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Honorary Research Fellow
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
It is well known that lifestyle factors are associated with risk of chronic diseases, such as… Do the 2017 blood pressure cut-offs improve 10-year cardiovascular disease mortality risk prediction?… Lifestyle factors and chronic disease incidence and mortality in adults… Although unhealthy lifestyle factors are known to be associated with increased chronic disease… Lifestyle factors and chronic diseases… level (e.g. the associations between modifiable behaviors and chronic diseases; the inequalities in chronic disease risk).… = 0.007), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (OR 5.9, 95% CI 1.7-20.7, P = 0.006), and use of a…
Mathematical Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Statistics; Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Health Sciences; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Public health; Cardiovascular medicine and haematology; Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases); Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Statistics; Mathematical Sciences;- Email:
- y.peng@uq.edu.au
Yang is currently a Honorary Research Fellow in UQ School of Public Health and a Research Fellow in Cancer Epidemiology Division of Cancer Council Victoria. He has extensive experience in analysing large-scale national and international health surveys and hospitalisaiton datasets with complex statis …
His research findings provided up-to-date information to the policy makers on the lifestyle factors status in the general Australian population, which facilitated the chronic disease prevention and management in the wide communities. His works generated evidence on closing the survival gaps for thos …
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Head of School
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Professor Elizabeth Eakin has built a program of research around behavioural approaches to chronic… Multi-level Support and Chronic Disease Self-Management in an Urban Latino Sample… Centre of Research Excellence on Sitting Time and Chronic Disease Prevention - Mechanisms… Chronic disease prevention and management… interventions in chronic disease prevention and management. Her research emphasises CONSORT-designed… lifestyle-related chronic diseases. The purpose of this systematic review is to update the evidence for…
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- e.eakin@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 55280
Professor Elizabeth Eakin is Head of School and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. As a behavioural scientist working in the field of population health, she has developed an internationally recognised program of research in health behaviour interventi …
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Associate Professor
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Predictors of new-onset chronic kidney disease in patients managed surgically for T1a renal cell carcinoma: an Australian population-based analysis… Hysterectomy, Oophorectomy and Long-term chronic Disease - the HOLD study… Investigating the Potential to Use Chronic Disease Medicines for Cancer Chemoprevention… type); b) other chronic disease including IHD, stroke & hip fracture; & c) all cause… survival.Impact: These previously diagnosed chronic diseases do not appear to affect ovarian cancer prognosis. (C) 2017 AACR.…
Medical and Health Sciences; Oncology and Carcinogenesis; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Epidemiology;- Email:
- s.jordan@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 55473
Dr Jordan is a medically trained cancer epidemiologist who is currently Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. Before starting her PhD, she worked in rural and urban general practice for over 10 years and brings that clinical experience to her research. She currently lea …
Dr Jordan's impacts contributions include: 1) the first comprehensive aetiological study to support the paradigm-shifting contention that most ovarian cancers arise in fallopian tubes rather than ovaries; 2) research on variations in ovarian cancer chemotherapy prompted revision of current ovarian …
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Research Fellow/Senior Research off
Medical School (RCS)Faculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
"It's what makes us unique.": Indigenous Australian perspectives on genetics research to improve comorbid mental and chronic disease outcomes… Improving the Mental Health of Indigenous Australians with Chronic Disease… Multiple projects in chronic disease, mental health and rural health related fields.… Chronic Disease… Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by severe abdominal pain…
Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Other Medical and Health Sciences; Epidemiology; Mental Health; Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified; Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified; Health Sciences; Indigenous Studies; Public health; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing; Public health not elsewhere classified; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing;- Email:
- b.nasir@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 4633 9768
Dr. Bushra Nasir is the Director of the Medical Research Futures Fund in Primary Health Care Digital Innovations - ID-INSPIRED and a mid-career researcher with a substantial career trajectory in health research. Her substantial career trajectory is evidenced by growing publication and research outpu …
Dr Nasir’s research has also significantly contributed to improving the health of rural Australians, especially Indigenous Australians. Her Q1 journal publication ‘Common mental disorders among Indigenous people living in regional, remote and metropolitan Australia: a cross-sectional study’(BMJ Op …
