Staff at the Centre for MEGA Epidemiology
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Associate Professor Shyamali Dharmage
Email: s.dharmage@unimelb.edu.auAssociate Professor Shyamali Dharmage is a medical epidemiologist with a MSc and MD in Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology. Associate Professor Dharmage originally trained in Medicine and subsequently specialised in Public Health at The University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She then pursued her doctoral training in epidemiology of allergens and asthma at Monash University, which was supported by a NHMRC public health research scholarship. She worked as a lecturer for five years at the University of Colombo and Monash University prior to joining the University of Melbourne as a senior lecturer in 2000. Subsequently, Associate Professor Dharmage was awarded a NHMRC public health postdoctoral fellowship and is currently appointed as a senior research fellow. She also has extensive prior experience as a clinical practitioner both in Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. Associate Professor Dharmage has coordinated a range of undergraduate and post graduate teaching programs during her academic career. Currently, she coordinates and teaches clinical epidemiology in MPH and M (EPI) courses, and supervises five PhD students in Epidemiology. She has extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of large epidemiological studies, and a major collaborator with the European Community Respiratory Health Survey, comprising 58 countries including Australia. Her research interests are in the areas of Chronic Respiratory Diseases and atopic disorders. Dr Dharmage is the principal investigator of the 36 years follow-up of the Tasmanian Health Study, which is currently funded by the NHMRC and the Clifford Craig Foundation. She is also a chief investigator of several studies including an ecological study on air pollution and asthma, a cohort study on occupational dermatitis, Melbourne Atopic Cohort Study and a nested case control study on fungi and uncontrolled asthma. |