Dr Anisa Assifi is a Research Fellow with SPHERE, the NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care, in the Department of General Practice, at Monash University. She is a public health researcher with an interest in sexual and reproductive health, particularly in abortion, adolescent health and the capacity of community pharmacy to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care services. Anisa has worked in abortion research for 10 years at the World Health Organization based in Geneva, in safe abortion care, and University of Technology Sydney where she was awarded her PhD in 2021.  She has also worked with Karolinska Institute and research focused on the areas of STI and HIV, SRH capacity building in humanitarian crises and FGM. Anisa has a Masters of Public Health (Sexual Health) and a Bachelor of Science (Anatomy, Reproduction and Development) from the University of Melbourne. 

Anisa's research is currently focused on adolescents and the delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare in the community pharmacy setting. She is currently Project Manager of the ALLIANCE Trial, a pragmatic cluster randomised trial expanding community pharmacists’ scope of practice to deliver person-centred effectiveness-based contraceptive counselling services.