Queens Birthday Honour for main diabetes researcher

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One of our leading diabetes researchers, Professor Dianna Magliano, was awarded an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) at the Queen’s Birthday Honors for service to epidemiology and higher education yesterday.

Professor Magliano was recognized for her pioneering national and international diabetes research and her contributions to teaching and mentoring others.

In addition to directing the Diabetes and Population Health Department and co-chairing the Diabetes Complications Program at the Baker Institute, Professor Magliano coordinates the Master of Public Health program at Monash University and provides excellent mentoring support to a number of young and mid-level researchers.

Professor Magliano’s recent work involves using large data sets, such as the National Diabetes Service Scheme (the Australian Diabetes Register), linked to other administrative data sets to understand the burden and trends of diabetes complications. This was the largest linked project done in Australia and it took over 18 months to break the ethical and legal barriers.

As an epidemiologist, she is also interested in understanding global trends in diabetes incidence and currently leads over 24 international staff and the Center of Disease Control in the United States to study trends in diabetes incidence and mortality around the world.

Her work in the field of diabetes at international level led her from 2015-2017 as President of the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group, as Editor at Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice and is currently co-chair of the 10th edition of the Diabetes Atlas for the International Diabetes Federation.

This award recognizes Professor Magliano’s numerous contributions in both epidemiology and teaching, and most importantly, provides a fantastic role model for others, including researchers. We know she would be especially proud of her tremendous contribution to gender equality in Australian science over the past decade.

The Baker Institute would also like to recognize many other supporters of the Baker Institute who have been recognized in the Queen’s Birthday Honors. This includes Ms. Susan Morgan, who has received an OAM for serving the community through charitable initiatives. She has been a long-time supporter of our Bright Sparks program and has supported many other areas of our work, including Women in Science and Indigenous Health.

Congratulations from the entire Baker Institute community to Professor Magliano and our supporters for receiving these esteemed awards.

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