An Accredited Statistician (AStat)/ Lead Data Scientist and medical doctor with nine years of experience in applying advanced statistical modelling and machine learning to clinical, public health and social research. Expertise in managing and analysing large-scale population datasets (1.8 million+ records) using R/R Shiny, Stata, PL/SQL, Python, SAS and Qilk.
Proven track record of leading research projects from conception to publication with a focus on statistics and data science. Statistical author on 28 articles in peer-reviewed journals with over 750 citations.
My research is in the areas of poverty, crime, social disadvantage, prenatal drug abuse, prematurity, 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.
Leading the external communications team for answering questions from the public regarding the Sydney COVID Lockdown
Leading a team in the management of Adverse Effects following Immunisation for COVID
Contributing to the containment of a COVID outbreak in Lockdown
As an Investigator, designing and overseeing a real world implementation RCT of Co-designed Universal Micro-messaging Health Education Videos for Breastfeeding in Rural Mothers in South Africa.