Professor Mark Woodward elected Fellow of The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences

Senior Visiting Research Fellow Professor Mark Woodward has been elected a Fellow of The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. The Professor of Statistics and Epidemiology is one of 40 new Fellows recognised for their outstanding contributions to the health and medical research landscape in Australia.

The new Fellows were recognised for their significant impact on the health and wellbeing of people Australians and beyond – coming from a range of clinical and biomedical fields, including epidemiology, mental health, health economics and Indigenous health and wellbeing. The new Fellows were admitted at the Academy’s fifth annual meeting on the 10-11 October at the Harry Perkins Centre for Medical Research in Perth.

Mark is Professor of Statistics and Epidemiology in the Professorial Advisory Unit of The George Institute for Global Health, Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Mark is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, has served on the governing council of the Institute of Statisticians and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and is a fellow of the RSS, the European Society of Cardiology, the New York Academy of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Mark has led four major international studies and directed the analytical research on three landmark collaborative studies, worldwide. His work on cardiovascular risk scores formed the basis of national guidelines in Scotland, and his recent work on kidney disease was used to produce new staging criteria for this disease. He has also assessed grants for six national medical research councils (including NHMRC) and served on the editorial boards of seven international journals.

He is the author of 600+ peer-reviewed publications and two text-books on statistical methods in medical research, was named by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics as one of ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’ in each of the last six years.