Dr. Mithilesh Dronavalli

Accredited Statistician since 2022: (Statistical Society of Australia)
Member Profile: https://www.statsoc.org.au/Sys/PublicProfile/48202292/4702721
Criteria: Degree in Statistics +
6 years of progressively advanced Statistical Experience + Submission of Major Works +
Maintaining Continual Professional Development + 5 year re-accreditations


Statistical / Database Programming R, Stata, Python, PL/SQL, SAS Reproducible well commented segmented code

Statistical Consulting Clear written and verbal communication, interested, organised, excellent problem solving,

Study Design Critical Appraisal, Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analysis, Meta-regression

Statistical Techniques: Generalised Linear Models, Longitudinal/Correlated Outcome Data/Multilevel Modelling, Survival Analysis, Multiple Imputation, generating and simulating
data, Deep Learning

Causal Inference Directed Acyclic Graphs, Propensity Scores, Inverse Probability Treatment
Weights, Regression Discontinuity, Differences in Differences, Instrumental Variables, Mendelian Randomisation, Causal Mediation Analysis (incl. sensitivity analysis, time to event,
multiple mediators)

Machine learning Random Forest, Longitudinal K-means, SVM, KNN, Classification and Regression Trees, Linear and generalised models for prediction,

Teaching and Supervision of Research Students

Data Management of large linked population data

RCTs Clinical Trials Design, Sample Size, Randomisation Schedule,

Simulation Modelling AnyLogic: Agent Based Simulation, Discrete Events and System Dynamics

Social Disadvantage
Mental Health Services
Framing Indigenous Health
Health Promotion
Health Policy
Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Disease
Environmental Health Risk Assessments
Teaching of research methods and supervision of research students
Grant Writing
PRINCE 2 : Foundations and Practitioners
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Certified as of 2022 Oct

Active Listening, History Taking, Mental State Exam and Formulation of treatment in a multidisciplinary team environment
Supporting and Caring for the Sick
Overcoming Social Disadvantage
Prescribing Psychotropic medication
Carrying out ECT

• School outcomes after HIE: a population-based cohort study (2026)
  
  • Aim: To study the school performance of children with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy.
    
  • Method: Population-based cohort linking perinatal records to national school testing data.
    
  • Results: HIE survivors exhibited specific educational deficits by early adolescence.
    
  • Impact: Warrants targeted and long-term educational support for HIE survivors.
    
• Leak during term neonatal CPAP stabilisation: does resuscitation device design affect delivered PEEP (2026)
  
  • Aim: To compare CPAP device performance during term neonatal resuscitation.
    
  • Method: In vitro bench study comparing T-piece resuscitation devices.
    
  • Results: Device design significantly altered delivered pressure in the presence of a leak.
    
  • Impact: Guides neonatal resuscitation equipment selection and pediatric safety protocols.
    
• Maternal Deaths Due to Suicide, Accidental Poisoning and Undetermined Intent Within 5 Years Following Childbirth (2026)
  
  • Aim: To investigate postpartum mortality risks related to mental health and poisoning.
    
  • Method: Population-based linkage study over a 5-year postpartum period.
    
  • Results: Found an elevated risk of suicide and accidental poisoning in vulnerable mothers.
    
  • Impact: Advocates for extended postpartum mental health surveillance and clinical support.
    
• Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through 'mental health care plans' (2025)
  
  • Aim: To determine if mental health care plans modify cardiovascular risk.
    
  • Method: Random effects regression comparing primary care cohorts over 12 months.
    
  • Results: Care plans significantly reduced daily tobacco smoking rates and excess body mass index.
    
  • Impact: Demonstrates that primary care interventions effectively mitigate disproportionate metabolic risks.
    
• Integrated health and social care with a CALD focus: a service mapping study (2024)
  
  • Aim: To map existing health and social care services for minority populations in Sydney.
    
  • Method: Comprehensive regional service mapping and qualitative analysis.
    
  • Results: Highlighted fragmented service delivery and specific barriers for non-English speakers.
    
  • Impact: Provides actionable data for local health district planning and resource allocation.
    
• POMMS: Pre-Operative Misoprostol in Myomectomy Surgery (2024)
  
  • Aim: To assess misoprostol efficacy in reducing blood loss during myomectomy.
    
  • Method: Randomized controlled clinical trial.
    
  • Results: Misoprostol effectively and safely reduced intraoperative blood loss.
    
  • Impact: Supports preoperative pharmacological intervention in gynecological surgery.
    
• Innovative Policy Supports for Integration in Health and Social Care Focused on CALD Populations (2024)
  
  • Aim: To explore policy supports for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse groups in Australia.
    
