Sanam Ahmadzada
Sanam Ahmadzada
Sanam Ahmadzada is a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health at The University of Queensland (UQ) researching co-designing a Mental Health Promotion Framework for refugee and migrant communities. She holds a Master of International Public Health and a Bachelor of Science majoring in Biomedical Science from UQ.
Sanam is a former refugee from Afghanistan and has a strong interest in health equity and justice, diversity and inclusion, transcultural mental health, health promotion and mental health stigma reduction. She has been a refugee health consultant (G11 member) with the Refugee Health Network of Queensland since 2020. She also spent over five years at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR) as a research officer, working on several projects including an evaluation of the Multicultural Psychological Therapies Program at the World Wellness Group (WWG) and an evaluation of the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Suicide Prevention Project developed by the Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre (QTMHC). She has recently joined the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT) as a Board Director. She also has experience sitting on several working groups, committees and councils, including the Queensland Mental Health and Drug Advisory Council, Brisbane South PHN Community Advisory Council and UQ Cultural Inclusion Council.