Curriculum Vitae

Pedro Henrique Ribeiro Santiago, PhD.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Indigenous Oral Health Unit, Adelaide University.

Education

• 2017 - 2020. Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, Australia.
• 2015 - 2017. Master of Public Health, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
• 2009 - 2013. Bachelor of Psychology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Grants and Awards

• 2025. Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University.
• 2024. CAPES Visiting Professor in Brazil scholarship.
• 2022. MRFF Indigenous Health Research for "The mouth as an expression of racial injustice: Building the evidence to foster an anti-racist dental health system in Australia" - Co-Investigator M.
• 2022. NHMRC Partnership Projects for "Dental health, mental health and economic productivity; a child longitudinal study" - Co-Investigator J.
• 2022. FHMS Emerging Leaders Development Award for "Can the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire be used to inform child well-being over time? Insights from network longitudinal models" - Principal Investigator.
• 2021. THRF Strategic grant for "Addressing unmet social needs using health navigators for cancer patients at a major metropolitan hospital: a mixed-methods feasibility & acceptability trial" - Co-Investigator D.
• 2021. FHMS Strategic Research Support Scheme grant for "Development and validation of a scale to investigate COVID Impact on Australian oral health" - Principal Investigator.
• 2021. FHMS Strategic Research Support Scheme grant for "The Northern Health Project: integrating social care into medical care to create comprehensive health care" - Collaborator.
• 2021. Global Talent Visa on Data Science.
• 2021. 2020 University Doctoral Research Medal.
• 2020. Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
• 2017 - 2020. Indigenous Health Research Scholarship.
• 2019. J.L. Eustace Award for "Support that comes from culture: a Rasch analysis of the Social Support Scale (SSS) in an Aboriginal population".
• 2019. Adelaide Dental School Prize for the poster "Drop-the-p: Bayesian CFA of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support".
• 2018. Carlsberg Foundation grant for "Unbiased measurement of psychological and emotional well-being in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations - is it possible?" - Co-Investigator.
• 2018. Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.
• 2018. J.L. Eustace Award for "Psychometric Properties of the Perceived Stress Scale in an Aboriginal Population".
• 2017. Northern Communities Health Foundation Prize for the poster "Psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Social Support Scale (SSS) and Sense of Personal Control Scale (SPCS) in an Aboriginal Population".
• 2015 - 2017. CAPES Social Demand Scholarship.

Editorial Experience

• 2021 - current. Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology - Quantitative Psychology and Measurement.

R Programming

• CliquePercolation. Contributor to the R package CliquePercolation. Lange, J. (2021). CliquePercolation: An R Package for conducting and visualizing results of the clique percolation network community detection algorithm. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(62), 3210. CRAN package.
• iarm. Contributor to the R package iarm. Mueller, M. (2019). iarm: Item Analysis in Rasch Models. R package version 0.4.1. CRAN package.
• Shiny application. Santiago, P.H.R., Soares, G.H., Quintero, A., & Jamieson, L. (2022). Overlapping Community Detection in Psychological Networks App [Shiny Application version 1.1]. Shiny app.

International Lectures

• 2024. A scientific revolution - is it possible to discover causes? Master Lecture at the Inaugural Class 2024 of the Postgraduate Programme in Management at the University of Brasilia.
• 2018. Methods and statistics workgroup, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Amsterdam: "Psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale in Australia (PSS-14) and Denmark (PSS-10), a Graphical Loglinear Rasch analysis".
• 2018. PsychMeasure, Department of Psychology, The University of Copenhagen: "Psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale in Australia (PSS-14) and Denmark (PSS-10), a Graphical Loglinear Rasch analysis".

