Dr Lachlan Dalli is a Research Fellow from the Big Data, Epidemiology and Prevention Division (Stroke and Ageing Research) and a current Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Heart Foundation (2024-2025). Lachlan is also CIA on a Jack Brockhoff Foundation Early Career Medical Grant focused on examining associations between infection and vaccination on the risk of stroke in children.

Lachlan holds a Bachelor in Biomedical Science (Honours) and a PhD in Epidemiology. His current research is focused on improving the quality of care and outcomes for people with stroke by generating new knowledge and clinical insights using Big Data. He has published >40 peer-reviewed articles in leading medical journals, including first-author publications in Neurology, Stroke and Hypertension.

Lachlan is an emerging leader in pharmacoepidemiology (i.e. the study of the utilisation and real-world effects of medications and vaccines in the population). His work in pharmacoepidemiology has generated novel evidence on the real-world safety and effectiveness of medications for secondary prevention of stroke, using Big Data from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. In 2022, Lachlan led an international team to develop a new reporting tool for medication adherence (TEN-SPIDERS) - which is now recommended by the EQUATOR network.

In 2023, Lachlan was awarded a highly competitive 1-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to progress his independent stream of research in stroke pharmacoepidemiology.

In his role as an epidemiologist for the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR), Lachlan has developed and applied new statistical methods to more reliably assess the quality of hospital care for patients with stroke. He has contributed to >10 reports for the AuSCR and >200 individualised hospital reports to support the direct translation of evidence to improve stroke care in Australia.

International/National Leadership Positions:

• Statistical Editor and Editorial Board Member: Stroke
• Steering Committee and Co-Chair (EMCR Committee): Victorian Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN)
• Co-Lead of the Methods and Data Portfolio: Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines Intelligence
• Program Manager: International Network for Standardised Population Insights and Real-world Evidence for Stroke (INSPIRE-STROKE)
• Coordinator:  National Stroke Data Linkage Interest Group
• Hypertension Australia Early Career Researcher Committee (2023-2024)

Committee Member:

• Australian Clinical Trials Alliance Clinical Quality Registry SIG
• Centre of Research Excellence to Accelerate Stroke Trial Innovation & Translation: Research Affiliate

• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Real-world evidence
• Clinical quality registries
• Stroke epidemiology
• Public health
• Health services research
• Health equity

**Dr Dalli is currently accepting PhD candidates. Click here for a list of available projects.**

• Co-Chair: Monash University Victorian Heart Institute Future Research Leaders Alliance
• Monash University Data Linkage Working Group [EMCR Representative]