ProfessorAngela Webster
(she/ her)
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Faculty of Medicine and Health
- Professor of Clinical EpidemiologyFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
Angela's key methodological motivation is making better use of existing data, specifically through data linkage and data synthesis. She is interested in health services research, with the emphasis on best outcomes and efficiences in the context of fixed resources. Her areas of research interest include the critical exploration of randomized trial methodology, the evaluation of diagnostic tests in clinical practice, the application of advanced statistical concepts in meta-analysis, the manipulation and analysis of large datasets, the methods and application of linkage of large national and international databases, and design and interpretation of cohort studies. She has an interest in research integrity in biomedical publishing.
Her research themes include multi-morbidity and the interaction of chronic diseases, specifically chronic kidney disease, with cancer, diabetes and with cardiovascular disease including stroke. She has an interest in risk literacy and organ donor selection for transplantation, and the cognitive effects of chronic diseases, and the impact this has on health. She is interested in ways to promote self-management and shared decision-making to help people live well with chronic disease
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTTransplant Inequities: Knowledge and AccessThe Transplantation Society International Headquarters1 Jul 2025People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTKidney function as a complicator of cancer treatmentWellcome Trust (UK)1 Apr 2024People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTRewarding Research 2024Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2024People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTCOVID-19 Vaccine access and Equity in Transplantation in New Zealand (COVET study)The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand1 Aug 2022People funded by this grant:
- Rosales B,
- Webster A,
- De La Mata N
- GRANTThe impact of sex and gender on equity of access to cancer care for kidney transplant recipientsThe Transplantation Society International Headquarters1 Jul 2022People funded by this grant:
- De La Mata N,
- Webster A,
- Rosales B,
- Muscat D
- GRANTThe SiroSkin study: A multi-centre randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of 1% topical sirolimus in the chemoprevention of facial squamous cell carcinomas in solid organ transplant recipientsDepartment of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Feb 2022 - 31 Jan 2028People funded by this grant:
- Chambers D,
- Schaider H,
- Damian D,
- Isbel N,
- Mar V
- GRANTAngela Webster - 2021 External Research Collaboration Seed Funding schemeDVC Research1 Jan 2022People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTAccess and Equity in TransplantationHealth Research Council of New Zealand (NZ)1 Jan 2021 - 1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Irvine J,
- Webster A,
- Kelly PJ,
- Cross NB,
- De La Mata N
- GRANTMaximising Organ Donor offer Utility System-wide the MODUS studyNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Feb 2020People funded by this grant:
- Kelly PJ,
- Wyburn K,
- De La Mata N,
- Webster A,
- Clayton P
- GRANTAcceSS and Equity in Transplantation the ASSET projectRoss Bailey Nephrology Trust1 Jan 2020People funded by this grant:
- Wyburn K,
- Kelly PJ,
- Webster A,
- De La Mata N
- GRANTGenerating, Integrating and Implementing Evidence to Increase Donors for TransplantationNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2020People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTImproving cardiovascular health management in people with advanced chronic kidney diseaseCardiovascular Initiative1 Jan 2020People funded by this grant:
- Webster A,
- Chow CK,
- Wyld M,
- Kozor R,
- De La Mata N
- GRANTSuping adults with CKD to engage in shared decisionmaking successfully SUCCESS: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the SUCCESS interventionNSW Health1 Aug 2019People funded by this grant:
- Webster A,
- Kelly PJ,
- Muscat D,
- Shepherd H,
- Sud K
- GRANTSUCCESS: supporting culturally-diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase iib)Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2019People funded by this grant:
- McCaffery K,
- Shepherd H,
- Webster A,
- Muscat D
- GRANTSUCCESS: Supporting culturally-diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase II)Kidney Health Australia1 Aug 2018People funded by this grant:
- Muscat D,
- Shepherd H,
- Webster A,
- McCaffery K,
- O'Lone E
- GRANTSUCCESS: Supporting culturally-diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase II)Department of Health (Federal)1 Jan 2018People funded by this grant:
- Shepherd H,
- McCaffery K,
- Webster A,
- Muscat D,
- O'Lone E
- GRANTCochrane Kidney and Transplant GroupNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jul 2017People funded by this grant:
- Craig J,
- Macaskill P,
- Webster A,
- Strippoli G,
- Hodson E
- GRANTAustralian and New Zealand Islet and Pancreas transplant registry ANZIPTR annual reportWestern Sydney Local Health District1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTSUCCESS: Supporting culturally - diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfullySydney Medical School Foundation1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTSafety and Biovigilance in Organ Donation in NSW, Australia (SAFE-BOD study)NSW Health.6 May 2016People funded by this grant:
- Wyburn K,
- Webster A
- GRANTTransplant and Anal Neoplasia (TAN) studySydney Medical School Foundation1 May 2016People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTOrgan donor medical suitability assessment researchNSW Health.1 Jan 2016People funded by this grant:
- Webster A
- GRANTCanadian-Australasian Randomised trial of Screening Kidney transplant recipients for coronary artery disease (CARSK study)National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Webster A,
- Pilmore HL,
- Gill J,
- Chapman J,
- Chadban S