Tania King

 

Associate Professor Tania King is a quantitative social epidemiologist. She is currently a Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University and an Honorary within the Centre for Health Policy at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne.

 

Applying causally focussed quantitative methods, Associate Professor King has an overarching focus on social and health inequity. Within this, her program of work centres on: 1) gender equality and gendered processes as determinants of health; 2) paid and unpaid work arrangements and conditions, particularly unpaid care; 3) social determinants of mental health and suicide.

 

Fellowships, scholarships and awards 2025 Stanford University/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists Globally 2025-current Vice Chancellors Principal Research Fellow: RMIT 2021-2025 Dame Kate Campbell Fellow: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences 2020-2023 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Research Council 2021 Award for Excellence in HDR supervision: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health  2019 Award for Research Excellence: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health  2020 Best paper award: Gender and Sexuality in the Workplace Conference

 

Research funding

2026-2027 Recognising and supporting young carers’ education, health and wellbeing: how should policymakers respond? Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation. 2025-2029 Working with women: implementation strategy. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.  2025-2028 Assessing the impact of gender inequalities across Australia. Discovery Project, Australian Research Council.  2025-2025 Identifying and addressing morbidity and mortality due to ‘deaths of despair’ in Australia Veski FAIR Fellowship.  2024-2025 Suicide risk among young carers: using population-linked data to address a key research need. Suicide Prevention Australia Innovation Grant. 2023-2025 Policy solutions to improve the mental health of Australians with disability. MRFF.  2022-2027 Interventions for better life-time mental health outcomes for young Australians with disability. NHMRC Synergy Grant. Co-Investigator 2022-2023 Understanding and addressing long COVID impacts on work participation. University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Manchester, Toronto Joint Research Fund. 2021-2022 Building a framework to prevent and respond to young people with disability who use violence at home. ANROWS.  2020-2024 Mental Health Promotion and Intervention in Occupational Settings: MINDUP. NHMRC-European Union Collaborative Research Grant.  2020-2024 Preventing Suicide in Boys and Men. MRFF Million Minds Mission Suicide Prevention. 2020-2022 Workplace compensation for injury and risk of deliberate self-harm. Suicide Prevention Australia Innovation Grant.  2020-2021 Clinical and community service provision for people with disabilities: Investigating the perspectives of the health care workforce and their clients. MACH MRFF. Rapid Applied Research Translation scheme (RART 2.2).  2019-2021 Measuring Gender Equality: Assessing the impact of Gender Equality in Australia on social, economic and health outcomes, ARC Linkage Project.  2018-2022 Youth Cohort: Improving Disability Employment Study (YES). NHMRC Partnership Project.  2017-2021 MatesMonitor: Evaluating suicide prevention in the construction industry: NHMRC Partnership Project.

 

Research tenders/consultancies 2025 Guide for the inclusion of sex and gender considerations in clinical guidelines: Department of Health and Aged Care.  2025 Job exposure matrix: Aust Institute of Health & Welfare.  2024 Suicide in the Construction Industry: MATES in construction.  2024 Accreditation review: MATES in construction.  2024 Suicide Awareness Training evaluation, MATES in Energy.  2023 Work-related suicide: Suicide Prevention Australia. 2023 Suicide in the Construction Industry: MATES in Construction.  2022 Suicide in the Mining Industry: MATES in construction.  2020 Suicide in the Construction Industry: MATES in construction.  2019 Suicide in the Construction Industry: MATES in construction. 2017 Gender Equality and Health in the Australian Context. VicHealth. 2016 A study of gender stereotypes in pre-school children. City of Melbourne.