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The Chair in Public Health is an independent academic position
of The University of Western Australia
supported by the Western Australian Department of Health
Chair in Pub l ic Heal th: 20 Years of Discovery a nd Advance
1994 -95 to 2013 -1 4 .
Perth: S chool of P opulat ion H ealt h , The University of Western Australia, 2014 .
Further information can be obtained from:
School of Population Health
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009 Australia.
Telephone: +61 (8) 6488 1261
Facsimile: +61 (8) 6488 1188
Email: feedback@sph.uwa.edu.au
Website: http://www.sph.uwa.edu.au/
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Chair in Public Health:
20 Years of Discovery and Advance
1994-95 to 2013-14
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
5
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
7
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
8
1. BACKGROUND
9
2. RESPONSIBILITIES
11
3. ACADEMIC DISCOVERY
13
4. ADVANCES IN THE PUBLIC’S
HEALTH
17
6. ADVANCES IN ACADEMIC
FOUNDATIONS
37
6.1 Brokering Consumer Partnerships
37
6.2 Bringing Health Science to UWA
37
6.3 Forging University Collaborations
38
6.4 Growing Graduate Research Training
39
6.5 Revitalising Post-Graduate Courses
40
6.6 Educating Future Medical Doctors
41
6.7 Forming a Nexus with the Law
42
6.8 Contributing to the NHMRC
42
6.9 Heading the Dept then the School
43
6.10 Serving within the University
43
4.1 Improving Rural Cancer Outcomes
17
4.2 Bettering Mental Health Outcomes
18
4.3 Raising Medication Safety Standards
19
APPENDICES
45
4.4 Striving for Cancer Chemoprophylaxis
20
APPENDIX A: Research Grants
45
4.5 Supporting Tobacco Control
20
APPENDIX B: Publications
51
4.6 Reducing Road Trauma
21
APPENDIX C: Presentations
74
4.7 Improving Surgical Care Quality & Safety
22
APPENDIX D: Research Supervision
81
4.8 Supporting Action on Alcohol and Obesity
23
APPENDIX E: Teaching Contributions
86
4.9 Fostering Evidence-Based Practice
24
APPENDIX F: Service Contributions
88
4.10 Informing the Public
25
APPENDIX G: Medal Citation
93
5. ADVANCES IN THE HEALTH
SYSTEM
27
5.1 Cultivating Indigenous Leaders
27
5.2 Creating the WA Data Linkage System
27
5.3 Demystifying Human Genomics
30
5.4 Training Linked Data Analysts
30
5.5 Introducing Spatial Analysis to Health
31
5.6 Evaluating Health Sponsorship
32
5.7 Coaching Health Service Leaders
32
5.8 Appraising Veterans’ Entitlements
33
5.9 Developing Health Services Research
33
5.10 Strengthening the PHAA
34
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FOREWORD
Public Health is the science and art of promoting health and prolonging life through the
organised efforts of society. It is often confused with public sector health services, but in fact
means something different. Although it shares common ground with the provision of health
care to individual patients and seeks to achieve a more effective system of health care from a
whole-of-population perspective, the concerns of public health extend well beyond
traditional health care system boundaries. There are international and moral obligations for
governments and communities at all levels to devise plans for the advancement of health in
the longer term. This concept of health is a broad one and includes, for example, efforts to
prevent crippling injuries or mental health problems. To succeed in advancing the public’s
health requires attention to many general aspects of the physical, social and economic
environments, as well as new policies and programs working across different sectors that
achieve better health in a way that is fair to all sections of the population.
The School of Population Health is proud to have hosted the State Government’s investment
in the Chair in Public Health during the first 20 years since the position was established in
1994. We remain deeply committed to the role of academic public health, and its sub
disciplines such as preventive and clinical epidemiology, health economics and health
promotion, in strengthening the Faculty, forging productive links across the Campus and
bringing research and learning closer to the community through exciting partnerships with
industry, government and community groups.
This report, describing the very considerable outcomes and benefits of the State’s
investment in the Chair in Public Health, arising in the first 20 years since Winthrop
Professor D’Arcy Holman was appointed, leaves one in no doubt that the investment in a
stronger academic foundation for public health in Western Australia has been a wise and
fruitful decision. Professor Holman has had both the privilege and the responsibility as the
first occupant of the post to define de novo how the role should be developed. It is
informative to observe from this report what constitutes the work of a Professor of Public
Health and the many ways in which this work has a positive influence on policy and practice
in the health system and in government. I trust that in his retirement, Professor Holman
will take with him the knowledge that, whilst the next Chair in Public Health will necessarily
adopt new approaches to meet different challenges in the decades ahead, what will endure
are Professor Holman’s high standards of professional dedication, scientific rigour and
productivity that are exemplified throughout the pages that follow.
I congratulate Professor Holman and the School’s staff, students and collaborators who have
worked with him on the many contributions they have made, and will continue to make, to
improving people’s health in Western Australia and abroad.
