October 2026 Webinar - John Lynch on The South Australian BEBOLD-PLIDA Platform

Presenter: Professor John Lynch

Abstract

This presentation will introduce the South Australian Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data (BEBOLD) – Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA), which brings together state and Commonwealth administrative data. Structured around successive South Australian birth cohorts since 1991, the platform contains information on approximately 1.5 million individuals, including children, siblings and parents, drawn from government data sources spanning health, education, social welfare, taxation, child protection, justice, housing and homelessness.

The presentation will cover aspects of how the data asset is used for descriptive, predictive and causal epidemiology, that harnesses the power of whole population administrative data to inform policy, practice and evaluation of government and non-government programs.

About the presenter

Professor John Lynch is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Adelaide University and a Visiting Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the health and wellbeing of children and young people, social and health inequalities, early-life interventions, and the use of linked administrative data to strengthen public policy and practice.

Professor Lynch spent 20 years studying and working in North America before returning to Australia in 2009. He has held professorial positions at the University of Michigan and McGill University and was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Population Health and an NHMRC Australia Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2019, he received Research Australia’s Data Innovation Award for developing the South Australian BEBOLD platform.

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