He has a background in Family Medicine and Public Health. Between 2004 and 2011, Ignacio was Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the La Trobe Refugee Research Centre in Melbourne. He has been chief investigator in a number of cohort studies documenting the health and settlement of people from refugee backgrounds, and has collaborated with QPASTT over the last 10 years in research and program evaluation. Ignacio’s research interests include refugee health and settlement, mental health, health inequalities, human rights and social determinants of health.