The University of Sydney School of Public Health

Dr Ikram Abdi is a member of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID).

Associate Professor Alam is a health social scientist with expertise in integrating qualitative studies within randomised trials to improve their design, conduct and interpretation. His research focuses on implementation research in maternal, child and adolescent nutrition across South and Southeast Asia and Africa - including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, Malawi and Senegal - as well as gender equality, disability and social inclusion in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Island nations. He has expertise in nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social safety net interventions. His research area also includes the impact of household air pollution on perinatal outcomes. His research on neonatal skincare has translated into policy and practice in newborn care in Bangladesh, Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa. He teaches at the postgraduate level in global health and qualitative and health social science methods. A/Prof Alam’s higher degree students conduct research in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Fiji, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam and South Sudan.

PhD | B.BehHlthSci(Hons 1) | SFHEA

Dr. Amon is a Senior Lecturer and Leadership Team member within the Cyberpsychology Research Group (CRG) in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. Her interests lie in developing and evaluating new programs using technology for mental health and in higher education. She has research experience in child and adolescent mental health and technology and has a strong interest in digital health and social media in research. Her research experience in these areas involved the use of biofeedback video games to assist children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, training health students interviewing skills using simulation technology for health practice, and using Facebook for research recruitment. Her current research explores the use of social media platforms by healthcare professionals.

Dr Kim Anastasiou is a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Her work is focused on understanding and improving the health, environmental and equity impacts of food systems. Her current research focuses on understanding the environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods and; conceptualising the drivers and impacts of first-food systems on outcomes for infants and young children. Previous work has included: determining the health, equity and environmental impacts of Australian food policies, working on EAT-Lancet 2.0, investigating the environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods (PhD topic) and a wide variety of public health nutrition research projects. 

Kim is an advocate for the transformative changes needed to create healthier, more equitable and more sustainable food systems. She is currently an executive board member of Healthy Food Systems Australia, working towards holistic food policy changes. Previously, Kim has held the roles of ‘Young Scientist’ for the UN FAO’s World Food Forum (2022-23) and ‘Youth Liaison’ for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (2021). She has also been involved in advocacy activities relating to the Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty (2024-25) and the Climate Conference of Parties (2021-22).

Dr Julie Ayre is a senior research fellow at the University of Sydney, supported by an NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellowship (2023-2027). Academic roles include Equity Stream lead at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, co-chair for the Digital Health Informatics Network's, 2026 Digital Health Week Conference, and Associate Editor for the journal Health Literacy and Communication Open. Dr Ayre is a Senior Academic Advisor to the NSW Statewide Health Literacy Hub, which supports health literacy skills development in the local health care workforce. She is scientific advisor for the National Health Literacy Framework. 

Dr Ayre takes a mixed method (quantitative and qualitative), person-centred, and multidisciplinary approach that focuses on using digital technology to support health literacy initiatives and improve health equity in our health services. Through her research she has led development of the Health Literacy Editor, an evidence-based tool that gives real-time objective feedback on the complexity of health information. Current projects are exploring opportunities for AI to improve the accessibility of health communication.

She is passionate about making health information easy to access and understand, and translating research into real-world impact.

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Shuvo Bakar holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Southampton, UK. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Yale University, USA; Lecturer at the Australian National University; and as a Scientist at Data61, CSIRO.

He teaches several postgraduate programs (statistics and biostatistics units) at The University of Sydney. He serves on the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports and Discover Public Health (Springer-Nature), and is the Statistics Editor for Kidney International. Shuvo also leads BayesHealth: A Bayesian Hub for Health Sciences, an initiative dedicated to advancing statistical innovation and evidence-based health research through Bayesian methodologies and collaborative learning. He has further been recognised as a GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor for his contributions to open-source scientific and computational research projects.

Associate Professor Phillip Baker is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Horizon Fellow, at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. He leads the Food Systems Integrity Group (FSIG) which generates evidence to support healthier, more sustainable and fairer food systems. His research examines the commercial, economic and political determinants of dietary change, nutrition and public health. 

Dr Baker recently co-led the 2025 Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health.

He regularly appears in global and national news media. In Australia this includes recent appearances on the ABC 7.30 report, ABC Radio National, and SBS Insight. Recent podcasts include The Solutionists, The Lancet In Conversation, and No Money No Time.

He recieved his PhD from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University (ANU), focued on the politics of obesity prevention and food policy. His post-doctoral research, at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, focused on the political economy of food systems, and the social determinants of health. 

