ProfessorAngela Webster
(she/ her)
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Faculty of Medicine and Health
- Professor of Clinical EpidemiologyFaculty of Medicine and Health
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: The interaction of chronic kidney disease and other chronic disease (including cancer and cardiovascular disease)
Summary of opportunity:
There are a range of opportunities to undertake higher degrees looking at the interaction of chronic diseases, specifically how chronic kidney disease affects other disease epidemiology, and vice versa.
Opportunity synopsis:
Several projects are being undertaken to investigate incidence, survival, screening, staging and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental illness, and other illness in the context of chronic kidney disease. Some projects involve studies within Australia and New Zealand, and others broader global collaboration. Funding is not generally available, but there is opportunity to be involved with research teams and programs of work, through development of your own embedded and related projects.
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Project Opportunities
Title: Exploring the landscape of clinical trials
Summary of opportunity:
Clinical trials are essential to determine best medical practice and advance clinical care. Registries of clinical trials, such as the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), offer an insight to the clinical trials landscape. The ANZCTR, hosted by the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, is an online register of clinical trials being undertaken in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. It includes trials from the full spectrum of therapeutic areas of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, treatment and rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies. The ANZCTR collects information on trial characteristics such as the conditions studied, the trial design, type of studied interventions, and funding source. This information can be used to explore clinical trial activity to help clinicians, industry, universities and others in the health care sector to fund, plan, and conduct the most promising and needed trials.
Opportunity synopsis:
The aim of this project is "meta-research" (research on research). You will use ANZCTR to explore the clinical trials landscape. This can involve identifying trends and associations between trial characteristics, identifying prioritisation areas, or detailed analysis on the burden of disease correlated with medicare spending and government research investment. The successful candidate can be involved in choosing a focus area of their interest and develop a proposal based on knowledge, experience and skill set.
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Project Opportunities
Title: Understanding the risk of recurrence in breast cancer
Summary of opportunity: There are a range of opportunities to undertake higher degrees looking at understanding the risk of recurrence in breast cancer.
Opportunity synopsis: Several projects are being undertaken to investigate risk of recurrence in breast cancer, including current predictors and exploring new biomarkers. Some projects involve real world datasets from Australia and our global collaborators, and others use clinical trial datasets. Our University of Sydney team works closely with our collaborators at the Garvin Institute, the University of New South Wales and Breast Cancer Trials. Funding is not generally available, but there is opportunity to be involved with research teams and programs of work, through development of your own embedded and related projects.
Our multidisciplinary team is based across the School of Public Health and the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre. I support flexible study plans including students studying part time and remote from campus. I prioritise supervising students who have post graduate methods training (eg MPH, Masters of Epidemiology or Biostatistics). International students are welcome if they have planned support for their fees and living expenses.
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1. Cancer and transplantation
2. Cognition and Health Literacy in chronic kidney disease
3. Management of type 1 diabetes and end stage kidney disease in Australia
4. Infection in transplantation
5. Stroke and chronic kidney disease
6. Strategies to improve patient self management in chronic disease
7. Monitoring strategies for cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease
8. Biovigilance in transplantation
9. Organ donation and organ allocation
10. Access and equity in transplantation
11. Greener service provision for kidney care in Australasia
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAccess to kidney waitlisting and transplantation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAdvancing Kidney Health: An Economic Evaluation of Kidney Transplant Policies and Quality of Life for Patients on the Waitlist
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCancer and Kidney Failure; Screening, Mortality, and Transmission
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCardiovascular disease; priorities and outcomes in end stage kidney disease
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCo-designing and co-evaluating patient-led surveillance using a digital self-monitoring intervention, for early detection and treatment of skin cancer in organ transplant recipients
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDevelopment and application of innovative evidence synthesis methods
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDiversity and equity of access to best kidney care for Australians with kidney failure
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEpidemiology and equity of kidney failure in Australasia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEvidence, Health Technology Assessments, and Surgery in Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONHealth inequities and decision making in kidney transplantation: Epidemiological, Economic and Stakeholder Perspectives
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONHealth literacy interventions in people with chronic kidney disease
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIdentifying opportunities to increase organ donation rates in Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONImproving decision-making in health services: from system level changes to patient-facing tools
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONImproving Peri-operative Surgical Care in Kidney Failure Patients
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInfectious diseases in solid organ donation and transplantation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONLiving kidney donation in Australia – Donor experiences pre and post-kidney donation and health service utilisation : A mixed-methods study of short-term outcomes and long-term challenges
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMortality and kidney failure: an epidemiological enquiry using linked health data
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPublic Health-Epidemiology
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONStrategies to increase organ donation