Dr Kieran McCaul

Dr Kieran McCaul is a Senior Research Fellow working on the Men, Women and Ageing Study. He is a biostatistician/epidemiologist with a particular interest in cancer epidemiology. His PhD was a cohort study of over 380,000 women with breast cancer focussing on the incidence of bilateral breast cancer. He began his career in 1982 as an NHMRC Research Assistant at the NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit. In 1992, he moved to the Epidemiology Branch of the South Australian Health Commission, eventually becoming Principal Health Statistician for the Commission. During this time, he worked in close association with the SA Central Cancer Registry and was a statistical consultant for the Anti-Cancer Foundation of South Australia (now the SA Cancer Council). He moved to Perth in 2000 where he was a Research Fellow in the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia until 2004 when he moved to Curtin University as a Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He has 60 peer-reviewed publications, which have attracted over 1,000 citations.