Professor Anna Ralph
Deputy Director (Research); Senior Principal Research Fellow
Qualifications:
PhD, Australian National University, 2010; Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2005; Diploma of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, 2002; Master of Public Health, University of Sydney, 1999; Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Honours Class 1, University of New South Wales, 1996; Medical Science Honours Class 1, Australian National University, 1993; Bachelor of Medical Science, University of Tasmania, 1992.
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
Supervisor for PhD
Location:
Darwin - Royal Darwin Hospital campus
Biography:
Professor Anna Ralph is Deputy Director (Research) and a Senior Principal Research Fellow with the Global and Tropical Health Division at Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin. She is also a practising medical specialist in General Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital and Palmerston Regional Hospital.
Her research fields include rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, tuberculosis, and intercultural communication in healthcare. Professor Ralph’s roles include membership of the Medical Journal of Australia’s Editorial Advisory Committee and the Northern Territory Health Standard 6 Committee (Communicating for Safety), and she is a board member of the Timor-Leste Hearts Fund. She is a fellow of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases.
She supervises a number of PhD students, post doctoral researchers, and Advanced Trainees in Infectious Diseases through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Research Themes
Media Expertise
- Indigenous health
- Global and tropical health
- Tuberculosis
- Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
- Inter-cultural communication