Associate Professor David Smith is an epidemiologist and health service researcher. He leads the Prostate Cancer stream of research and is the Interim Deputy Director of the Daffodil Centre. He and his team have published and presented extensively in cancer epidemiology and outcomes research. He has experience in research across a number of urological cancers but his major interest is in prostate cancer. He has worked in the areas of risk factors and epidemiology of the disease, the effect of PSA testing on the population trends and in the patterns and quality of life outcomes of care for prostate cancer. He has multiple active collaborations with peak groups working in prostate cancer, including Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Movember. He is dedicated to improving the lives of men living with prostate cancer and ensuring that supportive care and equity of access to the best outcomes are obtainable for all men.