  • Method: Qualitative study analyzing local policy frameworks and implementation.
    
  • Results: Identified critical gaps in cross-cultural social care integration.
    
  • Impact: Informs systemic policy reform for immigrant and minority health equity.
    
• Association between out-of-home care and mortality in children with prenatal drug exposure (2024)
  
  • Aim: To assess if child protective services reduce mortality for drug-exposed infants.
    
  • Method: Retrospective population-based cohort study using linked state data.
    
  • Results: Out-of-home care significantly reduced the indirect mortality risk in exposed children.
    
  • Impact: Highlights the critical need for continued child welfare support after hospital discharge.
    
• 'Joining the Dots: Linking Prenatal Drug Exposure to Childhood and Adolescence' (2024)
  
  • Aim: To link prenatal drug exposure to long-term health and academic outcomes.
    
  • Method: Population cohort study protocol linking multiple administrative databases.
    
  • Results: Established a robust tracking framework for over 1.8 million birth records.
    
  • Impact: Provides the methodological foundation for identifying targeted youth interventions.
    
• School performance in children with prenatal drug exposure and out-of-home care in NSW (2024)
  
  • Aim: To evaluate academic outcomes of drug-exposed children in out-of-home care.
    
  • Method: Retrospective population-based cohort linking health and school data.
    
  • Results: Out-of-home care had a significant indirect protective effect on school outcomes.
    
  • Impact: Stresses the critical need for robust and culturally safe child protection frameworks.
    
• Health care needs and costs for children exposed to prenatal substance use to adulthood (2024)
  
  • Aim: To evaluate long-term healthcare utilization and costs for exposed children.
    
  • Method: Population-based cohort tracking linked data from birth up to 20 years.
    
  • Results: Showed significantly higher long-term healthcare costs and utilization for exposed youth.
    
  • Impact: Highlights the economic and clinical necessity of early developmental intervention programs.
    
• Effect of short, animated video storytelling on maternal knowledge and satisfaction (2023)
  
  • Aim: To test the efficacy of animated video storytelling for maternal health.
    
  • Method: Randomized controlled trial conducted in South Africa.
    
  • Results: Demonstrated high engagement and measurable improvements in health knowledge.
    
  • Impact: Supports globally scalable visual communication strategies for public health.
    
• Determinants and health outcomes of trajectories of social mobility in Australia (2023)
  
  • Aim: To explore the impact of socio-economic position trajectories on physical and mental health.
    
  • Method: Cox-regression and multinomial logistic regression of a longitudinal cohort.
    
  • Results: Decreasing socio-economic position increased the risk of new-onset illnesses.
    
  • Impact: Informs policy responses to modify health inequalities driven by social determinants.
    
• Optimizing knowledge and behavioral intention of women and their partners in the perinatal period (2022)
  
  • Aim: To establish a framework to improve maternal health via digital storytelling.
    
  • Method: Randomized control trial study protocol detailing planned methodologies.
    
  • Results: Defined rigorous evaluation methodologies for mobile video health interventions.
    
  • Impact: Paves the way for scalable and evidence-based digital health messaging globally.
    
• Predictors of length of treatment, discharge reason, and re-admission to Aboriginal alcohol rehabilitation (2022)
  
  • Aim: To identify predictors of readmission and discharge in residential rehab.
    
  • Method: Retrospective cohort analysis of patient discharge and readmission rates.
    
  • Results: High readmission was observed for patients with stimulant use or justice referrals.
    
  • Impact: Emphasizes tailoring substance treatment protocols for highly vulnerable sub-groups.
    
• Evaluation of a community-based mobile video breastfeeding intervention in Khayelitsha (2021)
  
  • Aim: To assess a mobile video breastfeeding intervention in a low-income setting.
    
  • Method: Cluster-randomized controlled trial.
    
  • Results: Improved early breastfeeding initiation rates and maternal knowledge.
    
  • Impact: Demonstrates mobile video as an effective and scalable behavioral intervention.
    
• A randomised stepped-wedge evaluation of a guideline-driven process for improving cultural competence (2020)
  
  • Aim: To evaluate a cultural competence program in non-Aboriginal rehab facilities.
    
  • Method: Stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial across multiple treatment centers.
    
  • Results: Documented measurable shifts in organizational cultural safety and provider competence.
    
  • Impact: Provides a framework for improving Indigenous treatment outcomes in clinical addiction.
    
• Tuberculosis infection in under-2-year-old refugees: Should we be screening? (2020)
  
  • Aim: To determine if infant refugees require proactive tuberculosis screening.
    
