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Dr Victoria Polkinghorne

Data programmer

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v.polkinghorne@burnet.edu.au
Dr Victoria Polkinghorne

Background

Victoria is a Research Officer at Burnet Institute and has a PhD in medical sciences from the Australian National University. Her role as ACCESS data programmer involves improving data processing performance, monitoring data quality and assisting with data extractions. She is interested in learning new software to facilitate team collaboration and improve efficiency.

Qualifications

  • 2008: Doctor of Philosophy, Medical Sciences, Australian National University
  • 2002: Bachelor of Science Degree (1st class Hons), Physiology, University of Otago

Awards

  • Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian Government

Positions

  • 2017: Health Research Data Programmer at Burnet Institute in Disease Elimination
  • 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University in the Health Innovations Research Institute (HIRi)
  • 2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Leeds in the Faculty of Biological Sciences
  • 2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University in the John Curtin School of Medical Research

Burnet publications

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30 Nov 2024

Phenotyping people with a history of injecting drug use within electronic medical records using an interactive machine learning approach

npj Digital Medicine

Carol El‐Hayek, Thi Nguyen, Margaret Hellard, M. David Curtis, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Jason Asselin, Anna L. Wilkinson, Victoria Polkinghorne

Open access
25 May 2022

Real-world trends in incidence of bacterial sexually transmissible infections among gay and bisexual men using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Australia following nationwide PrEP implementation: an analysis of sentinel surveillance data

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Victoria Polkinghorne, Michael W. Traeger, Jason Asselin, Edwina Wright, Margaret Hellard, Mark Stoové, Mark Boyd, Jeanne Ellard, Michael L. West, Michael W. Traeger

01 Jan 2022

Real-world monitoring progress towards the elimination of hepatitis C virus in Australia using sentinel surveillance of primary care clinics; an ecological study of hepatitis C virus antibody tests from 2009 to 2019 – CORRIGENDUM

Epidemiology and Infection

Anna L. Wilkinson, Alisa Pedrana, Michael W. Traeger, Jason Asselin, Carol El‐Hayek, Long Nguyen, Victoria Polkinghorne, Joseph Doyle, Jessica Howell, Nick Scott

Open access

Current projects

ACCESS: Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
Open to students

ACCESS: Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses

ACCESS is a national sentinel surveillance network of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses.

Past projects

ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar

ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar

ACCESS Myanmar will implement and evaluate an electronic health records data linkage system that effectively monitors the progress of patients through HIV testing and treatment episodes of care across a network of partnering community and government services.

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