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Professor Natasha Nassar is a leading academic in paediatric and perinatal epidemiology at the University of Sydney's Westmead Clinical School and Children's Hospital at Westmead. She holds the Financial Markets Foundation for Children Chair in Translational Childhood Medicine and serves as NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Populations Domain Leader at the Charles Perkins Centre. Her research focuses on leveraging large-scale data linkage to address maternal and child health challenges, with expertise in chronic disease epidemiology, healthcare policy, and translational research. She leads the Child Population and Translational Health Research group (MenziesKids), mentoring 23 researchers.
Education: PhD from University of Sydney (2000s), postdoctoral training at Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Research interests include early life determinants of health, childhood chronic conditions, and healthcare value assessment. Key themes: cardiometabolic health, obesity, diabetes, and population-based interventions.
Recent work emphasizes data-driven approaches to improve health equity, including studies on diabetes burden, ADHD treatment trends, and ECMO access disparities. Awards include NHMRC Investigator Grant (2021-2025). She collaborates across disciplines to advance public health policy and clinical practice, with over 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Grants/Advising: Supervises 7 current PhD students exploring topics like diabetes screening, teratogenic drug prevention, and congenital heart disease outcomes. Leads projects funded by NHMRC and industry partners. Active in health policy initiatives like Alpha NSW pediatric learning health system.
Labs/Teams: MenziesKids research group, Charles Perkins Centre Populations Domain, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, and multidisciplinary collaborations across Sydney's medical precincts.