Professional Activities

Editorial Boards

• The International Journal of Biostatistics, Chief Editor Nick Jewell, Berkeley Press.


• The International Statistical Institute's Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, Oxford University Press, 2003.


• Statistical Methods in Medical Research, an international review journal, 1995-2005.


• Associate Editor for Applied Statistics, a journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C), 1998-2002.
  

Professional Societies

• Elected Member of the  International Statistical Institute
• Member of the American Statistical Association
• Member of the International Biometric Society
  
• Member of the Statistical Society of Australia
• Past member of the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Royal Statistical Society.

Conferences and Workshops 

• Program Committee for the 5th Australian Microarray Conference, Barossa Valley, South Australia, October 2005.
  


• Organiser of Invited Session Epidemic Modelling and disease surveillance for bioterrorism and other public health threats International Biometric Society IBC2004, Cairns 2004.


• Program Committee for the First Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2003) held in Adelaide, Australia from 4 to 7 February 2003.
  


• Program Committee for the 54th Bienniel Session of the International Statistical Institute, August 2003, Berlin, Germany.  Topics included the analysis of gene expression data, statistical challenges in genomics, 21st century methodology for agricultural statistics in developing and transition countries, public health in developing countries, and the design and analysis of infectious disease studies.  


• Invited Program Committee for the XXI Conference of the International Biometric Society (IBC2002) held in Freiburg, Germany in July 2002.


• Co-Director and Instructor School on Modern Statistical Methods in Medical Research International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy, September 1999.
• Programs for backcalculating HIV and predicting AIDS
• See Publications for two issues of Statistical Methods in Medical Research devoted to proceedings from the School.
  

Service to the University of Adelaide

• University Council Member, 2001.
• National Councillor for National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), 2000-2002.
• NTEU Branch Committee Member, 2000-2002.