Dr Katie Harris is lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney. She convenes the Advanced Epidemiology course within the Postgraduate Public Health Programs.
Dr Harris has worked at UNSW Sydney, since 2014. Prior to commencing her role in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Dr Harris was a Research Fellow in Biostatistics in the National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU), School of Women's and Children's Health, Faculty of Medicine.
Dr Harris has extensive experience as a Biostatistician and Epidemiologist, specialising in statistical techniques such as multilevel modelling, longitudinal data analysis, functional data analysis and relative survival analysis.
Prior to her appointment in the NPESU Dr Harris’s research focus was in the field of cancer epidemiology where she gained postdoctoral experience in the Cancer Epidemiology Group, University of Leeds, UK. In 2010 Dr Harris successfully completed her PhD, entitled ‘Assessment of Control and Performance of Biomedical Systems’, in the Division of Biostatistics, University of Leeds, UK.