Rate My Professor Joanna Dipnall

Dr Joanna Dipnall serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Clinical Registries group at Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. An accomplished applied statistician, her research focuses on machine and deep learning techniques, particularly in analyzing registry and linked medical data. She earned her Bachelor of Economics with Honours in Econometrics from Monash University and her PhD from Deakin University’s School of Medicine, IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, during which she pioneered the Risk Index for Depression (RID) using blended machine learning and statistical approaches. Dipnall chairs the SPHPM Machine Learning Community of Practice Group and collaborates with the Faculty of Information Technology to supervise postgraduate students integrating AI into health research. As Primary Course Director and Senior Lecturer for the Masters of Health Data Analytics, she coordinates a multidisciplinary program drawing from public health, IT, and business economics. Her professional journey includes teaching advanced statistical methods at universities, ACSPRI, and NZSSN, as well as commercial roles as a statistical consultant and founder of an early internet-based research business in 1999. She also holds an honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at Barwon Health since 2017.