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Abhijit Chowdhury

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Expert Profile:	I am a medical doctor, educator and researcher. My PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics explores depression, anxiety, and antidepressant medications as risk factors for osteoporosis and fracture among adult Australians. I have experience in analysing surveys and linked datasets using Stata.
Areas of Expertise:	Public Health, Data Linkage, Health Education
City:	Southport
State:	Queensland
Country:	Australia

Claudia Bull

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Expert Profile:	Dr Claudia Bull is a health services researcher and research fellow in psychiatric epidemiology at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Nutrition with First Class Honours (2017) and a PhD in Health Services Research from the Griffith University School of Nursing and Midwifery (2022). She has two programs of research. The first focuses on the development, psychometric evaluation & implementation of patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for health systems performance measurement, quality and safety. The second focuses on utilising linked administrative health data to understand equity, patterns of service use and psychiatric outcomes in mental healthcare across Australia. Claudia has great interest in the use of PREMs and PROMs in healthcare, particularly as they pertain to measuring and implementing what matters most to healthcare consumers. She is internationally recognised for her research on PREMs and PROMs. Not only has she published several seminal and highly cited papers on the psychometric properties, selection, and implementation of PROMs and PREMs, but she has pioneered methods for consumer engagement in deciding what questions are relevant and important in PROMs and PREMs. Claudia is an inaugural member of the South Australian Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health's Generic PROM Selection Subcommittee, which sees her working alongside Australian health services researchers, health economists and government stakeholders to identify and implement a generic PROM across South Australia's public hospital system. Claudia is also collaborating with researchers at Radboud University Medical Centre to cross-culturally validate an Emergency Department PREM. Claudia leads a monthly Early Career Research (ECR) Seminar Series with membership from across Australia; is a review editor for the Frontiers in Public Health journal; and serves on the Metro South Human Research Ethics Committee board.
Areas of Expertise:	Surveys, Data Linkage, Public Health
City:	Woolloongabba
State:	Queensland
Country:	Australia

Klaus Gebel

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Expert Profile:	Dr Klaus Gebel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health of UTS. He has master degrees in exercise science from the German Sport University Cologne and Victoria University, Melbourne. He did his PhD at the School of Public Health of the University of Sydney under the supervision of Professors Adrian Bauman and Neville Owen. As an epidemiologist, in his research he mainly focuses on the relationship between urban design, physical activity, active transport and health. Through the media (including London Times, New York Times, Japan Times, Forbes, Playboy) his publications have reached more than one billion people.
Areas of Expertise:	Physical Activity, Planning, Cardiovascular
City:	Coogee
State:	New South Wales
Country:	Australia

Irving Boudville

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Expert Profile:	Public health physician and infectious disease epidemiologist with a special interest in vaccines, infectious diseases and global health. After training in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and public health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, I started my career as an epidemiologist and eventually headed the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Communicable Disease Centre in Singapore. I worked on TB and HIV surveillance, ran a clinic for HIV patients, and started a clinical epidemiology service. I then spent 15 years with the vaccine divisions of GSK Biologicals and Novartis Vaccines. As a member of medical and clinical R&D teams in the Asia Pacific and Australasian regions, I collaborated in the development and introduction of novel vaccines against rotavirus diarrhoea, pneumococcal disease, and other common childhood infections. My career recently came full circle when I re-joined the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, the organisation succeeding the Communicable Disease Centre, as a member of the National Public Health and Epidemiology Unit. I currently teach on the Singapore FETP. I have co-authored publications on TB, HIV, dengue, group B streptococcal infection and vaccines & vaccine-preventable diseases.
Areas of Expertise:	Vaccination, Infectious Disease
City:	Singapore
State:	N/A
Country:	Singapore

Mamaru Awoke

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Expert Profile:	Mamaru Awoke completed his PhD in Public Health Epidemiology at Monash University. Currently, he works as a Senior Research Officer at Cancer Council Victoria, where Dr. Awoke adeptly manages complex projects aimed at improving child and maternal nutrition, demonstrating proficiency in data management and advanced statistical analysis. Dr. Awoke is a self-motivated and results-driven researcher with a strong passion for health promotion and disease prevention, particularly in the domains of maternal and child health, epidemiology, and health policy. With expertise in large data management, survey design, and advanced longitudinal data analysis, his research primarily centres on the intricate relationship between nutrition and chronic diseases. With an extensive background in program evaluation and research, Dr. Awoke has collaborated on diverse health projects in various settings, from Ethiopia to Australia.
Areas of Expertise:	Nutrition, Public Health, Cancer
City:	Clayton
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Nicholas Letchford

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Expert Profile:	I am a mathematician and data scientist with expertise in statistical and epidemiological modelling, health economics, data visualisation, interactive dashboards and spatial analysis. I have designed and led statistical modelling and data science exercises both within Australia and internationally. I am passionate about: - Mathematical modelling of infectious and non-infectious diseases - statistical analysis of survey, administrative, and linked health datasets - Health economics - Interactive maps - Population estimation and mapping - Real-time dashboards
Areas of Expertise:	Infectious Disease, Health Economics, Data Linkage
City:	Melbourne
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

