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Journal articles
, 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
, 2026, 'An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 11248 - 11259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3770855.3818983
, 2026, 'Spatio-temporal Modelling of H5N1 Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Europe (2021-2024)', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS Archives, pp. 549 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B4-2026-549-2026
, 2026, 'Genomic-Informed Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Spatiotemporal Avian Influenza Outbreak Forecasting', in Www 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pp. 9044 - 9055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3793010
, 2025, 'A Probabilistic Framework for Imputing Genetic Distances in Spatiotemporal Pathogen Models', in 33rd ACM Sigspatial International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ACM Sigspatial 2025, pp. 646 - 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3748636.3762779
, 2025, 'EpiScale: Large-Scale Simulation of Infectious Disease Based on Human Mobility', in 33rd ACM Sigspatial International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ACM Sigspatial 2025, pp. 828 - 831, 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, ELECTR NETWORK, presented at Scientific Sessions of the American-Heart-Association (AHA), ELECTR NETWORK, 13 November 2020 - 17 November 2020
, 2020, 'Left Atrial Functional Index is a Predictor of Persistent/permanent Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation', in CIRCULATION, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, ELECTR NETWORK, presented at Scientific Sessions of the American-Heart-Association (AHA), ELECTR NETWORK, 13 November 2020 - 17 November 2020
, 2020, 'Prognostic Implications of Traditional and Non-traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profiles in Patients With Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation', in CIRCULATION, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, ELECTR NETWORK, presented at Scientific Sessions of the American-Heart-Association (AHA), ELECTR NETWORK, 13 November 2020 - 17 November 2020
, 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', Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 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, '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
, 2012, 'The changing serological profile of hepatitis A in Victoria, Australia: a comparison of three time points', in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier BV, pp. e346 - e346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.420
, 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
, 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
, (ed.), 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230705
, 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