Rushani Wijesuriya

Postdoc biostatistician @CEBU_Melbourne @MCRI_for_kids @vicbiostat ★ @unimelb ★ causal inference and missing data problems in allergy and social epidemiology

[Rushani Wijesuriya @rush_099]

Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess https://t.co/MxUYJwXOBK

[Rushani Wijesuriya @rush_099]

Incredibly honoured to receive the Rising Star Award at MCRI Staff Awards✨ Thank you to my mentors, especially @_MargaritaMB for championing the nomination, and to colleagues and collaborators @MCRI_for_kids who nominated me. Grateful to be part of such a supportive community!

[Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB]

Registrations now open for the ViCBiostat Summer School - Feb 13-20, 2026 (Melbourne/online)!

Features courses by local and international experts in causal inference, estimands, meta-analysis and cluster RCTs

Info: https://t.co/0aaFDfC4ON
Register: https://t.co/qbmzPmUwVV

[Susie Ellul @SusieEllul]

NEW PAPER Published!!

Exciting news with our Causal machine learning (CML) and use of cross-fitting in settings with high-dimensional confounding paper now published!

Great team work, @SVansteelandt, John Carlin and @_MargaritaMB

https://t.co/UdI7JIpmKI

[Rushani Wijesuriya @rush_099]

@metrotrains If there's an award for the shittiest train service, it goes to @metrotrains 😑

[Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @CEBU_Melbourne]

Awarded every two years by @Science_Academy, the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @_MargaritaMB on receiving this prestigious award — a truly well-deserved recognition! 🎉🥳 #WomenInSTEM

[Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) @MCRI_for_kids]

A new #MCRI-led systematic review has found oral immunotherapy for #children with #foodallergies leads to improved quality of life a year on from discontinuing treatment due to having achieved remission. #Allergy
👉 https://t.co/6THxN2PVms
@NACEresearch @CRE_CFAR @PopAllergy

[Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB]

NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)

Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?

Read👉https://t.co/MZZcDw2GLj

[Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB]

NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin
https://t.co/s6A5pfPXgZ
@CEBU_Melbourne @vicbiostat #epitwitter #causaltwitter

[Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @CEBU_Melbourne]

🚨New method alert! So excited to see our group’s work led by Tong Chen with now available as an R package 📦
A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects through **multiple mediators**—with real examples to guide you!
Check it out ⬇️ #epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats

[Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB]

Recording of my talk @CAUSALab on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #epitwitter

[Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB]

Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇

[ViCBiostat @vicbiostat]

Register now to avoid missing these three great courses!

https://t.co/BSFW1G3NfK

@_MargaritaMB @jonathanasterne @Katherine_J_Lee @JiaxinZhang96 @MK_Middleton @CEBU_Melbourne

[Rushani Wijesuriya @rush_099]

@Katherine_J_Lee @_MargaritaMB @IanWhit25399993 @stats_q @vicbiostat @CEBU_Melbourne

[Rushani Wijesuriya @rush_099]

Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess https://t.co/MxUYJwXOBK

[Triad sou. @triadsou]

Tutorials in Biostatistics

Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial. Rushani Wijesuriya, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, John B. Carlin, Ian R. White, Matteo Quartagno, Katherine J. Lee. Statistics in Medicine. https://t.co/UgRbw2o3I9

[Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @CEBU_Melbourne]

Our research methods and software training course timetable for 2025 is out! check it out here: https://t.co/TeMwdTeyf9 @MCRI_for_kids @MACHAustralia @AustralianData

[MISCH Research Hub @MischHub]

👏👏We are very proud of our teaching superstar @AnurikaDeSilva for receiving the @UniMelb David White Award for Teaching Excellence - so very well deserved! 🥳
https://t.co/1hFf3a48Qf

[ViCBiostat @vicbiostat]

Registration is now open for our 2025 Summer School!
10-14 Feb

All courses running hybrid in person at @Monash_SPHPM and online via Zoom

See full details on our website
https://t.co/BSFW1G3NfK

@CEBU_Melbourne @MischHub

[Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB]

NEW PAPER! "Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias" led by Marnie Downes
@CEBU_Melbourne @vicbiostat @LifeCourseAU

Check it out 👇https://t.co/YCKQsxDRpo

#EpiTwitter #causalinference #Stats

[MISCH Research Hub @MischHub]

🚀And we're off...with Prof Kate Lee @CEBU_Melbourne presenting on everything you need to know about Adaptive and Platform Trials for the MACH #EMCR network - the recording will be available on the @MACHAustralia website post-webinar