Dr Rob Commons
Principal Research Fellow
Qualifications:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Charles Darwin University, 2019
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2013
Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (MPH&
TM), James Cook University, 2015
Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2008
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 2006
Bachelor of Medical Science, University of Melbourne, 2006
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
Associate Supervisor for PhD
Location:
Biography:
Rob Commons is an infectious diseases and general medicine physician who completed his undergraduate medical degree at The University of Melbourne in 2006 in combination with a Bachelor of Medical Science. He completed his physician training in 2013 while concurrently undertaking a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine through James Cook University.
His PhD, which he completed in 2019, investigated primaquine as a radical cure for Plasmodium vivax malaria through the Tropical Medicine Division of Menzies.
He continues to research ways to improve vivax radical cure, including undertaking large pooled individual patient data meta-analyses through an extended collaboration with the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN).
His research program has a substantial focus on data synthesis, including undertaking systematic reviews, individual patient data meta-analyses and translation of findings into guidelines.
