DrCarah Figueroa
(she/her)
Lecturer, Public Health & Health Promotion
Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development
Orcid identifier0000-0002-8825-7796 (opens in a new tab)
- Lecturer, Public Health & Health PromotionFaculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development
- +61 3 924 68307 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Strengthening vital health statistics data- particularly mortality and cause of death
- Assessing health inequalities
- Providing accurate and comparable population health and development indicators that can better inform public policy decision making.
- Specific research areas: Mortality; Cause of death; certification and coding; vital statistics; Epidemiology;
- Related interests: health information systems; disease and risk factor surveillance; population health; disease prevention and control; capacity building, international public health; Sustainable Development Goals