Community Health

Professional Overview

Dr. Ventis Gasenolo Vahi is an experienced general practitioner with over a decade of clinical practice across public and private sectors in the Solomon Islands, and with recent clinical experience in the Republic of Nauru. She currently serves as a General Medical Officer with the Family Health, TB/Leprosy and Communicable Diseases Divisions at Nauru Public Health, where she provides comprehensive primary care, wellness assessments, reproductive health services, home-based care, and multidisciplinary management. Her background includes more than ten years of general practice in Honiara, work as a Panel Physician for Australia and New Zealand immigration medical examinations, and over three years in health research administration at the Ministry of Health. Dr. Vahi also has substantial experience in internal medicine through her work as a registrar in the National Referral Hospital’s high-volume internal medicine department.

Areas of Expertise

• General practice, primary care, and acute outpatient medicine
• Women’s health, reproductive health counselling, cervical screening and thermal ablation
• Internal medicine (acute and chronic disease management)
• Immigration medical examinations (Panel Physician)
• Health research administration, ethics review, and project management
• Multidisciplinary collaboration and community health outreach

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Certifications & Affiliations
• MBBS, Fiji School of Medicine
• Master of Medical Science (Clinical Medicine), Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
• Licensed General Medical Practitioner, Republic of Nauru (Registration No. DR 0159)
• Solomon Islands Medical & Dental Board (Registration No. MDBA0011)
• Certified in Cervical Screening and Treatment – Family Planning Australia
• Family Planning Training – UNFPA