Dr Sanja Lujic
PhD (UNSW), MBiostat (USyd), MStats (UNSW), BSc (Hons I) (UNSW)
I am a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics and Director of Teaching at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health. Prior to joining UNSW, I worked as a Lecturer in Biostatistics at the Western Sydney University.
I am an experienced biostatistician with 20 years of experience in the analysis of routinely collected administrative datasets, with specific interest in complex and linked health data. My interest in health data linkage begun in 2006, and since then I have been involved in numerous projects involving large-scale linked datasets spanning health, community care and cohort studies.
My research interests include health services research, population ageing, multimorbidity, data linkage methods and the use of routinely linked administrative datasets in statistical modelling. I have worked on numerous commissioned government projects, as am currently directing, convening and teaching courses in the postgraduate programs of Health Data Science at UNSW.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Chief investigator role
- Peiris, A., Jorm, L., Kidd, M., Brown, A., Campain, A., Lujic, S., Welberry, H., Stephens, A., Jan, S., Schierhout, G., Korczak, V. Bouckley, T. Unlocking the power of linked data to improve patient journeys across the health system. MRFF - Multidisciplinary models of primary care (2024/MRF2036232) - $3,967,959 (current)
- Abbott, P., Reath, J., Gunasekera, H., Leach , A., Kong, K., Askew, D., Girosi, F., Hu, W., Usherwood, T., Lujic, S. A multi-centre randomised controlled trial to compare nasal balloon autoinflation versus no nasal balloon autoinflation for otitis media with effusion in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children (the INFLATE trial) (NHMRC #1120317) – $2,534,580
- Jorm L, Leyland A, Churches T, Haines M, Eades S, Lujic S. Exploring the contribution of individual-, area- and service-level factors to Indigenous health outcomes (NHMRC #573113) – $469,000
Associate investigator role
- Hospital trajectories for 15 million Australians (NHMRC grant #2013323) - $655,935
- Randomised controlled trial of watchful waiting versus antimicrobial treatment for acute otitis media without perforation in low risk Aboriginal children (NHMRC #1046266) - $1,640,326
- Are ‘potentially preventable hospitalisations’ a valid measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia? (NHMRC #1036858) - $387,140
I have been awarded for my teaching on several occasions:
UNSW Faculty of Medicine and Health Education award for Educational Excellence (2022)
UNSW Faculty of Medicine and Health Education award for Students’ Choice Award for Inspirational Teaching (2022)
Honorable mention for UNSW Exemplary Teaching practice (ETP) award for inspiring students (2022)
UNSW Faculty of Medicine and Health Education award Excellent in the Design or Development of Programs - Team award (2018)
My Research Supervision
Zhisheng (Sandy) Sa - Automating clinical information processing with responsive AI: towards efficient retrieval and structured mapping of medical data
My Teaching
I currently convene and teach in the following subjects:
- HDAT9100 - Context of Health Data Science (2018 - present)
- HDAT9900-02 - Dissertations (2022 - present)
Other courses:
- HDAT9200 - Statistical Foundations of Health data science (Convenor 2021)
- HDAT9400 - Management and Curation of Health Data (Convenor, 2018 - 2022)
- HDAT9600 - Statistical Modelling I (convenor 2019)
- HDAT9700 - Statistical Modelling II (chapter convenor 2018 - 2021)
- Advanced Analysis of Linked Data (Tutor, 2017)
- Managing Big Data in Health Research short course (Convenor and Lecturer, 2015-2016)
- Introductory Analysis of Linke data, University of Sydney (chapter convenor 2008 - 2019)