Associate Professor Grace Joshy
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A/Prof Grace Joshy leads the Statistical Methods in Large Scale Epidemiology program of work, including the NHMRC funded project quantifying mortality incorporating multiple causes of death. She has particular interest in causal modelling and cohort studies, in particular survival models. Her current research focuses on chronic diseases, Aboriginal health and health service use.
Her research is fuelled by various collaborative projects, particularly CVD/cancer epidemiology and survivorship research; large body of work on tobacco harm reduction and e-cigarette use with Prof Banks; Aboriginal health projects with Prof Eades, including research through an NHMRC Project Grant on the health of Aboriginal infants and children in Western Australia and another on prevention of dementia in Indigenous Australians; pharmaco-epidemiology projects, including work through NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing; and Humanitarian Research, including work with international collaboration led by A/Prof Lokuge.
Selected high impact publications include the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration paper (Lancet 2016), a landmark study on smoking and mortality in Australia (BMC Medicine 2015) and a commissioned project on the estimation of life expectancy of Australian men by age and health status for the Cancer Council Australia and Prostate Cancer Foundation.
She graduated with a PhD in Medicine in 2010 from the University of Auckland. Her PhD thesis, “Linking Existing Databases to Monitor and Improve Diabetes Care”, included a range of research projects including Ethnic Disparities in Causes of Death, Retention of Patients in the “Get Checked” Annual Review Program and Progression of Renal Disease among Indigenous and non-Indigenous People with Diabetes; her distinction in research led to awards including Kudos Hamilton Excellence in Research Award 2009 for Emerging Scientist Finalist and New Zealand Society for Study of Diabetes Professional Development Award 2008.
To date she has attracted >$7 million as a Chief Investigator including an NHMRC Project Grant as CIA (2019-2021), MRFF Primary Health Care Research grant (2021-2024) and NHMRC funded randomised controlled trial on prevention of dementia in Indigenous Australians (2018-22), an NHMRC Project Grant on person-centred outcomes in cancer (2018-21) and another investigating the health of Western Australian Aboriginal infants and children (2015-19) and >$150,000 in commissioned consulting work for policy agencies. She also plays a major role in mentoring and capacity-building at the ANU through research supervision, postgraduate and short course teaching in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Affiliations
- Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice, Researcher
- Statistical Methods in Large Scale Epidemiology, Leader
- Humanitarian Health Research Initiative, Researcher
- Linked Data for Better Health, Researcher
Research interests
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
Projects
- Quantifying Mortality Incorporating Multiple Causes of Death: Optimising Data for Policy and Practice, Principal investigator
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology, Biostatistical Leader
- Causal patterns in deaths from CVD in Australia, Supervisor
- Multiple causes of death and their contribution to population attributable fractions, Supervisor
- Multiple causes of death and their contribution to population attributable fractions for smoking, Supervisor
- Multiple imputation algorithms for dealing with longitudinal panel data, Supervisor
- Quantifying cause-related mortality in Switzerland, incorporating multiple causes, Supervisor
- Social engagement and workforce participation among cancer survivors, Supervisor
- ANU Telehealth in Primary Care Study, Researcher
- Building resilience against COVID-19 in Australia, Researcher
- Cancer survivorship: large-scale data on person-centred outcomes, Researcher
- Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing (CREMA), Researcher
- Chronic disease and healthy ageing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including tobacco, Researcher
- COVID-19 linked data projects, Researcher
- CVD risk, prevention and implementation, Researcher
- Informing humanitarian guidance to reduce risk of violence against young people (Multinational), Researcher
- Pharmacoepidemiology and chronic disease, Researcher
- Pre-school based intervention to address intimate partner violence and substance misuse (Sri Lanka), Researcher
- Safe Delivery Program , Researcher
- Smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults: health impacts, associated factors, and trends over time, Researcher
- Smoking and health: large scale data on important outcomes , Researcher
- Strengthening referral frameworks for survivors of gender-based violence (Papua New Guinea), Researcher
- Variation in CVD risk, incidence, care and outcomes, Researcher
- Variation in fatal burden of disease, preventive CVD care and end-of-life care, Researcher
- Whole-of-population linked data project, Researcher
Location
Room 2.63, Building 62A