Dr Juliana de Oliveira Costa

Juliana Costa is a Research Fellow in the Medicines Policy Research Unit at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health. She is a pharmacoepidemiologist with over six years’ experience working with large administrative data and electronic records to improve the use of medicines in populations.

Juliana is a pharmacist by training with a background in public health and health economics. She is interested in developing studies in the real-world setting, and some of her current and past projects include: examining trajectories of adherence to HIV medicines in Australia; investigating the definitions of long-term opioid use; performing comparative effectiveness studies between first-line regimens for HIV treatment; evaluating costs and benefits of HIV treatment, immunosuppressants for kidney transplantation, antipsychotics, and biological medicines for rheumatic diseases in the Brazilian context.