Dr Victoria Polkinghorne
Data programmer
Working groups

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 et al
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
Michael W. Traeger et al
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 et al
Open access