Dr. Georgia Walker
2019
Helen and Michael Gannon John Monash Scholar
Master of Tropical Medicine and International Health
London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine
United Kingdom
Medicine and Health
Georgia is a training paediatrician and infectious diseases specialist whose commitment to child health is galvanised by having witnessed the interplay of poverty, infection and childhood illness both in Australian Indigenous communities and abroad. She holds an MBBS and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, where she graduated as Dux of the College of Medicine in 2015 and has completed a Diploma of Child Health (University of Sydney) and a Diploma of Tropical Medicine (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - East African Partnership). In 2019 Georgia completed a Master of Tropical Medicine and International Health with distinction at LSHTM, where she honed skills in clinical research methodology, public health and policy, and the management of childhood infections. She then worked as a Research Clinician at the Medical Research Council (MRC) The Gambia, in West Africa, to investigate the role of Kangaroo Mother Care in preventing mortality among unstable neonates in under-resourced settings. Georgia has since returned to Victoria and is completing her specialisation. She intends to practice as a paediatrician in Australia's Northern Territory, and to act as a public health advocate to help to drive change in the underlying social determinants of poor Indigenous child health.