Biography:
Payal N. Maharaj has double master’s degree, the first in Climate Studies from the University of the South Pacific, Fiji (2015) and the second in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Hawai’i, USA (2018). She joined the University of Queensland after being awarded the Australian Research Council-Research Training Programme full scholarship. Based at the School of Social Sciences, as a final year PhD candidate, Payal’s principal supervisor, Dr. Jenny Munro and co-supervisor, Dr. Stefanie Plage are guiding her towards her research topic titled “Unraveling the history of gynaecology in Fiji and how it has shaped women’s health today”. Her research interests are within Women’s Health using medical anthropological techniques (with emphasis on gynaecology & obstetrics), policy development and transdisciplinarity.
Title : Unraveling the history of gynaecology in Fiji and how it has shaped women's health today