About Jasmine
Jasmine is a researcher at the Burnet Institute, researching health and wellbeing issues in adolescents both locally and globally. Identifying and curbing health risks in adolescence has a ‘triple dividend,’ benefiting young people, the adults they will become, and the children they may raise, but despite this, adolescent health is chronically under-resourced. Jasmine aims to develop Australia’s research capacity to design and analyse longitudinal datasets that track health trajectories throughout adolescence, to identify when and how intervention is most effective, and where (often limited) resources should be allocated. She will study an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at Oxford University, which will equip her with the necessary skills to return to Australia and lead cost-effective adolescent health research. She hopes her research will contribute to achieving health equity outcomes for young Australians, as well as informing the strategic direction of Australia’s engagement in international global health initiatives.
