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Journal articles
2003, 'Immunisation myths and realities', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (Vol. 48, Suppl. 2, 2012, 1–13), 39, pp. 487 - 491
,2003, 'Is lower immunisation coverage in inner-urban areas of Australian due to low uptake or poor notification?', Australian Family Physician, 32, pp. 1041 - 1043, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14708159
,2003, 'Measles vaccination coverage among five-year-old children: implications for disease elimination in Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 27, pp. 413 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00419.x
,2003, 'The seasonality of births and abortions in NSW', Medical Science Monitor, 9, pp. CR534 - CR540
,2003, 'The seroepidemiology and transmission dynamics of varicella in Australia', Epidemiology and Infection, 131, pp. 1085 - 1089, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268803001134
,2003, 'Use of hospitalisation and pharmaceutical prescribing data to compare the prevaccination burden of varicella and herpes zoster in Australia', Epidemiology and Infection, 131, pp. 675 - 682
,2002, 'Hospital in the home is cost saving for appropriately selected patients: A comparison with in-hospital care', International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 14, pp. 285 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/14.4.285
,2002, 'Chronic Strongloides stercoralis infection in Laotian immigrants and refugees 7-20 years after resettlement in Australia', Epidemiology and Infection, 128, pp. 439 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268801006677
,2002, 'The epidemiology of cardiac arrests in a Sydney hospital', Resuscitation, 53, pp. 53 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0300-9572(01)00501-9
,2002, 'Universal neonatal immunization for hepatitis B - Reply', JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, 38, pp. 211 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1754.2002.t01-3-00823.x
,2002, 'A mathematical model to measure the impact of the measles control campaign on the potential for measles transmission in Australia', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 6, pp. 277 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1201-9712(02)90161-X
,2002, 'Seasonality of coronary artery deaths in New South Wales, Australia', Heart, 88, pp. 30 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heart.88.1.30
,2002, 'Measles control in NSW Divisions of General Practice', NSW Public Health Bulletin, 14, pp. 13 - 17
,2001, 'Folate fortification: Potential impact on folate intake in an older population', European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 55, pp. 793 - 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601228
,2001, 'MMR, autism and inflammatory bowel disease: Responding to patient concerns using an evidence-based framework', Medical Journal of Australia, 175, pp. 127 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143058.x
,2001, 'Hepatitis B vaccine: Risks and benefits of universal neonatal vaccination', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 37, pp. 215 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1754.2001.00639.x
,2001, 'Shifting the balance between in-patient and out-patient care for tuberculosis results in economic savings', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 5, pp. 266 - 271
,2001, 'Modelling strategies for reducing pharmaceutical costs in hospital', International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 13, pp. 63 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/13.1.63
,2001, 'Risk factors for colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a Melbourne hospital', Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 22, pp. 624 - 629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/501833
,2001, 'School immunisation certificates - A review over time in a disadvantaged community', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25, pp. 534 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2001.tb00319.x
,2000, 'The cost-effectiveness of evidence-based guidelines and practice for screening and prevention of tuberculosis', Health Economics, 9, pp. 411 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1099-1050(200007)9:5<411::AID-HEC524>3.0.CO;2-9
,2000, 'A case of uveitis associated with rifabutin in an HIV-negative patient with pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex', Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 9, pp. 330 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00019048-200009080-00007
,2000, 'No evidence for multiple-drug prophylaxis for tuberculosis compared with isoniazid alone in southeast asian refugees and migrants: Completion and compliance are major determinants of effectiveness', Preventive Medicine, 30, pp. 425 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/pmed.2000.0654
,2000, 'Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 1993-1998.', Communicable diseases intelligence, Suppl
,1999, 'Risk of transmission of tuberculosis among inmates of an Australian prison', Epidemiology and Infection, 123, pp. 445 - 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095026889900312X
,1999, 'Unrecognised transmission of tuberculosis in prisons', European Journal of Epidemiology, 15, pp. 705 - 709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007667530279
,1999, 'Longitudinal incidence of tuberculosis in South-East Asian refugees after re-settlement', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 3, pp. 287 - 293
,1998, 'Predictors of length of stay for transurethral prostatectomy in Victoria', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 68, pp. 837 - 843, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1622.1998.01467.x
,1998, 'Missed opportunities for prevention of tuberculosis - Reply', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, 2, pp. 346 - 347, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000072922400017&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1998, 'Preventability of incident cases of tuberculosis in recently exposed contacts', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2, pp. 56 - 61
,1998, 'Impact of policy and practice on the effectiveness of contact screening for tuberculosis', Preventive Medicine, 27, pp. 830 - 837, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/pmed.1998.0366
,1998, 'Tuberculosis in South-East Asian refugees after resettlement - Can prevention be improved by better policy and practice?', Preventive Medicine, 27, pp. 815 - 820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/pmed.1998.0364
,1997, 'Accuracy of injury coding in Victorian hospital morbidity data', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 21, pp. 779 - 783
,1997, 'Changes in bed resources and admission patterns in acute public hospitals in Victoria, 1987-1995', Medical Journal of Australia, 167, pp. 186 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb138842.x
,1997, 'Accuracy of ICD-9-CM codes in hospital morbidity data, Victoria: Implications for public health research', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 21, pp. 477 - 482, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01738.x
,1997, 'Impact of tuberculosis control measures and crowding on the incidence of tuberculous infection in Maryland prisons', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 24, pp. 1060 - 1067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/513632
,1997, 'Missed opportunities for prevention of tuberculosis in Victoria, Australia', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 1, pp. 135 - 141
,1996, 'Time to initiation of anti-tuberculosis treatment', Tubercle and Lung Disease, 77, pp. 401 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0962-8479(96)90111-2
,1995, 'High rate of transmission of tuberculosis in an office: Impact of delayed diagnosis', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 21, pp. 1170 - 1174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clinids/21.6.1170
,1994, 'Attitudes of Victorian vaccine providers to pertussis vaccine', Medical Journal of Australia, 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb127448.x
,1994, 'Surveillance for Bordetella pertussis infection in Victoria', Australian Journal of Public Health, 18, pp. 21 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1994.tb00189.x
,1994, 'The prevalence of tuberculosis infection among year 8 school-children in inner Sydney in 1992.', The Medical journal of Australia, 161, pp. 342 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb127469.x
,1993, 'Influenza vaccination in Victoria, 1992', Medical Journal of Australia, 159, pp. 257 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb137827.x
,1993, 'No role for short term tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis for travellers [5]', Medical Journal of Australia, 159, pp. 563 - 564, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb138025.x
,1993, 'The epidemiology of tuberculosis in Victoria', Medical Journal of Australia, 159, pp. 672 - 677, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb138082.x
,Conference Papers
2023, 'Informing the design of a whole of life immunisation register for Australia', in Vaccine, pp. 3011 - 3018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.03.037
,2022, 'Comprehensive measures of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in adolescent cancer patients: Results from SerOzNET', in CANCER RESEARCH, AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, LA, New Orleans, presented at Annual Meeting of the American-Association-for-Cancer-Research (AACR), LA, New Orleans, 08 April 2022 - 13 April 2022, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000892509500084&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2020, 'Use of a modified Grunow-Finke tool to assess the origin of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, pp. 253 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.11.098
,2020, 'Video: Respiratory droplets and aerosols: capturing their dynamics to understand its implications on infection transmission', in 73th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics - Gallery of Fluid Motion, American Physical Society, presented at 73th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 22 November 2020 - 24 November 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/aps.dfd.2020.gfm.v0044
,2020, 'An experimental framework to capture droplets expelled during various respiratory exhalations', in 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.14264/81fe65c
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