Select Publications
Journal articles
, 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, pp. 295 - 299, 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.', 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
, 2025, 'A Probabilistic Framework for Imputing Genetic Distances in Spatiotemporal Pathogen Models', in Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM, pp. 646 - 655, presented at SIGSPATIAL '25: 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3748636.3762779
, 2025, 'EpiScale: Large-Scale Simulation of Infectious Disease Based on Human Mobility', in Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM, pp. 828 - 831, presented at SIGSPATIAL '25: 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3748636.3762791
, 2025, 'Simulated Infectious Diseases Datasets with Controlled Data Bias', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 5551 - 5559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737401
, 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
, 2023, 'IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SARS-COV-2 VACCINATION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH CANCER', in PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER, WILEY, pp. S65 - S66
, 2022, 'Comprehensive humoral and cellular immune assessments to SARS-CoV-2 (wild type, delta and omicron) following two- and three-dose vaccination schedule in a large adult cancer population: SerOzNET study: placeholder abstract.', 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
, 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
, 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, 'Impaired Left Atrial Function is Associated With Increased Rehospitalisation in Patients With Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation', in CIRCULATION, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
, 2020, 'Left Atrial Functional Index is a Predictor of Persistent/permanent Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation', in CIRCULATION, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
, 2020, 'Prognostic Implications of Traditional and Non-traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profiles in Patients With Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation', in CIRCULATION, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
, 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
, 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
, 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