About Burnet Institute Myanmar

Dr Kyu Kyu Than

Research Director

Kyu Kyu (PhD, with a double Masters in Tropical Medicine and Sexual and Reproductive Health) is co-principal investigator for the Burnet team. She is an experienced researcher, scientist and teacher with wide experience in health systems research, with a particular focus on sexual, reproductive and maternal health. She has expertise in designing, managing, organising and conducting research (multi-country studies), and her work in policy analysis is well recognised.  Kyu Kyu has worked as a consultant for various organisations including the World Bank, UNICEF, Save the Children, the Red Cross and the 3MDG fund. She is dedicated to reducing health inequities for women, men, children and adolescents across the world.

Kyu Kyu has published more than 70 papers in both international and national journals.

Chad Hughes

Deputy Programme Director, Disease Elimination; Acting Regional Director, Mekong

Chad is co-principal investigator for the Burnet team. He is a public health practitioner with specific expertise in strategic planning for responding to the HIV epidemic, scaling up interventions and monitoring and evaluating programmes. In Nepal he established and coordinated a nationwide HIV prevention programme for people who inject drugs. He then moved to Myanmar with the WHO as a technical adviser to the Ministry of Health on drug-related harm reduction and HIV prevention, before joining Burnet to manage a portfolio of programmes relating to HIV and harm reduction programmes for people who use alcohol and other drugs.

Chad has worked on HIV programmes in South East Asia, Africa and the Pacific and has a keen interest in involving men to offer responses to the epidemic – building young men’s social research skills and participatory approaches to the design and implementation of community-based HIV prevention interventions.

Contact Chad on email chad.hughes@burnet.edu.au

Dr Phone Myint Win

Country Representative – Burnet Institute Myanmar

Phone is the research uptake manager for Burnet’s ReBUILD for Resilience team. At the Burnet Institute he oversees all programmes, and has extensive expertise in programme management and managerial leadership in public health and private pharmaceutical sectors. Phone is a Myanmar Health Sector Coordination Committee member (the national coordinating body for all health sector issues, including multilateral development partners, NGOs and private sector), representing the INGO constituency.

Contact on email Myint.Win@burnet.edu.au

Hnin Kalyar Kyaw

Programme Manager (Health Systems)

Hnin is the programme manager for Burnet’s ReBUILD for Resilience team. She is a public health professional, experienced in community-based public health programme implementation including health system strengthening. She has been involved in many community-based research programmes and is especially interested and experienced in reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health, gender issues, health system strengthening.

Julie Tartaggia

Programme Manager, Lao PDR and the Australian NGO Cooperation Programme (ANCP)

Julie is the coordinator of Burnet’s ReBUILD for Resilience team. Prior to joining Burnet in 2015, she worked with the Australian Red Cross in the International Programme and the Migration Support Programme, at the Federal Department of Justice, Department of Planning and Community Development, and in overseas NGOs. Her roles included programme and project design, planning and implementation, management of broad-scale contracts, and policy advice and development. Julie has also lived and worked in both Nepal and Bangladesh, the latter building the organisational capacity of a local NGO. Previous roles have included a range of areas including international development, refugee and asylum seeker services, alcohol and other drug harm reduction, gender research and youth engagement.

Dr Win Han Oo

Senior Programme Manager (Health Security)

Dr Win Han Oo (PhD,) is an experienced researcher, scientist and programme manager who has implemented a number of research and development projects in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). His work focuses on the control and elimination of infectious diseases such as malaria and other vector-borne conditions, tuberculosis and COVID-19. He is currently implementing research projects in GMS aimed at eliminating malaria regionally. Win is also a member of the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination, the GMS Malaria Civil Society Organisations platform and the Myanmar Malaria Technical Strategic Group.

Dr Thin Mar Win

Research and Development Manager

Dr Thin Mar Win specialises in public health, health care management and epidemiology and has a background working in health services and clinical research projects, with a strong track record of analytical and research skills, especially quantitative research. Her research interests are communicable and non-communicable diseases; infectious disease epidemiology; maternal and child health; antimicrobial resistance; infection prevention and control; health system research; disaster risk reduction and management; cost analysis and adolescent health.

Gergana Nedelcheva

Project Accountant

Gergana is the finance manager for the Burnet team in Australia during ReBUILD for Resilience. She has extensive experience in management accounting, financial reporting and control, both in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Gergana is a member of CPA Australia and an associate member of the UK’s Institute of Financial Accountants.

Mya Yadanar Phyo

Finance Manager

Mya Yadanar Phyo is the finance manager for the Burnet team in Myanmar during ReBUILD for Resilience, having joined Burnet Institute in 2012. She has extensive experience in accounting, financial management and financial reporting in the not-for-profit sector. She is a practicing member of the Myanmar Institute of Certified Public Accountants.