We use epidemiological methods to understand the health of populations and the quality, efficiency and equity of healthcare. We work in partnership with policy agencies, health services, communities and regulators to generate evidence to inform and evaluate health system responses to public health problems, with the goal of improving the health of populations.

Our goals

We work closely with policy, practice and community stakeholders to design and implement epidemiological studies to inform and evaluate public health policy and practice across a diverse range of health and health system areas, including child population health, maternal health, medicine use, safety and effectiveness of healthcare, infectious diseases surveillance and control, immunisation, environmental epidemiology, cancer epidemiology and health services use.

 

Our expertise

We specialise in:

  • Health and social data linkage
  • Building and analysing linked data platforms 
  • Multi-jurisdictional distributed analyses
  • Cohort studies
  • Health surveillance 
  • Evaluation of policy and health interventions 
  • Biostatistics
  • Pharmacoepidemiology (use and impact of medicines in populations)
  • Infectious diseases epidemiology
  • Environmental epidemiology 
  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Variation in health care
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Statistical modelling to estimate disease burden
     

Our experts

Senior Lecturer Kathleen Falster
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Head of Discipline of General Practice Joel Rhee
Head of Discipline of General Practice
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Sr. Lecturer  Abrar Chughtai
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 Alys Havard
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Research Fellow Juliana de Oliveira Costa
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Professor of Health Systems & Theme Principal, Health Systems Research Sallie Pearson
Professor of Health Systems & Theme Principal, Health Systems Research
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Senior Research Fellow, Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow Michael Falster
Senior Research Fellow, Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow
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Professor of Environmental and Urban Health Xiaoqi Feng
Professor of Environmental and Urban Health
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Associate Dean Education (Quality) Anita Heywood
Associate Dean Education (Quality)
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Senior Research Fellow, Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellow, Medicines Intelligence CRE Research Fellow Benjamin Daniels
Senior Research Fellow, Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellow, Medicines Intelligence CRE Research Fellow
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Scientia A/Professor Helga Zoega
Scientia A/Professor
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Malcolm Gillies
Senior Biostatistician
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 Claire Deakin
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Lecturer (Population Health) Zhaoli Dai-Keller
Lecturer (Population Health)