Assoc.Professor Nathan Grills, a Public Health Physician and NHMRC post doctoral fellow, works largely in India on disability, non communicable diseases and health curriculum development and training. He has worked as a Public Health Fellow (Dept.
of Health) and with CDC & WHO on HIV and civil society partnerships after completing his MPH and DPhil at Oxford University. He has international experience in Africa, Fiji, East Timor, PNG, Bangladesh and Nepal. He currently facilitates a Network of programs who work together to help train Community Health Workers to serve the under-served (www.chgnukc.org). He has faculty positions with Melbourne University (www.ni.unimelb.edu.au/regional_activity/southasia/uttarakhand), the Public Health Foundation of India (www.phfi.org), the Emmanuel Health Association (India) (www.eha-health.org/) and is the international coordinator for the Community Health Global Network (www.chgn.org).
Research interests:
• HIV AIDS- completed doctoral studies on HIV, and in particular the role of community based organizations, at Oxford University in association with CDC India Office and WHO Geneva
• Social Network Analysis Professional doctorate is based on network analysis. Practical experience in health network research in North India, Department of Health Victoria, Bangladesh and the UK.
• Consultant on engagement and partnerships with Faith Based Organisations
• Primary health care trainer- experience in North India, Nepal, Bangladesh, East Timor
• Program evaluation- experience in India, Australia and Nepal
• Qualitative research drawing on semi-ethnographic approaches
Current positions:
2012- Primary care Research advisory committee, CMC Vellore, India
8/2010- Postdoctoral Fellow, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
2010- Associate, Emmanuel Health Association
2010- Lead Consultant, Uttarakhand Cluster Tobacco Control Initiative
2010- Honorary Faculty Member of the Public Health Foundation of India
2010- Founder and Company Director, IT Without Borders (IT-WOB)
11/2009- Research Fellow, Burnet Institute, Melbourne
11/2007- Co-director and International Coordinator, Community Health Global Network
9/2008- Executive Facilitator, Uttarakhand Cluster of the Community Health Global Network
7/2007- Emergency Doctor, Emergency Department, Box Hill Hospital
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Magnitude, characteristics and consequences of topical steroid misuse in rural North India: an observational study among dermatology outpatients.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Collaboration in health: The Case Study of the Uttarakhand Cluster
Awarded for quality of presentations for the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Victorian Chapter
statewide scholarship for allied health students, awarded on the basis of academic standing, rural motivation, and character
awarded to the 6th year judged by their colleagues to have contributed the most to medicine during the course
graduate prize for excellence in Medicine, Monash University
highest aggregate mark in Medicine and Surgery
highest mark in the final exams in Medicine and Surgery
: for the student who contributed most significantly to the first 3 years of the medical course, and best addressed student issues
FAFPHM - Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
Credentials
Positions
Associate Professor
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Education
Doctorate in Public Health
Monash University
Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Public Health
University of Oxford
DPHIL
University of Oxford
Global Health Sciences
University of Oxford
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
Monash University