My Fulbright research will explore public health approaches to reduce the endemic burden of scabies and common skin disease in the Northern Territory.
Victoria is a PhD research student at the Menzies School of Health Research and a medical doctor at Royal Darwin Hospital. She is a Principal Investigator working on a collaborative project to estimate the prevalence and impact of scabies and mass-drug administration treatment programs in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. She has championed skin health reform in northern Australia; supporting the development and implementation of community skin health programs, revising national clinical guidelines and co-authoring a successful PBAC submission to change the listing of ivermectin on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for the management of scabies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
in Australia.
As the 2024 Fulbright Northern Territory Scholar, Victoria will work with Professor Esther Freeman at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston; developing a roadmap to improve the global provision of skin health services as part of the global access to dermatology project.