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chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd)

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biomedical research

implementation science

mobile health (mhealth)

quality use of medicines

primary health care

co-design

healthy ageing

healthcare innovations

I am an emerging research leader with over 19 years of experience

Associate Professor Freddy Sitas

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Epidemiology, Public health, Epidemiological methods, Public Health and Health Services
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Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being)

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aids-related opportunistic infections

A/Prof Freddy Sitas is a Director at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW. He has made a significant contribution in the design and implementation of policy relevant population

Dr Alexandra Jones

Faculty: Operations Division
Fields of Research (FoR): Public health, Public health nutrition, Public law, Public international law
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Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Law, Politics and Community Services

Nutrition

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public health nutrition

food policy

public health law

commercial determinants of health

food governance

Dr Rachel Baffsky

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Implementation science and evaluation, Health promotion, Health and community services, Mental health services
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Mental Health

Health Education and Promotion

Health and Support Services not elsewhere classified

Keywords:

implementation science

child mental health

health promotion

school-based research

hepatitis c

health services research

domestic violence

translational research

injury

community health services

Dr. Rachel Baffsky (BPsych Hons, MPH, PhD) is an implementation scientist and psychology researcher.

Dr Lisa Nicole Sharwood

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Epidemiology, Disease surveillance, Public health
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Health Inequalities

Social Structure and Health

Injury Control

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health data linkage

I am an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine

Dr Padmanesan Narasimhan

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Public Health and Health Services, Infectious Diseases, Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)
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culturally and linguistically diverse (cald)

Infectious Diseases

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digital health

artificial intelligence

clinical medicine

emergency department

machine learning

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Professor Jason Wu

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Epidemiology, Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases), Public Nutrition Intervention, Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
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Cardiovascular System and Diseases

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cardiovascular diseases

diabetes

food policy

public health nutrition

I have a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and MSc in Biostatistics, and received post-doctoral training in nutrition epidemiology

Dr Marina Van Leeuwen

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Oncology and carcinogenesis, Epidemiology, Health services and systems, Public health
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health services and outcomes research

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cancer epidemiology

public health

Research Interests: The epidemiology of lymphomas, germ cell tumours, and other young adult cancers; cancer in immune-deficient populations; late adverse treatment effects; cancer

Dr Jane Ye In Hwang

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Social determinants of health, Health and community services, Health equity, Health promotion, Public health, Health management, People with disability, Public participation and community engagement, Causes and prevention of crime, Crime and social justice
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Social Structure and Health

Health Inequalities

Criminal Justice

Ability and Disability

Health Related to Ageing

Keywords:

social determinants of health

disability and health

neurodiversity

mental health

RESEARCH VISION: Achieving health equity and social justice via

Dr Wentao Li

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Reproductive medicine, Obstetrics and gynaecology, Epidemiology, Biostatistics
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Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)

Women's Health

randomised controlled trial (rct)

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obstetrics

fertility/infertility

health data linkage

evidence based medicine

cohort study

epidemiology

biostatistics

Wentao is a clinical epidemiologist and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow.

Dr Patricia Morgan

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Phenomenology, Fine arts, Aged health care, Sociology of health, Sexualities, Crime and social justice, Criminological theories
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Other social development and community services

Health Inequalities

Criminal Justice

The creative arts

Ageing and Older People

Gender and Sexualities

Moral and Social Development (incl. Affect)

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phenomenology

community development

art and hiv transmission

Professor Juliet Richters

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Epidemiology, Culture, Gender, Sexuality
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Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

I have worked for over 30 years in sexual health research and education. My research centres on the analysis of social (especially sexual) practice.

Dr Benjamin Daniels

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer and related disorders, Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Services
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psychotropic medications.

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opioids

polypharmacy

Dr Kathy Trieu

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Public Nutrition Intervention, Health Policy, Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases), Nutrition and Dietetics
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Cardiovascular System and Diseases

Nutrition

Health Policy Evaluation

Keywords:

food policy

cardiovascular diseases

public health nutrition

implementation science

effectiveness evaluation

diet quality

public health

health policy

Kathy is a public health nutritionist with a PhD in Medicine, MPH and BAppSc (Nutr&ExSpSc) from the University of Sydney.

Dr Jasim Anwar

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Community Child Health, Health and Community Services, Health Economics, Mortality, Population Trends and Policies, Applied Statistics, Other Education
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Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being)

Education and Training Systems Policies and Development

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maternal health

perinatal mortality

maternal mortality

maternal neonatal and child health

postpartum pregnancy

sexual and reproductive health

health information systems

medical education

civil registration and vital statistics

neonatal mortality

Population-based family study of follicular lymphoma

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Follicular lymphoma is the second most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults. The environmental and genetic factors that influence the susceptibility of this cancer are not completely understood.

The epidemiology of multiple myeloma in Australia

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Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a B-cell malignancy morphologically characterized by a monoclonal proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow. The causes of MM are poorly understood and its prognosis is poor.

Risk and prognostic factors for glioma in Australia

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Glioma is the most common type of brain cancer. It is extremely aggressive and yet understudied. We are conducting a family case-control study of glioma in Australia.

Health service utilisation and risk factors for cancer of unknown primary

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Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a diagnosis used to describe patients with metastatic cancer with no identifiable primary site of origin at the time of presentation. CUP is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in NSW, but little is known about its risk factors or management.

International lymphoma pooled analyses

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We are collaborating on a number of international pooled analyses being conducted under the auspices of the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph).

Population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer

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We are estimating and comparing the population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer in Australia by applying our recently published PAF measure and program to data from established large-scale Australian cohort studies linked to national cancer and death registries (relative risk estimates)

Burden of cancer – prevention, treatment, costs and related diseases

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History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy ofScience)

The aims of this Fellowship are to utilise and further extend recently developed methods for estimating different aspects of disease burden in order to:

The Cold War Obesity Crisis: Fatness, Public Health, and Medical Science in the United States, 1940-1970

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Historical Studies

Health Policy

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Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology