Dr. Grace Joshy

Biography

Professor Joshy is a biostatistician and Program Leader for Statistical Methods in Large Scale Epidemiology at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), ANU. She has extensive experience in large-scale data analysis and is the lead biostatistician for major research programs, focusing on the burden of disease related to smoking, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, as well as Aboriginal health and health services research. Her research includes working on cohort studies, randomized controlled trials, and utilizing routinely collected administrative health data. Notably, she has contributed significantly to tobacco harm reduction research and collaborated internationally on various projects including those involving CVD and cancer epidemiology. Some of her high-impact publications include a Lancet paper on the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration, and landmark studies addressing smoking mortality in Australia. Professor Joshy holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Auckland and has received multiple accolades for her research, alongside securing substantial funding for various health-related projects. She actively participates in mentoring and supervising postgraduate research, teaching biostatistics and epidemiology courses. Her research interests encompass biostatistics, statistical methods, large-scale epidemiology, chronic diseases, and Indigenous health.

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