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Stefan Thottunkal
Masters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Winter 2025
BioMasters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Winter 2025
Stefan Thottunkal is an Australian medical student, early career researcher and civil servant. His research interests encompass disparities in treatment of chronic disease among ethnic minorities, Native health, global health, and pharmacogenomics. His research approach is grounded in adopting innovative technologies within implementation science, to address disparities in health outcomes. Stefan received an IIE QUAD Fellowship in 2024 to conduct research as a Masters of Community Health and Prevention Research at Stanford.
His current work focuses on integrating evidence-based genetic and pharmacogenomic testing into clinical practice, leveraging machine learning and large language models to enhance clinical decision-making. He is actively seeking collaboration with students and faculty on this transformative project. Particularly those with a background in knowledge-grounded natural language processing and retrieval augmented generation
Stefan has worked on high impact initiatives conducted in collaboration with the WHO Global Outbreak and Response Network, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. A strong advocate for systems thinking, he is passionate about bridging the gap between research, policy, and practice to drive meaningful change.
As a Research Officer at The National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Stefan worked on an evidence mapping review exploring implementation of health checks in the prevention and early detection of chronic diseases among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian primary health care contexts.
