Ryan Perry

Dr. Ryan Perry is Senior Lecturer at ANU's School of Medicine and Psychology and Director of the Australian Data Archive. His research examines racism's health impacts through advanced statistical modeling of large-scale datasets.

Key investigations include longitudinal studies on racial discrimination's mental health consequences for youth, pandemic-related psychological distress, and meta-analyses of social determinants of wellbeing. His methodologies integrate psychometrics with social epidemiology to identify intervention points.

Notable publications demonstrate how vicarious discrimination affects adolescent loneliness and depression trajectories, and COVID-19's differential mental health burdens. Current projects include developing Five Safes implementation frameworks for sensitive health data.

Administratively, he oversees national data infrastructure supporting health disparities research across academic and policy contexts.