Data analytics and evidence synthesis to inform health policy and practice

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About

Large-scale data analytics is the science of using a range of data types to inform community, practitioner and policy-maker decision-making. In the population health context, data types include routinely collected data (e.g. hospitalisation, cancer registry and death data) and cohort studies, or separate efforts such as quality registries. Analyses are conducted to quantify the role of modifiable risk factors for health conditions, to fill the gaps identified in major evidence assessments such as health technology assessments, guidelines and other reviews and to interpret patient data for a more people-centred integrated care approach in healthcare and implementation sciences. Both large data analytics and evidence synthesis help link between research and practice

People

Academic staff

Associate Professor Brett Lidbury

Senior Fellow
Associate Professor Rafat Hussain

Associate Professor in Population Health
Associate Professor Ray Lovett

Program Leader - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program
Associate Professor Rosemary Korda

Senior Fellow
Dr Ellie Paige

Fellow
Dr Kinley Wangdi

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Anne Parkinson

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Aparna Lal

Fellow
Dr Erin Walsh

Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr Grace Joshy

Fellow
Dr Jane Desborough

Senior Research Fellow
Dr Jason Agostino

Research Fellow - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program
Dr Katie Thurber

Fellow
Dr Matthew Kelly

Fellow
Dr Nasser Bagheri

Fellow
Professor Emily Banks

Professor
Professor Gabriele Bammer

Professor
Professor Philip Batterham

Professor

Professional staff

Ms Kay Soga

Senior Data Analyst

Visiting staff

Dr Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan

Visiting Fellow
Professor Robyn Lucas

Emeritus Professor

Student

Alice George

PhD Candidate
Michel Watson

PhD Candidate

Groups

Projects

Project	Status
Integration and Implementation Insights blog (i2Insights blog)	Current
(S)WASH-D for WORMS	Completed
A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Implementation of ‘The Patient Enablement Model’	Current
A systematic review of the literature examining the relative efficacy of peridischarge strategies to reduce unplanned 30-day readmission rates after knee and hip arthroplasty	Current
AADRF	Completed
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and tobacco control	Potential
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander chronic disease management models	Potential
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural determinants of health and wellbeing	Potential
Absolute Risk Approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cardiovascular Disease	Current
Access to recent mental health seminars by CMHR Learning and Development Unit	Current
Ageing in China and Australia: Promoting health, productivity and wellbeing	Current
Alcohol and other drug use and domestic and family violence	Potential
An examination of the longitudinal changes in sulci morphology associated with ageing	Potential
ARC DECRA	Completed
Artificial shallow lakes, climate extremes, algal blooms and public health	Current
Assessing mental health	Current
associations between climate, changes in water quality and water-related disease	Current
Atlases and Directories of Care	Current
Building a network of leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations	Current
Building capacity for evidence-based health development in Indonesia	Current
Building research integration and implementation expertise	Current
Building resources for Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S)	Current
Built environment characteristics and common mental health disorders (Depression and anxiety)	Current
BUPA Project - Simulation modelling to guide mental health	Current
Cancer survivorship	Potential
Cardiovascular disease: risk factors, outcomes and prevention.	Potential
Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing (CREMA)	Current
Chronic disease and healthy ageing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including tobacco	Current
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)	Current
Climate change, heat and air pollution effects on health	Current
Climate related risk factors for respiratory mortality	Potential
Conquering schistosomiasis in China – the last mile (QIMR)	Current
Consumer experience of General Practice in the ACT	Potential
CVD risk, prevention and implementation	Current
Developing technologies to support patients’ transition from acute to primary care: enabling orthopaedic patients and preventing unplanned 30-day readmissions.	Current
Dust storms, drought and spatio-temporal patterns in respiratory mortality	Current
Effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and treatment of early childhood lower respiratory tract infections/pneumonia in low income countries	Potential
Environmental change and the spread of diseases from animals to humans	Current
Epidemiology of suicidal behaviour	Current
