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Journal articles
2015, 'Examining the policies and guidelines around the use of masks and respirators by healthcare workers in China, Pakistan and Vietnam', Journal of Infection Prevention, 16, pp. 68 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177414560251
,2015, 'Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: A model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future - CORRIGENDUM', Epidemiology and Infection, 143, pp. 1651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268815000308
,2015, '“The cookie monster muffler”: Perceptions and behaviours of hospital healthcare workers around the use of masks and respirators in the hospital setting', International Journal of Infection Control, http://dx.doi.org/10.3396/IJIC.v11i1.006.15
,2015, 'Using an adjusted serfling regression model to improve the early warning at the arrival of peak timing of influenza in beijing', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0119923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119923
,2015, 'Re-thinking the ethics of dual-use research of concern on transmissible pathogens', Environment Systems and Decisions, 35, pp. 129 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-015-9534-9
,2015, 'Biopreparedness in the age of genetically engineered pathogens and open access science - an urgent need for a paradigm shift', Military Medicine: international journal of AMSUS, 180, pp. 943 - 949, http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00482
,2015, 'Heightened vulnerability, reduced oversight and ethical breaches on the Internet in the in West African Ebola epidemic', The American Journal of Bioethics, 15, pp. 65 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2015.1010017
,2015, 'Predicting localised measles outbreak potential in Australia', Vaccine, 33, pp. 1176 - 1181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.071
,2015, 'A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers', BMJ Open, 5, pp. e006577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577
,2015, 'A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 11, pp. 818 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2015.1011954
,2015, 'Commentary on Arriola et al. Antivirals and Effect Modification in Influenza Studies', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 212, pp. 1683 - 1684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv384
,2015, 'Current practices and barriers to the use of facemasks and respirators among hospital-based health care workers in Vietnam', American Journal of Infection Control, 43, pp. 72 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.009
,2015, 'Increasing trends of herpes zoster in Australia', PloS one, 10, pp. e0125025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125025
,2015, 'Influenza vaccination and cardiovascular risk in patients with recent tia and stroke', Neurology, 84, pp. 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000459893.53930.45
,2015, 'Respiratory protection for healthcare workers treating Ebola virus disease (EVD): Are facemasks sufficient to meet occupational health and safety obligations? (vol 50, pg 1421, 2014)', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES, 52, pp. 505 - 505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.10.011
,2015, 'Making mandatory vaccination truly compulsory: well intentioned but ill conceived.', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 15, pp. 872 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00156-5
,2014, 'Uncertainty, risk analysis and change for Ebola personal protective equipment guidelines', International Journal of Nursing Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.12.001
,2014, '“The cookie monster muffler”: Perceptions and behaviours of hospital healthcare workers around the use of masks and respirators in the hospital setting', IJIC, 1, pp. 1 - 18
,2014, 'Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: A model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future', Epidemiology and Infection, 760, pp. 1467 - 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814002222
,2014, 'Respiratory protection for healthcare workers treating ebola virus disease (evd): are facemasks sufficient to meet occupational health and safety obligations?', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 51, pp. 1421 - 1426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.09.002
,2014, 'A scenario-based evaluation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and the Hajj', Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, 34, pp. 1391 - 1400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12253
,2014, 'Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers - authors' reply', Preventive medicine, 65, pp. 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.05.024
,2014, 'The discrepant epidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)', Environment Systems and Decisions, 34, pp. 383 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-014-9506-5
,2014, 'A scenario-based evaluation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and the Hajj', Risk Analysis, 34, pp. 1391 - 1400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12253
,2014, 'Inaccurate ascertainment of morbidity and mortality due to influenza in administrative databases: A population-based record linkage study', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e98446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098446
,2014, 'Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers', Preventive Medicine, 62, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.01.015
,2014, 'A randomized clinical trial of the immunogenicity of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine compared to 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine in frail, hospitalized elderly', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e94578, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094578
,2014, 'Australian zoster study: GP and patient views about herpes zoster (shingles), its complications, and the likely acceptance of a zoster vaccine (Zostavax)', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 21, pp. 436 - 437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.1320
,2014, 'Policies on facemasks use to protect HCWs from respiratory infections: A cross sectional survey', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 21, pp. 417 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.1281
,2014, 'The ARM Network--a model for infectious disease surge response capacity in the Western Pacific Region', Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR, 5, pp. 5 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/WPSAR.2014.5.2.011
,2014, 'Immunisation for herpes zoster: Current status', Medical Journal of Australia, 200, pp. 243 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.00070
,2014, 'The Bradford-Hill criteria and evidence of association between influenza vaccination and ischaemic heart disease', Heart, 100, pp. 518 - 519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2013-305435
,2014, 'The burden of pertussis in patients with and without recurrent ischaemic vascular events', Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets, 14, pp. 101 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1871526514666141014145229
,2014, 'Attitudes, knowledge and perceptions towards whooping cough and pertussis vaccine in hospitalized adults', Vaccine, 32, pp. 1107 - 1112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.12.010
,2014, 'Field effectiveness of hepatitis A vaccine and uptake of post exposure prophylaxis following a change to the Australian guidelines', Vaccine, 32, pp. 5509 - 5513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.07.048
,2014, 'Influenza virus vaccine reduces risk of ischemic events: Time for a large-scale randomized trial?', Future Cardiology, 10, pp. 35 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/fca.13.95
,2014, 'Lessons learnt from the first Australian 'pop-up' HIV testing site', Sexual Health, 11, pp. 585 - 586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH14095
,2014, 'Post-pandemic assessment of public knowledge, behavior, and skill on influenza prevention among the general population of Beijing, China', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 24, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.01.003
,2014, 'Response to Martin-Moreno et al. (2014) Surgical mask or no mask for health workers not a defensible position for Ebola', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 51, pp. 1694 - 1695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.10.004
,2014, 'A Case-Control Study of the Role of Human Papillomavirus in Oesophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Australia', Journal of Oncology, 2014, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/236482
,2014, 'A customized m-Health system for improving Tuberculosis treatment adherence and follow-up in south India', Health and Technology, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12553-013-0067-2
,2014, 'Corrigendum to 'Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers' [Prev. Med. 62 (2014) 1–7]', Preventive Medicine, 69, pp. 165 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.09.022
,2014, 'Unanswered questions about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)', BMC Research Notes, 7, pp. 358 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-358
,2013, 'Ischaemic heart disease, influenza and influenza vaccination: a prospective case control study', Heart, 99, pp. 1843 - 1848, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304320
,2013, 'A cross-sectional study of factors associated with uptake of vaccination against influenza among older residents in the postpandemic season in Beijing, China', BMJ Open, 3, pp. e003662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003662
,2013, 'Quantifying the risk of respiratory infection in healthcare workers performing high-risk procedures', Epidemiology and Infection, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095026881300304X
,2013, 'Epidemiology of sexually transmissible infections in New South Wales: are case notifications enough?', Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report, 37, pp. E407 - E414
,2013, 'Evidence for the aetiology of human papillomavirus in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma in the Chinese population: a meta-analysis', BMJ Open, 3, pp. e003604 - e003604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003604
,2013, 'Global Mortality Estimates for the 2009 Influenza Pandemic from the GLaMOR Project: A Modeling Study', PLoS Medicine, 10, pp. e1001558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001558
,2013, 'Concurrent Outbreaks of Cholera and Peripheral Neuropathy Associated with High Mortality among Persons Internally Displaced by a Volcanic Eruption', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. e72566 - e72566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072566
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