Dr Nishila Moodley is a Public Health physician and lecturer at the College of Medicine and Dentistry. She co-ordinates and teaches into the MBBS3 program, specifically Prevention and Addiction Studies (semester 1) and Global Public Health (semester 2). These subjects integrate epidemiology and screening practices into clinical public health.

She is also a health systems researcher with experience in health economics, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Nishila’s research interest include health inequities, vulnerable populations, health system strengthening and communicable diseases. Many of these interests are reflected in her PhD when she worked as a clinical HIV researcher in South Africa and evaluated the economic and health impacts of the roll-out of antiretroviral medications and potential HIV vaccine effects in vulnerable populations. She has recently been involved in quantifying preventable hospital expenditure in Northern Australia for the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA). Nishila is active in research supervision, being involved in clinical research and PhD supervision.

Interests

Research

• Health inequities Vulnerable populations Health system strengthening Communicable diseases

Teaching

• Epidemiology Global Public Health Clinical Public Health

Experience

• 2019 to 2020 - Medical lecturer, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2016 to 2018 - Senior Scientist, The Aurum Institute (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2012 to 2016 - Fogarty PhD scholar, Perinatal HIV Research Unit (Soweto, South Africa)

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Curriculum and pedagogy (3901)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Evaluation of health and support services (2002)
• Teaching and curriculum (1603)

Awards

• 2017 - HIV Vaccine Trial Network Special Achievement Award (Seattle, USA)
• 2012 to 2016 - SHAPe ESI scholarship (South Africa / HVTN AIDS Vaccine Early Stage Investigator) through the NIH Fogarty Programme
• 2012 to 2015 - South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) scholarship for PhD Studies

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Journal Articles

• Topp S, Thompson F, Johnston K, Smith D, Edelman A, Whittaker M, Rouen C, Moodley N, McDonald M, Barker R and Larkins S (2023) Democratising data to address health system inequities in Australia. BMJ Global Health, 8.
• Moodley N, Velen K, Saimen A, Zakhura N, Churchyard G and Charalambous S (2022) Digital Chest Radiography Enhances Screening Efficiency for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Primary Health Clinics in South Africa. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 74 (9). pp. 1650-1658
• Joshi A, Larkins S, Evans R, Moodley N, Brown A and Sabesan S (2021) Use and impact of breast cancer survivorship care plans: a systematic review. Breast Cancer, 28. pp. 1293-1317
• Edelman A, Grundy J, Larkins S, Topp S, Atkinson D, Patel B, Strivens E, Moodley N and Whittaker M (2020) Health service delivery and workforce in northern Australia: a scoping review. Rural and Remote Health, 20 (4).
• Moodley N, Saimen A, Zakhura N, Motau D, Setswe G, Charalambous S and Chetty-Makkan C (2020) 'They are inconveniencing us' - exploring how gaps in patient education and patient centred approaches interfere with TB treatment adherence: perspectives from patients and clinicians in the Free State Province, South Africa. BMC Public Health, 20.

Other research outputs

• Carlisle K, Johnson P, Mudd J, Nagaraja H and Moodley N (2023) Reshaping curriculum delivery to transition to a multiple campus MBBS program. ANZAHPE 2023 Festival Abstract Book. 26-29 June 2023, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
• Edelman A, Grundy J, Moodley N, Larkins S, Topp S, Atkinson D, Patel B, Strivens E and Whittaker M (2020) Northern Australia health service delivery situational analysis. Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia, Townsville, QLD, Australia [Externally Commissioned Report]

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Current

• Can an Implementation Science Framework Enable Emergency Clinicians at a Major Referral Emergency Department in North Queensland to De-implement Low-value Care in Adult Patients? (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Development and Implementation of a Breast Cancer Care Pathway in Townsville Region - A Study Looking into Feasibility, Governance, Patient Centred Outcomes and Economics (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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