Aarushi Dhingra is a HDR student enrolled in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. Aarushi has a Masters in Applied Econometrics from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor (Hons.) in Economics and Management from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her main research area is in resource use and women’s health. Aarushi will conduct her research in the program on ‘Health Economics: Econometric Modelling and Resources Use Implications of NCDs for Women’, and will be supervised by Professor Brenda Gannon, Professor Gita Mishra and Professor Luke Connelly.

Email: a.dhingra@uq.edu.au

Chen is a HDR student enrolled in the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. Chen has a master’s degree in Epidemiology and health statistics, and a bachelor’s degree in Public Health from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her main research area is in the association of established and emerging risk factors in women’s reproductive stage with non-communicable disease (NCDs) incidence. She will be supervised by Professor Gita Mishra, Professor Annette Dobson, and Doctor Hsin-Fang Chung.

Email: c.liang2@uq.net.au 

Leticia is a PhD candidate enrolled in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. Leticia has a Master’s in Public Health in the field of Nutrition, Graduate Diplomas in Clinical Paediatric Dietetics and Public Health Nutrition from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a Bachelor’s in Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her postgraduate research investigates physical function in women in their 40s and the factors associated with performance, supervised by Prof Gita Mishra, Prof Jenny Doust, and Dr Gregore Mielke.

Email: l.watanaberibeiro@uq.edu.au 

Yuan is a rheumatologist and a PhD candidate enrolled in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her post-graduate study research interest is to explore metabolic risk factors in osteoarthritis to improve outcomes in musculoskeletal disease, supervised by Professor Flavia Cicuttini.

  Email: yuan.lim@monash.edu