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Conference Papers
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
,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, 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, presented at Equity in disease prevention: vaccines for the elderly, Lakeside 3, Bayview on the Park Hotel, Melbourne, 20 June 2014 - 20 June 2014
,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, presented at 2nd Vaccine Congress, Boston, MA, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000268750600056&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
,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
,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
,2021, 'Next-generation PPE: synergistic antimicrobial activity and low-cytotoxicity of graphene-derivative and nanoparticles on cotton/silk fabrics', presented at MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit 2021, 06 December 2021 - 08 December 2021
,2021, 'Cloth masks designed from common fabrics outperform three-layered surgical masks', presented at Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) 60th National Scientific Conference 2021, 22 November 2021 - 23 November 2021
,2021, 'Functionalization of cotton fabric through coating of reduced graphene oxide and diffused nanoparticles using silane coupling agent', presented at 9th European Conference on Protective Clothing, Hohenstein Institute, Bönnigheim, Germany, 10 May 2021 - 12 May 2021
,2019, 'Estimated hospitalisations attributable to seasonal and pandemic influenza in Australia: 2001- 2013', presented at WHO Consultation on Influenza Burden of Disease, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 June 2019 - 27 June 2019
,2019, 'Pandemics & Epidemics: Preparing for the ultimate travel bug', presented at World Science Festival, Brisbane, Australia, 22 March 2019
,2019, 'Pandemics & Epidemics: Preparing for the ultimate travel bug', presented at World Science Festival, Brisbane, Australia, 22 March 2019
,2019, 'US Indopacific command workshop', presented at US Indopacific command workshop, Hawaii, USA, 04 March 2019 - 08 March 2019
,2019, 'Plenary. Research for the public good', presented at Times Higher Education Summit, Sydney, Australia, 19 February 2019 - 21 February 2019
,2018, 'Plenary: Bioterrorism and health security', presented at Leadership in Counterterrorism Alumini Association (LinCT) Forum, Melbourne, Australia, 01 December 2018
,2018, 'The grey area of biowarfare and bioterrorism', presented at Global Security Plus - New approaches to grey zone threat, Canberra and Sydney, Australia, 11 September 2018 - 12 September 2018, https://globalsecurityplus.org/global-security-plus-new-approaches-grey-zone-threats
,2018, 'Elderly influenza vaccination: the public health impact of high dose influenza vaccine', presented at Public Health Impact of Novel Influenza Vaccine, Taiwan, 26 August 2018
,2018, 'Vaccination of hard-to-reach and high-risk groups', presented at 16th National Immunisation Conference, Public Health Association of Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 06 June 2018, https://www.nic2018.com/presentations
,2018, 'Plenary: Emerging infectious diseases in humans', presented at CSIRO Advancing Ecological Modelling symposium, Canberra, Australia, 01 May 2018, https://events.csiro.au/Events/2018/April/4/Advancing-eco-modelling-for-EID
,2018, 'Protecting the vulnerable in health care', presented at 4th New Zealand Influenza Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 08 February 2018, https://www.nzcphm.org.nz/news-events/events/2018-02-nz-influenza-symposium
,2018, 'Pandemic planning gaps and vulnerabilities', presented at 1918 Pandemic Influenza Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 07 February 2018
,2018, 'Severe and Pandemic Influenza – who is at risk?', presented at Influenza Specialist Group annual symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 05 February 2018, http://www.isg.org.au/
,2017, 'New approaches to risk analysis in biosecurity workshop', presented at Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Arlington, USA, 10 December 2017
,2017, 'Seroconversion and antibody levels of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in immunocompromised children: results of 5 years of follow-up study', presented at 11th Vaccine Congress., San Diego, USA, 17 September 2017 - 20 September 2017
,2017, 'World Leadership Dialogues. A pandemic experience', presented at World Congress of Public Health, Melbourne, Australia, 03 April 2017, https://iigh.unu.edu/news/news/15th-world-congress-on-public-health.html
,2016, 'Plenary: Global challenges of communicable diseases related sustainable development', presented at 1st International Conference on Global Health (ICGH), Jakarta, Indonesia, 09 November 2016 - 11 November 2016, http://icgh2016.ui.ac.id/
,2016, 'Developing future health leaders through UNSW-industry partnerships in a work-based doctorate', presented at Learning and Teaching Forum UNSW, Towards 2025: Inspiring Learning, 31 October 2016 - 31 October 2016, https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/2016-forum-program
,2016, 'The changing landscape of emerging infections', presented at Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Conference, Sydney, Australia, 28 September 2016 - 30 September 2018, https://apruglobalhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016Agenda.pdf
,2016, 'Vaccination for Healthy Ageing', presented at . International Federation on Ageing Global Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 21 June 2016, https://www.ifa-fiv.org/project/ifa-13th-global-conference-on-ageing/
,2016, 'Vaccinating the Elderly', presented at Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) National Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 06 May 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpTXfWm5jKw
,2016, 'Emerging Bioterrorism Threats', presented at 4th Annual Police Technology Forum, Canberra, Australia, 23 March 2016
,2015, 'The benefits and challenges of workplace-based postgraduate public health education in Australia', presented at CAPHIA 2015 Public Health Learning and Teaching Forum, Hobart, 10 September 2015 - 11 September 2015
,2015, 'Breakout plenary: Ebola, risk and vulnerability', presented at World Congress on Risk, Singapore, 01 July 2015
,2015, 'Plenary: Ebola PPE and health care workers', presented at World Congress on Risk, Singapore, 01 July 2015
,2015, 'Adult vaccination', presented at Influenza Specialist Group, Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 02 February 2015
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