Dr Manjula Marella is a Senior Research Fellow in the Disability Inclusion for Health and Development Unit since 2013. Manjula has a Bachelor of Science in Optometry from India and specialised in low vision rehabilitation.
She completed her PhD from the Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Melbourne, in 2011. Her doctoral thesis involved developing an evaluation framework for community-based rehabilitation programs. Manjula worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Eye Research Australia at the University of Melbourne before joining the Nossal Institute. Manjula’s core research expertise as a disability researcher is in developing and implementing qualitative, quantitative and psychometric methods for developing and validating client-reported outcome measures. Her postdoctoral research primarily focused on developing and validating the Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD) survey to measure disability and its impact on participation and inclusion of people with disabilities in the community.Manjula has led major research projects applying RAD as part of large population based surveys for informing various disability inclusive programs throughout Asia and the Pacific, including in public health, inclusive education and evaluating disability inclusion in post-disaster response and recovery. She has also led and contributed to several qualitative research studies on exploring the level of participation of people with disabilities in education, health and sports in the region. Manjula is the coordinator for the Maters of Public Health subject - Disability and International Development. Manjula also supervises graduate research students. She is reviewer for top journals in the field including Disability and Rehabilitation, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Optometry and Vision Science, and PLOS ONE. She is on the Editorial Advisory Panel of the Journal of South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment.
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FEATURED Journal article
Vision impairment and refractive errors in refugees presenting to community optometry clinics in Victoria, Australia
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Travel Grant to attend Vision 2011 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Travel Grant from Asia ARVO 2011 Conference, Singapore
Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship (MATS)
Travel Fellowship Award
5. Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS) and Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS). 2007-2010
Travel Grant from Asia ARVO 2007 Conference, Singapore
Scholarship for excellent academic achievements (Bausch and Lomb School of Optometry, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad)
Best Paper in Clinical Sciences Award
Scholarship for excellent academic achievements (Bausch and Lomb School of Optometry, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad)
Scholarship for excellent academic achievements (Bausch and Lomb School of Optometry, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad)
Credentials
Positions
Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Member
Australian Disability and Development Consortium (ADDC)
Member
International Society Geographical & Epidemiological Ophthalmology
Member
International Agency for Prevention of Blindness
Committee Member
Vision 2020 Australia Low Vision Rehabilitation Committee
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International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation
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Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Associate Faculty Member
Faculty 1000 Research
Education
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
University of Melbourne
Bachelors of Science (Optometry)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science