Health System

Health Systems Strengthening

The Health Systems Strengthening research group works with governments and international organisations to strengthen health systems to respond to established and emerging disease threats.

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Associate Professor Matthew Kelly

About

Our group works with governments and international organisations across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen health systems to respond to established and emerging disease threats. We work through regional partnerships to conduct research which addresses the building blocks of health systems. We focus on capacity building, particularly in regional primary health care systems, and applied epidemiology workforces, and strengthening health information systems to produce evidence for monitoring and evaluation. Our team comprises epidemiology, social science, implementation science and health system expertise and is built on strong collaborations locally and regionally. 

Projects

Our project aims to strengthen systems of collection and compilation of data on mortality and causes of death.

The interrogation of pathology databases by machine learning.

Members

Leader

Dr Matthew  Kelly

Associate Professor

Researcher

Ms Guddu Kaur

Research Fellow
PhD Candidate

Dr Rosalina Sa’aga-Banuve

Pac-EVIPP+ Team Leader

Student

Dewi Amila Solikha

PhD Candidate

News

Dr Rosalina Sa’aga-Banuve presenting Pac-EVIPP+ contributions during the 2025 PPHSN Regional Meeting.

Dr Rosalina Sa’aga-Banuve represented ANU and the Pac-EVIPP+ team at the 2025 Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) Regional Meeting in Fiji.

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The Pac-EVIPP+ program supports leadership training tailored for epidemiology workforce across the Pacific.

ANU continues to build and support a strong applied field epidemiology community in the Pacific and Southeast Asia regions.

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