Dr. Asmare Yitayeh Gelaw is an Epidemiologist and Health Data Scientist with over eight years of experience in ageing, chronic disease, disability, and injury research. He specialises in linked administrative and electronic medical record (EMR) data, applying advanced statistical methods including longitudinal, survival, multilevel, and causal modelling. His work focuses on generating evidence that improves health outcomes for older adults, trauma survivors, and workers experiencing psychological injury. Asmare completed a PhD in Epidemiology at Monash University, producing influential research on long-term health conditions following serious orthopaedic injury. He currently works at the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (Peninsula Health and Monash University), where he leads EMR and registry analyses involving more than 200,000 hospital records. He plays a key role in developing and validating an electronic Frailty Index (eFI) for hospitalised older adults, supporting early detection of frailty and improving clinical decision-making. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Alfred Health and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University, contributing to rehabilitation research, data-linkage studies, and student mentorship. Previously, he led national workforce mental health analyses, producing policy insights adopted by government agencies.