Griffith University Doctor of Medicine Beth Hamilton is Queensland’s 2018 Rhodes Scholar.
Dr Hamilton graduated with First Class Honours and a University Medal last year and intends to pursue a Master of Science in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at Oxford University with a goal of working in a global health organisation such as WHO.
“Through my study at Oxford University I hope to become an integral part of the change needed to make a meaningful and sustainable impact on people’s lives and live out a dream of improving the human condition through reducing health inequality,” Dr Hamilton said.
“At a public and global health level, change is initiated and driven by leadership, initiative, research and collaboration.”
Currently an intern at Townsville Hospital, Dr Hamilton has been for the past four years a Director of Ubuntu Through Health, which delivers aid projects in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and East Timor.
In East Timor she helped establish a partnership with a local clinic to support midwife training, tuberculosis diagnoses and treatment, and lifesaving paediatric surgery.
She has presented Ubuntu’ s projects at two global health conferences. One of these projects won Best International Health Project of the Year.
“My involvement in Ubuntu and other volunteering roles has cemented principles of compassion and integrity, and my sense of responsibility as a privileged global citizen to serve others,” she said.
Among her many awards, Dr Hamilton presented at the 2017 International Balint Federation Congress in Oxford this year as part of the first prize in an international essay competition for medical students. Her essay was subsequently published.
She has tutored medical students and is an advocate for junior doctors for the Council of Doctors in Training as well as an associate lecturer at Griffith University Medical School.
She represented Queensland in water polo throughout high school and at Griffith University. She played representative netball for eight years and is an umpire and coach.
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