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At the time of the QE Scholarship, Navi was a Master of Public Health student at Â鶹ÊÓƵ University. Navi previously completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she developed a keen interest in both global and public health. Her research interests include: planetary health, men’s mental health, and refugee and migrant health. For her Master’s thesis, Navi explored how a culture of hegemonic masculinity influences public safety personnel’s uptake of a mobile health approach to peer support. Through her research, Navi hopes to contribute to the creation of more appropriate mental health interventions for this key population.

As an outbound Queen Elizabeth Scholar, Navi travelled to Australia where she worked with the University of Newcastle’s School of Medicine and Public Health. While there, Navi worked on a project that aimed to understand how best to disseminate research findings to policy makers and public health practitioners, such that evidence is more readily translated into practice. By working on this project, Navi hoped to understand how public health organizations are bridging the knowledge translation gap in the Australian context. She also hoped to gain a renewed sense of the work that is yet to be done in global and public health spheres.