Team
Meet the team
The Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0 is a testament to the power of collaborative research projects.
Principal investigators
Distinguished Professor
Kerrie Mengersen
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Director, Centre for Data Science
Professor
Peter Baade
Cancer Council Queensland (CCQ)
Project investigators
Project investigators
Dr Jessica Cameron
CCQ
Research Fellow
Associate Professor Susanna Cramb
QUT
Senior Research Fellow
Professor
Joanne Aitken
CCQ
Former Director of Research
Dr Upeksha Chandrasiri
CCQ
Project Co-ordinator
Dr Paramita Dasgupta
CCQ
Research Fellow
Dr Habtamu Bizuayehu
University of Queensland
Project Co-ordinator
Postgraduate students
James Hogg
QUT
PhD Student
Conor Hassan
QUT
PhD Student
Ankur Kohar
University of Sydney
PhD Student
Yuxin Huang
QUT
MPhil Student
Vishal Singh
QUT
PhD Student
VISER team
Visualisation for Interactive Solutions and Engagement
Thom Saunders
QUT
Principal Visualisation Specialist
Sarah Azad
QUT
Senior UX/UI Designer
Benjamin Kleverlaan
QUT
Senior Web Developer
Michael Smallcombe
QUT
Web Developer
Shaun Kickbusch
QUT
Web Developer
Pascal Cunin
QUT
UX/UI Designer
Project consultants
Associate Professor
Helen Thompson
QUT
Associate Professor of Statistics
Associate Professor
Darren Wraith
QUT
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Associate Professor
David Smith
Daffodil Centre, Cancer Council New South Wales
Head, Prostate Cancer Research Stream
Visual story telling
Associate Professor
Kate Thompson
QUT
Leader, Digital Learning for Change Research Group
Muhammad Haroon
CCQ
Research Communications Specialist
Jacinta Lisec
QUT
Research Associate
Project advisory goup
Professor David Roder Chair (Cancer Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia; Senior Principal Research Fellow at the SA Health and Medical Research Institute)
Professor Jeff Dunn (Chief of Mission & Head of Research, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia; Professor Social & Behavioural Science & Chair Cancer Survivorship, UniSQ; President, Union for International Cancer Control)
Doctor Sarah Goodwin (Lecturer, Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics Research Group, Monash University, VIC)
Professor Louise Ryan (Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of Technology Sydney)
Danica Cossio (Chair, Australasian Association of Cancer Registries)
Justin Harvey (Head of Cancer and Screening Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
Richard Trevithick (Western Australia Cancer Registry)
Gregory Richards (General Manager Policy and Research, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
Doctor Paul Jelfs (formerly General Manager, Social statistics division, Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Doctor Anders Holmberg (Chief methodologist and general manager, methodology division, Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Doctor Storm Holwill (Public Health Registrar, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council)
Gregory Richards (Acting General Manager: Policy and Research, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council)
Participating Organisations
The Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0 is a collaborative project being developed by statisticians, cancer researchers, visualisation experts and IT specialists from Cancer Council Queensland (CCQ) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The Atlas 2.0 has been endorsed by the Australasian Association of Cancer Registries and Cancer Council Australia, and investigators accessed expertise from QUT Centre for Data Science.
Previous Contributors
We appreciate all the people who contributed to the development of the first Australian Cancer Atlas. Further information about these contributors and their roles can be found in the corresponding e-book. (Duncan et al., 2019b)