Expertise: Food systems, food policy, food regulation, food politics, food governance, ultra-processed foods, corporate power, commercial determinants of health, infant and child nutrition, public health nutrition, political economy of food systems transition.

Qualifications: BSc (Biological sciences with Senior Prize, University of Auckland), PGradDipHSc (Nutrition, University of Auckland), MHSc (Nutrition with First Class Honours, University of Auckland), PhD (Population health, Australian National University).

I am a clinical epidemiologist and health services researcher with expertise in the evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of health care. My research aims to identify sustainable models of health care that benefit health, and do not cause harm. A new research theme focus on ways to decarbonise healthcare in order to decrease the substantial carbon emissions currently associated with the health sector.

I am a teaching and research academic in the Sydney School of Public Health. An anthropologist by training, I lead the delivery of global health teaching and a community—centred communicable diseases research programme.

I am co-director of the Masters of Global Health programme at the University of Sydney. I lead the global implementation science research group within USyd’s Sydney Infectious Diseases Flagship Centre. 

I have been the Director of Social Science at THRU Zim since 2022 and am the lead social scientist supporting Zvandiri’s evidence-based programme, Zimbabwe. I am an Honorary Associate Professor at LSHTM, where I worked 2006-2017 before joining University of Sydney. 

I am a Professor of Public Health and Pain Medicine at the University of Sydney where I am a public health teaching and research academic  and pain epidemiologist. 

Kasia (Katarzyna) Bolsewicz is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Sydney School of Public Health, and a Social Science Research Fellow with the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). Her current research focuses on the social and behavioral aspects of immunisation and their implications for policy and practice; healthy aging and aged care workforce.

Professor Reuben Bolt, a descendant of the Yuin/Wandandian and Ngarigo peoples of Southeast Australia.

He is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Services at the University of Sydney, and the first Indigenous appointee to the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), where he is championing the recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems through the rollout of the National Science Research Priority, 'Elevating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Systems'. 

Professor Bolt began his journey at the University of Sydney in the late 1990s as a student of Health Sciences (Aboriginal Health and Community Development), and later became the first person of Aboriginal heritage to earn a PhD from the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is passionate about influencing policy, programs and research that results in positive outcomes in Indigenous communities, specific those at the intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science.

In his first year as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Startegy and Services at the Universty of Sydney, he announced the MyGadigal Scholarsjhipo that provides financial assistance for every Idgenous undergraduate student, the first ever scholarship of otis kind to be delivered at scale. With over 25 years in higher education, Reuben has held senior roles across seven universities, including Charles Darwin University and UNSW.

His academic work spans Indigenous studies, health sciences, public health, microsociology, and more, and he has convened over 50 university courses. His deep understanding of institutional systems equips him to drive cultural change in complex settings, and is a respected leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander higher education, known for his inclusive leadership, ethical community engagement, and advocacy for Indigenous outcomes.

Dr Farzaneh Boroumand is a Lecturer in Biostatistics at the Sydney School of Public Health and a Senior Biostatistician at the Centre for Kidney Research, Westmead Hospital. Her work focuses on making complex statistical concepts accessible and applicable, both in the classroom and in collaborative research. She designs interactive, engaging learning experiences to help postgraduate students build confidence in applying biostatistics to real-world health problems.

Her research interests include survival analysis, causal inference, and chronic kidney disease. She works closely with clinicians and multidisciplinary teams to generate evidence that informs practice and improves patient outcomes. Alongside teaching and research, she actively contributes to peer review, academic leadership, and mentoring, with a commitment to advancing knowledge and supporting impactful, data-driven healthcare.

Corinne Caillaud is a professor in physical activity and digital health in the Sydney School of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She is a member of the Charles Perkins Centre where she heads a research node dedicated to understanding the influence of place and context on lifestyle transitions in adolescents in Pacific Island. With more than 100 peer‑reviewed publications across high‑impact international journals, Professor Caillaud’s research investigates how digital technologies and social media influence physical activity behaviour and health outcomes in adolescents. Conducting place-based work in diverse settings enables a better understanding of physical activity erosion through westernisation, technological transitions and climate change. Her work takes place in Australia, New Caldeonia and Vanuatu. 

Professor Andrew J. Campbell is an internationally recognised authority in cyberpsychology, digital mental health, and the ethical application of emerging technologies to support human wellbeing. At The University of Sydney, he leads the Digital Health Group and is Chair and Head of the Cyberpsychology Research Group within the Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health.

With more than two decades of experience spanning clinical practice, research, teaching, and policy leadership, Professor Campbell is widely regarded as a pioneer in the integration of psychology, technology, and ethics. His work sits at the intersection of psychology, artificial intelligence, digital health, immersive technologies, and cybersecurity, with a sustained focus on translating rigorous research into real-world systems that improve mental health outcomes at scale.

