DrElke Mitchell
DECRA Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- DECRA Senior Research FellowFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTs
Medical Anthropology; Qualitative Research; Ethnography; Gender; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Adolescent Health; Pacific Health and Wellbeing; Infectious Diseases; Global Health and Development; Health Equity; Reproductive Justice.
Current funded research:
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA): (CIA). Protecting fertility, family and culture: Couples’ lived experiences of infertility in Fiji.
NHMRC Ideas Grant: (CIH). Transdisciplinary co-design of adolescent-responsive contraceptive care solutions to reduce unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion in Indonesia.
NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grants: (CIH). Can mass drug administration reduce the incidence of adverse perinatal outcomes and other health consequences of endemic sexually transmitted infections? A community effectiveness trial.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTProtecting fertility, family and culture in FijiAustralian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2025People funded by this grant:
- Mitchell E
- GRANTTransdisciplinary co-design of adolescent-responsive contraceptive care solutions to reduce unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion in IndonesiaNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2025People funded by this grant:
- Bell S,
- Mitchell E