Anisa Assifi, PhD
Monash University (Australia)
Dr Anisa Assifi is a Research Fellow with SPHERE, the NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care, in the Department of General Practice, at Monash University. She is an early-career public health researcher with an interest in sexual and reproductive health, particularly in abortion, adolescent health and more recently in community pharmacy. Anisa has worked in abortion research for 10 years at the World Health Organization based in Geneva, in safe abortion care, and University of Technology Sydney where she was awarded her PhD in 2021. Her research is currently focused on adolescents and the delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare in the community pharmacy setting. Anisa is currently Project Manager of the ALLIANCE Trial, a pragmatic cluster randomised trial looking at expanding community pharmacists’ scope of practice to deliver person-centred effectiveness-based contraceptive counselling services.