Research

Professor Campbell’s research program examines how digital technologies shape behaviour, mental health, identity, and social connection across the lifespan. His work spans cyberpsychology, digital mental health, artificial intelligence, immersive technologies, and cybersecurity, with particular expertise in youth mental health, VR/XR digital therapies, gaming, social media, cybercrime victimisation and online harms. Across these domains, he has made substantial scholarly contributions to the design, evaluation, and governance of evidence-based digital and AI-enabled mental health interventions, underpinned by a strong emphasis on clinical safety, ethical design, and real-world impact.

Between 2010 and 2016, he served as an innovation and design research partner with the Cooperative Research Centre for Young and Well, where he led nationally significant research and translation initiatives focused on the safe and effective use of technology to promote youth mental health and wellbeing. This work included the development of national policy guidance in 2013 and helped shape Australia’s early leadership in digital youth mental health.

In 2017, Professor Campbell formally established the Cyberpsychology Research Group (CRG) and has since become a core research partner for major organisations such as Kids Helpline, HP, SIMmersion, Save the Children International, CSIRO, NSW Health, SANE Australia, the Federal Circuit and Family Law Court of Australia, IDCare and the Wellbeing Health & Youth (WH&Y) Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

A major strand of Professor Campbell’s recent research focuses on immersive technologies in healthcare. He has collaborated in ACI funded studies investigating the use of virtual reality in emergency departments at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, demonstrating that brief VR interventions can significantly reduce distress for young people awaiting medical assessment. His immersive technology research also extends to trauma-focused applications, including the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in Australian veterans.

Another defining contribution of his research career is leadership of a longitudinal research program that spanned more than 12 years that created and validated the world’s first secure social media platform designed specifically for group counselling of young people aged 13–25 called ‘MyCircle’. Developed in partnership with yourtown’s Kids Helpline, this platform represents a globally significant innovation in digital mental health service delivery and has informed international best practice for safe, group counselling, of lived experience mental health clients via social networking. It is the only clinically moderated 24/7, peer-to-peer support social media platform certified by the Australian Government National Office of Child Safety.

Over the course of his career, Professor Campbell has attracted more than AUD $40 million in competitive research funding from government, industry, and philanthropic sources with $3.1 million as Lead Investigator. Notable funding achievements include award of $1 million BUPA Health Foundation grant awarded in 2020 to support the development of the MyCircle group counselling platform for Australian youth, as well as leadership roles in major national initiatives such as the $11.2 million Australian Government funded Small Business Cyber Resilience Service, delivered by IDCare under the National Cyber Security Strategy.

Translation, Implementation, Policy and Leadership

A hallmark of Professor Campbell’s career is his sustained commitment to research translation, implementation and policy impact. In 2024 he played a central role in establishing Australia’s first Cyberpsychology Support Centre, delivered by the IDCare Foundation, which embeds mental health care within cyber incident response services for individuals and small businesses affected by cybercrime. He is a member of the IDCare Foundation College of Experts, contributing specialist expertise in cyberpsychology to national cyber resilience and recovery initiatives.

Professor Campbell has provided invited expert input to major national and international policy processes. These include advising for the 2023 Australian Psychological Society report for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on the ethical and trauma-informed use of digital and immersive mental health technologies. In the same year he participated in a World Health Organization expert roundtable on youth mental health in digital environments, where he was one of only two Australian representatives.

His scholarship in technoethics examines how digital systems can be designed, implemented, and governed in ways that are psychologically safe, developmentally appropriate, and socially responsible. This work has informed national and international policy discussions on youth wellbeing, cyber resilience, ethical artificial intelligence, and digital mental health. His international standing in the field is further reflected in his role as the Inaugural Australasian Editor of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Professor Campbell currently co-leads the Health Equity and Implementation group for the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health Research, which is committed to consumer engagement and partnership advancement, ensuring that research is always relevant, impactful, and directly translates into tangible health benefits.

Teaching and Clinical Work
Professor Campbell is an award-winning educator with more than 30 years of teaching excellence across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Alongside his academic career, he has practised for over 20 years as a Registered Psychologist specialising in the mental health of children and adolescents. This extensive clinical experience has been foundational in shaping a highly applied teaching and research agenda that focuses on harnessing both common and emerging technologies such as AI, VR/XR, video games, social networking platforms, smartphones, and wearable devices, with the goal to improve mental health outcomes for individuals, families, and service systems using technology.

