PhD Alumni

Mammographic density and breast cancer

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

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

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

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

Improving cervical cancer preventive strategies in Australia

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

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

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

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

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

Epidemiology and control of rectal chlamydia infection

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

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

Diagnosis and management of pelvic inflammatory disease in Australia

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

Socioeconomic Position and Colorectal Cancer Outcomes: Mediation analysis

The frontiers of global scientific collaboration in twin research

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

Trends and Inequalities in cancer Survival in Victoria, Australia

Physical activity and asthma: cause or consequence?

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

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

A Supercomputing Pipeline for The Ark (SPARK)

Investigation of the role of early life exposures on lung health

Bayesian grouped regression with application to genome-wide association studies

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

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.

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

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

Lifestyle trajectories and cancer risk and mortality

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

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

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.

Parinaz aims to assess how adherence to antimalarial regimens influences the treatment efficacy.

This thesis seeks to validate the use of Anopheles-specific salivary antigens as a serosurveillance tool for malaria and mosquito exposure, and explore its programmatic application.