Lucinda Franklin

BA (Eng Lit)

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Lucinda Franklin is a part-time Research Fellow with the Human Rights and Bioethics Unit at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. She is also studying for her Masters in Public Health (MPH) in international health.

Lucinda has a BA in English Literature from James Cook University in Townsville. On completion of her degree, she worked with the General Practice and Rural Health Unit (Dept Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland) in Townsville before relocating to South Africa where she initially worked with the Health Systems Trust as a researcher on various projects, particularly equity in health.

She completed two years as a Consultant Editor and Writer for the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in Geneva (then under the UNDP), before taking up a position as Research Fellow with the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban, South Africa) where she was involved with a project costing the pilot sites set up for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (pMTCT). She returned to Australia in 2003 to work at the Greater Green Triangle University Dept of Rural Health as a Research Officer in the Public Health unit.

She started work with Monash University in January 2005.