Join this webinar to learn how clinical registries can contribute and have their needs and views heard. CROSS-Link is a collaborative project which aims to design a data linkage governance framework, enabling routine updating of Australian clinical registries with administrative data while meeting privacy, legal, and ethical standards. 3 September 2025, 11:30am AEST, 9:30am AWST,…
Congratulations to Dr Scott Sims, Biostatistician at the School of Population and Global Health, UWA on completing his PhD! His research explored alcohol-related harm (ARH) in young people, using longitudinal linked data to inform policy, prevention and practice. ARH is a critical issue for young Australians, but hospital records often miss the full scope due…
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Congratulations to A/Professor Hannah Moore OAM and her team on winning a $1.5M NHMRC Partnerships Projects grant to lead the RISE Project! Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains a major public health challenge. The RISE Project team, from Curtin University and The Kids Research Institute Australia, will harness real-world data and advanced mathematical modelling to evaluate…
The University of Western Australia and the Population Health Research Network (PHRN) Board are pleased to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Rebecca Glauert as the new PHRN Chief Executive. As Scientific Director of the Raine Study, Director of the Australian Child and Youth Wellbeing Atlas and Principal Research Fellow at UWA’s School of Population…
We recently celebrated 15 years of PHRN and paid tribute to our fabulous Chief Executive, Dr Merran Smith, who is retiring. Colleagues, old and new, joined us for morning tea and presentations at The University Club of Western Australia. See photos from the day and our flyer of highlights.
A new article in the International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) highlights how user experience shaped the key features of a national metadata platform for linked data collections. Developed by the PHRN, researchers now have access to up-to-date and comparable metadata to support the assessment of data collections for linked data projects. Lead author…
It is with a heavy heart we announce Dr Merran Smith, our Chief Executive, will retire in mid-2025. For more than 15 years, her vision and unwavering commitment have been instrumental in advancing Australia’s national data linkage infrastructure. Thanks to her leadership, PHRN has established itself as the nation’s only comprehensive network of specialist data…
Hundreds of research infrastructure experts from across the globe attended International Conference on Research Infrastructure (ICRI) in Brisbane and online last week. Our CE, Dr Merran Smith, joined a panel discussing how the integration and regulation of digital tools in health research will help provide better public health outcomes. Prof Alan Duffy‘s Research Infrastructures Beyond 2050 was another…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Daniel Horton who has been awarded the 2025 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowship at UWA, through the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA. A/Professor Horton is coming to UWA in late 2025 from the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University in Illinois, US. His research explores how…