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Conference Abstracts
, 2020, ''Watch the flu': A tweet monitoring tool for epidemic intelligence of influenza in australia', in Aaai 2020 34th Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 13616 - 13617
, 2019, 'Epidemic intelligence needs of stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2017', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, Vol. 79, pp. 113 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.11.280
, 2017, 'VACCINATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC RISK FACTORS FOR CHOLERA IN AN ENDEMIC SETTING OF BANGLADESH', in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE, MD, Baltimore, Vol. 97, pp. 68 - 68, presented at 66th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Tropical-Medicine-and-Hygiene (ASTMH), MD, Baltimore, 05 November 2017 - 09 November 2017, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000423215202218&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2016, 'Creating a global community of future health leaders: Integrating technology-enhanced learning in a professional doctorate.', in APRU Global Health Program Workshop, Sydney, presented at Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Workshop, Sydney, 28 September 2016 - 01 October 2016
, 2016, 'Using Laboratory Data to Aid Early Warning in Prospective Influenza Mortality Surveillance', in Online Journal of Public Health Informatics; Vol 8, No 1 (2016), University of Illinois Libraries, Vol. 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6557
, 2014, 'Infection control survey in the hospitals to examine the role of masks and respirators for the prevention of respiratory infections in healthcare workers ( HCWs)', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, Vol. 21, pp. 408 - 408, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.1262
, 2014, 'Under-ascertainment of Illness due to Influenza in Administrative Databases, a Population-based Record Linkage Study', in Online J Public Health Inform, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, Vol. 6, pp. e169, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5189
, 2012, 'Comparison of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 mortality with seasonal influenza mortality in Australia', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, Vol. 16, pp. E355 - E355, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.439
, 2012, 'Health care worker practices around face mask use in hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, Vol. 16, pp. E384 - E384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.503
, 2012, 'High risk procedures and respiratory infections in hospital health care workers - quantifying the risk', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, Vol. 16, pp. E379 - E379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.491
, 2012, 'The role of human papillomaviruses in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a review of the evidence', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, Vol. 16, pp. E351 - E352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.431
Reports
, 2024, TraX mpox data report: Report period 10 October 2022 to 31 December 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28724
, 2023, TraX mpox data report: Report period 10 October 2022 to 2 July 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28611
, 2023, TraX mpox month eight report: Report period 10 October 2022 to 21 May 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28601
, 2023, TraX Six Month MPOX Report: Report period 10 October 2022 to 26 March 2023
, 2023, TraX Study Quarterly Monkeypox (MPOX) Report 01: Report period 10 October 2022 to 1 January 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28473
, 2021, Updated report on the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the New South Wales prisoner population (9 September 2021): Report to Legal Aid NSW, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
, 2020, Report on the efficacy of measures to prevent the introduction and spread of COVID-19 to Silverwater women’s correctional centre
, 2020, Supplementary Report on COVID-19 and the Impact on NSW Prisoners, The Kirby Institute, Sydney, https://www.publicdefenders.nsw.gov.au/Documents/supplementary-report-covid-19-impact-on-nsw-prisoners-22-5-2020.pdf
, 2020, COVID-19 and the Impact on NSW Prisoners, The Kirby Institute, Sydney, https://www.publicdefenders.nsw.gov.au/Documents/butler-et-al-report-on-covid-19-and-impact%20on-nsw-prisoners.pdf
, 2013, Human resources for health: practice and policy implications for emergency response arising from the cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea, Human Resources for Health Knowledge Hub, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243114608
, 2004, Protecting Australia from communicable diseases: everybody’s business, Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australia
, Masks and Respirators for Prevention of Respiratory Infections: A State of the Science Review, INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2024.1.0087
, The history of chemical warfare: a systematic review, INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2024.3.0016, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2024.3.0016
Media
, 2020, This video shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people sing together, The Conversation, Australia, https://theconversation.com/this-video-shows-just-how-easily-covid-19-could-spread-when-people-sing-together-144789
, 2020, Which mask works best? We filmed people coughing and sneezing to find out, The Conversation, Australia, https://theconversation.com/which-mask-works-best-we-filmed-people-coughing-and-sneezing-to-find-out-143173
, 2020, Victorians, and anyone else at risk, should now be wearing face masks. Here’s how to make one, The Conversation, Australia, https://theconversation.com/victorians-and-anyone-else-at-risk-should-now-be-wearing-face-masks-heres-how-to-make-one-141980
Preprints
, 2025, Risk Groups for Vaccine Preventable Respiratory Infections in Children and Adults: An Overview of the Australian Environment, http://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints202511.0783.v1
, 2025, The burden of pertussis disease and vaccination coverage in Australian adults attending primary health care, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.09.25333139
, 2025, A Probabilistic Framework for Imputing Genetic Distances in Spatiotemporal Pathogen Models, http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09076v1
, 2025, BLUE: Bi-layer Heterogeneous Graph Fusion Network for Avian Influenza Forecasting, http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22692v1
, 2025, Evaluating the Bias in LLMs for Surveying Opinion and Decision Making in Healthcare, http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08260v2
, 2025, Drivers, Barriers, and Implications of Mpox Vaccine Uptake in Australia Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: Results from a Prospective Observational Mixed-Methods Study (2022-2024), http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5290952
, 2024, A geospatial perspective towards the role of migratory birds and poultry in the spread of Avian Influenza, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4451337/v1
, 2024, Comprehensive Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to Covid-19 Vaccination In Adults with Cancer, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4951802
, 2024, Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccination in Children with Cancer, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5025909
, 2024, Optimal deployment of limited vaccine supplies to combat mpox, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.03.24316551
, 2024, Potential Pathways of Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A/H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b Across Dairy Farms in the United States, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.02.24306785
, 2024, Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) with Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccine in People Aged ≥50 Years in Australia During the 2017 A/H3N2 Epidemic, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4941324
, 2023, Relation Extraction from News Articles (RENA): A Tool for Epidemic Surveillance, http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01472v1
, 2023, Monitoring the burden of COVID-19 and impact of hospital transfer policies on Australian aged-care residents in residential aged-care facilities: a retrospective cohort study, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2765885/v1
, 2023, Predicting vaccine effectiveness in Mpox, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.23.23298850
, 2023, Prevalence of influenza and other acute respiratory illnesses in patients with acute myocardial infarction in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.168606254.46333247/v1
, 2023, SARS-CoV-2 post-vaccine surveillance studies in Australian children and adults with cancer: SerOzNET Statistical Analysis Plan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.26.23286261
, 2022, Towards realistic simulations of human cough: effect of droplet emission duration and spread angle, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2210.00534
, 2022, News Coverage of Face Masks in Australia During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: Topic Modeling Study (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.43011
, 2022, Open-Source Intelligence for Detection of Radiological Events and Syndromes Following the Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Observational Study (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.39895
, 2021, Epidemiological and phylogenetic analyses of COVID-19 in Africa using open-source sequence data., http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.161160186.62286068/v1
, 2021, Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Rotavirus Diarrhea and the Acceptance of Rotavirus Vaccination Amongst Primary Caregivers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A Qualitative Study, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-136712/v1
, 2021, Modelling vaccination capacity at mass vaccination hubs and general practice clinics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.07.21255067