Dr Holger W Unger

Principal Research Fellow

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science (Hons), University of Edinburgh, 2003
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, 2007
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , Royal College of Physicians (London), 2008
Master of Science (Public Health), London School of Tropical Medicine &
Hygiene, 2011
PhD, University of Melbourne, 2015
Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK), 2016
Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (UK), 2018

Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:

Principal Supervisor for PhD

Location:

Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital campus

Biography:

Dr Holger Unger is a staff specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Darwin Hospital. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research and a Honorary Academic Clinical Lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.

His research focuses on the prevention of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections during pregnancy and the puerperium in the Asia-Pacific region. He supervised a clinical trial of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in Papua New Guinea, and conducts research into the interplay between undernutrition, inflammation, malaria and other infections during pregnancy and their impact on adverse pregnancy outcomes. His portfolio includes clinical and epidemiological studies, biomarker research, data linkage studies, individual participant data meta-analyses, and qualitative research.

Additional research interests are preconception care, preterm birth, and the management of the second-stage of labour in low-resource and remote settings.

Dr Unger co-ordinates research activities at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Darwin Hospital, and initiated the establishment of a Women’s Health Research Group at Menzies School of Health Research.