Ms Peta Forder

Biography

Since 2010, I have been employed as an academic statistician within the Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing (RCGHA) at the University of Newcastle. I am involved with research using data from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health (ALSWH), Australia’s largest longitudinal study on women focused on health and well-being. In 1996, this study recruited more than 40,000 women from three different cohorts (born 1921-1926, 1946-1951 and 1973-1978) and 2013, ALSWH finalised the recruitment of over 15,000 women into a new cohort (born 1989-1995). I am involved with research relating to the 1921-1926 cohort (topics: asthma; mental health; social functioning; hospitalisation with stroke and disabilities; constipation; faecal and urinary incontinence), as well as research relating to the 1973-1978 cohort (topics: perinatal mental health; alcohol consumption during pregnancy; intimate partner violence; maternal health). I am also involved with research using the 45 & Up Study data, specifically the Social, Economic and Environmental Factors (SEEF) sub-study and the Life Histories and Health (LHH) sub-study. I have successfully transitioned to public health research, actively contributing to the research output of the RCGHA (ie. papers, reports, student supervision, etc). In recent years, this work has culminated in several publications and I am currently involved in the preparation of other manuscripts relating to the ALSWH data.

Research Interest

Public Health and Health Services, Biostatistics