Associate Professor Lillian Mwanri

Associate Professor

College of Medicine and Public Health

+61 8 72218417

lillian.mwanri@flinders.edu.au

Health Sciences (2.12)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Associate Professor Mwanri has extensive experience in a wide range of public health issues. Her PhD investigated a range of health impacts of micronutrient supplements in anaemic and disadvantaged children in resource poor schools. She has worked with culturally and linguistically diverse migrants in Australia to address various health issues including poor dietary patterns and physical inactivity. Her experience and interest in migration and public health medicine has led to research activity in healthy ageing, adaptation to climate change and other health and social issues in CALD migrants. She has close collaborations with many CALD communities and organisations across Australia and has worked in the government institutions including SA Health. She chairs several committees related to migration, public health and chronic disease including HIV/AIDS. Her interest in Global health resulted in bringing 33 fellows from East Africa to build capacity and enhance the global implementation of Millennium Development Goals to improve maternal health outcomes and child survival.

Qualifications

1991: Doctor of Medicine (MD): The University of Dar Es Salaam
1994: Masters of Community Nutrittion (MCN): Queensland University
2001: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): The University of Adelaide
2010: Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FAFPHM): Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
2014: Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education), FLinders university

Honours, awards and grants

2014: Recipient: $143,384 from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through Australian Award Fellowships Office: Capacity Building for Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in East Africa. Additional funds to train African Fellows towards implementing the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs 5 and 4) in three East African Countries namely South Sudan, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Team application: Dr Lillian Mwanri (PhD, FAFPHM) and Dr Julie Robinson (PhD).

2013: Recipient: $16,000 from the Faculty of Health Sciences Competitive Seeding Grants to undertake a research project onHIV status, stigma and discrimination, and health: the experience of people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds, South Australia. Team application: Dr Lillian Mwanri (FAFPHM, PHD) and A/Professor Anna Ziersch (PhD).

2013: Recipient: $570,549.00 from AusAID through Australian Award Fellowships: Capacity Building for Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in East Africa. Funds to train Fellows towards implementing the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs 5 and 4) in three East African Countries namely South Sudan, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Team application: Dr Lillian Mwanri (PhD, FAFPHM) and Dr Julie Robinson (PhD).

2012: Recipient: $10,000.00 from the Faculty of Health Sciences Competitive Seeding Grants to undertake research project on Chronic Disease and Ageing in a New Culture: the case of African migrants in Adelaide, South Australia. Team application: Dr Lillian Mwanri and Dr Mariastella Pulvirenti (PhD).

2011: Recipient: $5000.00 from Flinders Prevention Promotion and Primary Health Care Cluster grants to undertake a research project on the health and wellbeing of populations ageing in a new culture: the case of African migrants in Adelaide, South Australia. Team application: Dr Lillian Mwanri and Dr Mariastella Pulvirenti

2011: Recipient:$10,000.00 from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Establishment Grants to undertake research project Exploring Youth Suicide in African Communities in South Australia.

Key responsibilities

Teaching
Research
Student Supervision
Professional and Community Engagement

Topic coordinator

PHCA1509 Equity in Health and Healthcare for a Just and Sustainable World

PHCA9509 Public Health Practice Development

PHCA9505 Primary Health Care Practice in Developing COuntries

Topic lecturer

PHCA1509 Equity in Health and Healthcare for a Just and Sustainable World

PHCA9505 Primary Health Care Practice in Developing Countries

PHCA9509 Public Health Practice Development

Supervisory interests

Chronic disease

Communicable disease

Epidemiology

Health promotion

Healthy Ageing

Infectious diseases

Maternal and child health

Primary health care

Public health and migration

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: HIV/AIDS Mortality in Southwest Ethiopia (1), Determinants and impacts of HIV among women living with HIV and their families in Belu district and Yogyakarta municipality, Indonesia (1), The prevalence of Perinatal Depression, its Effect on Birth and Infant Health Outcomes among a cohort of pregnant mothers in Gondar Town, Ethiopia (1), Comunity knowledge, practices and perceptions about malaria, and acceptability of vector control interceptions in Ghana (1), Assessing Policies and Strategies to Reduce the impact of Health Worker Shortages in Primary Health Care Facilities in Ghana (1)

Associate supervisor: Maternal Mortality Inequality in West Java Province (1), Migrant and refugee health (1), Exercise and physical activity among University Students in Thailand (1), Assessment of anonymous HIV and STI- related Sexual Risk behaviours and Substance Use Among Iranian university students in Tehran (1), Food by prescription in HIV patients in Tigray region Ethiopia: an assessment of outcomes and determinants (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Perspectives of service users and service providers of free maternal health services in Malindi district, Kenya (1), The Experience of Stigma among Indonesian Adults Living with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (1), Tackling otitis media in remote Aboriginal communities: Improving primary health care worker's adherence to evidence based practice in the management of otitis media and implementing a culturally safe practice (1), The relationship between socio-economic factors and childhood malnutrition in South east Sulawesi, Indonesia (1), Perceptions and knowledge of overweight and obesity and their determinants among adolescent males in urban area of Riyadh region in Saudi Arabia: A mixed method study (1)

Associate supervisor: Assessment of anonymous HIV and STI-related high risk behaviours among Iranian Students at Universities in Tehran (1), Maternal Health Inequality in West Java Province, Indonesia: A Macro and Micro Level Analysis (1), COMMUNITY-ASSOCIATED CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY (1), The effects of Aboriginal culture on the treatment received in rehabilitation programs (1), A Study to Design and Model Smoking Cessation Assistance mHealth in a Macau Smoking Cessation Agency (1), Food by prescription in HIV patients in Tigray region Ethiopia: an assessment of outcomes and determinants (1)

Professional engagement

Public Health Medical Consultant- African Communities Council of South Australia Secretary-The Australasian Facullty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM) - South Australian Region Committee Member- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations HIV Interagency Program (CHIP)Public Health Medical Consultant on African Coommunity Leaders Advisory Forum on Health and Social issues Public Health Medical Consultant- CALD Women Advisory ForumCommittee Member- Flinders University School Of Health Sciences International Program CommitteeCommittee Member- Flinders University- African Interest Group Committee Member- Flinders University- Indian Interest Group

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