Anna Palph BMedSci, MBBS, MPH, DTMH, FRACP, PhD

Professor Anna Ralph heads the Global and Tropical Health division at Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. She is the Menzies Associate Director for Early and Mid-Career researchers, Senior Clinical Advisor for RHD Australia, and a practicing medical specialist in General Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital and Palmerston Regional Hospital.

Her research fields include Australian tropical infectious diseases, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australian Indigenous populations, tuberculosis control especially in neighboring South-East Asian settings, and improving Aboriginal cultural safety in healthcare. She has expertise in a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Professor Ralph’s roles include membership in the Medical Journal of Australia’s Editorial Advisory Committee, the Northern Territory Government Department of Health Top End Division of Medicine Research Committee, the CARPA Standard Treatment Manual editorial committee, the NT RHD Control Program Steering Committee, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases. She was previously the Codirector of RHD Australia, a Steering Committee Member of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network, a member of the Australasian Clinical TB Network, and Deputy Editor of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. She serves as a Data Safety Monitoring Committee member for clinical trials and provides regular reviews for funding agencies and journals.

She supervises a number of Ph.D. students, post-doctoral researchers, and Advanced Trainees in Infectious Diseases through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.