Farnaz Sabet - Doctor and Rhodes Scholar

Career Highlights

• Born in Iran in 1980 a year after Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in an Islamist revolution and during persecution of people of the Baha’i faith – her family fled to Australia via India and Zambia
• Attended Beaconhills College from 1996 to 1997 (Years 11-12)
• Received two Premier’s awards in the 1997 VCE examinations, in English and in Chemistry
• Placed in the top ten students in Victoria as a result of her VCE scores in 1997
• Took a year off after the end of school to do volunteer work in communities in Japan, Korea and Zambia
• Enrolled in Medicine at Monash University in 1999
• Worked in other under-privileged communities during summer breaks at university in outback Australia at Kintore and in Tanzania
• Received a Rhodes Scholarship in 2005
• Received the ‘Sophie Davies Memorial Medal’ which is awarded to the student in the Monash University’s medical degree course with the highest aggregrate marks over the whole course
• Deferred her Rhodes Scholarship for a year to work as an intern at Royal Darwin Hospital
• Completed her ‘Masters Degree in Global Health’ at Oxford University in 2007 with a dissertation on the development of depression in children in Soweto, South Africa
• Will soon commence a Ph. D. at Oxford University in Child Psychiatry