Phoebe Williams
Medical Studies

Phoebe Williams

2015 ANZAC Centenary John Monash Scholar
Scholarship studyDoctor of Philosophy
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Current roleConsultant Paediatrician,
Sydney Children's Hospital
About Phoebe
Phoebe has an MBBS (Hons) from the University of Sydney, a BCom and BSci from the ANU, and Masters in Global Health Science with Distinction from Oxford. She was the founder of the ‘Hands of Help’ student organization, building 5 primary schools, establishing a community health project (run by Ugandans, for Ugandans) and creating a trust fund to allow socially disadvantaged children in Kenya and Uganda to study at a tertiary level. In 2013 Phoebe was cited as one of Australia’s ‘100 women of Influence’. She is a marathon runner and plays in the Australian Doctors’ Orchestra. She was a Clinical Paediatric Registrar at the Sydney Children’s Hospital lectures and tutor at The University of Sydney (Masters Programme); and is an appointee to the Guardianship Division of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Phoebe has six publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, including a recent article on outcomes in multifocal neuroblastoma, and a view on interferon-gamma assays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis among migrant children to NSW. Phoebe is currently a Consultant Paediatrician and completed her training in General Paediatrics at Sydney Children’s Hospital, as well as undertaking further subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases. She continues to work closely with a number of hospitals in low-income countries and is passionate about global health issues. Phoebe is regularly invited to participate in international conferences addressing child health challenges on a global scale and works as a consultant for The World Health Organization (WHO).
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