By Associate Professor David James Heslop

Book Chapters

Heslop DJ; Keep JR, 2025, 'Chemical and biological weapons in the age of generative artificial intelligence', in Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and International Relations, pp. 129 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003518495-14

MacIntyre CR; Honeyman D; Heslop D, 2025, 'Current Threats to Biosecurity', in Handbook of Emergency Response A Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach Second Edition, pp. 229 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003648178-13

Heslop DJ; Blain PG, 2021, 'Threat potential of pharmaceutical based agents', in Health Security Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, pp. 75 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003245483-7

Heslop DJ; MacIntyre RC; Gerber B, 2021, 'The adaptability and resilience of cities to major epidemics', in Inoculating Cities, Elsevier, pp. 171 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-820204-3.00010-3

Journal articles

Honeyman DA; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2026, 'Pilot Study of an AI-Assisted Open-Source Intelligence Pipeline for Detecting Chemical and Radiological Threat Signals', ACS Chemical Health and Safety, 33, pp. 647 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.6c00096

Honeyman DA; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2026, 'The global epidemiology of botulism outbreaks from open-source intelligence, 2017–2024', American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 101, pp. 71 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2025.12.022

Stone H; Kunasekaran M; Poulos C; Macintyre CR; Heslop D, 2026, 'Generating a Contact Matrix for Aged Care Settings in Australia: An Agent-Based Model Study', JASSS, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.18564/jasss.5993

Honeyman DA; Heslop DJ; Akhtar Z; Lim S; MacIntyre CR, 2026, 'Global patterns of chemical incident reporting from open-source intelligence, 2023–2024', International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 36, pp. 2414 - 2426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2026.2634946

Honeyman DA; Heslop DJ, 2026, 'The Alleged Poisoning of Alexei Navalny: Epibatidine, Targeted Toxic Exposures, and Biosecurity Implications', Global Biosecurity, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.369

Honeyman DA; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2026, 'The Fall of the Syrian Regime: The End of Chemical Warfare in Syria', Global Biosecurity, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.344

Steinhöfel KK; Heslop D; MacIntyre CR, 2025, 'Agent-Based Models of Virus Infection', Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40588-024-00238-5

Ranse J; Mackie B; Crilly J; Heslop D; Wilson B; Mitchell M; Weber S; Watkins N; Sharpe J; Handy M; Hertelendy A; Currie J; Hammad K, 2025, 'Strengthening emergency department response to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear disasters: A scoping review', Australasian Emergency Care, 28, pp. 37 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2024.09.003

Honeyman D; Heslop D; Macintyre CR, 2025, 'Deadly Mass Methanol Poisoning in Laos, 2024', Global Biosecurity, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.310

Honeyman DA; Heslop DJ; Lim S; MacIntyre CR, 2025, 'Chemical Warfare Through the Ages: A Systematic Review From Antiquity to the Present', Journal of Toxicology, 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/jt/7363632

Keep JR; Heslop DJ, 2024, 'Surveillance of bacterial disease in wartime Ukraine', BMJ Military Health, 170, pp. 287 - 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/military-2023-002512

Züfle A; Salim F; Anderson T; Scotch M; Xiong L; Sokol K; Xue H; Kong R; Heslop D; Paik HY; Macintyre CR, 2024, 'Leveraging Simulation Data to Understand Bias in Predictive Models of Infectious Disease Spread', ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3660631

Raina MacIntyre C; Lim S; Gurdasani D; Miranda M; Metcalf D; Quigley A; Hutchinson D; Burr A; Heslop DJ, 2024, 'Early detection of emerging infectious diseases - implications for vaccine development', Vaccine, 42, pp. 1826 - 1830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.05.069

Honeyman D; Notaras A; Heslop D; Raina Macintyre C, 2024, 'Botulism outbreak in russia connected to readymade salads', Global Biosecurity, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.292

Keep J; Heslop D, 2024, 'Increase in febrile illness among children in mainland China, winter 2023 - 2024', Global Biosecurity, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.244

Aleksandrov M; Zlatanova S; Heslop DJ; Diakite A, 2024, 'BIM-based connectivity graph and voxels classification for pedestrian-hazard interaction', Journal of Spatial Science, 69, pp. 699 - 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2023.2281923

Casey ST; Noste EE; Cook AT; Muscatello D; Heslop DJ, 2023, 'Emergency medical teams in WHO’s Western Pacific Region', Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal Wpsar, 14, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2023.14.6.1184

MacIntyre CR; Chen X; Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Lim S; Stone H; Paik HY; Yao L; Heslop D; Wei W; Sarmiento I; Gurdasani D, 2023, 'Artificial intelligence in public health: the potential of epidemic early warning systems', Journal of International Medical Research, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231159335

Costantino V; Bahl P; Doolan C; De Silva C; Heslop D; Chen X; Lim S; MacIntyre CR, 2023, 'Modeling on the Effects of Deliberate Release of Aerosolized Inhalational Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax) on an Australian Population', Health Security, 21, pp. 61 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/hs.2022.0100

Keep J; Heslop DJ, 2023, 'A farewell to New-START? Strategic arms control under pressure amid war in Ukraine', Global Biosecurity, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.206

