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Journal articles
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/21.5.1170
,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
,2019, 'Clinical and cardiac structural differences between paroxysmal and persistent/permanent non-valvular atrial fibrillation', in EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, FRANCE, Paris, pp. 1434 - 1434, presented at Congress of the European-Society-of-Cardiology (ESC) / World Congress of Cardiology, FRANCE, Paris, 31 August 2019 - 04 September 2019, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000507313001306&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'A comparison of word-based and context-based representations for classification problems in health informatics', in BioNLP 2019 - SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task, pp. 135 - 141
,2019, 'Does Multi-Task Learning Always Help? An Evaluation on Health Informatics Tasks', in Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop
,2018, 'Measles control in Australia – threats, opportunities and future needs', in Vaccine, pp. 4393 - 4398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.06.022
,2018, 'Shot Or Not: Comparison of NLP Approaches for Vaccination Behaviour Detection', in Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 43 - 47, presented at Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, - , http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/w18-5911
,2017, 'ZikaHack 2016: A digital disease detection competition', in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Disease Detection using Social Media 2017 (DDDSM-2017), pp. 39 - 46
,2014, 'Equity in disease prevention: Vaccines for the older adults – Proceedings of a workshop, Melbourne, Australia 20 June 2014', in Vaccine, Elsevier: 12 months, Lakeside 3, Bayview on the Park Hotel, Melbourne, pp. 5463 - 5469, presented at Equity in disease prevention: vaccines for the elderly, Lakeside 3, Bayview on the Park Hotel, Melbourne, 20 June 2014 - 20 June 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.09.039
,2012, 'Does influenza precipitate acute ischaemic heart disease? A prospective case control study', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. e352 - e352, presented at 15th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID), Bangkok, Thailand, 13 June 2012 - 16 June 2012, http://www.xcdsystem.com/icid2012/53.033.html
,2012, 'The changing serological profile of hepatitis A in Victoria, Australia: a comparison of three time points', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. e346 - e346, presented at 15th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID), Bangkok, Thailand, 13 June 2012 - 16 June 2012, http://www.xcdsystem.com/icid2012/53.020.html
,2012, 'An E-Health Readiness Assessment Framework for Public Health Services-Pandemic Perspective', in Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-45 2012), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA, pp. 2800 - 2809, presented at 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-45 2012), Maui, Hawaii, 04 January 2012 - 07 January 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.95
,2012, 'Delivery of Multilingual mHealth Service for Control of TB/HIV in Developing Countries', in Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-45 2012), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA, pp. 925 - 931, presented at 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-45 2012), Maui, Hawaii, 04 January 2012 - 07 January 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.196
,2011, 'mHealth for the Control of TB/HIV in Developing Countries', in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (HEALTHCOM 2011), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA, pp. 9 - 14, presented at 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (HEALTHCOM 2011), Columbia, MO, 13 June 2011 - 15 June 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026797
,2008, 'The First Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Mask Use in Households to Prevent Respiratory Virus Transmission', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E328 - E328, presented at International Congress of Infectious Diseases Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, 19 June 2008 - 23 June 2008
,2008, 'A Mathematical Model to Determine Optimal Dosing and Dynamic Distribution of Pandemic Influenza Vaccines', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E330 - E330
,2008, 'Frailty and Immune Response to Pneumococcal Vaccines Among the Elderly Hospitalised Patients', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E142 - E142
,2008, 'Health Behaviour and Infectious Disease Risk in Travellers Departing Australia', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E436 - E437
,2008, 'High Rate of Recent Infections in International Travelers Departing Bangkok', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E437 - E437
,2008, 'Immunogenicity of Pneumococcal Vaccine Among elderly hospitalised patients', in Vaccine, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England
,2008, 'Knowledge, Attitudes and Intended Behaviour of Hospital Health Care Workers Around Pandemic Influenza', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E435 - E435
,2008, 'Respiratory Viral Illness in a Cohort of Children Presenting to a Children`s Hospital Emergency Department', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Sci Ltd, Kidlington, Oxford, England, pp. E71 - E71
,Conference Posters
2019, 'Phylodynamics of Influenza A/H1N1pdm09 in India Reveals Circulation Patterns and Increased Selection for Clade 6b Residues and Other High Mortality Mutants', Charleston, South Carolina, USA, presented at Epidemics7, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 03 December 2019 - 06 December 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27470
,Conference Presentations
2022, 'Graphene derivative and metal nanoparticles coated silk fabrics with durable, multifunctional properties for numerous potential applications', presented at 3rd Advanced Materials Science World Congress 2022, 21 March 2022 - 23 March 2022
,2022, 'A blueprint for well-designed, high-performing cloth masks that can outperform a 3-layered surgical mask', presented at International Congress on Occupational Health - 2022, 06 February 2022 - 10 February 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2021.12.1264
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