ProfessorLiliana Orellana

Professor of Biostatistics

Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health

  • Professor of Biostatistics
    Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
  • +61 3 925 17096 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Major empirical areas of interest include cancer prevention and surveillance,
palliative care, HIV epidemiology and treatment, nutrition and eating
disorders in children and adolescents.

Major methodological areas of interest include causal inference, optimal
dynamic regimes, complex epidemiological surveys and robust multivariate
methods.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Co-Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Supportive Care for Adolescents and Young Adults with Crohns and Colitis and their Carers (CAYAC)
    1 Mar 2027 - 29 Feb 2032
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Clinical Trials Activity Grant - 2045823 - $2,614,203.80
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Biostatistics Research Program with Western Health (Dual Appointment Agreement)
    10 Jan 2026 - 10 Jul 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Health - $191,230.70
  • GRANT
    Developing evidence for the implementation of effective Food Voucher InitiaTives in AustraLia (FOOD VITAL)
    1 Oct 2025 - 30 Sep 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Partnership Project - 2044573 - $689,397.60
  • GRANT
    TeleCARE: A personalised, clinician-supported, virtual care telehealth exercise, nutrition, education, behaviour change and peer support model for cancer-related fatigue
    1 Apr 2025 - 31 Mar 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Survivorship Care and Collaborative Research Prioritisation Grant - 2040469 - $1,997,048.05
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Front of pack labelling analysis support for UNCIEF Indonesia
    16 Sep 2024 - 31 Mar 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - $14,600.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    CARER HUB: A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CANCER CARER RESEARCH, TRANSLATION & IMPACT
    8 Aug 2024 - 8 Aug 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Alliance - $20,000.00
  • GRANT
    A nutrition and movement behaviour intervention for toddlers: efficacy, cost effectiveness and scale-up pathways
    1 Mar 2024 - 29 Feb 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles - MRF2031053 - $1,855,634.60
  • GRANT
    Revolutionising sarcopenia care for people living with cancer: Establishing effective screening and referral pathways into evidence-based treatment in rural and specialist cancer services
    1 Mar 2024 - 29 Feb 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF (NHMRC) - Clinician Researchers Initiative: Applied Research in Health Grant - MRF2031994 - $1,465,954.82
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    CARER HUB: A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CANCER CARER RESEARCH, TRANSLATION & IMPACT
    22 Aug 2023 - 28 Aug 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Health - DA23001 - $1,214,300.00
  • GRANT
    Systems Thinking with Active Implementation Research (STAIR) to prevent childhood obesity: an effectiveness-implementation trial
    1 Aug 2023 - 31 Jul 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Partnership Project - 2023737 - $1,406,917.90
  • GRANT
    Systems Thinking with Active Implementation Research (STAIR) to prevent childhood obesity: an effectiveness-implementation trial
    1 Aug 2023 - 31 Jul 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    VicHealth - NHMRC Partnership Project Grants - $100,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    HSCT - PediQUEST cohort data analysis (Symptoms and Quality of Life in Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant)
    1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc - $54,822.53
  • GRANT
    PediQUEST ResPOND: Piloting an intervention to treat recurrent pain in children with severe neurological impairment
    26 Apr 2023 - 30 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wolfe J,
    • Bakitas M,
    • DeCourcey D,
    • Dussel V,
    • Hauer J
    NIH Grant - Research - National Institutes of Health - 1R21NR020433- - $13,679.00
  • GRANT
    CoDeEndo: Co-Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Supportive Care for Endometriosis
    1 Feb 2023 - 31 Aug 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Alliance - $20,000.00
  • GRANT
    CoDeEndo: Co-Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Supportive Care for Endometriosis
    1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Clinical Trials Activity Grant - MRF2021609 - $1,470,988.82
  • GRANT
    iCare - An interactive online portal to improve health and wellbeing for people living with complex cancers, and their informal carers: a Phase II randomised controlled trial
    1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Clinical Trials Activity Grant - MRF2022128 - $826,731.86
  • GRANT
    iCare - An interactive online portal to improve health and wellbeing for people living with complex cancers, and their informal carers: a Phase II randomised controlled trial
    1 Feb 2023 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Health and Human Services - Victoria - $320,000.00
  • GRANT
    SAFE-HF: tranSlating heArt Failure guidElineS inTo practice: an RCT of a Nurse Practitioner primary care service.
    1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF (NHMRC) Clinician Researchers - Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Grant - MRF2023188 - $1,488,730.44
  • GRANT
    Regional heart health: Keeping Australians out of hospital
    1 Jul 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    HCF Research Foundation Translational Research Grants Scheme - 21TRG7 - $318,786.00
  • GRANT
    Implementing innovative technology promoting self-awareness of brain health and self-determination in obtaining a timely dementia diagnosis
    1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Grant - MRF2015956 - $1,052,176.56
  • GRANT
    I-HEART - Implementation of HEArt failure guidelines in Regional AusTralia
    1 Jan 2022 - 30 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    NHF Partnership Engagement Grant - National Heart Foundation of Australia - $150,000.00
  • GRANT
    Psychosocial wellbeing among new mothers with type 1 or type 2 diabetes: Refining and testing a novel screening tool derived from the Postnatal Wellbeing Transition Questionnaire
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Diabetes Australia Research Program Grant - Y22G-RASB - $68,616.00
  • GRANT
    I-HEART - Implementation of HEArt failure guidelines in Regional AusTralia
    1 Aug 2021 - 31 Jul 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Partnership Project - GNT2005589 - $1,266,172.55
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Biostatistics Research Program
    1 Jul 2021 - 1 Jul 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Liliana Orellana
    Western Health - $100,000.00
  • GRANT
    Defining and optimising the economic and social return on investment of telephone cancer information and support services for all Australians
    1 Apr 2021 - 30 Nov 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Partnership Project - GNT2005191 - $936,786.70