Rate My Professor Jake Olivier

Professor Jake Olivier is a Professor of Statistics and Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Mississippi in 2003, an MSc in Mathematics from the same university in 1997, and a BSc in Mathematics from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1995. Accredited as a Statistician (AStat) by the Statistical Society of Australia since 2016, Olivier specializes in biostatistics, injury epidemiology, and road safety. His research develops statistical methods for analyzing epidemiological, psychological, and population health data, including interrupted time series for interventions, regression to the mean adjustments, and effect sizes for epidemiological measures. Primary applications include evaluating bicycle helmet legislation, child restraint systems, graduated driver licensing, opioid prescribing impacts, and crash survivability for vehicles, micromobility users, and pedestrians. He collaborates across cancer, psychological, and cardiovascular fields.

Olivier serves as Deputy Director of the Transport and Road Safety Research Centre in the School of Aviation at UNSW. His career includes leadership as past President/Vice President and Treasurer of the NSW Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia and past Chair of its Biostatistics Section. Editorial contributions encompass Statistical Advisor for BMJ Open, Associate Editor for Journal of Road Safety, and Editorial Board member for ANZ Journal of Statistics and Injury Prevention. Awards include two Web of Science Highly Cited Papers (one in Mathematics, one in Social Sciences), University of Mississippi Dissertation Fellowship, John A. Hardin Mathematics Award, and Paul and Myrtle Bender Mathematics and Physical Science Scholarship from Centenary College. Key publications feature 'Bicycle injuries and helmet use: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2017), 'Age, crash type and the changing patterns of cycling fatalities in Australia between 1991 and 2022' (Injury Prevention, 2024), 'Child restraint legislation and injury rate NSW 2001-2019: analysing hospital administration data' (Injury Prevention, 2025), and books such as Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2013 (2018) and A brief intervention for help-seeking young adult and adolescent cannabis (2011). He has secured grants from NHMRC, ARC, Cancer Institute NSW, Transport for NSW, and others for road safety and health projects, influencing policy and media discussions on safety interventions.