Dermatology & Skin Care

Biography

I am a cancer epidemiologist, and Deputy Director of the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia. I am also a Faculty member of the Melanoma Institute Australia, where I co-lead the ‘Prevention, Risk and Clinical Detection’ research theme. I am currently the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant. I completed a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1998, and subsequently a Master of Public Health (Honours) degree from The University of Sydney in 2002. I worked in perinatal research and clinical trials at The University of Sydney before completing a PhD in cancer epidemiology from 2004-2007, under a cotutelle agreement between the University of Sydney and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France, where I was based with the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer. Subsequently, I obtained a NHMRC postdoctoral fellowship working on the genetic epidemiology of melanoma at the University of Melbourne. I returned to Sydney in 2011 to continue my research in collaboration with the University of Sydney and Melanoma Institute Australia, and in 2021 I joined the new Daffodil Centre, which is one of the University’s Flagship research centres. My research interests are predominantly in skin cancer aetiology, prevention and early detection, including riskstratified approaches to care, with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary, translational and implementation research. I led the Australian sunbed research that was instrumental in informing government bans on commercial solaria now in effect across all states of Australia, and in 2015, I received an inaugural Sax Institute Research Action Award to recognise this research and its impact on health policy. In 2018, I received the NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow of the Year. I have expertise in epidemiology, clinical trials, observational studies, and qualitative research

Research Interest

Dermatology