Background

Dulcie is currently completing a PhD at the  University of Melbourne through the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Burnet Institute. She is supervised by Professor Alyssa Barry & Professor Leanne Robinson.  Her PhD project investigates Plasmodium falciparum antimalarial resistance in malaria endemic populations in Papua New Guinea using next generation sequencing methodologies and population genetics. Prior to her PhD she worked as a senior scientific officer with the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Disease Unit in the Madang province

Qualifications

• 2013 Masters Infectious Disease (Laboratory diagnostics and Epidemiology), University of Western Australia
• 2010 BSc (Hons) University of Papua New Guinea
• 2006: BSc, University of Papua New Guinea

Appointments

• Member of Papua New Guinea Medical Society
• Member of Australian Society for Parasitology

Positions

• 2018 – 2023: PhD Student, University of Melbourne
• 2006-  2017 Senior Scientific Officer Vector Borne Disease Unit, Madang – Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research

Awards

• 2023 Pauline Speedy Post-Graduate Travel Award (International Travel)
• 2018 – 2023: University of Melbourne Graduate Research Scholarship/WEHI PhD Scholarship
• 2015 Harvard T.H Chan, School of Public Health – Travel Award
• 2011 - 2013 Australian Awards Scholarship