Dr. Barbara Nattabi is a Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator at the School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Western Australia. She holds an MBChB from Makerere University, an MSc from the University of London, a Graduate Diploma, and a PhD from Curtin University. With over 20 years of experience as a medical doctor, public health researcher, and educator, Nattabi has worked in clinical settings and infectious disease research in post-conflict Northern Uganda and Australia. Her career history includes service at the Western Australian Centre for Rural Health from 2010 to 2019, where she held the position of NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow from 2014 to 2018. She has secured $4.4 million in fellowships and grants, including $3.4 million in Category 1 funding, and currently serves as Associate Investigator on an NHMRC Partnership Grant for the ATLAS network from 2022 to 2026 and Chief Investigator on an ARC Grant titled "Roads to the Future: Infrastructure and New Development in Africa."

Nattabi's research specializations encompass COVID-19 in culturally and linguistically diverse populations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses including HIV, primary health care, health services research, quality improvement of primary health care, and rural health services and education. Key publications include "Contemporary nursing graduates’ transition to practice: A critical review of transition models" (2020), "A systematic review of factors influencing fertility desires and intentions among people living with HIV/AIDS: implications for policy and service delivery" (2009), "The disease profile of poverty: morbidity and mortality in northern Uganda in the context of war, population displacement and HIV/AIDS" (2005), "‘I could never have learned this in a lecture’: transformative learning in rural health education" (2014), and "Family planning among people living with HIV in post-conflict Northern Uganda: A mixed methods study" (2011). She coordinates units such as Health Program Evaluation (PUBH5705) and Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Disease (PUBH5761), has peer-reviewed for over 13 journals and NHMRC grants, provided more than 30 expert media commentaries on COVID-19, and holds Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy with nominations for Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Professional Email: barbara.nattabi@uwa.edu.au