Nicole Pratt | Professor - Biostatistics & Pharmacoepidemiology
University of South Australia; Adelaide University

Nicole Pratt is a Professor of Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology, and is Deputy Director of Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre at Adelaide University. Prof Pratt is a leading authority on the harmonisation and standardisation of large, linked health data to generate evidence on the safety and effectiveness of medicines. She has significant experience in developing data analytics platforms (supporting epidemiological and machine learning techniques) underpinning national health improvement programs and is currently leading the ARDC Australia Health Data Evidence Network (AHDEN) initiative that aims to  generate evidence from hospital electronic medical records across Australia.  Her foundational work has led to more than 50 international collaborative medicine safety studies, involving >19 countries, >100 different databases that cover >900 million persons. This work has led to the development of a new paradigm for generating transparent and reproducible real-world evidence. Prof Pratt is a Fellow of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology; foundation member of the Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) international collaborative network; president of OHDSI Australian Chapter; Chief Investigator NHMRC Medicines Intelligence Centre of Research Excellence; and member of the Drug Utilisation Sub-committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee.