As Deputy Head, Asia and Pacific Health Program and Lead, Global Heath Equity and Justice Research group at the Kirby Institute, and co-joint Senior Principal Research Fellow at the PNG Institute of Medical Research, Angela oversees a vibrant and cohesive program of research of research in the Pacific, Southeast Asia and Australia. Angela is an interdisciplinary researcher who draws on a variety of disciplines and approaches to achieve the best health outcomes for the communities she serves. She values developing in-depth long-term partnerships, curiosity and rigour. Her work is driven by a commitment to person-centred, strengths-based approaches that advocate for equity and inclusion and decolonising research practices to find social and public health solutions to some of our greatest issues. This includes issues of gender and sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, children and young people, and gender-based violence but also infectious diseases of global significance such as HIV and other STIs, Hepatitis B, HPV and cervical cancer and TB. She also works at the intersection of art and science, as evident with a recent street art project in Indonesia on climate change and sexual and reproductive health and photo voice on COVID-19 and young people with HIV. She currently leads a program of work scaling up equitable access to point-of-care testing for HIV viral load and early infant diagnosis and to reduce the concerningly high rates of vertical transmission of HIV in PNG.
