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Dr Katie Harris

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Dr Katie Harris is a Senior Research Fellow in the Professorial Unit at the George Institute for Global Health. Her areas of expertise include Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, awarded a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Leeds, UK. She also holds a conjoint lecturer at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Katie has extensive experience working with big data, including population-based, linked and non-linked datasets, and clinical trials data. Her current research interests are in sex and gender differences, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, and dementia and cognitive decline.

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Sultana Shajahan

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Dr Sultana Shajahan is a final-year PhD candidate at The George Institute for Global Health and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. After completing her medical degree in Bangladesh, she earned a Master of Public Health (Research) degree with High Distinction at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Her doctoral research focuses on high-level evidence synthesis and advanced analyses of large international datasets (including ADVANCE, PROGRESS, and SCAPIS) to investigate how a wide range of clinically important blood pressure measures are associated with cognitive decline and dementia. This work aims to generate new insights to guide the design of future cohort studies and clinical trials targeting dementia prevention, a growing global health challenge. For her PhD research, she was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) in 2023.

Beyond her PhD, Dr Shajahan undertook a three-month international research exchange program at Linköping University, Sweden, funded by The Swedish National School for Research in General Practice. She was also a Site Physician in the recently completed RECALL-Pilot trial, which tested an online intervention to reduce dementia risk through blood pressure management. Previously, she gained extensive experience at The George Institute for Global Health, contributing to projects in stroke, women’s health, sex differences, and multimorbidity. She brings expertise and interest in systematic reviews, meta-analyses, clinical trials, cohort studies, blood pressure measurement, dementia prevention, cognition and stroke.

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