Dr Dharani Sabba is HEAL Senior Centre Coordinator at the HEAL Global Research Centre, and Institute Manager at the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra. With a PhD and from diverse roles in clean energy, she brings years of research management, leadership, operational and business acumen. Most recently she was the Program Manager for the Australian National University Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific initiative, where she developed and delivered strategies to support research initiatives with a focus on transdisciplinary collaborations, and engagement with government, industry, and communities in policy and research translation. She was a scientist at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), before moving into Knowledge Sharing portfolio management for R&D and decarbonisation projects at Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

