Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah

Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah

Senator for VIC

Party
Australian Labor Party
Chamber
Senate

Seating Plan

Seating map

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

Suite 1.03, 261-271 Wattletree Road
Malvern, VIC, 3144

Postal address

PO Box 2293
Wattletree Road PO, VIC, 3145

Telephone:
(03) 9822 4422

Parliament Office

PO Box 6100
Senate
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:
(02) 6277 3695

Biography

Parliamentary service
  • Elected to the House of Representatives for Higgins, Victoria, 2022. Retired prior to general elections 2025. Elected to the Senate for Victoria, 2025.
Parliamentary positions
  • Member of the Speaker's Panel from 26.10.2022 to 12.9.2023.
Committee service
  • House of Representatives Standing: Procedure served from 28.7.2022 to 28.3.2025; Health, Aged Care and Sport served from 28.7.2022 to 28.3.2025
  • Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit served from 28.7.2022 to 28.3.2025
Parliamentary party positions
  • Australian Labor Party. Served: 21.05.2022 to present
Personal
  • Born: 10.12.1972, London, England
  • Gender: Female
  • Marital Status: Married
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
  • MBBS (Hons) (University of Sydney).
  • PhD (University of Melbourne).
  • Medical Doctor from January 2009 to August 2022.
  • Research Fellow from 2019 to 2020.
  • Statistical and Methods Reviewer from July 2019 to August 2022.
  • Associate Professor from November 2020 to February 2021.
  • Associate Editor from January 2021.
Honours
  • Translating Research into Practice Fellowship by the Medical Research Future Fund, 2019.
Publications
  • Hearing the Voices of Australian Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, BMJ Leader, 2020.
  • Consensus Guidelines for Antifungal Stewardship, Surveillance and Infection Prevention, Internal Medicine Journal, 2021.
  • When Azoles Cannot Be Used: The Clinical Effectiveness of Intermittent Liposomal Amphotericin Prophylaxis in Hematology Patients, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021.

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