Professor Doust is Clinical Professorial Research Fellow in the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre at the University of Queensland and also works as a general practitioner in private practice in suburban Brisbane. Her work at University of Queensland focusses on the patterns of non-communicable disease in women, with a particular interest in the issues of diagnostic tests and disease definitions. In 2017, she led a team of methodologists and clinicians providing guidance for groups modifying disease definitions for the Guidelines International Network.