Prue Hogg

Research Topic: Immune function and stress hormone levels in stressed children - biomarkers.

Supervisor: Dr Lyndall Strazdins

Ngoc Mai Tran

Research Topic: Controlling/modelling an avian influenza outbreak.

Supervisor: Prof Niels Becker and Dr Katie Glass

Research Interests:

• Mathematical statistics (theoretical)
• Mathematical modeling in epidemiology
• Biostatistics, bioinformatics
• Function analysis and mathematical statistics.

Christal Jones

Research Topic:Induced abortion rates in Australian states and territories.

Supervisor: Professor Terence H Hull

Research Interests:

• Social and Clinical Determinants of Reproductive Technologies/Healthcare
• Implications of modern reproductive technologies on both the individual and society.

Audrey Goold

Research Topic: Vaginal practices

Supervisor: Professor Terence H Hull

Research Interests:

• Social determinats of health
• Disease communication and control
• Medical appropriation of socially constructed illness
• Health policy and inequality
• Cross-cultural representations of health and sickness

Auli Oravala

Research Topic: Food culture, ethnicity and childhood food consumption patterns

Supervisors: Dr Dorothy Broom and Dr Cathy Banwell

Research Interests:

• Social and cultural aspects of health and illness
• Diseases of 'western/modern' lifestyles
• Overweight and obesity in adults and children
• Paterns of health and disease in migrant groups.