Experience

Older Persons Advocacy Network

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data and Evaluation Consultant

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  * Leading the development, documentation and reporting of a National Minimum Dataset for aged care advocacy. * Providing strategic advice regarding data, reporting and evaluation for the Older Person's Advocacy Network's COVID-19 response to support older people in Australia. * Leading the development, documentation and reporting of a National Minimum Dataset for aged care advocacy. * Providing strategic advice regarding data, reporting and evaluation for the Older Person's Advocacy Network's COVID-19 response to support older people in Australia.



NSW Ombudsman

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Research Officer

  • Feb 2020 - Dec 2021

  * Analysis and report writing for the deaths of people with disability in supported accommodation and deaths of children in New South Wales bi-annual reports. * Providing public health expertise and advice related to the Projects & Systemic Reviews Branch research, evaluation, data and reporting projects. * Analysis and report writing for the deaths of people with disability in supported accommodation and deaths of children in New South Wales bi-annual reports. * Providing public health expertise and advice related to the Projects & Systemic Reviews Branch research, evaluation, data and reporting projects.



Cancer Institute NSW

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Manager, Data Intelligence

  • May 2018 - Dec 2019

  • Led a team of 3 technical staff to provide analysis, reporting and evaluation for cancer research investment to deliver strategic and actionable insights for policy review and improvement. • Developed an automated real-time visual dashboard of cancer research funding by Cancer Institute NSW to improve strategic planning, reporting and response time to Ministerial requests. • Developed and implemented an evaluation of research grant schemes to provide an evidence-base for return on investment, case studies of success and inform continuous quality improvement.



CGA Consulting

• Associate Director

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2018

  • Led the successful tendering process, project management, design, implementation and report writing for 10 major health research and evaluation consultancy projects worth over $1.4 million in a two-year period. • Managed key stakeholder relationships with a diversity of government and non-profit funding agencies and delivered projects on-time and in budget. • Ensured research findings were translated into policy-relevant and easily digestible formats for diverse audiences including 10 major consultancy reports and six national/international conference presentations. • Examples of the projects I led (and who they were funded by) included: 1) Developed an iPhone app to assist fly-in, fly-out workers with their mental health and wellbeing (beyondblue); 2) Evaluation of The Way Back Support Service (a Darwin-based service assisting people with a suicide attempt to access support services) (beyondblue). 3) Developed leading indicators of value and effectiveness (SafeWork NSW); 4) Evaluation of models of induction training for new construction workers (SafeWork NSW). 5) Evaluation of the Emergency Department Workforce Analysis Tool (NSW Ministry of Health) 6) Conducted an evidence check on the role of inpatient care for children and adolescents with moderate to severe mental disorders (Sax Institute); 7) Analysing and writing the report for the New Zealand prisoner comorbidity study. (NZ Department of Corrections) 8) Conducted an epidemiological review of a Physical Health research report among veterans (Department of Veterans Affairs)



University of Sydney

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Fellow, Evaluation Specialist

  • Jan 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Designed, conducted and advised on evaluation (formative, process and impact) frameworks, logic models, and research studies related to chronic disease prevention in the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. • Managed strategic partnerships with academics and government agencies (Office of Preventive Health, NSW Ministry of Health, ACT Health); developed a partnership survey for continuous quality improvement. • Publication of eight academic journal articles with a further two articles currently being finalised for acceptance.



Bureau of Health Information

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Developed the annual Healthcare in Focus report, including researching and reporting on appropriate health system performance indicators on the quality and safety of the NSW Health system benchmarked to national and international standards. • Developed high level infographics of the key findings of the Healthcare in Focus report to appeal to a broader audience. I was the lead researcher and project manager on the Bureau of Health Information’s flagship Annual Performance Report. This involved selecting and utilizing appropriate health system performance indicators showcasing the performance of the NSW Health system in comparison with national and international benchmarks.



National Breast Cancer Foundation

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head, Register 4 and Policy

  • Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  • Developed a five-year strategic plan and sustainable funding model for Register4 (www.register4.org.au), an online community of people willing to participate in breast cancer research. • Managed two staff to oversee the marketing strategy and database for recruitment of participants and researchers. • Developed a five-year strategic plan and sustainable funding model for Register4 (www.register4.org.au), an online community of people willing to participate in breast cancer research. • Managed two staff to oversee the marketing strategy and database for recruitment of participants and researchers.



NSW Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Head of Research

  • Feb 2007 - Jan 2013

  • Led and mentored a multidisciplinary team of 8 staff in health research and evaluation studies in the criminal justice system including being awarded over $6 million in funding for over 30 studies in five years. • Publication of research findings in over 45 journal articles, five major government reports, 20 national and international conferences presentations and developed regular policy briefings to inform clinical practice. • Developed a range of knowledge exchange strategies including coordination of two major full-day research symposiums, a monthly research seminar series and research and evaluation staff internal training courses. • Managed a diverse range of strategic partnerships and relationships across government (health, criminal justice, and social service agencies), academia, non-government and community sectors.• Developed research ethics expertise from being a member of the Justice Health Human Research and Ethics Committee for 5 years and successfully obtained ethical approvals for 30 studies from multiple committees.• Research projects I led included large prevalence studies (2009 NSW Inmate Health Survey, 2009 Young People in Custody Health Survey), randomized controlled trials (smoking cessation, PTSD, impulsivity), evaluations (smoke-free forensic hospital, Care Navigation Support program) and data linkage (Psychosis and Offending).

• Senior Health Information Officer; A/Manager Information Management & Technology

  • Dec 2004 - Feb 2007

  • Developed an information management strategic plan to consolidate corporate and clinical information and data systems to improve the utilisation of evidence to support strategic and operational planning and decision-making. This strategic plan led to the formation and funding of an Information Management Unit. • Managed a team of 10 Information Management & Technology (IM&T) staff over a 4 month period including drafting IT policies, conducting an IT all staff survey and liaising with consultants for network improvements.



NSW Health

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation; Surveillance Officer, Centre for Drug and Alcohol

  • Jan 2000 - Dec 2004

  • Led a multidisciplinary team of six staff in the design, development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation of reforms arising from the 1999 NSW Drug Summit, including developing quarterly financial and activity key performance indicators to monitor progress, which was nominated for a NSW Health Award. • Strategic leadership and stakeholder management for the development of the National Minimum Dataset of Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services including chairing the national committee for two years and four years as the NSW representative. Published two NSW annual reports and two journal articles on key findings. • Developed and published a journal article on an automated web-based reporting system called DROPS (Drug Related Outcomes Population Surveillance) to monitor drug-related indicators using NSW Health datasets.

• Statistical Systems Officer, Centre for Epidemology and Research

  • Dec 1996 - Jan 2000

  • Conducted epidemiological analysis of large population health data (NSW hospitalisations, ED presentations, deaths, ABS Census and others) using SAS to produce the 1997 and 2000 NSW Chief Health Officers Report. • Provided system administration and technical support for over 100 users for a large data warehouse (HOIST) including developing a user website, writing dataset documentation and SAS programming help pages.