MICRO-BIO

• Kath Weston is Assoicate Professor: Public Health in the School of Medicine, University of Wollongong where she is passionate about engaging medical students in the science of public health and empowering them as future public health advocates. Her...More

  Kath Weston is Assoicate Professor: Public Health in the School of Medicine, University of Wollongong where she is passionate about engaging medical students in the science of public health and empowering them as future public health advocates. Her research interests include historical aspects of disease outbreaks, the history of prison medicine, and medical education. Kath is a founding member of the Discipline of Medical Humanities at UOW and a member of the university’s research ethics committee. Her impact is far-reaching, directly influencing national health and assessment bodies, local health services, and scholarship of rural and regional medical practitioners.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Wollongong

  • A/Prof Public Health
  • School of Medicine
  • 2011 to Present

• Western Sydney Population Health

  • Senior public health officer
  • Public Health Unit Penrith

EDUCATION

• University of Technology, Sydney

  • PhD

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