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Taya Collyer is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University’s Peninsula Clinical School. Her work focuses on aging-related health issues, including dementia rehabilitation, stroke survivor outcomes, and allied health interventions. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and well-being.
Her research spans clinical trials, policy evaluations, and data infrastructure projects. Notable collaborations include investigating Early Supported Discharge services for stroke survivors and addressing stigma in dementia care through the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)-funded initiative.
Key research interests include: gait speed as a dementia predictor, healthcare consumer acceptability of quality-of-life metrics, and leveraging electronic health records for dementia detection. She has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and led multiple projects funded by bodies like the MRFF and RACGP.
Collyer’s work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, with media coverage highlighting breakthroughs like linking walking speed to dementia risk. She contributes to policy discussions on healthcare delivery and has presented at conferences such as the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science Annual Conference.
Her lab activities include developing the National Centre for Healthy Ageing Data Platform and exploring AI-driven dementia detection methods in electronic health records. Current projects address healthy aging in homeless populations and improving psychosocial care in emergency settings.
