Sanja Lujic

Dr. Sanja Lujic is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics and Director of Teaching at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). Previously, she served as a Lecturer in Biostatistics at Western Sydney University. Her expertise spans 15 years in analyzing routinely collected administrative health datasets, with a focus on complex and linked health data systems.

• Research Focus: Health services research, population ageing, multimorbidity, data linkage methods, and statistical modeling using linked administrative datasets.
• Grants: Chief Investigator on NHMRC #1120317 ($2.5M) for Aboriginal children's otitis media trials and NHMRC #573113 ($469k) on Indigenous health outcomes. Associate Investigator on multiple NHMRC grants including #2013323 ($655k) and #1046266 ($1.6M).

Teaching Contributions: Convenes HDAT9100 - Context of Health Data Science (2018–present) and HDAT9400 - Management and Curation of Health Data (2018–present). Previously taught advanced linked data analysis at the University of Sydney (2008–2019) and developed the Managing Big Data in Health Research short course (2015–2016).

Scientific Recognition:

• 2022 UNSW Educational Excellence Award
• 2022 Students’ Choice Award for Inspirational Teaching
• 2018 Team Award for Program Design Excellence
• 2022 Honorable Mention for ETP Award

Supervision: Currently supervises a UTS PhD student in comorbidity/multimorbidity and linked health dataset analysis. Leads postgraduate Health Data Science courses at UNSW.