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Journal articles
2024, 'Cost-benefit of influenza vaccination in preventing sudden cardiac arrest amongst Australian adults', Vaccine, 42, pp. 1593 - 1598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.008
,2024, 'An overview of the first human case of Bubonic plague detected in Bugat settlement, Gobi-Altai province in Mongolia.', Global Biosecurity, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.246
,2024, 'Corrigendum to “Influenza B/Yamagata - extinct, eradicated or hiding? [Vaccine 42/26 (2024) 126450]” (Vaccine, (S0264410X24011320), (10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126450))', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126486
,2024, 'Influenza B/Yamagata cannot currently be declared extinct', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126450
,2024, 'Respiratory illness of unknown cause as an early signal of the COVID-19 pandemic', Global Biosecurity, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.253
,2024, 'Influenza Vaccine - Low-Hanging Fruit for Prevention of Myocardial Infarction.', NEJM Evid, 3, pp. EVIDe2400178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/EVIDe2400178
,2023, 'Estimated health and economic impact of using high-dose influenza vaccine on respiratory and circulatory plus respiratory hospitalizations of older adults in Australia', Vaccine: X, 15, pp. 100365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2023.100365
,2023, 'Monitoring the burden of COVID-19 and impact of hospital transfer policies on Australian aged-care residents in residential aged-care facilities in 2020', BMC Geriatrics, 23, pp. 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04154-z
,2023, 'Enhanced EPIRISK tool for rapid epidemic risk analysis', Public Health, 224, pp. 159 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.08.032
,2023, 'Could it be monkeypox? Use of an AI-based epidemic early warning system to monitor rash and fever illness', Public Health, 220, pp. 142 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.05.010
,2023, 'The impact of COVID-19 and COVID vaccination on cardiovascular outcomes', European Heart Journal, Supplement, 25, pp. A42 - A49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartjsupp/suac123
,2023, 'Healthcare Workers' SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Four Hospital Outbreaks during Delta Variant Prevalence in Sydney, Australia', Nursing Research and Practice, 2023, pp. 1806909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/1806909
,2023, 'Systematic review of influenza vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza among older adults living in aged care facilities', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 19, pp. 2271304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2023.2271304
,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
,2022, 'Burden of influenza in adults with cardiac arrest admissions in Australia', International Journal of Cardiology, 361, pp. 109 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2022.04.069
,2022, 'The long road of pandemic vaccine development to rollout: A systematic review on the lessons learnt from the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic', American Journal of Infection Control, 50, pp. 735 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.01.026
,2022, 'Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak in South-Eastern Australia, 2022', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.159
,2022, '"I'll be back": Australia's experience of flu in 2022', BMJ, 379, pp. o2998, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2998
,2022, 'An unprecedented global resurgence of monkeypox', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/GBIO.170
,2022, 'Modelling the influenza disease burden in people aged 50–64 and ≥65 years in Australia', Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 16, pp. 132 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12902
,2022, 'Re-emergence of poliomyelitis in the Ukraine, caused by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2)', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.157
,2022, 'SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant: a systematic review of transmissibility and severity in children', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.169
,2021, 'Is the Delta Plus Variant (B.1.617.2/AY1) more serious than the Delta Variant?', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.139
,2021, 'An analysis of COVID-19 outbreaks in schools in South and Southwestern United States using open-source data', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.132
,2021, 'The effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on outbreaks of COVID-19 in aged care and long-term care facilities: A meta-analysis', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.118
,2021, 'Effect of statin use on the risk of influenza and influenza vaccine effectiveness', International Journal of Cardiology, 332, pp. 205 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2021.03.055
,2021, 'The global epidemiology of Hepatitis A outbreaks 2016-2018 and the utility of EpiWATCH as a rapid epidemic intelligence service', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.100
,2021, 'Early signs of COVID-19 in Pakistan', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.87
,2021, 'Epidemiology of 2017 influenza outbreaks in nine Australian Aged care facilities', Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 15, pp. 278 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12811
,2021, 'Brucellosis Outbreak in China, 2019', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.108
,2021, 'Using open-source intelligence to identify early signals of COVID-19 in Indonesia', Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2020.11.2.010
,2020, 'Comparative epidemiology, phylogenetics, and transmission patterns of severe influenza A/H3N2 in Australia from 2003 to 2017', Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 14, pp. 700 - 709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12772
,2020, 'Global outbreaks of zika infection by epidemic observatory', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.83
,2020, 'Using Open-source Intelligence to Identify Early Signals of COVID-19 in Indonesia (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.22085
,2020, 'A rapid risk analysis tool to prioritise response to infectious disease outbreaks', BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002327
,2020, 'Estimated hospitalisations attributable to seasonal and pandemic influenza in Australia: 2001- 2013.', PLoS One, 15, pp. e0230705. - e0230705., http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230705
,2020, 'Investigation of early epidemiological signals of COVID-19 in India using open source data', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.72
,2020, 'The Epidemiology of Unknown Disease Outbreak Reports Globally', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.62
,2020, 'Understanding the Trend and Distribution of Antimicrobial Resistance Using Event Based Surveillance System: EpiWatch', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.71
,2020, 'Using open source data to estimate the global epidemiology of pertussis', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.65
,2019, 'Severity of the 2019 influenza season in Australia- a comparison between 2017 and 2019 H3N2 influenza seasons.', Global Biosecurity, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.47
,2019, 'Long term follow up of persistence of immunity following quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in immunocompromised children', Vaccine, 37, pp. 5630 - 5636, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.07.072
,2019, 'Flucast: A real-time tool to predict severity of an influenza season', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/11780
,2019, 'Inter-seasonality of influenza in Australia', Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 13, pp. 459 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12642
,2018, 'The immunogenicity of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in adult bone marrow transplant patients', British Journal of Haematology, 181, pp. 860 - 863, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjh.14725
,2018, 'Australia's influenza pandemic preparedness plans: An analysis', Journal of Public Health Policy, 39, pp. 111 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-017-0109-5
,2017, 'If there were a vaccine against acute myocardial infarction, would you use it?', Future Cardiology, 13, pp. 415 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/fca-2017-0036
,2017, 'Epidemiology of influenza B in Australia: 2001-2014 influenza seasons', Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 11, pp. 102 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12432
,2016, 'Influenza vaccine as a coronary intervention for prevention of myocardial infarction', Heart, 102, pp. 1953 - 1956, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2016-309983
,2016, 'Immunogenicity and persistence of immunity of a quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in immunocompromised children', Vaccine, 34, pp. 4343 - 4350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.06.049
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