Peter Baade

Qualifications: PhD, AStat

Job title: Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics

Email: PeterBaade@cancerqld.org.au

Background: A/Professor Baade is the Manager of the Descriptive Epidemiology Research Program at the Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control (VCRCC) at the Cancer Council Queensland. Peter also holds adjunct appointments at the School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology and the Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University.

The broad aim of his research program is to describe and understand the patterns of cancer outcomes across the state, with a particular emphasis on geographical variation in cancer outcomes. He is a member of the Research Leaders Group in the VCRCC, and an Accredited Statistician with the Australian Statistical Society. A/Prof Baade also provides reviews for national and international scientific journals, postgraduate theses, and fellowship and grant applications from national and international funding bodies. He is a member of the
BreastScreen Queensland State Accreditation Committee, the Australian Paediatric Cancer Registry Advisory Committee and an external assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Since 1996 he has published/in press 95 peer review manuscripts and also published 20 commissioned peer-reviewed monographs on cancer outcomes. A/Prof Baade is Chief Investigator on several current National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Cancer Australia and ARC project grants and he was recently awarded an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (Level 2).

Research interests: To describe the patterns of cancer outcomes, particularly those in Queensland, and to quantify and better understand the geographical variation and inequalities in those outcomes.

Current research projects:

• Determinants of area-level inequalities in colorectal and breast cancer survival: a multilevel study
• A multilevel investigation of inequalities in clinical and psychosocial outcomes for women after breast cancer
• Bayesian statistical models for understanding outcomes for women screened with breast cancer
• A comparative study: Patterns of care, comorbidities and quality of life of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with lung, head & neck, breast or gynaecological cancers
• Diagnostic and treatment oathways for men with prostate cancer in Queensland: investigating spatial and demographic inequalities
• Cancer among Australian children: analysis of the Australian Paediatric Cancer Registry