Professor Jaya Dantas is Dean International (2018 onwards) and  Dean – Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (2022 onwards) in the Faculty of Health Sciences. She was also the Deputy Chair of Academic Board (2021-2025) and the Inagural Chair of the University Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee (2023-2025). Professor Dantas was Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences from 2011 to 2017.

She is Professor of International Health, in the Curtin School of Population Health where she leads a programme of research in refugee and migrant health.

Jaya has worked for 38 years in India, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda,and Australia and has undertaken teaching and research consultancies in Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Singapore and South Africa. In 2010, she was awarded a National Award for University Teaching by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, in 2013, she was made a Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia and was a Graduate Women International Delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations and has presented sessions at the Churches Centre of the United Nations (CCUN) in New York, USA (2015-2019 and 2023 onwards). In 2024, she was awarded the presitigious Audrey Lorde Professorship by the Berlin University Alliance in Berlin, Germany.