Federica Barzi

A/Prof Federica Barzi is a Principal Research Fellow in Biostatistics at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and within the Faculty of Health and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Queensland. She was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Sydney University in 2004 and has a BSc degree in Statistics from the University of Padova, Italy. A/Prof Barzi is an applied Biostatistician with extensive experience on study design and data analysis of randomized clinical trials, very large observational studies and data linkage. She has worked across a variety of specialties including cardiology, nephrology, nutrition, oncology and emergency care. She has been involved in Indigenous Health since 2005 and from April 2014, with her appointment at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, A/Prof Barzi’s contribution to research focuses solely on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. She has co-authored over a hundred and thirty peer reviewed journal articles with colleagues from various institutions and has secured, as a CI, over 24M in research funding since 2006. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Indigenous Studies, Mathematical Sciences, Statistics

[2026] Perinatal health promotion in Indigenous maternal health: a scoping review of peer-reviewed evidence and Australian community-controlled programs. Castiello, Cecilia, Wheeler, Kai W., Dean, Judith Ann and Barzi, Federica (2026). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23 (6) 746, 1-28. doi: 10.3390/ijerph23060746 [2026] Obstetric, sociodemographic, and clinical factors influencing C-section trends in Australia, from 2007 to 2017: An analysis of population-based perinatal data in Queensland using the Robson classification. Begum, Tahmina, Barzi, Federica, Fatima, Yaqoot, Anuradha, Satyamurthy and Mamun, Abdullah Al (2026). European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 320 115017, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2026.115017 [2026] The st