Professor Julie Simpson

Director of MISCH

Julie has 30 years experience as a biostatistician contributing to clinical and population health research. Previously she has worked at St Thomas's Hospital, London, Mahidol-Oxford Research Programme in Thailand, University of Aberdeen, and Cancer Council of Victoria. Her main research areas are: the integration of biostatistics and mathematical modelling to improve the control of infectious diseases and statistical methods for handling missing data in observational cohorts. Julie is Head of the Biostatistics Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and was awarded an NHMRC Investigator Grant (Leadership L1, 2021-5).