Session 108: Healthcare delivery, accessibility, and equity through research
Track 9
| Monday, August 18, 2025 |
| 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM |
| Courtyard 2 |
Overview
- Research
Speaker
Hoa Ngo
Academic | Educator | Researcher
Csiro
Downscaling BERT for Efficient Semantic Search of Clinical Terminology
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr. Hoa Ngo is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO. He has a strong background and extensive expertise in semantic and knowledge representation, clinical terminology, applied machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing in the healthcare domain.
Dr Dana Bradford
Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO
cpThrive: a Story of Development
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Dana’s project work with the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) at CSIRO has predominantly centred on digital services for equitable healthcare, developing innovative and effective technologies to enhance health autonomy. She currently leads the Neurodevelopment and Plasticity team, managing AEHRCs cerebral palsy projects and has a lead role in projects incorporating chatbots, mHealth apps, wearable sensors and neural biomarkers. Dana is also an adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Queensland Brain Institute.
Dr Gabrielle Josling
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO
Demand Prediction for Better Hospital Capacity Management
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Gabrielle Josling is a Senior Research Scientist in the Health Intelligence team in the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. Her research interests include machine learning, predictive analytics, and synthetic data.
Joyce Chu
Academic | Educator | Researcher
University of Sydney
Health Information Systems Challenges: A Perspective from Rural Indonesia
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Joyce is a researcher specialising in digital and health information systems for resource-constrained settings. With extensive experience developing technology solutions for social impact, Joyce focuses on enhancing healthcare delivery, accessibility, and equity. Her work integrates user-centred design and interoperability to address systemic gaps, with a strong emphasis on improving mental health care in underserved communities.
Dr Hwan-jin Yoon
Senior Research Scientist
Aehrc Csiro
Extreme Heat and Emergency Department Presentations for Circulatory and Respiratory Conditions: A 5-year Study in Two largest hospitals in Australia
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Hwan-Jin Yoon is currently a researcher at the CSIRO AEHRC, specializing in Health Intelligence. He contributes to cutting-edge research that leverages statistical modelling to address complex challenges in health data analysis. Hwan-Jin worked at the Statistical Consulting Unit at ANU, where he provided expert statistical advice and conducted advanced research in various domains. His major research interests focus on statistical modelling, especially random effects models (LMM, GLMM, HGLM).
