Principal speaker
Dr Rajna Golubic
Menzies Health Institute Queensland
Optimising Health Outcomes Seminar
Title
Non-RCT designs and their role in understanding health conditions/diseases
Abstract
The aim of this Seminar is to give an overview of non-RCT designs and their application in clinical and epidemiological research, review their advantages and disadvantages and provide examples of research papers using each design of interest (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, nested study design, surveys). The key differences between RCT and non-RCT designs will be explained. Furthermore, the session will navigate you through the key statistical concepts in non-RCT designs and review methodological and statistical challenges thus illustrating them in a form of critical appraisal of relevant research papers.
A high level analysis of the published studies to date from Griffith University will be presented.
Biography
Rajna is a co-lead of the NNEdPro Research Fellows Panel and a doctor (general internal medicine) in Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge. She qualified as an MD at the Zagreb University School of Medicine (Croatia). Subsequently, she worked as a physician/research fellow at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (Andrija Stampar School of Public Health) where she trained in occupational and sports medicine and was involved in research projects and international public health collaborations focusing on workers' health (WHO Collaborative Center for Occupational Health, Zagreb) and thought medical students. Rajna obtained a doctorate in occupational medicine and undertook advanced training in clinical research methods at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (as a Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences Fellow).
Rajna completed an MPhil in Public Health and a PhD in Epidemiology at Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. Her PhD research focused on the descriptive epidemiology and measurement aspects of physical activity and its associations with cardio-metabolic diseases. She won several international awards and prizes and presented at international conferences. She is associate editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research. Her main research interests revolve around risk factors and prevention of cardio-metabolic diseases and improved research methods in healthcare.
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- Marina Couchman
- (07) 3735 7212