Annette Dobson

Annette Jane Dobson AM (born 1945)[1] is a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Queensland's Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research (CLLR) in the School of Public Health.[2] At her institution, she is the Head of teaching programs and a Management Executive in the Management Committee.[3] Dobson was Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health from 1995 to 2013.[4] She is a highly cited publication author,[5] a book author,[6] and has received an Australia Day award.[7]

Qualification

Dobson was awarded the Bachelor of Science in the University of Adelaide in 1966. Moving on to the James Cook University, she completed a Master in Science in 1970 and a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in 1974. She was recognised as an Accredited Statistician in 1998 by the Statistical Society of Australia, and received a Graduate Certificate of Management in 2001 from the University of New England (Australia).

Research interests

Her research interests lie in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health. In biostatistics, she is specifically interested in generalized linear modeling, clinical biostatistics, and statistical methods in longitudinal studies. Dobson's topics in epidemiology include tobacco control, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and health care service use.

Positions

Dobson is the founding Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH).[8] and director of the Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research.[9]

She was the inaugural chair of the BCA Master of Biostatistics at its inception in 2000.

Awards

Dobson was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010 for her service to public health and biostatistics as a research and academic, particularly through the collection and analysis of data relating to cardiovascular disease and women's and veterans' health, which provided a basis for public health interventions and policies to reduce disease burden in the population.[10]

Dobson won the Sidney Sax medal in 2003, the pre-eminent prize awarded by the Public Health Association of Australia.[11] Dobson received the 2012 Moyal Medal for her contributions to statistics[12] and in 2015 she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS).[13]

She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[14]

An introduction to GLM

She wrote the book An introduction to generalized linear models,[15] which, with over 3,000 citations,[16] is one of the most influential and highly used books on that topic. It is used extensively by both researchers and students with a wide range of backgrounds, such as mathematics, social sciences, and business, as reviews on Amazon show.[17]

Most highly cited publications
  • Kuulasmaa K, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Dobson A, Fortmann S, Sans S, Tolonen H, Evans A, Ferrario M, Tuomilehto J. Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations.[18]
  • Brown WJ, Bryson L, Byles JE, Dobson AJ, Lee C, Mishra G, Schofield M. Women's Health Australia: Recruitment for a national longitudinal cohort study.[19]

References
  1. Birthdate from Worldcat
  2. UQ Researchers http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/dobsonaj.html
  3. Annette Dobson, from "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ALSWH Steering Committee. Annette Dobson, from http://www.alswh.org.au/Staff/annette.htmlSPH%5B%5D Staff.
  5. SPH Core research, from "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Dobson, A. (1990) An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models. CRC Press.
  7. UQ recipient in Australia Day Honour award list, from http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=20468
  8. "ALSWH Home".
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Dobson, Annette Jane". It's an Honour. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  11. "Sidney Sax Public Health Medal - Public Health Association of Australia Inc". Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Fellowship | AAHMS – Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences". www.aahms.org. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  14. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 30 November 2017
  15. Dobson, Annette J.; Barnett, Adrian (12 May 2008). An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models. ISBN 9781584889519.
  16. Google Scholar search
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. Lancet. 2000;355(9205):675–687.
  19. Women and Health. 1998;28(1):2340.
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