Dr Ghazaleh Dashti
Dr Ghazaleh Dashti
Dr S Ghazaleh Dashti is a Senior Research Fellow within the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at MCRI and the University of Melbourne. Her primary areas of research interest are developing, evaluating, and applying methods to better design and analyse observational studies addressing questions that would inform public health and clinical practice decision-making. Specifically, her research, currently supported by an NHMCR Investigator Grant (2024-2028) and previously by an MCRI Stimulus Award (2022-2023), focuses on causal inference and missing data methods. The substantive areas to which she contributes include cancer, mental health, adolescent health, intergenerational trauma, and family violence.
Ghazaleh has worked with the Colorectal Cancer Unit (2014-2017) and the Australian National Development Index Project (2018) at the University of Melbourne. Between 2014 and 2019, she also held various teaching roles at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She was awarded a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Shahid Beheshti University in Iran in 2011 and a Master of Public Health from The University of Melbourne in 2015. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2020, before joining Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur's Causal Inference team within MCRI's CEBU as a VicBiostat postdoc.
Ghazaleh has worked with the Colorectal Cancer Unit (2014-2017) and the Australian National Development Index Project (2018) at the University of Melbourne. Between 2014 and 2019, she also held various teaching roles at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She was awarded a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Shahid Beheshti University in Iran in 2011 and a Master of Public Health from The University of Melbourne in 2015. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2020, before joining Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur's Causal Inference team within MCRI's CEBU as a VicBiostat postdoc.
Dr S Ghazaleh Dashti is a Senior Research Fellow within the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at MCRI and the University of Melbourne. Her primary areas of research interest are developing, evaluating, and applying methods to better...
Dr S Ghazaleh Dashti is a Senior Research Fellow within the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at MCRI and the University of Melbourne. Her primary areas of research interest are developing, evaluating, and applying methods to better design and analyse observational studies addressing questions that would inform public health and clinical practice decision-making. Specifically, her research, currently supported by an NHMCR Investigator Grant (2024-2028) and previously by an MCRI Stimulus Award (2022-2023), focuses on causal inference and missing data methods. The substantive areas to which she contributes include cancer, mental health, adolescent health, intergenerational trauma, and family violence.
Ghazaleh has worked with the Colorectal Cancer Unit (2014-2017) and the Australian National Development Index Project (2018) at the University of Melbourne. Between 2014 and 2019, she also held various teaching roles at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She was awarded a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Shahid Beheshti University in Iran in 2011 and a Master of Public Health from The University of Melbourne in 2015. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2020, before joining Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur's Causal Inference team within MCRI's CEBU as a VicBiostat postdoc.
Ghazaleh has worked with the Colorectal Cancer Unit (2014-2017) and the Australian National Development Index Project (2018) at the University of Melbourne. Between 2014 and 2019, she also held various teaching roles at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She was awarded a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Shahid Beheshti University in Iran in 2011 and a Master of Public Health from The University of Melbourne in 2015. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2020, before joining Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur's Causal Inference team within MCRI's CEBU as a VicBiostat postdoc.
Top Publications
- Wang, SE, Viallon, V, Biessy, C, O'Mara, T, Kyrgiou, M, Ellis, LB, Crosbie, EJ, Baker-Rand, H, Yarmolinsky, J, Keski-Rahkonen, P, et al. Premenopausal and postmenopausal obesity and endometrial cancer risk: circulating biomarkers of inflammation, insulin resistance, and sex hormones as mediators.. J Natl Cancer Inst 2026 view publication
- Luo, D, Sawyer, SM, Husin, HM, Dashti, SG, Vijayakumar, N. The effect of timing and tempo of adrenarche on depression and anxiety in adolescence: A prospective cohort analysis.. Psychoneuroendocrinology 186: 107776 2026 view publication
- Spry, EA, Aarsman, SR, Dashti, SG, McAnally, H, Greenwood, CJ, Guiney, H, Catalao, R, Belsky, J, Macdonald, JA, Letcher, P, et al. Childhood sexual abuse and maternal social and financial resources, mental health, and parenting outcomes in pregnancy and early parenthood: a multicohort observational study. The Lancet Obstetrics Gynaecology & Women's Health 2(4) : e324 -e334 2026 view publication
- Luo, D, Sawyer, SM, Vijayakumar, N, Dashti, SG. Are sex differences in adolescent depression and anxiety driven by adrenarchal hormones? A causal mediation analysis from a prospective cohort study.. J Affect Disord 397: 121012 2026 view publication
- Wilson, CA, Husin, HM, Dashti, SG, Catalao, R, Borschmann, R, Brown, S, Howard, LM, Kerr, JA, Monk-Cunliffe, J, Moran, P, et al. Preconception parental personality disorder and psychosocial outcomes during the perinatal period: a prospective population-based study.. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 61(2) : 391 -401 2026 view publication
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