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Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah

Infectious Diseases and General Medicine Physician; Founder, fungalAi; Co-Founder, Healthcare Workers Australia
Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah is a physician in infectious diseases and general medicine at a major Melbourne hospital. She has research interests in artificial intelligence, health services research and the occupational safety of health care workers. Michelle is the founder of fungalAi, a platform technology that aims to facilitate faster surveillance and diagnosis of fungal infections in patients with blood cancers. In 2019, she was awarded a prestigious TRIP (Translating Research Into Practice) fellowship by the Medical Research Future Fund and appointed to JAMA Network Open as a statistical and methods reviewer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Michelle has advocated for Australian healthcare workers and brought her critical thinking skills to the vaccine debate noting that she is not a vaccinologist. She is the co-founder of Healthcare Workers Australia, a grass-roots advocacy group supporting better work, health and safety standards for Australia’s frontline.

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