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Anne Kavanagh AO, AAHMS, is an Australian epidemiologist and Professor at Melbourne University, and was awarded an Order of Australia in June 2024. Her research specialises in inequalities in health across different types of social determinants including gender, disability, the built environment, socioeconomic situations, as well as other factors such as housing and employment.

Education and Career
Kavanagh graduated from Flinders University with a Public Health degree, and then subsequently obtained a PhD from ANU in 1995. She is a Professor of Disabilty and Health at the University of Melbourne, at the school of population and global health.

Her passion for her career and medical research is led by her personal journey, with a child with autism, and an intellectual disability. She was also later diagnosed with Multiple Schlerosis."‘When my eldest child was diagnosed with Autism and an intellectual disability, I learned first-hand how people with disabilities and their families experienced poorer health outcomes because they were often marginalised from society,’."Kavanagh also regulary works in science communications, and publishes her research in The Conversation, including work around the NDIS and impacts of funding cuts to the NDIS on families, particularly those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. She has also published work on impacts of Covid lockdowns and vaccinations on the general population.

Publications
Kavanagh has authored a suite of journal articles, over 300 as at June 2024, and has an H index of 62, and was on the Editorial Board of Disability and Society in 2021. She was also the Associate Editor of the journal Social Science and Medicine from the years 2008 to 2014.

Awards
• 2020 - Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship, University of Melbourne. • 2019 - Convocation Medal Alumni Award, Flinders University. • 2018 - Leadership Award, University of Melbourne. • 2015 - Equity, Diversity and Staff Development Award, University of Melbourne. • 2007 - Knowledge Transfer Award, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. • 2006 - DHS Victoria Public Health Award for Research Innovation. • 2002 - Young Tall Poppy Award.