Using big data to improve people's health

She is an Australian leader in policy-relevant research and is a high-profile advocate for more and better use of routinely collected health data for research. View her story here:

Video transcript

[Professor Louisa Jorm speaking with background image of her writing on a clear white board and speaking to two men at a table]

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I work in big data, in health. Big data gives you a whole of population view and it gives you real world evidence about diseases, treatments and outcomes.

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Every time you go to a doctor you get hospitalised, you have a baby. Quite a lot of data is actually collected about you and a lot of that data just sits in silos. And my research is actually about getting that data out there and using that data for research that's going to improve health. NHMRC funding is completely critical. That allows us to look at whole populations, at whole health systems overtime. It's not the small type of research that we can do using industry funding.

[Image changes to Professor Jorm outside walking over to bench to sit down with her laptop]

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The Australian population is going to benefit from this big picture research and from the HMRC support that we've had over a number of years to do this work.

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