Dr Jessica Roydhouse is a Select Foundation Senior Research Fellow in Health Services Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. Her research interests include patient-reported outcomes, missing data, clinical trials and causal inference. Prior to coming to the Menzies, she was an ORISE Fellow at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where she conducted methodological research on patient-reported outcomes in clinical cancer trials.

Biography

Prior to her PhD, Jessica worked at the University of Sydney, where she coordinated a community-based randomised controlled trial and worked on health services research projects in cancer care. She completed her PhD at Brown University, focusing on proxy reporting for patient-reported outcomes in cancer, and then spent over two years at the FDA working on methodological research in cancer trials.

Career summary

Qualifications

PhD, Brown University, USA, 2017. Improving patient-reported outcomes in cancer care: non-response and the role of proxies.

Memberships

Professional practice

American Statistical Association
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
International Society for Quality of Life Research
Psycho-Oncology Co-Operative Research Group

Administrative expertise

Jessica previously coordinated a community-based randomised controlled trial in Sydney. She is the co-chair of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Proxy Task Force.