Research Fellows
Dr Danusha Jayawardana
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Danusha Jayawardana was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health at the University of Queensland. Her interest areas are in health economics and applied microeconometrics, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing of women. During her time with CRE WaND Danusha’s work focused on the health economics program of the CRE.
Email: d.jayawardana@uq.edu.au
Dr Zhiwei Xu
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Zhiwei Xu was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. His main research interests are the associations of sociodemographic factors, body weight and health behaviours, and reproductive factors with non-communicable diseases, and the impacts of climate change on human health.
Email: zhiwei.xu@uq.edu.au
Professional Staff
Reshika Chand
Project Coordinator
Ms Reshika Chand was based at the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre AWaGHR Centre) at the University of Queensland. She has a background in research support across various areas in health research. Reshika provided support in the day-to-day running of the CRE.
Email: r.chand@uq.edu.au
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Diseases: Prevention and Detection
Level 3, Public Health Building
The University of Queensland,
266 Herston Road
Herston, QLD, 4006
General enquiries
wandcre@uq.edu.au