Dr Steve Simpson-Yap
Senior Research Fellow
Location
Parkville Campus
30 Royal Parade
Parkville Victoria 3052
Research group
Neuroepidemiology Group
Biography
Steve is a mid-career researcher in epidemiology, particularly multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions.
Following undergraduate training in biology at Hunter College in the USA and postgraduate studies in public health at the University of California, Berkeley, he undertook doctoral research in multiple sclerosis geoepidemiology and predictors of clinical course at the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania between 2008–2011.
He is now a Senior Research Fellow in the Neuroepidemiology Group at the Florey, and the Neuroepidemiology Unit at the Melbourne School of Population & Global Health. In both, he studies the epidemiology of MS, including the roles of environmental/lifestyle, genetic, epigenetic and other factors with MS risk and progression.
Career highlights
Current roles
- Senior Research Fellow, Neuroepidemiology Group, The Florey
- Senior Research Fellow, Neuroepidemiology Unit, Melbourne School of Population & Global Health
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
Past roles
- Senior Research Fellow, CORe, School of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
- Research Fellow, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
Awards and achievements
- 2023 – Melbourne School of Population & Global Health Research Student Supervision Award (Capstone/Honours Student Level)
- 2013–2016 – MS Research Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Projects
The Florey:
- Mechanisms of Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sclerosis (MechEBV-MS)
- The Australian Multi-centre Study of Environment and Immune Function (The Ausimmune Study)
- The Ausimmune Longitudinal prospective cohort study
Melbourne School of Population & Global Health:
- UK MS Register prospective cohort study of the role of diet in MS progression
- Health Outcomes and Lifestyle In Multiple sclerosis (HOLISM) prospective cohort study
- MS Online Course randomised clinical trial
- Mind-Body Study (MBS) prospective cohort study
Other:
- ImproveMS prospective cohort study
- Australian MS Epidemiology Study
- Australian MS Longitudinal Study (AMSLS)
