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Robert Ware is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics in the School of Population Health. He keeps regular office hours with the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability and the Queensland Children's Medical Reserach Institute Robert Ware is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics in the School of Population Health. The current focus of Robert’s research program centres around the design and analysis of longitudinal studies and, in particular, developing statistical methods to deal with the impact of attrition, missing data and non-compliance on effect estimators. Evaluating the impact participant attrition has on longitudinal studies is the ongoing focus of an ARC Discovery Project for which he is CIA. Robert is also a chief investigator on a $1.1 million NHMRC-funded birth cohort study investigating the burden of respiratory infection in the first 2 years of life, and on a $1.4 million NHMRC-funded mixed methods study examining how health outcomes of ex-prisoners can be improved upon their release from custody.
From 2003-2007 he was employed as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on a NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Longitudinal Studies, where he developed an extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the conduct and analysis of cohort studies.
Robert has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2005, and has been an investigator on ten successful competitive grants with total income of over $3.15 million. He supervises seven research higher degree students and is a tutor in advanced University of Queensland biostatistics courses.
Robert is an active consultant with the Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute and the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability. As part of his role with QCMRI he runs short courses on critical appraisal, study design and medical statistics, and collaborates with many research groups.
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