Shafkat Jahan

Dr. Shafkat Jahan is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Her work focuses on evaluating public health outcomes, environmental impacts on health, and cancer-related research among Indigenous populations. She specializes in quantitative research, advanced statistical modeling, and data analysis using software like R, SPSS, and Jamovi.

• Education: PhD in Public Health (2020) and Master's (2015) from Queensland University of Technology

Her research explores interactions between individual and environmental risk factors, particularly in cancer care, climate change and health, and Indigenous health equity. She has contributed to studies on end-of-life care costs, cancer screening disparities, and climate-related mortality patterns.

Notably, Dr. Jahan leads projects using linked administrative datasets to analyze cancer outcomes among First Nations Australians. She is available for supervision and currently mentors PhD candidates in areas like cancer screening equity and bowel cancer preferences for Indigenous communities.