Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Head and Neck Cancer at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in Sydney, Australia. She is an Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology at the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney where she is actively involved in teaching and supervision of postgraduate students.

Dr Venchiarutti’s main research interests are in access to health care, unwarranted clinical variation, cancer survivorship, and rural health outcomes. She completed a PhD in cancer epidemiology in 2021 focusing on pathways to treatment of people with head and neck cancer in New South Wales, Australia. Dr Venchiarutti has published in several internationally recognised journals including Oral Oncology, Head & Neck, BMC Medicine, and the British Journal of Surgery, and has received over $3,000,000 in research funding from competitive schemes and industry partnerships.