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.
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (WHO Collaborating Research Centre), UNSW
January 2020
to December 2020
Sydney
Investigating the role of Social Disadvantage in Criminal Trajectories of those using Drugs as the index offence.
Evaluation of an Aboriginal Cultural Competency Program for non-Aboriginal Drug Rehabs
Supervising an Aboriginal PhD Student in research for a Continuous Quality Improvement of Aboriginal Residential Drug Rehabs
RCT Evaluating Health Education Videos for Breastfeeding delivered by "Mentor Mothers" for Poor Mothers in South Africa. In collaboration with Stanford University and Heidelberg University