He currently Chair’s the National Cervical Cancer Quality Safety Monitoring Committee, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s Cancer Monitoring Advisory Committee, the New South Wales Population & Health Services Research Ethics Committee, and the CanTeen Youth Cancer Service Data Advisory Panel. He sits on a range of other advisory, data set specification, accreditation and redevelopment committees.

He has authored over 350 peer-reviewed research publications and is active in research both as a researcher and research reviewer for numerous international journals and research funding bodies.

David Roder’s research interests are broad, but with a focus on cancer, health-services evaluation, safety and quality monitoring, and data-infrastructure development, and with an additional emphasis on data linkage. As Deputy Chair of the SA Government Human Research Ethics Committee & Chair of the NSW Population & Health Services Research Ethics Committee, and member of the Population Health Research Network of Australia’s Privacy Committee and SA Health's Health Performance Council, he is interested in, and is optimising data use through data linkage within legal and ethical constraints.