Keep J; Heslop DJ, 2023, 'Anthrax in wartime Ukraine requires increased surveillance', Global Biosecurity, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.183

Keep J; Heslop DJ, 2023, 'Co-ordinated chemical attacks on women and children in Iran', Global Biosecurity, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.209

Keep J; Heslop D, 2023, 'Detention of citizen journalists who reported on the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan', Global Biosecurity, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.215

Raphael M; Kelly-Hanku A; Heslop D; Hutchinson D; Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Macintyre R, 2023, 'Early pandemic use of face masks in Papua New Guinea under a mask mandate', Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2023.14.1.998

Stone H; Heslop D; Lim S; Sarmiento I; Kunasekaran M; Raina MacIntyre C, 2023, 'Open-Source Intelligence for Detection of Radiological Events and Syndromes Following the Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Observational Study', Jmir Infodemiology, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/39895

Keep J; Heslop DJ, 2023, 'The war on the OPCW', Global Biosecurity, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.219

Heslop DJ, 2023, 'Tropane alkaloids and the potential for accidental or non-accidental mass outbreaks of anti-cholinergic toxidrome', Global Biosecurity, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.193

Peden AE; Heslop D; Franklin RC, 2023, 'Weather-Related Fatalities in Australia between 2006 and 2019: Applying an Equity Lens', Sustainability Switzerland, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15010813

Ranse J; Mackie B; Heslop D; Currie J; Wilson B; Crilly J; Mitchell M; Weber S; Watkins N; Sharpe J; Handy M; Hammad K, 2023, 'The Impact of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive Events on Emergency Departments: An Integrative Review', Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 38, pp. s3 - s3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x23000572

Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Hooshmand E; Trent M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Raina MacIntyre C, 2022, 'Effectiveness estimates for enhanced trivalent influenza vaccines in an aged care summer outbreak', Vaccine, 40, pp. 7170 - 7175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.018

Kunasekaran M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Factors associated with repeated influenza vaccine uptake among aged care staff in an Australian sample from 2017 to 2019', Vaccine, 40, pp. 7238 - 7246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.015

Aleksandrov M; Zlatanova S; Heslop DJ, 2022, 'Voxelisation and Voxel Management Options in UNITY3D', ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10, pp. 13 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W2-2022-13-2022

Kunasekaran MP; Mongha A; Chughtai AA; Poulos CJ; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Policy Analysis for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Aged Care', Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23, pp. 1741 - 1741.e18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2022.06.002

Kunasekaran MP; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Poulos CJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Influenza cases in nine aged care facilities in Sydney, Australia over a three-year surveillance period, 2018—2020', Vaccine, 40, pp. 4253 - 4261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.048

MacIntyre CR; Heslop DJ; Nguyen P; Adam D; Trent M; Gerber BJ, 2022, 'Pacific Eclipse – A tabletop exercise on smallpox pandemic response', Vaccine, 40, pp. 2478 - 2483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.081

Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Rahman B; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Poulos CJ; Macintyre CR, 2022, 'Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rates in Aged Care-A Meta-Analysis', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac033

Macintyre CR; Heslop DJ, 2022, 'Demystifying COVID-19 pandemic modelling for policymaking', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.154

Quigley A; Nguyen PY; Stone H; Heslop DJ; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Estimated Mask Use and Temporal Relationship to COVID-19 Epidemiology of Black Lives Matter Protests in 12 Cities', Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01308-4

Currie J; Heslop D, 2022, 'Playing Sick and Injured: The Experiences of Undergraduate Nurses as Casualty Actors in a Mass Casualty Simulation Exercise', Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 62, pp. 73 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2021.08.005

Bhattacharjee S; Bahl P; Chughtai AA; Heslop D; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Face masks and respirators: Towards sustainable materials and technologies to overcome the shortcomings and challenges', Nano Select, 3, pp. 1355 - 1381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nano.202200101

Aleksandrov M; Zlatanova S; Heslop DJ, 2021, 'Voxelisation algorithms and data structures: A review', Sensors, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21248241

Aleksandrov M; Heslop DJ; Zlatanova S, 2021, '3d indoor environment abstraction for crowd simulations in complex buildings', Buildings, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11100445

Bhattacharjee S; Joshi R; Chughtai A; Heslop D; Wilcox M; MacIntyre R, 2021, 'Graphene and nanoparticles coated antimicrobial and biocompatible cotton/silk fabrics for protective clothing', ACS Applied Bio Materials

Bhattacharjee S; Bahl P; De Silva C; Doolan C; Chughtai AA; Heslop D; Macintyre CR, 2021, 'Experimental Evidence for the Optimal Design of a High-Performing Cloth Mask', ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 7, pp. 2791 - 2802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00368

Cartwright AK; Pain T; Heslop DJ, 2021, 'Substitution, delegation or addition? Implications of workforce skill mix on efficiency and interruptions in computed tomography', Australian Health Review, 45, pp. 382 - 388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH20118

Jones B; Heslop D; Harrison R, 2020, 'Seldom heard voices: a meta-narrative systematic review of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples healthcare experiences', International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01334-w

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