Research topics
Here you will find an aphabetical list of the School's current research students and their research topics. There are also a range of other research opportunities in the School that are available for potential research students.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Barbara-Ann Adelstein
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Blood and guts: screening for colorectal cancer.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2002
Supervisor: Les Irwig
Yousif Al Hosani
Candidature: Full-time DrPH
Topic: The economic impact of the motor vehicle accident on health care expenditure in the United Arab Emirates.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2003
Supervisor: Mark Stevenson
Kate Anderson
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Psychosocial factors affecting equity in the treatment of end-stage kidney disease.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Joan Cunningham
Alireza Ansary Moghaddam
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: The study of multi-state model survival analysis and its application to oesophagus and stomach cancers together with other disease.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Mark Woodward
Clare Ashton
Candidature: Part-time MPhilPH
Topic: The contribution of Karitane to the public health of NSW, 1923-2000.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Judith Godden
Jun Bai
Candidature: Full-time DrPH
Topic: Risk factors of pregnancy outcomes.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2000
Supervisor: Adrian Bauman
Lisa Barnett
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Northern Rivers Schools Physical Activity and Skills Survey (PASS)
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Michael Booth
Katy Bell
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Monitoring for initial response in rheumatoid diseases.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Les Irwig
William Bellew
Candidature: Full-time DrPH
Topic: Comprehensive programs for physical activity promotion: evidence based intervention strategies, perceived investment thresholds for effectiveness and factors influencing decisions of policy makers.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2004
Supervisor: Adrian Bauman
Sharon Bonython-Ericson
Candidature: Full-time MPhilPH
Topic: The use of health promotion strategies to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in their understanding and complicance with medication in the pharmacy.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Marilyn Wise
Anne Marie Boxall
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: An investigation into the factors that sustain universal health insurance policy in Australia
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Stephen Leeder
Nicola Brake
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Optimising self concepts in children, adolescents and young adults.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Michael Booth
Julie Anne Brown
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: A case control study of brain and other tumous in adults and exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic energy in the use of mobile phones.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Adam Buckmaster
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: A randomised controlled trial of head box oxygen versus continuous positive pressure for neonatal respiratory distress in non tertiary hospitals.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: David Henderson-Smart
Michelle Cagney
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Seroepidemiology of pertussis in Australia.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2000
Supervisor: Peter McIntyre
Janice Chan
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: The effectiveness of service mammography screening in reducing breast cancer in NSW.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Susan Quine
Wan Qing (Sam) Chen
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: The pattern of care for melanoma in NSW.
Commenced: Sem1, 2006
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Anthony Cheung
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Evaluation of predictors for pregnancy success following assisted reproductive technologies.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2003
Supervisor: Les Irwig
Lee Chin
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Building design and quality of life for people residing in aged care facilities.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Susan Quine
Timothy Churches
Candidature: Full-time MPhilPH
Topic: Failure of tubal surgical sterilization in NSW: a population-based study.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Bob Cumming
Miriam Codarini
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Development of a diagnostic computer decision aid support system for children presenting with fever.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Christine Cowie
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Air quality and respiratory health study.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Guy Marks
Nick Cross
Candidature: Full-time PhD, Part-time MM(Clin Epi)
Topic: Clinical monitoring in renal transplant recipients.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Anne Cust
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: The relationship between physical activity, anthropometry and cancer risk: epidemiology and methodological issues.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2004
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Viet Dang
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Risk of getting traffic injuries in children under 18 years old and determinants of traffic injuries in Vietnam.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2004
Supervisor: Mark Stevenson
Elizabeth Davey
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: How the prevention of cervical cancer can be improved by new methods of screening and testing.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Les Irwig
Heather Davey
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Communicating information to women about diagnostic tests for breast disease.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Alex Barratt
Scott Davis
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Community capacity development in an Indigenous context.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Susan Quine
Deborah Donoghue
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Measuring the influence of networking, audit and feedback on outcomes and compliance with the guidelines in the special care nurseries of Queensland.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: John Beard, David Henderson-Smart
Arul Earnest
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Addressing issues in ecological bias, boundary analysis and formulation of the adjacency matrix in Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of sparse disease counts.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: John Beard
Shaun Edwards
Candidature: Full-time MPhilPH
Topic: Path Wadar Kanbar Nyek - Good health once before once after.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Marilyn Wise
Paul Elbourne
Candidature: Full-time MPhilPH
Topic: Otitis media.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Marilyn Wise
Elizabeth Elliott
Candidature: Part-time MPhilPH
Topic: Haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Australia.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2002
Supervisor: Bob Cumming
Guy Eslick
Candidature: Full-time DrPH
Topic: Environmental and genetic epidemiology of obesity and gastrointestinal cancers.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Patrizia Fiorillo
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Mental health risk assessment and management in an emergency department.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Peter Sainsbury
Richard Franklin
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Completeness of data - looking at the farming population.
