Adrian Gerard Barnett FASSA (born 1973) is a professor in the faculty of Health in the school of Public Health and Social Work, at Queensland University of Technology[1] and was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2018 to 2020.
On graduating from UCL he worked as a statistician for SmithKline Beecham and for the Medical Research Council (of Great Britain) before moving to Australia to study for his Ph.D in mathematics.
[6] Barnett is committed to open research and concerned to make medical science more reproducible and less wasteful[7] and, together with colleagues, lodges prospective study protocols on F1000Research where they can be critiqued by the worldwide community.
[8][9][10] In part, as a result of this commitment, he collaborates with scientists from New Zealand,[11] from China,[12][13][14] from the US,[15] as well as from Australia.
[9][29][30] Air pollution and its effects on health is another area to which he and his colleagues have made many contributions.