He has led the design and delivery of innovative, research-led curricula in psychology, cyberpsychology, and digital health, consistently integrating cutting-edge scholarship with real-world applications. His teaching is widely recognised for its clarity, relevance, and strong student engagement, as reflected in consistent outstanding student feedback and multiple teaching awards. Professor Campbell has co-authored two textbooks on Human Development with the renowned psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo and has taught the units HSBH1005 Human Development and BIDH3146 Cyberpsychology in Digital Health at The University of Sydney for more than two decades.

In recognition of his teaching excellence, he received the Australian Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Psychology Lecturer in NSW in 2017, alongside the former Faculty of Health Sciences (now the Sydney School of Health Sciences) Outstanding Lecturer Award for teaching in Health Sciences and Cyberpsychology. In 2018, he was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Professor Campbell is also a highly regarded PhD and Masters supervisor and mentor, having graduated more than 15 PhD students as lead supervisor and over 30 Honours students. In 2023, he was awarded Supervisor of the Year by the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) in the School of Medical Sciences, recognising his sustained excellence in higher degree research supervision and student development.

Professional Recognition and Engagement 

Professor Campbell is a frequent media commentator and public speaker on the impacts of consumer technologies on mental health and wellbeing, regularly contributing expert commentary through national and international media outlets and community forums. In 2024, he received the CyberTherapy Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Conference for Cyberpsychology (CyPsy27) held at Arizona State University, USA. This was in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions to technology-enabled healthcare.

His international profile has continued to grow through keynote invitations, global collaborations, and visiting appointments, including his appointment in as Adjunct Professor of Cyberpsychology at Asia Pacific University of Innovation and Technology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2026 Professor Campbell commenced private international consulting to technology companies and startups via he company AJC Consulting - Cyberpsychology for improved Digital User Engagement Strategies, where his business advice for planning the best UX design testing in AI, VR, Gaming and Social Media has been leveraged successfully using the evidence-based of cyberpsychology research.

Tony Capon is a man of Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā descent, and the world's first Professor of Planetary Health at The University of Sydney. He has more than 30 years of leadership experience in public health research, education, policy, and practice in Australia and internationally. A former Director of the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Australia, his research focuses on urbanism, sustainability, and human health. The inaugural Director of Public Health and Medical Officer of Health in western Sydney, Tony also worked on the prevention of non-communicable diseases with the Australian Health Policy Institute. Tony was a Commissioner with the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and now chairs the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Climate Change, the Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region, co-chairs the Future Earth Health Knowledge-Action Network, and is a member of the International Advisory Board for The Lancet Planetary Health. He has served in numerous honorary leadership roles with not-for-profit organisations around the world. 

Morgan Carpenter, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Sydney Health Ethics, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health. Morgan is an internationally recognised expert on human rights and ethics in relation to the treatment of people with innate variations of sex characteristics (also known as intersex variations or differences of sex development). His work focuses on medicine, health policy and social policy.

Morgan is also the Executive Director of InterAction for Health and Human Rights, a charity that promotes the health and human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics through advocacy and psychosocial support services. He is an inaugural member of the Australian Capital Territory's new Restricted Medical Treatment Assessment Board, and the New South Wales government's LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council.

Morgan has been contracted to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Australian Capital Territory government and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He is a reference or advisory group member for the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, Australian Bureau of Statistics and New South Wales Health.

Dr Katrina Champion is an Associate Professor in the Sydney School of Public Health and is a member of the Matilda Centre, a Flagship in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She is Program Lead of Adolescent Risk Behaviours and Mental Health Research at the Matilda Centre and holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship focusing on innovative approaches to improve the physical and mental health of Australian adolescents.

Dr Champion works at the nexus of disease prevention and mental health, with a focus on the bidirectional relationships between poor mental health and unhealthy lifestyle. She develops, evaluates and disseminates digital interventions to improve both physical and mental health in adolescents.

As part of an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship, Dr Champion spent two years at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University (Chicago, US). During this time, and in collaboration with more than 20 researchers across Australia and the US, she led the development of Health4Life, an eHealth multiple health behaviour change intervention to reduce chronic disease risk and improve mental health among school students.

Her Horizon project is continuing this work to refine digital interventions for adolescents to address the Big 6 risk factors of physical inactivity, poor diet, alcohol use, smoking/vaping, screen time and poor sleep, as well as establishing a new study in high schools to improve the update of evidence-based prevention policy and practice. Dr Champion is also leading a MRFF-funded project to develop a new parent-based intervention specifically designed to improve health outcomes of adolescents experiencing socio-economic disadvantage.