Mahnaz is Senior Lecture at Avondale University in Sydney. In the last 25 years, she has worked as a Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, Manager, Project Coordinator, Research Fellow, Senior Clinical Research Consultant, and Data Manager in teaching and research environment in Australian Catholic University, Wollongong University and University of New South Wales. She has extensive experience in teaching Undergraduate and Postgraduate in Nursing & Public Health subjects. She also has extensive experience in conducting research, running workshops, group presentation, training, writing protocol and intervention manuals in health-related area. Her research interest are Prevention of CVD, Diabetes, Mental Health, Health Management, and Higher education.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2613-846