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Dr Anneke Grobler

Dr Anneke Grobler

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Role Team Leader / Senior Research Fellow
Research area Population Health
Anneke Grobler worked for 6 years as a statistician for a Contract Research Organisation. In this position she obtained significant experience in analysing data using SAS® and designing clinical trials and data collection forms in various clinical areas; including oncology, central nervous system disorders and trauma.

She worked for 12 years as a statistician at an HIV/AIDS research organisation (CAPRISA, https://www.caprisa.org/), where she was the head of the statistics and data management departments. In this capacity she has been involved in study design, manuscript writing, protocol writing, grant application, analysis of randomised clinical trials and epidemiological data and database set-up and management as well as the management of about 13 staff members.

She was an evaluator for the clinical trials committee of the Medicines Control Council in South Africa (similar to the FDA in America) and is a current member of the Drug Trials Subcommittee of the ethics committee at the RCH.

Currently she works as a statistician at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) at the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) and the University of Melbourne. Her role is to support clinical trials and observational studies carried out within the MCRI as well as at the RCH in Melbourne. She plays a major part in the design, planning, and statistical analysis for a range of clinical trials, including studies in Public Health, Health Services and Education. She is a member of the Melbourne Children's Trials Centre (MCTC). Her role includes statistical consultancy and providing training in clinical research, as well as mentoring PhD students and team members of the study teams she is part of. She also works with the Child Health CheckPoint wave of the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) longitudinal cohort.

Her main area of interest is in the design and analysis of clinical trials.
She has a statistical research focus in the methods of multiple imputation for dealing with missing data.

She obtained a PhD in statistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2014 with Geert Molenberghs from Belgium as a co-supervisor. She also holds a Master's degree in Biostatistics from Columbia University in the City of New York. She has published >100 papers in peer reviewed journals such as Lancet, Lancet HIV, New England Journal of Medicine, Science.
Anneke Grobler worked for 6 years as a statistician for a Contract Research Organisation. In this position she obtained significant experience in analysing data using SAS® and designing clinical trials and data collection forms in various clinical...
Anneke Grobler worked for 6 years as a statistician for a Contract Research Organisation. In this position she obtained significant experience in analysing data using SAS® and designing clinical trials and data collection forms in various clinical areas; including oncology, central nervous system disorders and trauma.

She worked for 12 years as a statistician at an HIV/AIDS research organisation (CAPRISA, https://www.caprisa.org/), where she was the head of the statistics and data management departments. In this capacity she has been involved in study design, manuscript writing, protocol writing, grant application, analysis of randomised clinical trials and epidemiological data and database set-up and management as well as the management of about 13 staff members.

She was an evaluator for the clinical trials committee of the Medicines Control Council in South Africa (similar to the FDA in America) and is a current member of the Drug Trials Subcommittee of the ethics committee at the RCH.

Currently she works as a statistician at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) at the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) and the University of Melbourne. Her role is to support clinical trials and observational studies carried out within the MCRI as well as at the RCH in Melbourne. She plays a major part in the design, planning, and statistical analysis for a range of clinical trials, including studies in Public Health, Health Services and Education. She is a member of the Melbourne Children's Trials Centre (MCTC). Her role includes statistical consultancy and providing training in clinical research, as well as mentoring PhD students and team members of the study teams she is part of. She also works with the Child Health CheckPoint wave of the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) longitudinal cohort.

Her main area of interest is in the design and analysis of clinical trials.
She has a statistical research focus in the methods of multiple imputation for dealing with missing data.

She obtained a PhD in statistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2014 with Geert Molenberghs from Belgium as a co-supervisor. She also holds a Master's degree in Biostatistics from Columbia University in the City of New York. She has published >100 papers in peer reviewed journals such as Lancet, Lancet HIV, New England Journal of Medicine, Science.

Top Publications

  • Nixon, GM, Anderson, D, Baker, A, Davidson, A, Griffiths, A, Grobler, AC, Pinczower, G, Rimmer, J, Rose, E, Selman, CJ, et al. Intranasal Treatments for Children With Sleep-Disordered Breathing: The MIST+ Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA Pediatr 180(3) : 240 -249 2026
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  • Corocher, T, Edwards, K, Hersusianto, Y, Campbell, D, Monagle, P, Ho, P, INHERIT Trial Group. Diagnostic accuracy of self-collected anterior nasal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing.. Microbiol Spectr 14(2) : e0171125 2026
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  • Rwebembera, J, Sable, C, Grobler, AC, Pulle, J, Scheel, A, Mucunguzi, A, Spaziani, AM, Engelman, D, Carapetis, J, Karthikeyan, G, et al. With Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Mild Rheumatic Heart Disease Rarely Progresses Over 5 Years.. J Am Heart Assoc 15(2) : e046842 2026
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  • Peart, S, Manley, BJ, Moore, C, Cheong, JLY, Oei, JL, Huang, L, Davis, PG, Owen, LS, Grobler, A. Initial supplementary oxygen concentration for moderate-late preterm infants receiving respiratory support in the delivery room: statistical analysis plan for the multicenter, cluster-randomized crossover AIROPLANE Trial.. Trials 27(1) : 121 2026
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  • Peyton, D, Wadley, G, Hackworth, N, Grobler, A, Hiscock, H. A co-designed website (FindWays) to improve mental health literacy of parents of children with mental health problems: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. 2026
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