Prof Burstein is an ICT Lead researcher in digital health. Her expertise is in multidisciplinary, participatory research, knowledge management tools, including those for mobile and real time decision support. In the past ten years she led the design and implementation of on-line portals, mobile apps and ontologies for decision support in various health domains.

Supervision and mentoring: Frada is a very experienced, highly regarded research supervisor.  At Monash University she supervised 3 PostDocs, 21 PhDs and more than 20 research Masters students through to completion.  In 2003, she won the MPA Best Supervisor Award, and in 2009 she was awarded the Monash Vice Chancellor Postgraduate Supervision Award.