Ms. Margaret Stebbing

DipAppSci Nursing, MPH

Lecturer

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Margaret comes from a nursing background and has worked in a variety of public health areas. She completed a Master of Public Health at Monash University in 2000, specialising in international health and completing her major research project in Nepal. Margaret worked in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine in 1991 and 1992 coordinating the Victorian Family Heart Study, and returned to the Department in 2003 as a Research Fellow and Lecturer after seven years working in public health programs in the Northern Territory, Nepal and China.

Margaret is part time Lecturer in epidemiology, risk assessment and infectious diseases. She is also an APA PhD scholar. The topic of her thesis is "Current issues in perception of risk", with an emphasis on health effects of new technology, and this invovles both qualitative and quantititive methods. She is also a member of an AusAID funded task group who ar prepared for a rapid regional public health response to any outbreak of avian influenza in human populations.

Margaret is an active member of the Public Health Association of Australia, and a member of the Australasian Epidemiological Association.