A Public Health Expert, Accredited Statistician (AStat), and registered (AHPRA) medical doctor with 10 years of experience in applying advanced statistical modelling and machine learning to clinical, public health and social research and 5 years of clinical experience. Expertise in managing and analysing large-scale population datasets (1.8 million+ records) using R/R Shiny, Stata, PL/SQL, Python, SAS and Qlik.
Proven track record of leading research projects from conception to publication with a focus on statistics and data science. Statistical author of 30 articles in PubMed journals with over 790 citations.
My research is in the areas of poverty, crime, social disadvantage, prenatal drug abuse, neonatology, children with disabilities, mental health, out-of-home care, addiction, Aboriginal Health, communicable diseases, cancer, heart disease, smoking cessation, breastfeeding, health and well-being, health education and aged care.
Indpendent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA): Federal Government
Since December 2026
Modelling National Health Data with ICD-10 and ACHI intervention codes to determine funding for Public Hospital Admissions across Australia. Funding is determined by the complexity of the patient and the care received (Activity-Based Funding) rather than by the length of stay.