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Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Health Services ResearchFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Reporting of telehealth-delivered dietary intervention trials in chronic disease: systematic review… Improving digital health literacy in chronic disease management… A mixed-methods study to evaluate the trust and confidence in telehealth in chronic kidney disease… chronic kidney disease. Test whether the culturally sensitive digital program… -enabled health systems and interventions for improving patient-centred care in chronic disease and… and can be offered to people with complex chronic disease as a service model option.…
Nutrition and Dietetics; Health Sciences; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Nutrition and dietetics; Public health; Clinical sciences; Public health not elsewhere classified; Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified; Nephrology and urology; Medical and Health Sciences; Public health nutrition;- Email:
- jaimon.kelly@uq.edu.au
I am a consultant Accredited Practising Dietitian and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Online Health. I have a PhD in technology-supported lifestyle interventions and delivering dietary education to improve people’s dietary self-management. My research program focuses on technology-enabled …
Jaimon Kelly has led systematic reviews which have led to health impact including a significant paradigm shift away from single-nutrient recommendations reflected in 2020 international best practice guidelines – based on the systematic review on healthy dietary patterns and risk of mortality in ch …
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Research Fellow
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetic complications… Obesity paradox among type 2 diabetes: link between obesity and chronic kidney disease… Chronic disease… collaboration for a Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Events… The timing of natural menopause has been linked to numerous chronic disease risks in later life…
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- h.chung1@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 64649
Dr Hsin-Fang Chung is an epidemiologist and post-doctoral research fellow for the International collaboration for a Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Events (InterLACE) consortium at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Prior to this, Hsin-Fang complet …
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Director of Research
Medical School (RCS)Faculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Chronic disease profiles in remote Aboriginal settings and implications for health services planning… Waist circumference and absolute risks of chronic diseases: evidence for establishing waist circumference cutoffs for Aboriginal Australians… Chronic diseases… for chronic diseases in rural and remote Indigenous communities is well known. On invitation, those… is 35% and improving.Conclusions: Chronic disease programs in Aboriginal communities need to…
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- s.kondalsamychennakes@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 46165494
Associate Professor Srinivas Kondalsamy Chennakesavan is the Head of Research at the University of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School. He also shares an honorary appointment at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. With a background in medicine and public health, his research expertise is in the area …
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Using large-scale data to explore the association between the use of chronic disease medical treatments and the risk of ovarian cancer… chronic disease medications and the risk of ovarian cancer. She also researches long-term health outcomes… all-cause, cardiovascular disease, cancer and other mortality by oophorectomy type (categorized as…
Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Epidemiology; Health Sciences; Epidemiology;- Email:
- k.tuesley@uq.edu.au
Karen Tuesley is an early career researcher at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Karen’s research focuses on women’s health and cancer epidemiology using large longitudinal datasets. Her PhD research used large-scale data to explore the associations between the use of chroni …
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Risk factors for COVID-19 infection, disease severity and related deaths in Africa: a systematic review… Chronic diseases… services research, chronic disease, and public health.… of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, high prevalence of tobacco consumption and low levels of…
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- d.shifti@uq.edu.au
Dr Desalegn Markos Shifti (PhD, MSc, BSc) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Child Health Research Centre (CHRC) at the University of Queensland. He is currently engaged in the comprehensive investigation of the prevalence, natural history, causes and consequences of allergic diseases.
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Principal Research Fellow
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
A comparison of the association between socioeconomic position and cardiovascular disease risk… Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Disease (CRE WaND): Prevention and Detection… chronic disease/multi-morbidity… Centre for Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Disease (CRE WaND… of women's reproductive health in relation to chronic disease risk by pooling individual participant…
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- l.tooth@sph.uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 64691
A/Prof Leigh Tooth is a Principal Research Fellow who specialises in research on maternal and child health and general women's health, in particular on women carers, health inequalities and the socio-economic determinants of health, quality of life and comorbidity.
A/Prof Leigh Tooth is currently P …
I have successfully led several major research projects which have focussed on elements of the Australian health care system. Several of my research publications and reports have informed health policy, for example by:
· Delivering policy recommendations about the use and impact of Medicare and DV …
