Reza Baneshi

Dr Mohammad Reza Baneshi is a biostatistician and Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland. He has more than 20 years of experience in biostatistics, epidemiology and applied health research, spanning Australia, the United Kingdom, Iran and Afghanistan. His methodological expertise includes survival and longitudinal data analysis, linked-data analysis, prediction modelling, machine learning, missing-data methods, multimorbidity networks and population-size estimation.

Since joining The University of Queensland in 2020, Dr Baneshi has contributed to major research programs in women’s health, multimorbidity and chronic disease. His recent work has examined the development and progression of multiple chronic conditions, cardiometabolic transitions, quality of life, body-weight change, endometriosis, female-specific cardiovascular risk factors and the analysis of multiple-cause-of-death data. He has also contributed to the development of new statistical approaches for modelling multimorbidity.

Before joining The University of Queensland, Dr Baneshi was Professor of Biostatistics at Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He led several nationally funded studies estimating the size of hidden and marginalised populations at increased risk of HIV, including people who inject drugs, sex workers and men who have sex with men. He also contributed to population-size estimation and mapping studies in Afghanistan and has been a member of the World Health Organization Regional Knowledge Hub for HIV/AIDS Surveillance. His book, Methods in Epidemiology: Population Size Estimation, was published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Dr Baneshi has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and two scholarly books. He has supervised or advised more than 40 doctoral and master’s students and has taught biostatistics, regression, longitudinal analysis, survival analysis, statistical learning and health-data analysis. He also serves as Statistical Editor for the International Journal of Health Policy and Management.