Infectious Diseases

Temitope Adepoyibi
Topic: Technologies and approaches for the detection of communicable and non-communicable
diseases in low-resource settings
Supervisors: A/Professor Heather Gidding and Professor Richard Taylor

Joel Aik Cze

Topic: Retail Food Protection in Singapore
Supervisors: A/Professor Anthony Newall, Dr Anita Heywood and A/Professor Martyn Kirk

Catarina Aneman
Topic: The burden and prevention of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the Australian hospital
setting: Setting the scene for the introduction of a new vaccine.
Supervisors: Dr Holly Seale and Professor Raina MacIntyre

Diana Arachi
Topic: Network analysis for health
Supervisors: Professor Siaw-Teng Liaw (UNSW), Professor Enrico Coiera (Center for Health
Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation)

Syed Azim
Topic: Establishing the most appropriates statistical analysis for patient safety data
Supervisors: Professor Mary-Louise McLaws and Dr Bayzid Rahman

Mattew Begun
Topic: Individual based models for assessing the impact of case-based interventions on Tuberculosis
Supervisors: A/Professor James Wood, A/Prof Anthony Newall and Professor Guy Marks

Abu Bhuiyan
Topic: Factors influencing the acceptance & adoption of EMR in low resource settings: A case study
in Bangladesh
Supervisors: Dr Padmanesa Narasimhan and Professor Pradeep Ray

Alexander Cardenas
Topic: Impact of Education, Demographics and Professional Culture, on Paramedic Infection Control
Decision Making
Supervisors: A/Professor Joanne Travaglia and Professor Raina MacIntyre

Abrar Chughtai
Topic: Face masks in the protection of healthcare workers in resource poor settings
Supervisors: Dr Holly Seale, Professor Raina MacIntyre, Professor Amal Bassili and Professor
Dominic Dwyer

Minh Cuong Duong

Topic: HCV infection in haemodialysis patients with end-stage renal disease, Ho Chi Min City
Supervisors: Professor Mary-Louise McLaws; Dr Dariusz P. Olszyna (Division of Infectious Diseases,
National University Hospital, Singapore)

Christine Cooper
Topic: Conduct qualitative research to elucidate the barriers of pneumococcal vaccination of the
elderly in the hospital setting
Supervisors: Dr Anita Heywood and Professor Raina MacIntyre

Valentina Costantino
Topic: Modelling the impact of zoster vaccine on zoster morbidity in Australia.
Supervisors: A/Professor James Wood and A/Professor Heather Gidding

Laura Davison
Topic: Private sector engagement in immunization in the Western Pacific Region
Supervisors: Dr Anita Heywood, Dr Alexander Rosewell and Dr Robert Menzies

Sevan Dirmesropian
Topic: The impact and cost effectiveness of vaccine programs in elderly: Understanding the
interaction between infant and elderly vaccinat