Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Research interest
Research interests include Global Maternal and Child Health, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes, and Health disparities and outcomes.
Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action.
Are cause of death data for Shanghai fit for purpose? A retrospective study of medical records.
How advanced is the epidemiological transition in Papua New Guinea? New evidence from verbal autopsy.
Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data.
An egalitarian society? Widening inequalities in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases in Australia, 2006-16.
How reliable are self-reported estimates of birth registration completeness? Comparison with vital statistics systems.
Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
Assessing the quality of cause of death data in six high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
Widening inequalities in premature mortality in Australia, 2006-16
Effectiveness of training interventions to improve quality of medical certification of cause of death: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Slower increase in life expectancy in Australia than in other high income countries: the contributions of age and cause of death.
The setting of the rising sun? A recent comparative history of life expectancy trends in Japan and Australia.
Robustness of the Tariff method for diagnosing verbal autopsies: impact of additional site data on the relationship between symptom and cause.
Strengthening mortality data for health policy and planning: the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative in Latin America.
Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015
Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS): system-level considerations
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
Global and National Burden of Diseases and Injuries Among Children and Adolescents Between 1990 and 2013
Cause-specific mortality for 240 causes in China during 1990–2013: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress
Tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality in a large Australian cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence
Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies
A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems
New Strategy to Reduce the Global Burden of Stroke
Smoking Prevalence and Cigarette Consumption in 187 Countries, 1980-2012
Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis
Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods