Rate My Professor Freya Fowkes

University of Melbourne

Epidemiology Biostatistics Parasitology Infectious Diseases Public Health

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4.08/20/2025

Makes learning feel rewarding and fun.

4.05/21/2025

Makes learning feel effortless and fun.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages students to think creatively.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Freya

Professor Freya Fowkes is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. She earned her DPhil in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the University of Oxford in 2007, MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2002, and BSc (Hons) from the University of Glasgow in 2001. Her career trajectory includes Head of the Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group at the Burnet Institute since 2011, where she serves as Senior Principal Research Fellow and NHMRC Leadership Fellow. Additional roles at Burnet encompass Deputy Program Director for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health since 2023 and Head of the Malaria Elimination Initiative from 2021 to 2024. Previously, she was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research from 2007 to 2010.