UQCCR Seminar Series with Dr Jodie Austin and Professor Annette Dobson

The SMART Hub: Research data infrastructure in the digital era with Dr Jodie Austin, Director of Clinical Informatics | Queensland Digital Health Centre at the University of Queensland.

Dr Jodie Austin currently works for the Queensland Digital Health Centre at the University of Queensland. She is the Director of Clinical Infrmatics, working within the SMART Hub, a service established to assist researchers with accessing Queensland Health, electronic medical record data. She holds a research conjoint position with the Office of the Chief Clinical Information Office at eHealth Queensland. She is a clinical pharmacist by background working for both the public and private hospital sectors across Australia and the United Kingdom. Over the last decade her career shifted into the field of clinical informatics, working to establish and maintain electronic medical records for both private and public healthcare organisations. She completed her PhD in digital health through the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland, focused on the management of high-risk medications within a digital hospital environment.

The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health: using linked data from multiple sources with Professor Annette Dobson,  Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre, UQ School of Public Health.

Professor Annette Dobson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Queensland’s Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre in the School of Public Health.  She was Founding Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (1995-2013) and continues to maintain involvement in the Study’s research outputs and strategic direction.  
Professor Dobson’s research interests lie in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health.  In biostatistics, she is specifically interested in generalized linear modelling, clinical biostatistics, and statistical methods in longitudinal studies, and in epidemiology her interests include tobacco control, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and health care service use.