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Conference Abstracts
, 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, Vol. 21, pp. 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, Vol. 16, pp. e351 - e352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.431
Reports
, 2024, Final TraX mpox data report: Report period 10 October 2022 to 21 April 2024
, 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
, 2026, An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2606.06360
, 2026, Generating a Contact Matrix for Aged Care Settings in Australia: an agent-based model study, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2512.03866
, 2026, Genomic-Informed Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Spatiotemporal Avian Influenza Outbreak Forecasting, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.22692
, 2026, From Ecological Connectivity to Outbreak Risk: A Heterogeneous Graph Network for Epidemiological Reasoning under Sparse Spatiotemporal Data, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2601.09738
, 2026, Determinants of Fatality and Secondary Transmission Following Accidental Laboratory-Associated Pathogen Incidents: A Global Risk Modelling Study (1900–2025), http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6348568
, 2025, Early Detection and Surveillance of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Nigeria: Integrating Nigerian Pidgin English (Npe) Into the Epiwatch® Platform, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5066946/v1
, 2025, A Probabilistic Framework for Imputing Genetic Distances in Spatiotemporal Pathogen Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2506.09076
, 2025, Evaluating the Bias in LLMs for Surveying Opinion and Decision Making in Healthcare, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2504.08260
, 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
, 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
, 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, 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://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.01472
, 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
, 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
, 2020, Mathematical assessment of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on curtailing the 2019 novel Coronavirus, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2004.07391
, 2020, Estimated Mask Use and Temporal Relationship to COVID-19 Epidemiology of Black Lives Matter Protests in 12 Cities, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3712951
, 2020, The Introduction of a Mandatory Mask Policy Was Associated with Significantly Reduced COVID-19 Cases in a Major Metropolitan City, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3714648
, 2019, A Comparison of Word-based and Context-based Representations for Classification Problems in Health Informatics, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1906.05468
, 2019, Survey of Text-based Epidemic Intelligence: A Computational Linguistic Perspective, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1903.05801
, 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
, Basic epidemiological parameter values from data of real-world in mega-cities: the characteristics of COVID-19 in Beijing, China, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-23937/v2
, Basic epidemiological parameter values from data of real-world in mega-cities: the characteristics of COVID-19 in Beijing, China, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-23937/v1
, Behavioural Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccination and Antiviral Uptake in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using the COM-B Framework, http://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints202604.1674.v1
, Determination of COVID-19 parameters for an agent-based model: Easing or tightening control strategies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.20.20135186