Samantha is an epidemiologist and international health researcher with over 20 years’ experience in operational and clinical health research in low and middle income countries. Her work has primarily focused the delivery of maternal and child health services to vulnerable populations, the epidemiology and management of rheumatic heart disease in the Pacific, drug-resistant tuberculosis and health system strengthening.

Prior to joining RPSN she worked at the Centre for International Child Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and with Burnet Institute on child and adolescent research projects and programme management in the pacific and Papua New Guinea. She has worked extensively as a consultant in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Most recently Sam worked as an International Health Adviser at the Specialist Health Service in Canberra, providing technical health advice and support to a wide range of DFAT Indo-Pacific health projects and health security reviews.

Sam joined ANU in March 2019 as a Research Fellow with NCEPH, working on a variety of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response projects.