Dr Jake O'Brien

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow

Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
j.obrien2@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 32448

Overview

Jake O’Brien is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS). He has a keen interest in wastewater-based epidemiology and his PhD focussed on refining the uncertainties and expansion of wastewater-based epidemiology for assessing population exposure to chemicals (conferred in 2017, UQ).

As a research focussed academic, he is interested in wastewater-based epidemiology, developing techniques for monitoring antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance at the population level, understanding the fate of chemicals both within the sewer network and in wastewater treatment plants, developing analytical methods for chemicals of emerging concern, and characterising plastics within biological and environmental samples. Jake is also a Chief Investigator on the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program funded by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Science with Honours Class 1, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • Tscharke, B, O'Brien, J., Reeks, T., Elisei, G., Grant, S., Mueller, J., Thomas, K., Ghetia, M., Bade, R., Nguyen, L., Gerber, C. and White, J. (2019). National wastewater drug monitoring program - report 8. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

  • Tscharke, B., Reeks, T., Elisei, G., O'Brien, J., Grant, S., Mueller, J., Thomas, K., Ghetia, M., Bade, R., Nguyen, L., Gerber, C. and White, J. (2019). National wastewater drug monitoring program - report 7. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

  • Tscharke, B., Mackie, R., O’Brien, J., Grant, S., Mueller, J., Thomas, K., Ghetia, M., Bade, R., Gerber, C. and White, J. (2018). National wastewater drug monitoring program: sixth report. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

  • Tscharke, Bengamine J., Mackie, Rachel, O'Brien, Jake W., Grant, Sharon, Mueller, Jochen, Ghetia, Maulik, Aghera, Hetal, Bade, Richard, Gerber, Cobus and White, Jason (2018). National wastewater drug monitoring program - report 5. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

  • Tscharke, Ben, Mackie, Rachel, O'Brien, Jake, Grant, Sharon, Mueller, Jochen, Ghetia, Maulik, Aghera, Hetal, Bade, Richard, Gerber, Cobus and White, Jason (2018). National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program - Report 4. -:

  • Tscharke, Ben, Mackie, Rachel, O'Brien, Jake, Grant, Sharon, Mueller, Jochen, Ghetia, Maulik, Aghera, Hetal, Bade, Richard, Gerber, Cobus and White, Jason (2017). National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program – Report 3. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

  • Tscharke, Ben, Mackie, Rachel, O'Brien, Jake, Grant, Sharon, Mueller, Jochen, Bade, Richard, Ghetia, Maulik, Gerber, Cobus and White, Jason (2017). National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program - Report 2. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

  • O'Brien, Jake (2017). Refining the uncertainties and expansion of wastewater-based epidemiology for assessing population exposure to chemicals. PhD Thesis, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.420

  • O'Brien, Jake, Grant, Sharon, Mueller, Jochen, Tscharke, Ben, Gerber, Cobus and White, Jason (2017). National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program - Report 1. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

Completed Supervision