  • Method: Systematic review and meta-regression analysis of screening tools.
    
  • Results: Found a 5 to 15 percent latent tuberculosis prevalence in the under-two refugee cohort.
    
  • Impact: Supports revising protocols to mandate tuberculosis screening for infant refugees.
    
• Effectiveness of Oseltamivir Prophylaxis in Influenza Outbreaks in Residential Aged Care (2020)
  
  • Aim: To evaluate Oseltamivir prophylaxis during aged care influenza outbreaks.
    
  • Method: Cohort study observing 86 outbreaks across 10,064 aged care residents.
    
  • Results: Prevented 90 percent of new influenza cases during active outbreaks.
    
  • Impact: Provides clinical backing for mandatory prophylactic intervention in aged care.
    
• Trends in antimicrobial resistance patterns in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (2019)
  
  • Aim: To estimate changes in antibiotic susceptibility of N. gonorrhoeae isolates.
    
  • Method: Systematic review and meta-analysis of laboratory surveillance data.
    
  • Results: Revealed decreasing susceptibility to key frontline treatments like azithromycin.
    
  • Impact: Urges immediate updates to clinical management guidelines for gonorrhea.
    
• Non-AIDS complexity amongst patients living with HIV in Sydney (2018)
  
  • Aim: To analyze the increasing burden of non-AIDS comorbidities in HIV patients.
    
  • Method: Retrospective cohort study utilizing directed acyclic graphs.
    
  • Results: Documented highly complex non-AIDS-related health and metabolic burdens.
    
  • Impact: Emphasizes the need for a multi-disciplinary approach in modern HIV care.
    
• Evidence-based interventions in primary care following acute coronary syndrome in Australia and New Zealand (2016)
  
  • Aim: To review the evidence for primary care interventions post-acute coronary syndrome.
    
  • Method: Systematic scoping review of cardiovascular interventions.
    
  • Results: Highlighted a lack of comprehensive and standardized post-discharge primary care protocols.
    
  • Impact: Emphasizes the need for structured shared-care models in cardiology.
    
• Findings from a clinical audit in regional general practice of management post-acute coronary syndrome (2016)
  
  • Aim: To assess post-ACS cardiovascular risk management in primary care.
    
  • Method: Clinical audit of electronic medical records in regional practices.
    
  • Results: Revealed poor adherence to lifestyle advice and low cardiac rehab referral rates.
    
  • Impact: Identifies crucial gaps in secondary cardiovascular disease prevention regionally.
    
• Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infection in Aboriginal People and Regional Areas of Western Australia (2015)
  
  • Aim: To track STI epidemiology in vulnerable Aboriginal and regional populations.
    
  • Method: Epidemiological surveillance and demographic data analysis.
    
  • Results: Highlighted disproportionate and rising STI burdens in rural Aboriginal communities.
    
  • Impact: Calls for culturally targeted regional sexual health and education programs.
    
• A systematic review of measurement tools of health and well-being for evaluating interventions (2015)
  
  • Aim: To evaluate the scientific rigor of health measurement tools used in community interventions.
    
  • Method: Systematic review assessing tool reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness.
    
  • Results: Identified five superior measurement instruments compared to generic ad-hoc alternatives.
    
  • Impact: Guides researchers in selecting validated tools for evaluating public health programs.
    
• Outcomes of the arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries (2012)
  
  • Aim: To review the 25-year outcomes of the arterial switch operation.
    
  • Method: Retrospective cohort study of patient surgical outcomes.
    
  • Results: Demonstrated excellent long-term survival and low reoperation rates.
    
  • Impact: Guides long-term prognosis and ongoing care for congenital heart disease.
    
• Outcomes of surgery for simple total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in neonates (2011)
  
  • Aim: To evaluate surgical outcomes for a specific neonatal congenital heart defect.
    
  • Method: Retrospective review of clinical and surgical intervention data.
    
  • Results: Demonstrated high survival rates but identified specific post-operative risks.
    
  • Impact: Informs pediatric cardiology surgical risk assessments and family counseling.
    
• Cognitive and motor improvement after retesting in normal-pressure hydrocephalus (2010)
  
  • Aim: To distinguish real cognitive improvement from learning effects in hydrocephalus testing.
    
  • Method: Test-retest clinical cohort analysis of cognitive batteries.
    
  • Results: Confirmed genuine cognitive enhancement independent of repetitive learning effects.
    
  • Impact: Improves diagnostic accuracy for normal-pressure hydrocephalus treatment.