Contact

Email

shanieh@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials

Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Medicine
Education
PhD
The University of Melbourne
Post Graduate Diploma
University of London - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Post Graduate Diploma
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Bachelors Degree
Adelaide University
ORCID

0000-0001-5578-0655

Dr Sarah Hanieh

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Medicine
54 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Indigenous infants in remote Australia retain an ancestral gut microbiome despite encroaching Westernization
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65758-0
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Improving cardiometabolic risk factors in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in northeast Arnhem Land: single arm trial of a co-designed dietary and lifestyle program
    DOI: 10.5694/mja2.52593
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Economic returns on investing in early childhood development in Vietnam: a cost-benefit analysis
    DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-12516-z
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Chronic malaria exposure is associated with inhibitory markers on T cells that correlate with atypical memory and marginal zone-like B cells
    DOI: 10.1093/cei/uxae015
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Considering equity and cost-effectiveness in assessing a parenting intervention to promote early childhood development in rural Vietnam
    DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czad057
  • 2020

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Evaluation of a Community-Led Nutrition and Lifestyle Program for Weight Loss and Metabolic Health: A Randomised Controlled Trial.
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Novel Approaches to Improve Understanding of Anaemia and Its Determinants in Indigenous Communities.
Sarah Hanieh

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships

2021
Strategic Grant for Outstanding Women University of Melbourne
2019
Early Career Researcher Travel Grant University of Melbourne
2019
Faculty Trust Bridging Funding University of Melbourne
2018
Melbourne Medical School Early Career Researcher publication prize University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2023

    Journal article

    Promoting early childhood development in Viet Nam: cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a cluster-randomised trial
    DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00271-1
  • 2023

    Journal article

    The role of fingernail selenium in the association between arsenic, lead and mercury and child development in rural Vietnam: A cross-sectional analysis
    DOI: 10.1017/S0007114522001374
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Structured, multicomponent, community-based programme for women's health and infant health and development in rural Vietnam: a parallel-group cluster randomised controlled trial
    DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00032-9
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Child linear growth trajectories during the first three years of life in relation to infant iron status: a prospective cohort study in rural Vietnam
    DOI: 10.1186/s40795-022-00505-y
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Continuing breastfeeding for at least two years after birth in rural Vietnam: prevalence and psychosocial characteristics
    DOI: 10.1186/s13006-021-00427-8

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2016

    Research Grant

    The Stunting Risk Assessment Tool: Identifying Infants at High Risk of Impaired Growth and Development in Resource Poor Settings.
  • 2018

    Internal Research Grant

    Chronic Inflammation in Indigenous Children During the First 1000 Days.
  • 2017

    Research Contracts

    New Approaches to Improve Nutrition in Indigenous Yolngu Children