| Data Analysis Advisor, Institute of Trauma Recovery |
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Ph.D. in Public Health (University of Manchester)
Research Fellow, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
With a PhD in Text Mining and Epidemiology from the University of Manchester, for the last 15 years, Dr George Karystianis has been designing and implementing informatics pipelines to unlock unavailable information from large scale medical data.
His cross disciplinary background (BSc in Medicine and Computer Science; MSc in Health Informatics) enables him to understand complex data needs and fill in necessary information gaps.
After transition in the area of justice health, his findings reshaped how domestic violence is being examined. Prior to 2018, text mining had never been applied to police data. He was the first to successfully develop a system to extract from millions of police domestic violence records previously unknown information on mental illness, victim injuries and abuse types (including coercive control), the first study worldwide to conduct this type of work. As the largest retrospective domestic violence collection of studies in the world (+2,500,000 million records), it focuses on inclusive research for key sub-groups affected by domestic violence while advocating against the criminalization of the mentally ill. This has challenged existing domestic violence monitoring systems revealing new knowledge in key groups (people with autism, elderly), abuse types (non-fatal strangulation, coercive control), and settings (nursing homes).
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