MrAlbie Sharpe

Dr. Albie Sharpe has been a member of the faculty at the University of Technology Sydney since early 2018, teaching in areas related to public health, primary health care, health promotion, project planning, and non-communicable disease.

In 2017, he was awarded a PhD from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales. He also has a Master of Health and International Development from Flinders University. His PhD was titled "Pathways of Change: A Human Security Evaluation of a Non-communicable Disease Prevention Project in Sri Lanka."

Before moving back to Australia, he taught for many years in the Interfaculty Institute of International Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, and spent several years working as a consultant on health promotion and referral systems for a Japanese government-funded health project in Sri Lanka.

He has recently been appointed Course Director for the Bachelor of Public Health. He is committed to student welfare and improving student experiences and outcomes in both the Bachelor's and Master's courses at UTS.

Albie Sharpe's research and teaching interests include:
- public health history
- social determinants of health
- International migration and health
- global health
- non-communicable disease
- human and health security
- cross-disciplinary research
- qualitative research methods

With colleagues Dr Natalie Carter and Dr Deborah Debono, he has recently successfully received a World University Network Grant for a project titled "The critical role of nurses in addressing the upstream social determinants of health and advancing equitable healthcare practices globally."