About us
Find out more about the Adelaide EpiCentre's key functions.
L to R: Professor Stephen McDonald, Associate Professor Liz Sutton, Dr Emmanuel Gnanamanickam
About the Adelaide EpiCentre
Our activities revolve around clinical epidemiology with the aims of improving access to and outcomes of health care.
Our mission is to improve the quality and quantity of clinical research performed on CALHN campuses with a specific focus on use of data to answer clinical research questions and to build the underlying evidence base for clinical practice.
Our key functions
- Advice on study design and clinical epidemiology
- Advice and support for data management (e.g., linked data) and analyses (e.g., biostatistics)
- Advice about ethics and governance issues related to data use in a health setting
- Quantification of the economic burden of ill-health
- Economic evaluation of health interventions complementary to other fields of research
- Evaluation of the impact of health programs in hospitals or other settings, to refine programs and inform practice and policy
- Supervision of higher research degrees
- Research mentorship
- Short courses
- Ad-hoc advice to clinicians, researchers and students
- Facilitate the use of routinely collected health and EMR data for research and service improvement
- Use of data to drive health service planning and evaluation
- Support to improve the real-world relevance of research
- Support for implementation of research findings into practice and policy
Example projects
- Rates and determinants of risk of readmission to hospital
- Vancomycin and acute kidney injury
- Morbidity and Mortality following COVID-19 treatments in South Australia
- Use of Registry data to support health service decision making.
- Prediction of future demand for dialysis
- Novel ways of examining patient flow through the hospital
- Sarcopenia and visceral obesity following Neoadjuvant treatment
- Reducing Arterial Blood Gas sampling among ICU patients
- South Australian Myeloid Neoplasm (SA-MN) Registry
Contact us
Adelaide EpiCentre
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Health economics
- Health informatics
RAH location: RAH 3B 673 & 670
This page was last updated 6 June 2025.