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Dr

Helena Romaniuk

Research Fellow, Biostatistics

Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health

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  • Research Fellow, Biostatistics
    Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
  • +61 3 924 46879 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

I am a biostatistician with expertise in the design and analysis of observational studies and clinical trials. Since completing my PhD, I have been working with multidisciplinary collaborators across a broad range of health fields. I have led the analysis on several large observational cohort longitudinal studies focusing on child and adult health outcomes, such as the 2000 stories Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study; Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort; The Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study; Beyondblue; the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children; and International Youth Development Study. The focus of this research has been on mental health (peri-natal depression, adolescent and adult mental health), alcohol use, licit and illicit substance use, and self-harm, and child development (puberty, academic outcomes and childhood obesity).

In my current position as a Research Fellow in the Biostatistics Unit in the Faculty of Health at Deakin University, in the past 6 years, I have been the lead statistician multiple studies investigating heart failure, using cohort studies, electronic hospital records, and Victorian administration data. I have also worked extensively with researchers conducting studies in food retail research, using time-series analysis to estimate the effect of healthy food interventions on food sales.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Research Fellow, Biostatistics
    Deakin University, Office of the Executive Dean Health

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Fellow
    Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Australia2 Jun 2016 - 16 Jan 2018
  • Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics
    Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia1 Feb 2008 - 8 Apr 2016
  • Chief Statistician
    Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom19 Jan 2004 - 18 Jan 2008
  • Statistician
    University of Reading, Winnicott Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Reading, United Kingdom3 Jul 2000 - 16 Jan 2004

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Southampton University
  • Master of Science
    University of Sheffield
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    Coventry Polytechnic

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Epidemiology
  • Paediatrics
  • Applied and developmental psychology
  • Public health
  • Clinical and health psychology
  • Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
  • Public health nutrition

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • Office of the Executive Dean Health