{{short description|Biostatistician researcher and professor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Annette Dobson | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|9|4|df=y}} | fields = Biostatistics | workplaces = University of Queensland | alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Adelaide|James Cook University}} | known_for = introductory textbook to GLM | awards = 2015 FAHMS }} '''Annette Jane Dobson''' {{postnominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 4 September 1945) is an Australian statistician. She is a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Queensland's Australian Women and Girl's Health Research (AWaGHR) Centre in the School of Public Health.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Annette Dobson |url=https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/854 |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=University of Queensland}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prof Annette Dobson |url=http://www.acithn.uq.edu.au/staff/StaffSearch/staff_profile.asp?staff_id%3D53 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003085216/http://www.acithn.uq.edu.au/staff/StaffSearch/staff_profile.asp?staff_id=53 |archive-date=2009-10-03 |website=University of Queensland}}</ref> Dobson was Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health from 1995 to 2013.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= |title=ALSWH Steering Committee: Professor Annette Dobson AO |url=http://www.alswh.org.au/Staff/annette.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320132611/http://www.alswh.org.au/Staff/annette.html |archive-date=2012-03-20 |access-date= |website=Women's Health Australia (WHA)}}</ref> She is a highly cited publication author,<ref>{{cite web |title=Core Research |url=http://www.sph.uq.edu.au/core-research |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501003119/http://sph.uq.edu.au/core-research |archive-date=2010-05-01 |website=School of Population Health, The University of Queensland}}</ref> a book author,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dobson |first=Annette J. |title=An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models |publisher=CRC Press |year=1990 |language=en}}</ref> and has received an Australia Day award.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-01-27 |title=UQ recipients in Australia Day Honours List |url=https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2010/01/uq-recipients-australia-day-honours-list |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=UQ News, University of Queensland |language=en}}</ref>

== Qualification == Dobson has a bachelor's degree from the University of Adelaide, and a master's degree and PhD from James Cook University. She has a postgraduate diploma in management from the University of New England (Australia).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/854|title=Professor Annette Dobson|work=Researchers|publisher=University of Queensland|access-date=2024-05-21}}</ref>

== Research interests == Her research interests lie in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health. In biostatistics, she is specifically interested in generalized linear modeling, clinical biostatistics, and statistical methods in longitudinal studies. Dobson's topics in epidemiology include tobacco control, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and health care service use.

== Positions == Dobson is the founding Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH)<ref name=":0" /> and was director of the Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research from 2012 - 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sph.uq.edu.au/centre-for-longitudinal-and-life-course-research |title=Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research - School of Population Health - the University of Queensland, Australia |accessdate=2015-03-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227232210/http://www.sph.uq.edu.au/centre-for-longitudinal-and-life-course-research |archivedate=27 February 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

She was the inaugural chair of the BCA Master of Biostatistics at its inception in 2000.

== Awards == Dobson was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010 for her service to public health and biostatistics as a research and academic, particularly through the collection and analysis of data relating to cardiovascular disease and women's and veterans' health, which provided a basis for public health interventions and policies to reduce disease burden in the population.<ref>{{cite web| title=Dobson, Annette Jane| publisher= It's an Honour| url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1141749 |accessdate= 19 February 2010}}</ref>

Dobson won the Sidney Sax medal in 2003, the pre-eminent prize awarded by the Public Health Association of Australia.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.phaa.net.au/scholarships-awards/awards/sidney-sax-public-health-medal-sidney-sax-public-health-medal-nominations-for-the-sidney-sax-public-health-medal-for-2015-have-closed-please-do-not-hesitate-to-email-phaaphaanetau-for-further-informat |accessdate= 8 August 2018|title= Sidney Sax Public Health Medal - Public Health Association of Australia Inc}}</ref> Dobson received the 2012 Moyal Medal for her contributions to statistics<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://maths.mq.edu.au/medal/lecture2012.html |title=Moyal medallists |access-date=14 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323104332/https://maths.mq.edu.au/medal/lecture2012.html |archive-date=23 March 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and in 2015 she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aahms.org/fellowship/|title=Fellowship {{!}} AAHMS – Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences|website=www.aahms.org|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-06-26}}</ref>

She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|title=Individual members|publisher=International Statistical Institute|accessdate=2017-11-30|archive-date=29 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729010059/https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== An introduction to GLM == She wrote the book ''An introduction to generalized linear models''.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzncBQAAQBAJ |title = An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models|isbn = 9781584889519|last1 = Dobson|first1 = Annette J.|last2 = Barnett|first2 = Adrian |authorlink2=Adrian G. Barnett|date = 12 May 2008| publisher=CRC Press }}</ref>

== Most highly cited publications == *Kuulasmaa K, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Dobson A, Fortmann S, Sans S, Tolonen H, Evans A, Ferrario M, Tuomilehto J. Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations.<ref>Lancet. 2000;355(9205):675–687.</ref> *Brown WJ, Bryson L, Byles JE, Dobson AJ, Lee C, Mishra G, Schofield M. Women's Health Australia: Recruitment for a national longitudinal cohort study.<ref>Women and Health. 1998;28(1):2340.</ref>

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==External links== {{scholia}} * [http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/854 Annette Dobson page at Queensland University]

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