Select Publications
Books
2001, Six-month process evaluation report on the medically supervised injecting centre (MSIC). Technical Report No. 124, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, Randwick, NSW
,2000, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Australian blood donors: estimation of risk and the impact of deferral strategies. Report to Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Sydney
,1999, Epidemiology of the hepatitis C virus, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra
,Book Chapters
2009, 'Transmission of hepatitis C virus', in Dore G; Temple-Smith M; Lloyd A (ed.), Hepatitis C: An Expanding Perspective, IP Communications, East Hawthorn, pp. 115 - 141
,2005, 'The epidemiology of HIV infection and AIDS in Asia and the Pacific: Global perspective', in Sexually Transmitted Infections, B M J Publishing Group, London, England, pp. 57 - 66
,2005, 'The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific: global perspective', in Kumar B; Gupta S (ed.), Sexually Transmitted Infections, Elsevier, New Delhi, pp. 44 - 56
,2001, 'Transmission of the hepatitis C virus infection.', in Crofts N; Dore G; Locarnini S (ed.), Hepatitis C: An Australian Perspective, IP Communications, Melbourne, pp. 209 - 219
,1989, 'Risk Estimation for Leukemogenic Drugs', in Biologically Based Methods for Cancer Risk Assessment, Springer US, pp. 339 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5625-7_24
,Journal articles
2024, 'High prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in unvaccinated adolescent girls in South Africa, particularly those living with HIV', Vaccine, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126442
,2024, 'DNA methylation at individual CpG-sites of EPB41L3, HTERT and FAM19A4 are useful for detection of cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) or worse: Analysis of individual CpG-sites outperforms averaging', Tumour Virus Research, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tvr.2024.200288
,2024, 'Effect of preventive chemotherapy for neglected tropical diseases in Indonesia from 1992 to 2022: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Tropical Medicine and International Health, 29, pp. 995 - 1005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tmi.14057
,2024, 'What does it cost to deliver antenatal care in Papua New Guinea? Results from a health system costing and budget impact analysis using cross-sectional data', BMJ open, 14, pp. e080574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080574
,2024, 'A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Access to HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: Lessons for Future Public Health Crises', Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 97, pp. 208 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000003488
,2024, 'Impact of single-dose HPV vaccination on HPV 16 and 18 prevalence in South African adolescent girls with and without HIV', Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs, 2024, pp. 337 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jncimonographs/lgae041
,2024, 'Very high HIV prevalence and incidence among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Indonesia: a retrospective observational cohort study in Bali and Jakarta, 2017–2020', Journal of the International AIDS Society, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jia2.26386
,2024, 'Learning from COVID-19: strengthening Australia's research capacity through preparedness and collaboration', Communicable diseases intelligence (2018), 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.58
,2024, 'The role and value of counsellors in the treatment journeys of people with tuberculosis and their families: Qualitative insights from the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea', PLOS Global Public Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002572
,2024, 'Costs of primary healthcare presentations and hospital admissions for scabies and related skin infections in Fiji, 2018–2019', PLOS Global Public Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003706
,2024, 'The impact of a multi-faceted intervention on non-prescription dispensing of antibiotics by urban community pharmacies in Indonesia: a mixed methods evaluation', BMJ Global Health, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015620
,2024, 'Acceptability of a nationwide scabies mass drug administration (MDA) program in Fiji: a qualitative interview-based study', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101194
,2024, 'Acceptability of sexual history questions in a gender-neutral risk assessment for blood donation', Transfusion, 64, pp. 1940 - 1948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.17993
,2024, 'Utilising integrated bio-behavioural surveillance (IBBS) to investigate declining hepatitis C antibody prevalence among people who inject drugs in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey.', Int J Drug Policy, pp. 104576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104576
,2024, 'New tatt? We're ok with that! Relaxing the tattoo deferral for plasmapheresis donors maintains safety and increases donations', Vox Sanguinis, 119, pp. 927 - 935, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.13704
,2024, 'Utilising Integrated Bio-behavioural Surveillance (IBBS) to investigate declining hepatitis C antibody prevalence among people who inject drugs in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey', International Journal of Drug Policy, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104545
,2024, 'Opportunities to strengthen respiratory virus surveillance systems in Australia: lessons learned from the COVID-19 response', Communicable diseases intelligence (2018), 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.47
,2024, 'Clinical effectiveness and analytical quality of a national point-of-care testing network for sexually transmitted infections integrated into rural and remote primary care clinics in Australia, 2016–2022: an observational program evaluation', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101110