Commenced: Sem 2, 1999
Supervisor: Lyn Fragar
Davina Ghersi
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Quality and randomised trials.
Commenced: Sem 1, 1997
Supervisor: John Simes
Peter Grimison
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Integrating quality of life data to improve decision-making about cancer treatments.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Martin Stockler
Hasantha Gunasekera
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Otitis media in Aboriginal children in urban and regional centres in NSW.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
John Hall
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Do the policies of international agencies on breast feeding have an impact on breast feeding outcomes in Cambodia?
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: James Gillespie
James Harrison
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Improving colorectal cancer care.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Jane Young
Annabelle Hartnell
Candidature: Full-time MPhilPH
Topic: Evaluation of school-based programs to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes among indigenous and non-indigenous people.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Marilyn Wise
Leigh Haysom
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Antecedents of renal disease in Aboriginal children.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Shane Hearn
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Increasing Indigenous education participation rates and closing the education attainment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Don Nutbeam
Joan Henderson
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: The effect of computerisation on the quality of general practice care.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Helena Britt
Klara Henderson
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: HIV as a public policy issue in Timor-Leste 1999-2005.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Jim Gillespie
Reece Hinchcliff
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Barriers to the transformation of road safety research into NSW state government policy.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Rebecca Ivers
Jean Hollis
Candidature: Part-time MPhilPH
Topic: Antipsychotic dispensing and odds ratio at death.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Bob Cumming
Kirsten Howard
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: The value of information in screening programs and diagnostic tests.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2002
Supervisor: Glenn Salkeld
Michelle Irving
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Implementation of guidelines in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Tipaporn Kanjanarach
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Indicators for rapid assessment of rational use of antibacterial drugs in communities.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Bob Cumming
Mary Kolandai
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Transformation of the Japanese tobacco industry and the smoking culture by transnational tobacco companies and its impact on tobacco control policy.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2003
Supervisor: Simon Chapman
Andrew Laming
Candidature: Part-time MPhilPH
Topic: Azithromycin and trachoma in indigenous communities.
Commenced: Sem 2, 1996
Supervisor: Bart Currie
Bon Lee
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: The effectiveness of urinary anticeptives in preventing urinary tract infections in patients with spinal injuries or disease and its affect on underlying bacterial populations in the urinary tract.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Judy Simpson
Crystal Lee
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Ethnic comparisons of obesity and its co-morbidities in the Asia Pacific region.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005.
Supervisor: Mark Woodward
Sophia Leon de la Barra
Candidature: Full-time MPhilPH
Topic: Capacity building in indigenous health research workforce.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Sally Redman
Stephen Li
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Internet-based identification and intervention in familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2003
Supervisor: Bruce Neal
Yan (Nicole) Li
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Novel dietary strategies for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in China.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Bruce Neal
Beverley Lloyd
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Young women, multiple roles and mental health.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2001
Supervisor: Susan Quine
Jane Lloyd
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Implementing Aboriginal Health Policy in Australia: A
Case Study of the Northern Territory Preventable Chronic Disease Strategy.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Marilyn Wise
Christine Madronio
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Patterns of care in melanoma.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006.
