Priyanka Pillai
Profile
Priyanka Pillai was the Health Informatics Specialist for APPRISE until November 2023. Priyanka’s role supported our geographically distributed network of data holders and researchers and provided expert strategic advice to facilitate national and international information sharing.
Collaborative research activities among researchers and data holders will improve Australia’s evidence base for responding to infectious disease emergencies. Priyanka scoped information needs across APPRISE and developed advice on appropriate software, policy, workflows and other change management processes to maximise the use and reuse of existing and emerging research datasets.
Priyanka also worked with University of Melbourne’s Chancellery & Enterprise division and eScholarship Research Centre to augment the University’s digital curation capability by building community of practice, supporting governance for research data and identifying valuable research data assets.
Priyanka comes from a Bioinformatics background and has an MSc Bioinformatics (Computer Science specialisation) from the University of Melbourne. Priyanka’s research has included various informatics projects in the fields of infection and immunity research and cancer research.
In 2024, Priyanka commenced a PhD at the University of Melbourne.
COVID-19 PROJECTS
Related Publications
- The APPRISE Virtual Biobank for Infectious Diseases
- Learnings from the Australian first few X household transmission project for COVID-19
- Development of the COVID-19 Real-Time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response (CRISPER), Australia
- How do data bolster pandemic preparedness and response? How do we improve data and systems to be better prepared?
- RDA COVID-19 Working Group recommendations and guidelines on data sharing