,2024, 'Performance of CADM1, MAL and miR124-2 methylation as triage markers for early detection of cervical cancer in self-collected and clinician-collected samples: An exploratory observational study in Papua New Guinea', BMJ Open, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081282
,2024, '"i pity the TB patient": A mixed methods study assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services in two major Indonesian cities and distilling lessons for the future', BMJ Global Health, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014943
,2024, 'Point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted and genital infections to improve birth outcomes in high-burden, low-resource settings (WANTAIM): a pragmatic cluster randomised crossover trial in Papua New Guinea', The Lancet Global Health, 12, pp. e641 - e651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00004-4
,2024, 'Access to and utilization of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) among people living with HIV (PLWH): A mixed methods study from Cambodia', PLOS Global Public Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002940
,2024, 'Assessing the effects of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on the risk of household transmission during delta variant circulation: a population-based data linkage cohort study', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100930
,2024, 'Corneal pannus, Herbert’s pits and conjunctival inflammation in older children in Papua New Guinea', Ophthalmic Epidemiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09286586.2023.2273507
,2024, 'Effectiveness of one and two doses of ivermectin mass drug administration in reducing the prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections in Western Province, Solomon Islands: a cluster-randomised, before-after analysis', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100942
,2024, 'Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Mass Drug Administration to Eliminate Trachoma as a Public Health Problem in Malawi', Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 31, pp. 127 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09286586.2023.2194409
,2024, 'The impact of blood donation deferral strategies on the eligibility of men who have sex with men and other sexual risk behavior in Australia', Transfusion, 64, pp. 493 - 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.17732
,2023, 'Community-wide versus school-based targeted deworming for soil-transmitted helminth control in school-aged children in Vietnam: the CoDe-STH cluster-randomised controlled trial', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100920
,2023, 'Detection of dengue virus infection in children presenting with fever in Hawassa, southern Ethiopia', Scientific Reports, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35143-2
,2023, 'Epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths using quantitative PCR and risk factors for hookworm and Necator americanus infection in school children in Dak Lak province, Vietnam', Parasites and Vectors, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-05809-x
,2023, 'Removal of UK-donor deferral for variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: A large donation gain in Australia', Vox Sanguinis, 118, pp. 891 - 894, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.13510
,2023, 'Carcinogenicity of aspartame, methyleugenol, and isoeugenol', The Lancet. Oncology, 24, pp. 848 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00341-8
,2023, 'Perceived risk of HIV transmission by blood transfusion among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) in Australia', Transfusion, 63, pp. 1528 - 1537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.17456
,2023, 'Prevalence of blood donation eligibility in Australia: A population survey', Transfusion, 63, pp. 1519 - 1527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.17474
,2023, 'Complex intervention to promote human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake in school settings: A cluster-randomized trial', Preventive Medicine, 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107542
,2023, 'The impact of ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine citrate, and albendazole mass drug administration on the prevalence of scabies and soil-transmitted helminths in school-aged children in three municipalities in Timor-Leste: a before–after assessment', The Lancet Global Health, 11, pp. e924 - e932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00134-1
,2023, 'One versus two doses of ivermectin-based mass drug administration for the control of scabies: A cluster randomised non-inferiority trial', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011207
,2023, 'High Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1c Proviral Loads Are Associated With Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Results of a Cross-Sectional Community Survey in Central Australia', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 76, pp. E820 - E826, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac614
,2023, 'Acute air pollution and temperature exposure as independent and joint triggers of spontaneous preterm birth in New South Wales, Australia: a time-to-event analysis', Frontiers in Public Health, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1220797
,2023, 'Beyond patient delay, navigating structural health system barriers to timely care and treatment in a high burden TB setting in Papua New Guinea', Global Public Health, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2184482
,2023, 'HIV treatment-as-prevention and its effect on incidence of HIV among cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Australia: a 10-year longitudinal cohort study', The Lancet HIV, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3018(23)00050-4
,2022, 'Clinical management and outcomes of acute febrile illness in children attending a tertiary hospital in southern Ethiopia', BMC Infectious Diseases, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07424-0
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