Sarah is an academic infectious diseases physician. She currently holds dual positions as Consultant Physician in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Alfred Hospital (Travel Medicine Clinic) and Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her research focuses on improving ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases in mobile populations (travellers, immigrants and refugees) and amongst those living in low-resource settings. She conducts research in Australia and overseas, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Sarah graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 2006 and undertook specialist training in infectious diseases in Melbourne and Darwin. She completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine in Peru in 2010 and a Master of Public Health at James Cook University in 2015. In 2016, she enrolled in a PhD in Public Health through Monash University, under the supervision of Professor Karin Leder, Professor Allen Cheng and Professor Andrew Forbes. Her PhD seeks to understand how water and hygiene interventions can be optimised to reduce infectious disease acquisition and improve health in low-resource settings (including India), and has recently been submitted for examination.

Sarah is a member of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM), the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society and Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases. She is the current Chair of the ISTM’s Digital Communications Committee and sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Travel Medicine.