Annette Dobson

Annette Jane Dobson AM is a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Queensland's Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research (CLLR) in the School of Population Health. At her institution, she is the Head of teaching programs and a Management Executive in the Management Committee. Dobson was Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health from 1995 to 2013. She is a highly cited publication author, a book author, and has received an Australia Day award.

Dobson was awarded the Bachelor of Science in the University of Adelaide in 1966. Moving on to the James Cook University, she completed a Master in Science in 1970 and a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in 1974. She was recognised as an Accredited Statistician in 1998 by the Statistical Society of Australia, and received a Graduate Certificate of Management in 2001 from the University of New England (Australia).

Her research interests lie in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health. In biostatistics, she is specifically interested in generalized linear modeling, clinical biostatistics, and statistical methods in longitudinal studies. Dobson's topics in epidemiology include tobacco control, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and health care service use.

Dobson is the founding Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH). and director of the Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research.

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