Professor Ralph (BMedSci, MBBS, MPH, DTMH, FRACP, PhD) heads the Global and Tropical Health division at Menzies School of Health Research in northern Australia. She is a practicing medical specialist in General Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital and is the Senior Clinical Advisor at Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia. Her research portfolio spans tropical infectious diseases, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, First Nations health and cultural safety. She supervises PhD students, doctors in training and post-doctoral researchers.