Dr Andrew is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine, Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School at Monash University. She has a clinical background in Physiotherapy, a Master’s in Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology.

Dr Andrew has a growing track record in generating and translating knowledge in health service research with a focus on the long-term management of stroke and chronic diseases of ageing. She is recognised nationally as a leader in the area of data linkage and health service research and is a named investigator on seven data linkage projects. She is lead investigator on the NHMRC funded PRECISE project (#1141848), the most comprehensive stroke data linkage study to date and is leading the data linkage activities, as a chief investigator, on a number of other NHMRC and MRFF funded projects.

Dr Andrew was responsible for conceptualising and designing the National Centre for Health Ageing Data Platform that will underpin the centre’s research activities and is a member of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing data platform working group. She is chair of the Monash University HELIX data linkage committee set up to build a cross faculty community of practice around better access to, and use of linked data for health research.

In addition, she has a number of articles in leading international peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial review board for the journal Stroke (an American Heart Association journal). She has received over $7 million in competitive grant funding from organisations such as the Stroke Foundation, National Heart Foundation and National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Futures Fund.