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Public health and education

Jaya Dantas

Professor of international health.

Education and international work

Curtin University’s account describes Dantas’s studies in India and her work in several countries before and during her Australian academic career. Her interests include the health and wellbeing of migrant and refugee populations.

Research and teaching

At Curtin she has held a professorship in international health in the School of Population Health. Her work covers public health, gender, migration and the experiences of displaced communities.

University service

Curtin also records her faculty leadership and international engagement roles. Those appointments sit alongside her research and teaching, rather than replacing them.

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