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Pollyanna Hardy
Polly began her career as a statistician in 1994 at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health as the sole statistician where she was involved at varying levels in research on mental health services, and teaching statistical methods. In 1997 she began work as a medical statistician at the Medical Statistics Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she worked with Professor Diana Elbourne and other colleagues as project statistician on a number of multi-centre clinical trials.
Polly moved to Melbourne in May 2005 to work with Professor John Carlin in the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute as senior biostatistician. Her role has particular emphasis on helping to improve the quality of clinical trials conducted on the Royal Children's Hospital Campus and to this end she undertook the design of a publicly available website to guide clinicians on campus through the initial stages of designing a clinical trial. She has designed and co-ordinates a short course on "Introduction to Clinical Trials" that takes place annually and is available to both internal and external participants. She is lead statistician in the GAS study, an international multi-site RCT of the effect of general versus regional anaesthesia on neurodevelopmental outcome. Her work also includes significant statistical input into the research carried out at the Centre for Community Child Health, currently focussing on the use of survey methods to analyse data arising from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.