Dr Joanne Enticott is a Senior Research Fellow and Biostatistician specialising in translational clinical and health services research, data-driven research, big data and analytics. She is a Data Driven Fellow at Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre (2019-2020) leading work on Learning Health System development. She leads a statistical team supporting biostatistics needs of over 200 researchers at two Centres of Research Excellence and Monash Centre for Health Research & Implementation (MCHRI). She is Health Services Research Coordinator at Southern Synergy Department of Psychiatry at Monash University. She is an early-mid career researcher utilising her strong biostatistical skillset to undertake independent research in the new 'Big Data and Analytics’ unit she leads at MCHRI, which uses national datasets and epidemiology to inform policy to improve health outcomes.  She coordinates data linkage projects in a secure, privacy-preserving manner, using health data linked with other health datasets such as inpatient hospital admissions and General Practice visits.

Dr Enticott's research is making an impact, see the Australian Federal Govt report:  Australia's health 2018 by the AIHW, which cites two of her research projects. Read about her big data work using hospital data at: https://www.klarrio.com/project-predicting-patients/

Dr Enticott is a mid-career researcher specialising in translational clinical & health services research, data-driven research, informatics and biostatistics. Since being awarded a PhD in 2012, Dr Enticott has utilised a strong biostatistical skillset to design and conduct policy relevant multidisciplinary research in fields spanning health services equity, epidemiology, primary care, mental health, and health economics. Dr Enticott’s research into Australian mental health inequity has been the focus of both national and international media. Her growing reputation is furthered by her research productivity and quality as evidenced by 74 publications, 53 of these generated since 2014. Overall, she has 57 peer-reviewed articles (15 first-author,26 second-author), a book chapter, 13 research reports and 3 media articles. Dr Enticott in past 5 years has been awarded a national (2019) and international Fellowship (2015), and has given over 20 national and seven international conference presentations.  

Joanne works with collaborative partners on the data linkage projects, which include the South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, Monash Health, Outcome Health, Peter Mac and Monash Partners.

Joanne is a member on the Advisory Committee for the Victorian statewide evaluation of the Place-based Suicide Prevention Programs.

Joanne is a current member on the Data-Driven Healthcare and Infomatics Committee, Monash Partners.

Joanne has a h-index of 18

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Looking for a Research Supervisor
Dr Joanne Enticott supervises BMedSc students each year - and one of them, Dr Sam Cooper, received an award for achieving the highest grade in the Bachelor of Medical Science(Honours) degree in 2107. Read about his research here. If you are a student looking for a research supervisor, then consider: joanne.enticott@monash.edu.au and see Student Projects link

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WHO WORK: Cheng IH, Advocat J, Vasi S, Enticott JC, et al. A rapid review of evidence-based information, best practices and lessons learned in addressing the health needs of refugees and migrants: report to the World Health Organization. Melbourne; 2018

MEDIA: See article in The Coversation that attracted media attention here.

Read the New York Times article that discusses her research here.

NEW: Mesfin, Enticott J, Cheng, Lawrie, Buttery (Accepted) Use of telephone helpline data for syndromic surveillance of adverse events following immunization in Australia: a retrospective study, 2009 to 2017. Vaccine. IN PRESS

NEW: Predictors of ED attendance in older patients with chronic disease: A data linkage study. Australian Health Review. IN PRESS

NEW: Developmental outcomes of children with hearing loss in a national cohort of school-entry Australian children. Australian Journal of Primary Health. Online Ahead of Print: http://www.publish.csiro.au/PY/PY18162

NEW: Profile of hospital admissions for adults with cerebral palsy: a retrospective cohort study. IN PRESS. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (IF 3.5)

 NEW: The potential role of self-criticism in distress related to attenuated psychotic symptoms and implications for clinical trajectory. IN PRESS: Schizophrenia Research

• EDITOR'S CHOICE - ANZJP: Enticott et al. Prevalence of psychological distress: how do Australia and Canada compare? ​​Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Volume 52 Issue 3, March 2018
• As a BioMedVic'“Researcher in Residence” in 2017, Dr Enticott was placed for a policy-immersive experience in the Victorian Government. Read about her experiences working closely with policy-makers at:  http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthvictoria/dec17/researcher.htm and BioMedVic's “Researcher in Residence” Scheme
• Dr Enticott was selected for the 2016 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank by the Australian Academy of Science
• Monash Partners Data-Driven Healthcare and Infomatics Committee
• Department of General Practice
• Southern Synergy link, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health
• Student Projects link