DrFarwa Rizvi

Dr Farwa Rizvi is a General Practitioner (GP) by background, and a senior clinical researcher with over 10 years of postgraduate global health research experience, and 4.9 years as a postdoctoral research fellow in Australian clinical and academic settings. She has worked at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) and the University of Melbourne (UoM), and the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI) at Monash Medical Centre on projects spanning breast cancer screening, palliative care integration across multiple cancer streams, and women’s metabolic health. With 79 peer-reviewed publications and expertise in grant writing, ethics, and mixed methods research, her work focuses on improving health equity and practice-based outcomes for culturally diverse communities.

Dr Rizvi has generated over $690,580 including successful Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (DUPRF) award, Australian postgraduate award (APA) doctoral scholarship, travel grants, postdoctoral grants from Shepherd Foundation Victoria, and postdoctoral award from Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4) funded by Cancer Australia. Dr Rizvi has published over 70 peer reviewed journal research articles and contributed to over 15 abstracts/conference presentations at international and national conferences, and five Australian national guidelines and toolkits (Research metrics: 957 citations, h-index 16 and i10-index 23).

Dr Rizvi currently holds DUPRF and leads the MOSAIC project, a mix-methods study co-designing culturally and linguistically tailored breast cancer screening resources for South Asian women in Victoria. The project is guided by an advisory group comprising South Asian consumers, BreastScreen Victoria representatives, community stakeholders, and General Practitioners (GPs). She also leads a PC4-awarded project exploring GP communication strategies to improve cancer screening (colorectal, lung, breast, and cervical) for consumers in Victoria. Dr Rizvi is the chief investigator for the BEAMVIC¹ project at SVHM and UoM, and has co-authored Australian national cancer pain management guidelines² supported by Cancer Australia, published at MAGICApp (2024) and at the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology (Nov 2025). She has also contributed to developing Care Plus Implementation Toolkit³ (2023–2024) for early palliative care integration in advanced cancer. Additionally, Dr Rizvi contributed to the development of a national educational module on pancreatic cancer pain management and interventional pain strategies for general practitioners in Australia (published via RACGP), as well as a patient information flyer for Cancer Australia (August 2023–March 2024), supporting the translation of evidence-based cancer care into clinical practice and consumer education. Her work is deeply embedded in primary care contexts, engaging GPs and community stakeholders to translate evidence into action. Her clinical research contributions reflect a strong commitment to collaborative and practice-oriented clinical research in cancer screening and integrated patient care.

References:

1. Rizvi, F., Bellingham, K., McLachlan, S.A. and Philip, J., 2025. Unmet Need for Breast Cancer Screening Among South Asian Women in Victoria. Asia‐Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology.
2. Lovell, M.R., Rizvi, F., Luckett, T., Agar, M., Phillips, J.L., Boyle, F.M., Stubbs, J., Hucker, T., Gawarikar, R., Shaheed, C.A. and Lee, J., 2025. Update of the Australian Guideline for the Management of Cancer Pain in Adults. Asia‐Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology.
3. Care Plus Implementation Toolkit. Available at: https://www.careplusau.org/about-5