Senior Research Officer, Claudia Gascoyne
Senior Research Officer, Claudia Gascoyne was the worthy recipient of the 2023 Dorothy Reading Scholarship. This scholarship is in recognition of former member of staff Dorothy Reading OAM, and aims to foster talent and build capacity to make profound impacts in population health and wellbeing.
Claudia will use the scholarship to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in Edinburgh, Scotland, one of the most highly regarded international conferences in the field of tobacco control. Here she will present new findings from a large NHMRC-funded experimental study of newly developed tobacco pack warnings, led by the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer.
Priority Communities Manager, Charissa Feng
Early Detection Manager, Charissa Feng was awarded the 2023 Nigel Grey Scholarship. The scholarship is in recognition of former staff member Dr Nigel Gray AO, a pioneer of tobacco control both in Australia and internationally.
Charissa will use the funds from the scholarship towards a study tour to interview world leading experts to understand how they are managing or preventing liver cancer, with a particular focus on hepatitis, a leading risk factor for the disease. This project supports Cancer Council Victoria’s priority to reduce the burden of liver cancer.
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