarded a PhD in Medicine at The University of Melbourne in 2015 for her work on maternal and early infant factors contributing to chronic undernutrition in infants in rural Vietnam. Her current research focuses on developing a predictive algorithm to identify infants at high risk of stunting in resource-constrained settings, and investigating the link between the gut microbiome and child undernutrition.

Key Achievements
Research Groups

Key Achievements
- Sarah has worked in maternal and child health for over 16 years in a clinical, research and policy capacity with a number of non-governmental, academic and other international institutions including Medecins Sans Frontieres and the World Health Organization. She has previously spent time working in Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Liberia, South America, Ethiopia and Vietnam, as well as in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Sarah received a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) post-graduate scholarship from 2011-2014, a four-year NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowship in 2016, and was awarded both the Chancellors Prize and Dean's Award for Excellence in a PhD thesis in 2016.
Research Groups
- Biggs Group
  
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  Lab Team
  - Dr Janet Pasricha
    
    Refugee Health Fellow
  - Dr Joanne Gardiner
    
    Refugee Health Fellow
  - Ms Sabine Braat
    
    Senior Research Fellow – Biostatistics
  - Dr Ricardo Ataide
    
    Senior Research Fellow in Global Health Trials
  - Dr Hasthi Dissanayake
    
    Research Fellow in Indigenous Health
  - Dr Sarah Hanieh
    
    Infectious Diseases Physician
  - Ms Joanne Garnggulkpuy
    
    Indigenous Health Support Worker
  - Mr George Gurruwiwi
    
    Indigenous Health Support Worker
  - Ms Beth Hilton Thorpe
    
    Project Consultant
  - Ms Christalla Hajisava
    
    Administration/Project Support Officer
  - Kristy Gardner
    
    PhD Candidate
  - Johnny Assaf
    
    Masters Student
  - Reet Saharan
    
    Honors Student
  - Dr Kudzai Nzenza Kanhutu
    
    Honorary
  - Ben Harrap
    
    Honorary
  - Associate Professor John Hayman
    
    Guest Researcher
  - Dr Jennifer Shield
    
    Guest Researcher

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Dr Sarah Hanieh

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