The Hazelwood Health Study was supported by many excellent team members over its 10 years. The key people involved in the final stage of the Study are provided below.
Marita Dalton – Manager, Early Life Follow-up Stream
Marita Dalton commenced her position as Manager of the Latrobe Early Life Follow-Up (ELF) Study in May 2015. With a background in health information management, epidemiology and database management, Marita’s experience with large cohort studies has most recently been as Project Manager of the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study at Menzies Institute for Medical Research (Tasmania). She was responsible for overall coordination of activities relating to recruitment, data collection and data linkage for the ELF Study. Marita was based at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the Alfred Centre in Melbourne. Marita can be contacted via email marita.dalton@utas.edu.au
David Brown – Data Manager
David Brown has worked in Information Technology projects in large organisations for more than 20 years. More recently, he has worked on Information Management and Reporting for Alfred Health before joining Monash University in 2015. His role on the Hazelwood Health Study was to oversee the management of information collected as part of the study. David was based at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne. David can be contacted via email david.brown@monash.edu
Christina Dimitriadis – Data Linkage and Extraction Manager
Christina Dimitriadis has worked as a researcher in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University for over ten years. She has coordinated several externally funded projects and has prior experience conducting data linkage for the Australian Firefighters’ Health Study and Healthwise Cancer Incidence & Mortality Study. Christina was responsible for aspects relating to ethics applications for the Hazelwood Health Study and provided assistance with the data linkage processes. Christina was based at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the Alfred Centre in Melbourne. Christina can be contacted via email christina.dimitriadis@monash.edu
Natasha Kinsman – Data Linkage and Extraction, Ethics
Natasha has been working in the public health research field for more than 10 years. She also has several years' experience working in government health policy roles. More recently, Natasha has coordinated several large projects that investigate ways to reduce musculoskeletal disorders associated with work. Natasha joined the Hazelwood Health Study team at the start of 2023 and was responsible for coordinating ethics approvals and data linkages whilst Christina was on maternity leave. Natasha can be contacted via email natasha.kinsman@monash.edu
Dr Caroline Gao – Lead Biostatistician
Dr Caroline Gao commenced as the project biostatistician on 24 Feb 2017. Caroline obtained her PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from the University of Hong Kong in 2012. After that, she joined Turning Point, Monash University Eastern Health Clinical School working on alcohol and drug epidemiology. Caroline has been involved in a diverse range of research projects involved with analysing different types of administrative, clinical and survey data. Caroline’s role with the Hazelwood Health Study was to undertake analyses of collected data. Caroline was based at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the Alfred Centre in Melbourne. Caroline can be contacted via email caroline.gao@monash.edu
Catherine Smith – Biostatistician
Catherine Smith commenced as a project biostatistician in June 2020. Catherine has Masters degrees in Applied Statistics from Melbourne University and in Public Health from Sydney University. She has been working as a biostatistician in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine since March 2011 and has worked on a range of research and consulting projects during this time. Catherine can be contacted via email at catherine.l.smith@monash.edu
Tim Campbell - Mental Health Researcher
Tim Campbell is a mental health researcher and commenced his role as a research officer with the Psychological Impacts Stream of the Hazelwood Health Study in 2018. Tim contributed to planning, coordination, and reporting across the stream’s program of research. In conjunction with his work with the HHS, Tim is a PhD candidate based in Gippsland with Monash University's School of Rural Health. Tim's PhD project investigates how Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) can best respond when a young person attending for mental health care has a parent who also experiences mental illness. Tim can be contacted via email tim.campbell@monash.edu
David Poland - HHS Administration Gippsland
David joined the HHS team in 2021 to assist with the roll out of the Adult Respiratory clinical assessments and subsequently took on the role of HHS Administration for Gippsland. David came to the study with over 20 years of service as a paramedic with Ambulance Victoria and has extensive experience in health and in customer support. David supported all local activities including communications, website, surveys and clinical assessments. David can be contacted via email david.poland@monash.edu
