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DR JULIE SIMPSON



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN BIOSTATISTICS (MEGA)
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Work: 8344 4000
Room: 222
Level: 02
Building: 723 Swanston St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Tropical Medicine, Population pharmacokinetics Australia, England, Thailand

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Degree University of Melbourne 01-Dec-1990
Post Graduate Diploma University of Cambridge 30-Jun-1992
PhD The Open University 01-Jul-2001

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Design of Antimalarial Pharmacokinetic Studies Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009

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 2009

Journal Articles

  • Antibodies to Variant Surface Antigens of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes Are Associated with Protection from Treatment Failure and the Development of Anemia in Pregnancy


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 200
    Page numbers: 299-306
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  • Evaluation of an FFQ for assessment of antioxidant intake using plasma biomarkers in an ethically diverse population


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Public Health Nutrition
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2438-2447
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  • Fat consumption and its association with age-related macular degeneration


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Archives of Ophthalmology
    Volume: 127
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 674-680
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  • Reduced rates of primary joint replacement for osteoarthritis in Italian and Greek migrants to Australia: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Arthritis Research & Therapy
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: R86
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  • Adolescents' use of purpose built shade in secondary schools: cluster randomised controlled trial
    Year: 2009
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 338
    Page numbers: b95
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  • Population pharmacokinetics of artesunate and amodiaquine in African children
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Malaria Journal
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 200-213
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  • Red meat and chicken consumption and its association with age-related macular degeneration
    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 169
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 867-876
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  • Red meat and chicken consumption and its association with age-related macular degeneration. Reply
    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 170
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 532-533
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  • Relationship between body adiposity measures and risk of primary knee and hip replacement for osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Arthritis Research & Therapy
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: R31
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  • Relevance of the hygiene hypothesis to early vs. late onset allergic rhinitis
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Allergy
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 370-378
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  • Towards optimal design for anti-malarial pharmacokinetic studies
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Malaria Journal
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 189-195
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Acquisition of growth-inhibitory antibodies agains blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum
    Year: 2008
    Journal: PLoS One
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: e3571-3579
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  • Alcohol consumption and the risk of age-related macular degeneration: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Ophthalmology
    Volume: 145
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 707-715
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  • Appearance of melanocytic nevi on the backs of young Australian children: a 7-year longitudinal study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Melanoma Research
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 22-28
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  • Dietary omega-3 fatty acid and fish intake in the primary prevention of age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Archives of Ophthalmology
    Volume: 126
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 826-833
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  • Ethnicity and risk for colorectal cancers showing somatic BRAF V600E mutation or CpG island methylator phenotype
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1774-1780
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  • Impact of tobacco control policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1443-1450
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  • Simplified antimalarial therapeutic monitoring: using the 7-day drug level?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Trends in Parasitology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 159-163
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  • Smoking and inadequate housing: Results from an Australian national survey
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Public Health
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 873-877
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  • Statistical models for assessing agreement in method comparison studies with replicate measurements
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Biostatistics
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 16
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A comparison of adiposity measures as predictors of all-cause mortality: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Obesity
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 994-1003
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  • Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular mortality accounting for possible misclassification of intake: 11-year follow-up of the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 102
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1574-1585
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  • Comparison of different methods for including 'age at menopause' in analyses of the association between hormone replacement therapy use and breast cancer
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 11-16
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  • Dietary antioxidants and primary prevention of age related macular degeneration: systematic review and meta-analysis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 335
    Issue: 7623
    Page numbers: 755
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  • Plasma phospholipid fatty acid composition as a biomarker of habitual dietary fat intake in an ethnically diverse cohort
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 415-26
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  • Time spent outdoors at midday and children's body mass index
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 97
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 306-310
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Dietary carbohydrate, fibre, glycaemic index, glycaemic load and the risk fo postmenopausal breast cancer
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of Cancer
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 1843-1847
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  • Neurological status of low-risk Vietnamese newborns: A comparison with a British newborn cohort
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Health Population and Nutrition
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-63
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  • Population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modelling of the antimalarial chemotherapy chlorproguanil/dapsone
    Year: 2006
    Journal: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 289-300
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  • Population pharmacokinetics of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin following intra-rectal dosing of artesunate in malaria patients
    Year: 2006
    Journal: PLoS Medicine
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2113-2123
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  • Ultraviolet radiation at places of residence and the development of melanocytic nevi in children (Australia)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cancer Causes & Control
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 103-107
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A comparison of estradiol levels between women with a hysterectomy and ovarian conservation and women with an intact uterus
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Climacteric
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 300-303
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  • Data from a study of effectiveness suggested potential prognostic factors related to the patterns of shoulder pain
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 823-830
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  • Dietary carbohydrate, fibre, glycaemic index, glycaemic load and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Cancer
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 1843-1847
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  • Sun protection and the development of melanocytic nevi in children
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2873-2876
    Publisher: American Association for Cancer Research(Alabama)
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  • The prevalance of ear, nose and throat problems in the community: results from a national cross-sectional postal survey in Scotland
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Family Practice
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 227-233
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Artesunate combinations for treatment of malaria: meta-analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 363
    Page numbers: 9-17
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Statistics Revisited: A Review for Contributors and Readers.  Size does matter.


