Dr Nicki Meagher
BMedSci, MPH, PhD
Dr Nicki Meagher is a Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Research Fellow and a Scientia Lecturer in the School of Population Health, UNSW. Dr Meagher is an expert in ovarian cancer epidemiology, and her work uses large datasets and epidemiological techniques to answer questions that can change practice and improve outcomes for people with ovarian cancer.
She has broad expertise in molecular epidemiology and biomarker-based research as well as working with administrative health data to address areas of clinical need in ovarian cancer.
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2025-2028 Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellowship.
2025 Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Mentored Investigator grant. ‘Equitable access to BRCA testing: an Australian national data linkage study.’
2025 Penny Taylor Prize for excellence in ovarian cancer research.
2024 Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG) Michael Friedlander AM award for emerging early career researcher.
2024 ANZGOG Best Pre-clinical Poster Award.
2025-Present Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium Epidemiology Working Group
2024-Present ANZGOG Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Reference Group
2024-Present Co-chair, ‘Pure Science Symposium’ and ANZGOG Annual Scientific Meeting Program Steering Committee (2025 and 2026 conferences)
2023-Present Chair, Health Precincts Biobank Research Access Committee, UNSW (member since 2020)
2022-Present ANZGOG Ovarian Tumour Type Working group