Rate My Professor Xenia Dolja-Gore

Dr Xenia Dolja-Gore is an Education Focused Academic in Statistics within the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is also a Research Fellow in Biostatistics and a Senior Lecturer in Methodology. She holds a PhD, Master of Philosophy in Medical Statistics, Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics, and Bachelor of Mathematics, all obtained from the University of Newcastle. With more than 30 years of experience in statistical research in health, her career includes serving as Bio-Statistician at the Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing since 2006 and as Statistician in the University of Newcastle Health Services Research Group from 1992 to 2006. As an educator, she teaches epidemiology and statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students through face-to-face and online modes and has supervised the completion of six PhD students and two Master's of Public Health students.

Dolja-Gore specializes in biostatistics, data linkage, and health services research, with a focus on women's health, mental health service utilization, social determinants of mental health service use, healthy ageing in older women, patient care indicators, and quality assurance in healthcare. She is a research fellow at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Health in the 21st Century (CREW21) within the Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing. She has secured over $1.1 million in external research grants, including NHMRC Project Grants and Hunter Medical Research Institute funding. Awards include the 2015 IAGG Asia/Oceania Student Travel Award, two post-doctoral fellowships from NHMRC CREW21, and the NSW Ministry of Health Prevention Research Support Program Fellowship (2017-present, extended in 2022). Key publications feature "Intimate partner violence adversely impacts health over 16 years and across generations: A longitudinal cohort study" (PLoS One, 2017), "Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Falls With and Without Injuries Among Older Adult Women" (JAMA Network Open, 2024), "Mental health service use and cost by Australian women in metropolitan and rural areas" (Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2024), "The effect of anxiety on all-cause dementia: A longitudinal analysis from the Hunter Community Study" (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2024), and "Physical Activity and Falls From Midlife: Patterns and Bidirectional Associations" (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2025). She reviews for journals, participates in health data linkage groups, and contributes to grant proposals, government reports, and conference presentations.