Dr Sarah Hanieh

Leading the Way participant

Post doctoral Research Fellow

Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne

Dr Sarah Hanieh is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne. Sarah has worked in maternal and child health for over 16 years in a clinical, research and policy capacity in Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Liberia, South America, Ethiopia and Vietnam, as well as in Australian Aboriginal communities.

Sarah was awarded both the Chancellors Prize and Dean's Award for Excellence in a PhD thesis. Her current research focuses on developing a predictive algorithm to identify infants at high risk of stunting in resource-constrained settings, and investigating the link between the gut microbiome and child undernutrition.