M Tasdik Hasan

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Expert Profile:	• Global Mental Health researcher with 10+ years of research & teaching experiences in research methods, epidemiology, mental health, public health, digital health & project management • Medical doctor with a MPH (Epidemiology) and a MSc (Global Mental Health); Assistant Professor of Public Health in Bangladesh • Designs a digital mental health intervention to reduce depressive symptoms among adults attending primary health care facilities in Bangladesh as his PhD project at the Action Lab, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia • International recognitions as Young Physicians Leader (Germany), New Voices in Global Health (World Health Summit), Commonwealth Scholar (UK), FIT Scholar (Australia)
Areas of Expertise:	Mental Health, Psychiatry, Public Health
City:	Clayton
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Benjamin Goudey

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Expert Profile:	My research focuses on the use of machine learning to help gain insight into high- dimensionality life science problems and translate their findings into real-world application. My doctoral research focused on novel approaches to uncover genetic interactions associated with complex human disease, with the resulting methods winning awards at several conferences and forming the foundational intellectual property underpinning a start-up relating to the analysis of genomic datasets. This focus on multi- disciplinary research continued at IBM Research where my research focus spanned a range of problems in computational genetics, from antimicrobial resistance to genomic prediction of Celiac disease. Since 2021, I've been a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, applying my deep expertise in predictive and prognostic modelling in Alzheimer’s disease and methods for genomic risk prediction.
Areas of Expertise:	Genetics, Methods, Dementia
City:	Ringwood East
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Sunny Nguyen

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Areas of Expertise:	Evaluation, Health Services, Research methods
City:	Footscray
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Craig Olsson

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Expert Profile:	Craig is a life-course epidemiologist specialising in population-based cohort studies of child and adolescent development.
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City:	Burwood
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Harrison Hansford

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Expert Profile:	I am a Ph.D. candidate working to improve treatments for musculoskeletal conditions. I am aiming to do this by leveraging big data and methods of causal inference such as target trial emulation and transportability
Areas of Expertise:	Methods, Research methods
City:	Sydney
State:	New South Wales
Country:	Australia

Tu Quan Nguyen

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Areas of Expertise:	Public Health, Infectious Disease, Research methods
City:	Doncaster
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Caroline Finch

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Expert Profile:	Professor Caroline Finch AO is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Edith Cowan University. She is an internationally-renown injury epidemiologist who is particularly highly regarded for her research into injury surveillance and data systems, sports injury epidemiology and the implementation and evaluation of sports injury prevention programs. Her research has been widely published with a breadth that covers sports and recreational injury, elderly falls, childhood injury, drowning, road safety and implementation science. She regularly provides advice to government departments of both health and sport, as well and international and national peak bodies and agencies, on injury epidemiology and prevention. In 2018, she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her “distinguished service to sports medicine, particularly in the area of injury prevention as an educator, researcher and author, and to the promotion of improved health in athletes and those who exercise”.
Areas of Expertise:	Injuries, Research methods, Information Systems
City:	Joondalup
State:	Western Australia
Country:	Australia

Caroline Lodge

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Areas of Expertise:	Chronic Respiratory Conditions, Perinatal, neonatal
City:	University Of Melbourne
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Tiffany Gill

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Areas of Expertise:	Arthritis (inc. Musculoskeletal), Surveys, Public Health
City:	Newton
State:	South Australia
Country:	Australia

Rachel Visontay

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Expert Profile:	Rachel Visontay is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Matilda Centre for Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney. Her research to date has focussed on relationships between alcohol and long-term health outcomes, including mental health, dementia, and diabetes. Specifically, her work aims to tease apart association and causation by applying research methods that promote causal inference from observational data.
Areas of Expertise:	Drugs (inc. Alcohol), Research methods
City:	The University of Sydney
State:	New South Wales
Country:	Australia

Michael O'Callaghan

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Areas of Expertise:	Cancer, Research methods, Data Linkage
City:	Pasadena
State:	South Australia
Country:	Australia

Jessica Miller

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Expert Profile:	My research focuses on paediatric infection risk and largely uses population-level linked data from various countries to study the associations between pregnancy, birth and early life factors and childhood infections.
Areas of Expertise:	Methods, Data Linkage, Perinatal, neonatal
City:	Ashburton
State:	Victoria
Country:	Australia

Gaston Arnolda

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Areas of Expertise:	Perinatal, neonatal, Developing Countries, Evaluation
City:	Balmain
State:	New South Wales
Country:	Australia

Joseph Sichone

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Areas of Expertise:	Infectious Disease, Health Promotion, Public Health
City:	Moonah, Hobart
State:	Tasmania
Country:	Australia

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