Health Science Research

Contributions to research

Dr Peat has made a number of valuable contributions to research including:

* During her PhD studies, a fruitful collaboration with Dr Euan Tovey led to ground-breaking research into the link between allergen exposure and asthma in children
* Dr Peat Identified the major risk factors for asthma, which culminated in the establishment of the Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS) in 1997, an internationally significant, randomised controlled trial, to test methods of asthma prevention in early childhood

Career highlights

As a senior researcher, Dr Peat was responsible for managing the epidemiology team at the Woolcock Institute for Medical Research.

In 1996, Dr Peat became the Hospital Statistician at Westmead Children's Hospital. In 2000, she became an Associate Professor in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health of the University of Sydney.

Dr Peat then worked part-time as Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Health, the Centre for Health Service Delivery and the Centre for Obesity Research at the University of Wollongong.

Since 2004 has been an Adjunct Professor with the School of Paediatric Exercise Science at the Australian Catholic University NSW. She is also a consultant statistician with the Sydney Children's Clinical Trials Centre at Sydney Children's Hospital, the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Research Office at Concord Repatriation General Hospital.