Associate Professor
Associate Professor Susana Vaz Nery
MSc, PhD
medicine-health
The Kirby Institute
Susana has a multidisciplinary background, combining degrees and experience in biochemistry, neurosciences, health policy and international development, and field epidemiology in tropical diseases.
Following undergraduate studies in Portugal, Susana undertook her PhD in neuroscience (at NYU Medical Centre, New York, awarded in 2003). She began her career on tropical diseases as a malaria molecular parasitologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), with a EMBL fellowship. While based in London, she did malaria research in top African research centres: Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KEMRI-WT, Kilifi, Kenya); Medical Research Council - The Gambia Unit; and the Joint Malaria Programme (based at KCMC - Moshi, Tanzania).
In 2007 she joined Malaria Consortium in Mozambique, as a monitoring and evaluation and public health specialist, providing technical support to the National Malaria Control Program.
Susana then moved to Angola as the scientific coordinator of a recently created health research centre (CISA Project), where she led a team of approximately 70 scientific and field staff.
In 2012 she re-joined academia and moved to Timor-Leste to work on the control of soil transmitted helminths and other tropical diseases, and to Canberra in 2015, as a senior research fellow at ANU, with her research funded by the NHMRC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Susana has recently joined the Kirby Institute at UNSW, where she will continue her research program on neglected tropical diseases, that uses intervention studies to generate evidence that can inform health policy changes for more effective and sustainable disease control strategies.
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Publications
Awards
FELLOWSHIPS
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1/2006 to 1/2007 (approx. $34,500) |
Post-doc Fellowship
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Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
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1/2004 to 1/2006 (approx. $90,000) |
Long-term Post-doc Fellowship |
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
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9/1997 to 5/2002 (approx. $100,000) |
PhD Fellowship |
Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese Government (Foundation for Science and Technology), Portugal
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1997 (approx. $7,500) |
Pre-doctoral Fellowship |
Portuguese National Board for Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT)
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1997 (approx. $7,500) |
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Portugal-France Cooperation Program |
JNICT/INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research)
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1996 (approx. $10,000) |
Undergraduate Scholarship |
European Community Erasmus program |
Grants
Competitive GRANTS
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Nery S.V., Clements A., Halton K., Anderson R., Gray D. |
School versus community-based albendazole deworming for control of soil transmitted helminths in school-age children in the Philippines – a cluster randomised controlled trial. |
NHMRC Partnership Project Grant APP1139561. $1,336,408.20. 2018-2020. |
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Aung E., Gray D., Nery S.V., Clements A., |
Soil-transmitted helminthiases and related behaviours among schoolchildren in Myanmar. |
Government Partnerships for Development, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), (a collaboration between The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Yangon). $6,000 AUD 1 March 2016 to 30 September 2016 |
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Nery S.V., Viney K., Pham M. |
Economic evaluation of patient costs associated with tuberculosis diagnosis and care in Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste |
Excellence in Population Health Award, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, 2015. $15 000 AUD |
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Nery S.V., Clements A., Gray D. |
Should integrated deworming and WASH programs for STH control be delivered in schools or the community? |
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations 2015–2016. (OPP1119041) $100,000 USD |
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Chief investigators: Gray D., Clements A., Stewart D., McCarthy J., Soares Magalhaes R., Halton K. Associate investigators: Nery S., Laksono B., Hadisaputro S., Sadler R., Bieri F. |
The effectiveness, acceptability and cost effectiveness of the 'BALatrine': a culturally acceptable latrine intervention in resource limited environments |
NHMRC Partnership Project Grant. Partner: UBS Optimus Foundation. 2014–2016 (APP1077138) $764,916 AUD |
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Clements A., Andrews R., McCarthy J., Black J., Traub R, Gray D., Nery S. |
A cluster RCT of the impact of a community-based hygiene and sanitation program on infection with intestinal parasites following mass albendazole chemotherapy in Timor-Leste |
NHMRC Partnership Project Grant. Partner: WaterAid Australia. (APP1013713) 2011–2013 (delayed 2012-2015) $987,270 AUD |
Non-Competitive GRANTS
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Lokuge K., Nery S.V., Banks E. |
Improving basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care through training and infrastructure support to community health workers in rural and remote regions of Papua New Guinea
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UNICEF, Papua New Guinea, 2017. $30 800 AUD |
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Nery S.V., Viney K. |
Economic evaluation of patient costs associated with tuberculosis diagnosis and care in Solomon Islands |
WHO Western Pacific Region, 2016. $15 000 AUD |
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Nery S.V., Viney K. |
Economic evaluation of patient costs associated with tuberculosis diagnosis and care in Timor-Leste |
WHO Timor-Leste country office, 2016. $3 000 AUD |
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Nery S.V. (CISA) |
Management of 1M euros/year for setting up a research centre and initiating research activities (health and demographic surveillance system, verbal autopsy, baseline survey of malaria, intestinal parasites, schistosomiasis, anemia and malnutrition, and baseline survey of hypertension). |
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2009 to 2012, €1,000,000/year |