Experiences and impacts of discrimination among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults in Australia	Current
Facial expression in determining severity of chronic fatigue	Completed
Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research	Current
Getting real about risk: using patient medical records for the geospatial analysis of chronic diseases	Completed
GLOCAL (Global and Local Observation and mapping of CAre Levels)	Current
Health effects of Diabetes	Potential
Health impacts of tobacco	Potential
Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children	Potential
Hotspots of dementia risk in Australian communities: an approach to better targeting preventive interventions	Completed
Identifying determinants of childhood primary health care coverage and uptake in humanitarian crises	Potential
Impact of neighbourhood social fragmentation on mental health outcomes	Current
Implications of COVID-19 restrictions for climate change and environmental health	Current
Improving understanding of unknown unknowns to support defence decision making	Current
Large-scale data to improve Aboriginal child health: seeding success and beyond	Completed
Latitudinal gradients in disease	Current
Lifestyle influences of healthy ageing and chronic disease: Longitudinal predictors	Current
Linked data for better health: Quantifying, monitoring and understanding variation in health and health care in the population	Potential
Machine learning in correlated data	Completed
Mathematical properties of the QQ plot	Current
Medical students' attitudes to people who use drugs	Potential
Mental Health Service Mapping Project	Completed
Missing data in multilevel models	Current
MS service availablity and patterns of care in the ACT region	Current
Multiple causes of death and their contribution to population attributable fractions	Potential
Multiple imputation algorithms for dealing with longitudinal panel data	Potential
Multiple Sclerosis Vitamin D Metabolites Study	Current
New uses of meta-analysis	Completed
Our Health In Our Hands - personalised medicine transforming health care	Current
Pharmacoepidemiology and chronic disease	Current
PhoCIS Study (led at Telethon Kids Institute)	Current
Predictors of hospital discharge to home following four main surgeries	Completed
PrevANZ Study (led at University of Melbourne)	Current
Productive Ageing in Australia and Asia	Current
Quality and Efficiency in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology	Current
Reducing family violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities	Current
Regression with kernel residual distributions	Current
Risk factors and mortality in the Thai Cohort Study	Potential
Sample size selection from pilot surveys	Current
Small area estimation of health outcomes	Completed
Small area estimation of health outcomes	Potential
Smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults: health impacts, associated factors, and trends over time	Current
Smoking and health: large scale data on important outcomes	Current
Social engagement and workforce participation among cancer survivors	Potential
Social fragmentation and Cancer risk and survival	Current
Social fragmentation and dementia risk	Current
Social fragmentation and mental disorders	Completed
Social fragmentation, mental health and eating disorders	Current
Social, cultural and health service determinants of adolescent family planning uptake in humanitarian crises	Potential
Socio-economic and life course determinants of healthy and productive ageing in Australia and China	Potential
Socioeconomic determinants of health and wellbeing across the life course: Australian and English comparisons	Current
Spatial analysis of risk factors for child stunting and wasting in Myanmar	Potential
Spatio-temporal modelling of infections associated with antibiotic use (e.g MRSA, Clostridium difficile)	Current
Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health	Current
Surveillance and Monitoring to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis from the Samoan Islands	Completed
System thinking approach to evidence informed mental health care	Current
Systematic review and meta analysis on loss to follow up during TB treatment	Potential
Systematic review of patient autonomy and preferences related to genomics	Potential
Systematic review on the role of social protection and TB	Potential
TB in pregnancy and the post partum period	Potential
Testing the I2S Framework	Completed
Thai Health-Risk Transition Project	Current
The Ausimmune and AusLong Studies	Current
The effect of contextual factors on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Ethiopia	Current
The effectiveness, acceptability and cost effectiveness of the 'BALatrine'	Current
The impact of built and social environment characteristics on dementia risk	Current
The Population Health Xchange	Current
Time series analysis of TB notifications in Australia and description of historical TB control policies	Potential
Vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis in travelers	Completed
Variation in CVD risk, incidence, care and outcomes	Current
Variation in fatal burden of disease, preventive CVD care and end-of-life care	Current
VisualSPEAK	Current
Wind, dust and transport of allergens/pathogens	Potential