Associate ProfessorPaul Agius

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health

  • Associate Professor, Biostatistics
    Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

A/Prof. Paul Agius is an internationally recognised nationally accredited senior biostatistician and public health researcher with experience in complex statistical modelling in the fields of microbiology, infectious disease epidemiology, maternal, infant and adolescent health, perinatal epidemiology and alcohol and other drugs. Paul is Associate Professor, Biostatistics in the Faculty of Health, Deakin University and collaborates across Faculty schools and affiliated Institutes/centres providing biostatistical/methodological expertise and collaboration. A/Prof. Agius has honorary principal research fellow and research fellow appointments at the Burnet Institute and School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University. A/Prof. Agius is also an adjunct Fellow of the Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination and is a professionally accredited member (AStat) of the Statistical Society of Australia. A/Prof. Agius is also the senior biostatistician in the Melbourne Genital Microbiota Group consortium, which facilitates capacity for collaborative genital microbiome research between academics from several Universities and MRIs, nationally.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Professor, Biostatistics
    Deakin University, Office of the Executive Dean Health

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Honorary Principal Research Fellow
    Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia2012 - present
  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    Curtin University, Facuity of Health Sciences, Perth, Australia2022 - present
  • Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Australia2021 - 2022
  • Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
    Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Peventative Medicine, Melbourne, Australia2016 - 2024
  • Research Fellow
    La Trobe University, Judith Lumley Centre/ Mother and Child Health Research, Australia2010 - 2012
  • Research Fellow
    La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society (ARCSHS), Melbourne, Australia2008 - 2010
  • Research Officer
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne, Australia2005 - 2008
  • Sessional Lecturer
    Swinburne University, Mathematical Sciences (Statistics), Australia2002 - 2007
  • Research Officer
    La Trobe University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australia2001 - 2005
  • Research Assistant
    La Trobe University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Law and Management, Australia1996 - 2001

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
    La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia1986 - 1988
  • Graduate Diploma in Sociology, Social Survey and Research Techniques
    La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia1990 - 1992
  • Master of Science (Applied Statistics)
    Swinburne Univ. of Technology

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Accredited Statistician (AStat)
    Statistical Society of Australia, Belconnen, Australia2021 - present
    Accredited Statistician of the Statistical Society of Australia

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious diseases
  • Public health
  • Biostatistics
  • Behavioural epidemiology

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • Office of the Executive Dean Health