Eight current and former CEPAR Chief and Partner Investigators have been listed among the top 2% scientists worldwide in their disciplinary field, in a study conducted by Stanford researchers and published in PLOS Biology. The study provides a publicly available database of top scientists in their scientific field as measured by citations of their research work. It includes the following CEPAR Investigators:
CEPAR Chief Investigator and ARC Laureate Fellow Kaarin Anstey is Scientia Professor of Psychology at UNSW Sydney and has worked extensively with longitudinal studies, and since 2006 has led the PATH Through Life Project, a large cohort study focusing on common mental disorders and cognitive function. Her research programs focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing, dementia, and common mental disorders in adulthood. A second focus is on older drivers’ risk assessment and safety.
CEPAR Chief Investigator Fiona Blyth AM is Professor of Public Health and Pain Medicine at the University of Sydney. She has been involved in studies of chronic pain epidemiology for almost twenty years, including large prospective cohort studies, pharmacoepidemiological studies, and health services research using linked routinely collected datasets.
Philip Clarke, a former Chief Investigator and now an Associate Investigator with CEPAR, is Director of the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford, UK, where he is also a Professor of Economics. His research interests include developing methods to value the benefits of improving access to health care, health inequalities and the use of simulation models in health economic evaluation.
Robert Cumming AO, a former Chief Investigator and now an Honorary Professor with CEPAR, is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Sydney. He has an international reputation for his research on osteoporosis, falls and fractures. His research on falls prevention in older people has had major impact on policy and practice in this important field.
CEPAR Chief Investigator and ARC Laureate Fellow Michael Keane is Professor of Economics at the UNSW Business School and is considered to be a world leader in choice modelling. He is widely known for his seminal contributions in empirical microeconomics and econometrics. His methodological innovations are used extensively in a variety of applied fields including labour economics, health economics and marketing.
CEPAR Chief Investigator Peter McDonald AM is Honorary Professor of Demography at the University of Melbourne and is frequently consulted on the issue of population futures (causes, consequences and policies) by governments around the world, especially in Australia, Europe and East Asia. His theoretical and policy-oriented research on low fertility (the gender equity theory of fertility) is widely cited and has informed government policymaking in several countries.
CEPAR Partner Investigator James Nazroo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research focuses on issues of inequality, social justice and underlying processes of stratification, particularly in relation to ageing and ethnicity. He works on the social determinants of health and wellbeing in later life, social inequalities over the life course, and longitudinal surveys of health and retirement.
CEPAR Chief Investigator and ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon Parker is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Curtin University and Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design. Her research focuses particularly on job and work design, and she is also interested in proactive behaviour, change, well-being, development, and job performance.