PhD Alumni

Dr Kerryn Moore

The influence of the gestational age at malaria detection and treatment during pregnancy on adverse outcomes in an area of low endemicity

Dr Rachel Tham

The contribution of outdoor fungal spores to child and adolescent asthma hospitalisations: lung function and airway inflammation

Dr Sheikh Mohammad Alif

The role of occupational exposure on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in middle-aged adults

Shuai Li

DNA methylation and breast cancer risk factors: insights from twin and family studies

Farhana Sultana

Improving cervical cancer preventive strategies in Australia

Jennifer Perret

The independent and combined effects of host and environmental factors on lung function in mid-adult life

Anurika Priyanjali De Silva

Evaluation and development of multiple imputation algorithms for dealing with longitudinal data

Dinh Son Bui

Risk factors for and outcomes of lung function impairment throughout the lifespan

Eliza Davidson

Identifying Risk Factors for Adverse Maternal and Birth Outcomes in a Malaria Endemic Region of Papua New Guinea

Dr. S. Ghazaleh Dashti

How is the effect of obesity mediated on risk of colorectal and breast cancer?

Andrew Lau

Epidemiology and control of rectal chlamydia infection

Dr. Chamara Senaratna

Association of sleep-disordered breathing with other chronic respiratory and non-respiratory disorders and the early-life and lifetime risk factors for sleep-disordered breathing

Chi Kuen (Kevin) Wong

Minimum message length inference with application to genome-wide association studies data

Identifying the utilities and disutilities associated with the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast for use in the economic evaluation of breast screening programmes

Jane Goller

Diagnosis and management of pelvic inflammatory disease in Australia

Juan Pablo Villanueva-Cabezas

Modelling Scenarios for the progressive elimination of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in Indonesia

Kanlaya Jongcherdchootrakul

Socioeconomic Position and Colorectal Cancer Outcomes: Mediation analysis

Lucas Calais Ferreira

The frontiers of global scientific collaboration in twin research

Myra McGuinness

Quantifying the risk factors for age-related macular degeneration in the presence of survival bias

Nina Afshar

Trends and Inequalities in cancer Survival in Victoria, Australia

Raisa Cassim

Physical activity and asthma: cause or consequence?

Sabria Jihan Khan

Examine associations between selected early life factors and natural history of asthma to middle-age under longitudinal settings for familial data set.

Shahid Mahmood

Domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviour in relation to colorectal cancer risk and survival

Thilina Ranaweera

A Supercomputing Pipeline for The Ark (SPARK)

Xin Dai

Investigation of the role of early life exposures on lung health

Zemei Xu

Bayesian grouped regression with application to genome-wide association studies

Lin Zhang

The role of family history in colorectal cancer screening in East Asia

Tharkeshi Thanuja Dharmaratne

This PhD project seeks to develop statistical approaches to characterise the highly dynamic profiles of the antibody responses, and in turn, identify the key features that best classifies these antibody trajectories.

Jasmine McBain-Miller

CT scan exposure before the age of 20 and cancer risk in the Medicare cohort

Stephanie Byrne

Which nutritional factors are associated with lung function in middle-aged adults?

Yi Yang

Lifestyle trajectories and cancer risk and mortality

Christina Heris

Christina Heris is researching influences on tobacco use among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Hazel Clothier

This PhD evaluates “SAEFVIC”, the Victorian AEFI surveillance system’s ability to detect and investigate emergent vaccine safety issues.

Diego J. Lopez

Diego's doctoral research aims are twofold: to investigate the effects of air pollution, hard water and temperature and humidity in atopic and non-atopic eczema development and to determine eczema phenotypes, their associated risk factors and associations with other outcomes.