Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Jason D. Pole PhD (Epidemiology)

Research Interests

• Digital Health
• Routinely Collect Health Data
• Pediatric Oncology
• Epidemiological Methods
• Health Service Utilization
• Complex Survey Methods / Analysis
• Administrative Data

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Education & Training History

PhD – University of Toronto, 2007
Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology
Thesis titled ‘Antenatal Steroid Therapy for Fetal Lung Maturation and the Subsequent Risk of childhood asthma.’

MSc – Queen’s University, 2000
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine
Master of Science in Epidemiology
Thesis titled ‘Quantifying Misclassification in Water Disinfection By Product Analysis.’

BSc (Hon) – University of Waterloo, 1998
Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Honours Bachelor of Science in Health Studies
Honours project titled ‘Weight Changes Across Subsequent Pregnancies: An Investigation of Maternal and Infant Outcomes.’

Other Affiliations

Professor – Centre for Health Services Research, University of Queensland, Australia

Adjunct Scientist – Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute

Adjunct Senior Scientist – Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Current Research Projects

• 2025, Principal Investigator: Co-Design of Local Hospital Based Reporting
• 2025-2030, Co-Investigator: CoACT-Brain Cancer: The Consortium for Australian Children’s Trials in Brain Cancer
• 2024-2029, Principal Investigator: Life and Health After Childhood Cancer (LACE): a national linkage project
• 2023-2024, Principal Investigator: Hidradenitis Suppurativa Digital Algorithm Project
• 2023-2024, Principal Investigator: Lipids Management in Queensland (LMQ)
• 2023-2028, Co-Investigator: GEL-E – Genomic and Epigenomic predictors of Late Effects in Long Term Survivors of Paedatric Brain Cancer
• 2023-2027, Co-Investigator: UQ Digital Health SMART Institute

Representative Publications

• Smith-Bindman R, Alber SA, Kwan ML, Pequeno P, Bolch WE, Bowles EJA, Greenlee RT, Stout NK, Weinmann S, Moy LM, Stewart C, Francisco M, Kofler C, Duncan JR, Ducore J, Mahendra M, Pole JD, Miglioretti DL. Medical Imaging and Pediatric and Adolescent Hematologic Cancer Risk. N Engl J Med. 2025 Sep 17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2502098.
• Ajaj R, Lau C, Gupta S, Baxter NN, Pole JD, Shaikh F, Nathan PC. Physical morbidities in survivors of testicular germ cell tumors during childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood: a population-based retrospective matched cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 2025 Aug 30;88:103447. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103447.
• Olsen Q, Dyda A, Woods L, Lobo E, Eden R, Krahe MA, Richards B, Pather N, McGee L, Sullivan C, Pole JD. Worldwide willingness to share health data high but privacy, consent and transparency paramount, a meta-analysis. NPJ Digit Med. 2025 Aug 23;8(1):540. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01868-9.
• Stewart C, Alber S, Mahendra M, Kofler C, Tran T, Domal S, Bowles EJA, Weinmann S, Greenlee RT, Stout NK, Pequeno P, Moy LM, Duncan JR, Pole JD, Bolch WE, Kwan ML, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R. Quantifying and Contextualizing Radiation Doses in Common Pediatric Medical Imaging Examinations. J Pediatr Clin Pract. 2025 Jul 23;17:200166. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedcp.2025.200166.
• Engstrom T, Petrie C, Pinzon Perez W, Sullivan C, Pole JD. One Size Fits None. How can we do better? using patient reported experience measure findings to drive local quality improvement across wards in a large Australian metropolitan hospital. Int J Med Inform. 2025 Aug 8;204:106078. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.106078.
• Dai D, Gois PF, Simpson D, Hedfi S, Shrapnel S, Pole JD. Global geographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-associated acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Glob Health. 2025 Jul 25;15:04166. doi: 10.7189/jogh.15.04166.
• Ajaj R, Gershon AS, Lau C, Gupta S, Baxter NN, Sutradhar R, Pole JD, Shaikh F, Nathan PC. (2025) Pulmonary toxicity in children, adolescents, and young adults with testicular germ cell tumors: A population-based retrospective matched cohort study. Int J Cancer. 2025 Jun 24. doi: 10.1002/ijc.70017.
• Di Giuseppe G, Jetha A, Pechlivanoglou P, Pole JD. (2025) Long-Term Dynamic Financial Impacts Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer: A Longitudinal Matched-Cohort Study. J Clin Oncol. 2025 May 29:JCO2402121. doi: 10.1200/JCO-24-02121.
• Donovan P, Sullivan C, Sly B, Knack B, Engstrom T, Jones A, McCourt E, Lazarus S, Pole J. (2025) Comparing glycaemic outcomes of digital and paper-based hospitals (GOOD study). Intern Med J. 2025 May 21. doi: 10.1111/imj.70097.
• Lebel A, Chanchlani R, Cockovski V, Dart A, Fleming AJ, Garg AX, Jeyakumar N, Kim K, Kitchlu A, McArthur E, Nash D, Nathan PC, Parekh RS, Pearl R, Pole J, Ramphal R, Reid J, Schechter-Finkelstein T, Sung L, Wald R, Wang S, Wong P, Zappitelli M. (2025) Chronic Kidney Disease or Hypertension After Childhood Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 May 1;8(5):e258199.
• Bradford N, Cashion C, Sharwood E, Rumble S, Condon P, Cossio D, Stratton H, Ekberg S, Semerci R, Bowers A, Pole J, Alexander K. (2025) Co-Design and Evaluation Protocol for the RECOVER Model of Care After Childhood Cancer Treatment. Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Feb 20;13(5):454.
• Lobo EH, Gill P, Woloszczuk C, Woods L, Wang K, Pole JD, Frølich A, Horton E, Turner A. J. (2025) Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Informal Caregivers of People Living With Stroke: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature. Adv Nurs. 2025 May 10. doi: 10.1111/jan.16942.
• Gupta RS, Wood CE, Engstrom T, Pole JD, Shrapnel S. (2025) A systematic review of quantum machine learning for digital health. NPJ Digit Med. 2025 May 2;8(1):237.
• Abdalla T, Ohan JL, Ives A, White D, Choong CS, Bulsara M, Pole JD. (2025) Epidemiology of multimorbidity in childhood cancer survivors: a matched cohort study of inpatient hospitalisations in Western Australia. BJC Rep. 2025 Mar 13;3(1):15.
• Botta L, Didonè F, Lopez-Cortes A, Nieto AC, Desandes E, Hjalgrim LL, Jakab Z, Stiller CA, Zeller B, Gatta G, Pritchard-Jones K; BENCHISTA Project Working Group. (2025) International benchmarking of stage at diagnosis for six childhood solid tumours (the BENCHISTA project): a population-based, retrospective cohort study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025 Feb;9(2):89-99