Dr. Emily Banks

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Distinguished Professor Emily Banks is a public health physician and epidemiologist with expertise in chronic disease, tobacco control, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, and healthy ageing. Her work primarily focuses on using large-scale evidence to identify actions that improve health at both the individual and population levels. She heads the Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. Her professional contributions include being a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, an NHMRC Investigator Fellow, the Chair of the NHMRC Health Research Impact Committee, and a member of the NHMRC Council. Banks served as Deputy Chair of the Heart Foundation Research Committee and was a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Between 1995 and 2003, she was based in the UK as Deputy Director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and was a joint Principal Investigator of the Million Women Study. Banks has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the UK Woman Award in Science and Technology in 2000, the ANU Vice-Chancellor's Awards for career achievement in 2010, and the Australian Medical Association Gold Medal in 2022. Her research interests encompass tobacco control, large-scale cohort studies, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, hormone replacement therapy, and health services research.

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