Professor Esterman is a highly experienced epidemiologist and biostatistician. His career includes 7 years as a staff member of the World Health Organization based in Geneva and Copenhagen, and 13 years as Principal Epidemiologist for the South Australian Department of Health. He is currently Chair of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of South Australia. He holds adjunct appointments at both Flinders University and James Cook University. In the last five years he has been a chief investigator on several million dollars of competitive grants. He is the author of over 400 publications many in high impact journals, and has a current h-index [Google Scholar] of 73.