ProfessorThomas Snelling

BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP

• Tom is the Director of Health and Clinical Analytics in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and an infectious diseases physician in the Sydney Children's Hospital Network. He has instigated and is now heading up the network's new Learning Health Initiative thanks to a major philanthropic commitment from the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation. Tom is pioneering in the application of novel approaches to the design, coordination, implementation and analysis of public interest studies, and is successfully leading a suite of multi-institutional collaborative learning health projects across Australia. Working with a range of collaborative research groups across diverse clinical domain areas, these include Bayesian adaptive studies to improve the treatment and prevention of severe gastroenteritis in remote Aboriginal children, the primary prevention of food allergies in children, SMS text messages to improve timeliness of routine immunisation, and the management of cystic fibrosis. Tom is a member of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID)
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