Conference Presentations

• 2024. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS): poster presentation, "Longitudinal network of peer problems and emotional symptoms among adolescents".
• 2022. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS): oral presentation, "The Clique Percolation performance to detect cross-loadings across latent factors".
• 2020. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS): oral presentation, "New approach for estimating the Bayesian Omega".
• 2019. Florey International Postgraduate Research Conference: poster, "Drop-the-p: Bayesian CFA of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support".
• 2019. Social Medicine & Population Health and International Epidemiology Association European Congress Joint 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting: oral rapid-fire presentation, "Support that comes from culture: a Rasch analysis of the Social Support Scale (SSS) in an Aboriginal population".
• 2019. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society: poster, "Psychometric properties of the SSS in an Aboriginal population".
• 2018. Florey International Postgraduate Research Conference: poster, "Measuring stress in Australia: cross-cultural validity of the PSS-14 between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal respondents".
• 2018. Adelaide Dental School Research Day: oral presentation, "Measuring stress in Australia: cross-cultural validity of the PSS-14 between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal respondents".
• 2018. 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development: poster, "Cross-cultural validity and psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in an Aboriginal population".
• 2018. ASMR SA Scientific Meeting: poster, "Cross-cultural validity of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14): comparison between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal respondents".
• 2018. 7th International Conference on Probabilistic Models for Measurement: oral presentation, "Psychometric Properties of the Perceived Stress Scale in an Aboriginal Population".
• 2017. SA State Population Health Conference: poster, "Psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Social Support Scale (SSS) and Sense of Personal Control Scale (SPCS) in an Aboriginal Population".
• 2017. 11th Florey International Postgraduate Research Conference: poster, "Psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Social Support Scale (SSS) and Sense of Personal Control Scale (SPCS) in an Aboriginal Population".
• 2017. Adelaide Dental School Research Day: oral presentation, "The development of culturally-sensitive psychometric instruments: a literature review".
• 2016. IX Brazilian Naturology Congress: oral presentation, "Feasibility evaluation of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program intervention for primary care professionals"; extended abstract published in proceedings.

Statistical Workshops

• 2024. Introduction to psychometric networks (a scientific revolution) - 2-day workshop at the University of Brasilia.
• 2024. Advanced topics in psychometric networks (causality and causal discovery) - 2-day workshop at the University of Brasilia.

Additional Oral Presentations

• 2025. Incorporating causal thinking into clinical prediction in psychology: predicting MDD with Markov Blanket Structure Learning - Psychology Research Colloquium at Flinders University.
• 2025. Journal Club, "Directed acyclic graphs and causal thinking in clinical risk prediction modeling" at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
• 2024. Journal Club, "Links between psychotic and neurotic symptoms in the general population: an analysis of longitudinal British National Survey data using Directed Acyclic Graphs" at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2024. Comparing the Clique Percolation algorithm to other overlapping community detection algorithms in psychological networks: a Monte Carlo simulation study - School of Psychology Research Seminar.
• 2023. How causal discovery can help us inform prediction: understanding the Markov Boundary - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2022. How a karate club helped us develop the COVID Impact Scale - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2022. Journal Club, "Predicting counterfactual risks under hypothetical treatment strategies" at the BetterStart Health and Development Research Group.
• 2022. Journal Club, "An Answer to 'So What?' Implications of Network Theory for Research and Practice" at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2021. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in Australia: New findings from Network Science - School of Psychology Research Seminars.
• 2021. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in Australia: New findings from Network Science - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2021. Journal Club, "Causal inference and constructed measures: towards a new model of measurement for psychosocial constructs" at the BetterStart Health and Development Research Group.
• 2020. Network psychometrics: modern validation of questionnaires in health sciences - Medical Grand Round at the Lyell McEwin Hospital.
• 2020. From Porteus to Ewert: my PhD story - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2019. Drop-the-p: Bayesian CFA of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2019. Journal Club, "Assessing natural direct and indirect effects through multiple pathways" at the BetterStart Health and Development Research Group.
• 2019. Items that tell stories - 3 Minute Thesis 2019 at The University of Adelaide.
• 2019. Cross-cultural validity of the Sense of Personal Control Scale (SPCS) between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal respondents - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2018. Psychometric properties of the PSS-14 in Australia's National Study of Adult Oral Health: a GLLRM analysis - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2018. The metric of differences: two cultures, one ruler - 3 Minute Thesis 2018 at The University of Adelaide.
• 2018. Psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale in an Aboriginal population: a Rasch Analysis - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2017. Using a ruler to measure cultures? - 3 Minute Thesis 2017 at The University of Adelaide.
• 2017. The validation of psychosocial instruments used in the Baby Teeth Talk - Research Seminar at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health.
• 2017. Meditation on the screen? The history of teaching mindfulness online - PechaKucha at the 2017 Festival of Learning and Teaching at The University of Adelaide.