Dr Taya Collyer is an emerging leader among Australian biostatisticians. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2021, and in 2023 was appointed Lead Biostatistician at the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health. Dr Collyer's prime responsibility is analytical stewardship of the NCHA Data Platform; an internally linked data asset containing data for over 900,000 episodes of patient care, across three hospital campuses, over 10 years. She has a growing reputation for creative generation and analysis of large datasets to answer questions about health in Australia, with a focus on algorithm development, the social determinants of health, and routinely-collected hospital data. In 2021 Dr Collyer was appointed a member of the Statistical Society of Australia’s Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Committee, where she represents the state of Victoria. Dr Collyer acts as a statistical reviewer for several top medical journals, and has published as first-author in journals such as JAMA Network, The American Journal of Public Health and Nature Human Behaviour.