Dr. Aya Mousa

Dr. Aya Mousa is an NHMRC biomedical research fellow and the Head of Diabetes, Metabolic, and Reproductive Health Research at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI), Monash University. She was awarded her Ph.D. in April 2018, which was a clinical research Ph.D. in the area of diabetes prevention, with a focus on nutritional interventions, including vitamin D. She also has a background in public health and health services research from undergraduate and Honours studies, where she graduated at the top of her cohort, receiving the Senior Scholar Award and the Honours Prize for having the highest grade point averages (GPA) in both the Bachelor's degree and the Honours program. Before commencing her PhD, she worked as a teaching associate at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, where she taught epidemiology and biostatistics, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and public health research theory and practice. She then commenced her PhD focusing on the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases. This involved clinical trials, mechanistic studies, epidemiology and evidence synthesis, as well as formal coursework in advanced biostatistics and chronic disease epidemiology. She has published extensively in the areas of metabolism, diabetes, pregnancy and nutrition and possesses a unique skillset spanning the research continuum from mechanistic and epidemiological research to clinical and public health research and translation.