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DR ROSS ANDREWS



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Organization: Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Diploma in Applied Science Swinburne University of Technology 31-Dec-1984
MApplEpi The Australian National University 31-Dec-1998
Master of Public Health Monash University 31-Dec-1995

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Clear not simple: An approach to community consultation for a maternal pneumococcal vaccine trial among Indigenous women in the Northern Territory of Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 2385-2388
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  • Epidemiology of Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis in tropical communities, Northern Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1694-1700
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  • Evaluating measles surveillance using laboratory-discarded notifications of measles-like illness during elimination
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epidemiology and Infection
    Volume: 135
    Page numbers: 1363-1368
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Adverse events following immunisation: desperately seeking surveillance
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 680-681
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  • Low Rates of Streptococcal Pharyngitis and High Rates of Pyoderma in Australian Aboriginal Communities Where Acute Rheumatic Fever Is Hyperendemic
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 683-9
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  • Measles surveillance in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 105-111
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  • Recovering Streptococci from the Throat, a Practical Alternative to Direct Plating in Remote Tropical Communities
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 547-552
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Assessment of vaccine coverage following the introduction of a publicly funded penumococcal vaccine program for the elderly in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 2756-2761
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Influenza and penumococcal vaccine coverage among a random sample of hospitalised persons aged 65 years or more, Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 283-288
    Publisher: Department of Health and Family Services
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  • Monitoring measles elimination in Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 58-63
    Publisher: Public Health Association of Australia(Curtin)
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  • Reliability of parental reports of head lice in their children
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 182
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 137-138
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Effectiveness of a publicly funded pneumococcal vaccination program against invasive pnuemococcal disease among the elderly in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 132-138
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Head lice prevalence in primary schools in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 616-619
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Mumps and rubella: a year of enhanced surveillance and laboratory testing
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Epidemiology and Infection
    Volume: 132
    Page numbers: 391-398
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • The number needed to vaccinate (NNV) and population extensions of the NNV: comparison of influenza and pneumococcal vaccine programmes for people aged 65 years and over.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 17-18
    Page numbers: 2192-2198
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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