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.

Milena Dalton

Senior Research Fellow

Milena has more than a decade of experience in health systems strengthening and public health research and programme management with a focus on immunisation, reproductive, maternal and child health. She has worked in Vietnam, the UK, the US, Ukraine, across Africa and the Pacific developing, coordinating, and executing international projects for non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies and governmental institutions.

Milena co-leads the health systems strengthening and immunisation portfolio of work at Burnet. As part of this she develops and implements projects to strengthen health systems and improve immunisation coverage in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Prior to this she led a multi-donor programme to increase routine immunisation coverage for children under one in 12 provinces across Papua New Guinea.

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

Dr Thazin La

Research manager

Thazin La is a Master of Public Health (Global Health) graduate who has been working as a public health practitioner for a number of years. She has research experience working alongside local/ international NGOs, community-based organisations and ethnic health organizations. She specialises in qualitative research, project management and capacity building. Thazin has published several papers related to the community-based health care workers model, and maternal and child health. Her research interests are health system strengthening – particularly health workforce and leadership – and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.

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 Aye Kyawt Paing

Health systems researcher

Aye Kyawt holds a Masters in Public Health in Global Health. She is a qualified public health specialist and medical doctor with extensive experience in low and middle-income settings. Her expertise spans managing research projects, implementation research, evaluation research, and national-level surveys and conflict-affected populations.
She specialises in health system strengthening, especially for vulnerable and marginalized people, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), maternal, newborn and child health, and infectious diseases, with a focus on cross-cutting themes such as climate change and gender. Aye Kyawt has contributed significantly to publications on health system strengthening, infectious diseases, and SRHR.

Her ReBUILD role as technical specialist focuses on disabilities and inclusive community health systems.

Yin Min Aye

Health systems researcher

Yin has a Masters in Primary Health Care Management from Mahidol University, Thailand and is keen to learn more about resilient health systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings through ReBUILD.

She is interested in enhancing gender, equity, and justice for the community and is particularly focused on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, social determinants of health, health care seeking behaviour, and the management of health service delivery among vulnerable populations during crises.

Yin has both quantitative and qualitative research skills and has already published several articles relating to health care and prevention.

Caroline Ndungu

Project accountant

Caroline is ReBUILD’s Project Accountant for the Burnet team in Australia. She has experience in management accounting and financial reporting, both in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Caroline has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and is an associate member of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

Aung Lwin

Senior finance manager

Aung supports the Burnet team in Myanmar during ReBUILD for Resilience. He has extensive experience in non-profit accounting, financial management, financial reporting, internal control, and financial capacity building, as well as working with multi-donor funds. He has extensive accounting and management experience in the business sector prior to joining the NGO sector. He has a solid accounting and public administration background.