Janaki Amin

Janaki Amin is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Kirby Institute and Professor of Public Health at Macquarie University, where she also serves as Director of the Epidemiology and Data Systems Branch at NSW Health. Her research specializes in epidemiological methods and biostatistical applications for infectious disease control.

She holds a BSc (Hons), MHP (Hons), and PhD focused on Biostatistics and Databases.

Her research encompasses three primary domains:

• Epidemiological methods including clinical trial design, cohort studies, and data linkage systems
• Infectious disease dynamics with focus on HIV, hepatitis B/C, STIs, and respiratory infections
• Public health applications including surveillance systems, outbreak response, and health policy evaluation

Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on infectious disease epidemiology, with recent work emphasizing COVID-19 impact assessment, hepatitis elimination strategies, and health equity for marginalized populations.

She leads multidisciplinary teams at the Epidemiology and Data Systems Branch, overseeing public health surveillance infrastructure development and implementation across NSW.