Xenia Dolja-Gore

Xenia Dolja-Gore is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, and an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Health (CREW21) research fellow at the Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing. Her work focuses on biostatistical methods for analyzing linked longitudinal health data, particularly in women's mental health, aging, and social determinants of healthcare access.

• PhD candidate in Mathematics (University of Newcastle)
• Bachelor of Mathematics and Graduate Diploma in Medical Statistics (University of Newcastle)

Research interests include health services utilization, mental health outcomes, and data linkage for studying treatment effects in women's health. She contributes to government health reports and has secured over $700,000 in external grants. Her teaching expertise spans epidemiology and statistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including distance learning via Blackboard.

Recent publications analyze falls in older women, mental health service disparities, diet quality impacts, and vision-dementia associations through longitudinal and meta-analytic frameworks. She actively collaborates with MURA users group, Health Data Linkage Interest Group, and SAX Institute.

• Scientific Awards: 2015 IAGG Asia/Oceania Student Travel Awards

Supervised 2 masters students and 6 PhD students to completion. Her full description details 20+ years of biostatistical research, $700k+ grants, >60 peer-reviewed publications, and roles in national health data initiatives.