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-11
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  • A randomized controlled trial of spiritual healing in restricted neck movement
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 467-477
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  • An evidence-based specialist breast nurse role in practice: a multicentre implementation study.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Cancer Care
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 91-97
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • An ultrastructural study of the brain in fatal Plasmodium falciparum malaria
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 69
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 345-359
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  • Delayed visual maturation in Karen refugee infants
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 193-204
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  • Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: four year follow up of a randomised controlled trial in pimary care
    Year: 2003
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 326
    Issue: 7380
    Page numbers: 84
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  • Statistical approaches for assessing the relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire: use of correlation coefficients and the kappa statistic
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Public Health Nutrition
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 313-321
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Statistics Revisited: A Review for Contributors and Readers.  From samples to populations: Estimation and hypothesis testing


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 101-104
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  • Statistics Revisited: A Review for Contributors and Readers.  Measuring risk: How, when and why?


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 159-161
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  • A new approach for neurological evaluation of infants in resource-poor settings
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 355-368
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  • Evaluation of the World Health Organization standard tourniquet test and an modified tourniquet test in the diagnosis of dengue infection in Viet Nam
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Tropical Medicine & International Health
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 125-132
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  • General practice consultation rates for mothers and babies in the first year after birth according to place of birth. A descriptive study in one general practice
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Primary Health Care Research and Development
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 212-225
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  • Haemoglobin E: a balanced polymorphism protective against high parasitemias and thus severe P falciparum malaria
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Blood
    Volume: 100
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1172-1176
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  • Population dynamics of untreated Plasmodium falciparum malaria within the adult human host during the expansion pahse of the infections
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Parasitology
    Volume: 124
    Page numbers: 247-263
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  • The Aberdeen Trauma Screening Index: an instrument to predict post-accident psychopathology
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 863-871
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  • The contribution of cohort studies to prescribing research
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 151-156
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  • The effect of folic acid supplementation on plasma homocysteine in an elderly population
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 27-35
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  • The influence of body weight on the pharmacokinetics of mefloquine
    Year: 2002
    Journal: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 337-340
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  • What is the role of double-marking? Evidence from an undergraduate medical course
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Education for Primary Care
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 497-503
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Risk factors for typhoid fever in the Mekong delta, southern Viet Name: a case-control study


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 19-23
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  • Statistics Revisited: A Review for Contributors and Readers.  Summarising data


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 234-236
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  • A double-blind randomized therapeutic trial of insect repellents for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 137-138
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  • Acute management of Dengue Shock Syndrome: A randomized double-blind comparison of 4 intravenous fluid regimens in the first hour
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 204-213
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  • Acute management of Dengue Shock Syndrome: A randomized double-blind comparison of 4 intravenous fluid regimens in the first hour
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 204-213
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  • Factors contributing to anemia after uncomplicated falciparum malaria
    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 612-622
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  • How can we do pharmacokinetic studies in the tropics?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 347-351
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  • Postpartum thiamine deficiency in a Karen displaced population 1-3
    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 74
    Page numbers: 808-813
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  • Safety of the insect repellent N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) in pregnancy
    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 285-289
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  • Should postal epidemiological studies stop doing third mailings?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The European Journal of General Practice
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 103-108
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