Dr Melvin Marzan

Melvin is an epidemiologist and biostatistician with a particular interest in perinatal and reproductive epidemiology. He currently works under the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Melbourne Medical School. He also has a Research Fellowship secondment under the Office of Clinical Chiefs for Safercare, Victoria. He holds honorary appointments with the Mercy Perinatal, the Northern Health and Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital.

He sits as a committee expert member for the State of Victoria’s newly launched Maternity and Newborn Learning Health Network data group. Melvin has qualifications in nursing, postgraduate qualifications in (Master of Science) in Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor of Science Degree. He was recently awarded with a PhD degree specialising in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and econometric methods from La Trobe University under the Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship. He is interested in life-course epidemiology. His methodological research areas of interests are geospatial analysis applications for health, time series forecasting, multi-level analysis, data visualisations and causal inference from observational data and regression analysis.