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Dr. Mithilesh Dronavalli

Data Scientist and Medical Doctor

Social Disadvantage
Mental Health
Statistical Programming
Causal Inference
Machine Learning / Deep Learning
Employed Available
My goal is to help prevent and alleviate suffering for the sickest, poorest, and most vulnerable people through research and discovery.

I have 11 years of experience applying machine learning and biostatistics to clinical/public health research (30 articles on PubMed & 800 citations) and 4 years of experience in clinical psychiatry. I have general medical registration with AHPRA.

My research includes 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.

PhD - Data Science (submitted revisions)

Western Sydney University

October 2022 to December 2025
Evaluating primary care and primary mental health care services in reducing social gradients in mental health and chronic disease outcomes for patients with mental illness

Masters of Artificial Intelligence

Latrobe University

Since September 2025
EER Diagrams, PL/SQL, Python, Deep Learning

Training in Clinical Psychiatry

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry

Completed Stage 1 Psychiatry and CPD for Basic Training in Psychiatry, rotations in Inpatient Psychiatry, Old Age Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry, psychopharmacology and the delivery of ECT. Developed skills in active listening, collecting history and mental state formulation, and developing a multidisciplinary treatment plan. I began to understand the chaos mental illness causes in human life.

Masters of Biostatistics

Monash University

January 2007 to June 2008

MPhil in Cancer Epidemiology

University of Sydney, NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre

June 2007 to September 2011
Risk and Treatment Factors of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lip

Training in Public Health Medicine

Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine

Rotations: Rural and Indigenous Health, HIV, Public Health Unit (Communicable Disease and Environmental Health), Childhood Disability, Addiction and Pharmacoepi (TGA)

MBBS BMedSc

University of Melbourne

January 2002 to December 2010
Honours Thesis: A Pharmacological mechanism for the Clinical Benefits of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: Analyses of randomised controlled trials

High School Certificate

Fort St Selective High School

2001
Taught me broad content and diverse perspectives in a multicultural environment and how to LEARN and THINK.
National Rural Health (Oral) 2015 | RACP 2016 (Oral: Gerry Murphy Prize) |Australian Public Health 2019 (Oral) UN Datathon (Education Track): https://youtu.be/QwGhcoJ17JY?