Professor Monika Janda

Researcher biography
Professor Janda is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow (2025-29), and after leading the Centre of Health Services Research between 2023 and 2026, she now serves UQ as the Deputy Director, Frazer Institute, and Professor in Behavioural Science at the Faculty of Health, Medicine & Behavioural Sciences. Professor Janda leads the NHMRC Centre for Reserch Excellence in Skin Imaging and Precision Diagnosis (2021-2026) and the NHMRC funded Synergy Roadmap Towards Melanoma Screening (2022-2027). She trained as a health and clinical psychologist, and now is a behavioural scientist with a research background in cancer prevention and quality of life research. Prof Janda has strong clinical collaborations, and a passion for consumer-centered digital interventions that make self-management of health-related issues easier for people. Her work focuses on applied health and clinical research problems, making a difference to cancer prevention, early detection and treatment outcomes.
Previousely, until 2017, she led the Health Determinants and Health Systems Theme at The Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Before her NHMRC Leadership Fellowship, her research was funded through an NHMRC Translating Research into Precatice Fewllowhip (2018-2020), NHMRC Career Development Fellowship Level II (2013-2017), NHMRC Career Development Fellowship I (2009-12) and NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (2004-8). She was a research fellow for the Melanoma Screening trial with the Cancer Council Queensland before joining QUT in 2006.
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iToBoS (Intelligent Total Body Scanner for Early Detection of Melanoma) National Health and Medical Research Council |