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Martin McNamara
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: A model for development of health promotion infrastructure in Western Pacific countries.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2001
Supervisor: Marilyn Wise
Robert Menzies
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Indigenous immunisation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Peter McIntyre
Masoud Mirzaei
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Global epidemics of coronary heart disease.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Stephen Leeder
Angela Morrow
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: The effects of feeding interventions on the quality of life in children with cerebral palsy and their parents: Towards the development of a child-centred quality of life measure.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Visalini Nair Shalliker
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Role of vitamin D and prostate cancer.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Natasha Nassar
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Development and evaluation of a decision aid for pregnant women with a breech presentation at term.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Christine Roberts
Anthony Newall
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: A model for evidence-based introduction of a new vaccine to Australia: human papilloma virus vaccine.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Raina MacIntyre
Byeongsang Oh
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Mind-body medicine: medical Qigong for cancer care.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Phyllis Butow
Kirrily Pollock
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: To establish a baseline of injury and relevant risk factors in populations of farmers, families and workers in NSW and factors associated with improved OHS risk management and to examine changes over a 2 year period as an evaluation of programs involved in improving farm OHS.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Lyn Fragar
Md Bayzidur Rahman
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Colorectal cancer and disinfection by-products in drinking water.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Camille Raynes-Greenow
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: A randomised control trial of a decision aid for the management of pain in labour of childbirth.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2001
Supervisor: Christine Roberts
Gemma Ritchie
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Patterns of coronary disease care in the Asia-Pacific region.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Tony Keech
Holly Seale
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: The epidemiology of two viral diseases to inform new vaccination programs: cytomegalovirus and pandemic influenza.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Raina MacIntyre
Catherine Sefton
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Collaboration in competitive context: the formation and maintenance of constructive alliances among organisations.
Commenced: Sem 1, 1999
Supervisor: Simon Chapman
Sue Selden
Candidature:Part-time PhD
Topic: The rhetoric, the reality: The promise of primary health care: can a health service deliver to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities of far West NSW?
Commenced: Sem 2, 1998
Supervisor: David Lyle
Mohamud Sheikh
Candidature: Full-time DrPH
Topic: Cultural barriers to the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in refugees: A focus on the Somali population in Australia.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2005
Supervisor: Raina MacIntyre
Swati Shourie
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Pre-operative intervention for excessive alcohol consumption among elective surgery patients.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2000
Supervisor: Paul Haber
David Smith
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Care and outcomes of care for prostate cancer.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2000
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Fiona Stanaway
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: HIV treatment monitoring in resource poor settings.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2006
Supervisor: Les Irwig
Giovanni Strippoli
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Screening and therapeutic approaches for prevention of end stage kidney disease in low and high risk populations.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Premala Sureshkumar
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Urinary tract infection and daytime wetting: a population based cohort study.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2002
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Margaret Thomas
Candidature: Part-time DrPH
Topic: Variables determining the diffusion, dissemination and implementation of the results of health promotion practice-based research.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: George Rubin
William Thoo
Candidature: Part-time Master of Medicine
Topic: Falls in dementia.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Bob Cumming
Allison Tong
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Support for parents who have children with chronic kidney disease.
Commenced: Sem 2, 2005
Supervisor: Peter Sainsbury, Jonathan Craig
Lyndal Trevena
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: The identification of barriers to the application of evidence-based healthcare in general practice.
Commenced: Sem 2, 1999
Supervisor: Les Irwig
Alexander Voukelatos
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Preventing falls in older people through tai chi.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2001
Supervisor: Bob Cumming
Sandra Ware
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Estimation of completeness and adjustment of incidence rates for cancer in New South Wales.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Donna Waters
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Evidence and effectiveness in nursing.
Commenced: Sem 2, 1999
Supervisor: Alex Barratt
Angela Webster
Candidature: Full-time PhD
Topic: Immunosuppression and malignancy in end stage renal failure.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2003
Supervisor: Jonathan Craig
Leigh Wilson
Candidature: Part-time DrPH
Topic: The influences on infant care practices in Western Sydney: The early days and beyond.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2004
Supervisor: Susan Quine
Xue Qin Yu
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: Regional variation in cancer survival in NSW, 1980-1999.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2002
Supervisor: Bruce Armstrong
Audrey Zheluk
Candidature: Part-time PhD
Topic: HIV media advocacy in the Ukraine.
Commenced: Sem 1, 2002
Supervisor: Simon Chapman