Dr Victoria Cox

PhD candidate

Qualifications:

Graduate Diploma in Child Health (GDCH), Western Sydney University, 2024 ; Leadership for Clinicians (AFRACMA), Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, 2024; Master in Business Administration (MBA), Quantic School of Business and Technology, 2023; Company Directors Course (GAICD), Australian Institute of Company Directors, 2022; Master in Philosophy (MPhil) in Evidence Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, the University of Oxford, 2019; Diploma in Dermatology (DipDerm), Australian Institute of Dermatology, 2016; Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), University of Adelaide, 2014; Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci - First Class Honours), University of Adelaide, 2011

Research Topic:

Healthy skin programs in northern Australia

Location:

Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital campus

Biography:

Victoria is undertaking a PhD at the Menzies School of Health Research and training to become a public health physician in the Northern Territory. 

After graduating from medical school at the University of Adelaide with First Class Honours, Victoria read for a MPhil in Evidence Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford as a General Sir John Monash Scholar. Whilst studying at Oxford, she was the Junior Dean of Jesus College and President of the Oxford University Australia New Zealand Society (OUANZ).

Victoria is a Principal Investigator working on a collaborative project to estimate the prevalence and impact of scabies and mass-drug administration treatment programs in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, funded by the Australian Centre for the Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ACE-NTDs). She has championed skin health reform in northern Australia; supporting the development and implementation of community skin health programs, revising national clinical guidelines and co-authoring a successful PBAC submission to change the listing of ivermectin on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for the management of scabies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in Australia.

As the 2024 Northern Territory Fulbright Scholar, Victoria will undertake a postdoctoral fellowship in global health dermatology with Professor Esther Freeman at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School; developing a roadmap to improve the global provision of skin healthcare as part of the Global Skin Observatory Project.

Dr Victoria Cox
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Research Themes

  1. Cox, V.R.V. Stephens, M. Singh, G.R. Currie, B.J. Improving access to ivermectin for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia: big gains from a small change. 2025 [in press - Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health]

  2. Muhi, S. Cox, V.R.V. O’Brien, M. Priestley, J. Hill, J. Murrie, A. McDonald, A. Callan, P. Jenkin, G.A. Friedman, D.N. Singh, K. Maggs, C. Kelley, P.G. Athan, E. Johnson, P.D. O’Brien, D.P. Management of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer) in Australia: Consensus statement. Med J Aust. 2025; https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52591.

  3. Thomas, H.M. Enkel, S. McRae, T. Cox, V.R.V. Kessaris, H-L. Ford, A. J. Famlonga, R. Newton, R. Amgarth-Duff, I. Whelan, A. Bowen, A.C. Skin health in northern Australia. Microbiology Australia, 2022; 43(3): 98-103. https://doi.org/10.1071/MA22033

  4. Mahony, M. Hung, T-Y. Cox, V.R.V. Sufyan, W. Wallis, P. Nizzero, D. Francis, J.R. Yan, J. Complicated Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in a child in the Northern Territory. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2022; 59(2):392-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.16288

  5. Cox, V.R. Fuller, L.C. Engelman, D. Hay, R.J. Estimating the global burden of scabies: what else do we need? British Journal of Dermatology, 2021; 18(2):237-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.19170

  6. Cox, V., Fuller, L. C., Engelman, D., Steer, A., & Hay, R. J. (2021). Estimating the global burden of scabies: what else do we need? British Journal of Dermatology (1951), 184(2), 237-242. doi:10.1111/bjd.19170