Rafat Hussain ا: رفعت حسین is an Associate Professor of Population Health, at the Australian National University Medical School & the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing (CRAHW), Research School of Population Health,

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, Canberra. She was previously a Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England in

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Career

From 1987 to 1993 she worked as an academic at the

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, Karachi, where she was actively involved in teaching, clinical care and establishment of primary health care programs.Hussain, R. Risk factors for neonatal mortality in low-income population subgroups in Karachi, Pakistan, '' Community Genetics '', 2002, 5: 249-256 Hussain has worked as a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Nutrition at

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and as a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health.

References

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