Professor Elizabeth Geelhoed
HEAD, SCHOOL OF POPULATION HEALTH
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AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this document is to account for the achievements of the first 20 years since
the UWA Chair in Public Health was established with support from the Western Australian
Department of Health. The Chair has a mandate to foster the academic discipline of public
health in Western Australia in a way that creates benefits for the general community, the
health sector and students and staff at the University. As the foundation occupant of the
Chair in Public Health, I have felt a heavy burden of responsibility to demonstrate the
outcomes and benefits that are consequent upon the generous support of my research,
teaching and service activities with public funds.
Part 3 of the Report summarises the productivity in traditional academic terms, supported
by the detailed lists in the Appendices. Thereafter the major emphasis in Parts 4, 5 and 6 is
given to outcomes most readily seen as advancing the people’s health status in Western
Australia, the planning and evaluation of the WA health system and the academic
foundations for grooming future health leaders in the State. Each of Parts 4, 5 and 6 offers a
selection of 10 short case studies that demonstrate the value of a Chair in Public Health in
supporting the declared mission of the WA Department of Health.
It is a source of both pleasure and humility that so many of the achievements chronicled in
this Report have arisen from partnerships with health industry groups, fellow researchers
and educators, and my valued students and staff. One of the great joys of my career has been
to experience the excitement of working together with the many committed individuals
whose names and photographs appear in the pages of the Report. Often I have been the
visible leader of the team, but at other times I have played an equally satisfying support role,
usually as a mentor or expert adviser. I am humbled in the knowledge that there is nothing
in this Report that could have been achieved without the contributions of my industry and
academic collaborators. The Report, above all, highlights the value of strong teamwork and
leadership at all levels to the effectiveness of public health efforts.
I should also like to acknowledge that my role as Foundation Professor has built on the work
of significant others, who have shaped the course of academic public health in Western
Australia. They include the founder and first Head of the UWA Department of Public
Health, Emeritus Professor Michael Hobbs; and Professors Bruce Armstrong and Fiona
Stanley, who as Director and Deputy Director of the NHMRC Research Unit in Epidemiology
and Preventive Medicine during the 1980s, established a tradition of international research
excellence that I inherited.
Finally, I wish to comment on an editorial matter. In a report such as this, it is difficult to
find the best form of narration, whether in the first or third person, that meets the
requirements of readability and objectivity. After trying several different styles, I opted for
an approach in which I refer to myself mostly as the ‘Professor of Public Health’ abbreviated
to PPH. I feel comfortable with this; it underlines that the decision to establish the Chair
was premised on the belief that supporting a ‘Professor of Public Health’ with State funds
would be a valuable initiative for the community. It is an honour to be have been chosen as
the first incumbent of this academic role, which is vital to the future health of the people of
Western Australia. I hope that history will eventually record that I was the first of many
generations of UWA Professors of Public Health.
Winthrop Professor D’Arcy Holman
CHAIR IN PUBLIC HEALTH
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ADR
Adverse Drug Reaction
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
DLA
Data Linkage Australia
GTP
Green Tea Polyphenols
IRCO
Improving Rural Cancer Outcomes
MPH
Master of Public Health
NHMRC
National Health and Medical Research Council
PHAA
Public Health Association of Australia
PHERP
Public Health Education and Research Program
PIM
Potentially Inappropriate Medication
PPH
Professor of Public Health
RCT
Randomised Controlled Trial
RMA
Repatriation Medical Authority
UWA
The University of Western Australia
WA
Western Australia
WADLS
Western Australian Data Linkage System
WADoH
Western Australian Department of Health
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1: BACKGROUND TO THE
CHAIR IN PUBLIC HEALTH
The Chair in Public Health is one of some
40 professorships in the Faculty of
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science of
The University of Western Australia
(UWA), funded in part or full by the State
Government, either directly by the
Western Australia Department of Health
(WADoH) or through one of the Perth
Teaching Hospitals. The Chair in Public
Health is the only one of these positions
concerned principally with population
health rather than provision of clinical
services.
In February 1991, the University’s case
was strengthened by the findings of an
independent review of the Master of
Public Health (MPH) degree program (the
Wood Review) and a Faculty decision to
establish an autonomous Department of
Public Health. In an exchange of letters
between the Commissioner of Health and
the Head of the UWA Division of
Dentistry and Medicine, between
September 1991 and July 1992, agreement
was reached on the conditions for
WADoH funding of a Chair in Public
Health.
A detailed case for State Government
support for a Professor of Public Health
was first submitted to the Minister for
Health in March 1987. The strategic value
of fostering the academic discipline of
public health in Western Australia was
identified in the following terms:

To undertake high quality research
into the causes and prevention of
common health problems in Australia
and into ways of providing efficient
and effective health services.
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To provide postgraduate training in
public health for staff in the health
sector.
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To ensure that future doctors are
adequately educated in public health
and preventive medicine.
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To provide independent and expert
advice to the State on public health
matters.
The conditions were accepted by the
University and subsequently the WADoH
gave written undertakings sufficient to
enable the Chair to be advertised as a
tenurable academic post. Winthrop
Professor D’Arcy Holman was selected by
the Senate Selection Committee from an
international field and commenced his
appointment in June 1994.
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2: RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE
CHAIR IN PUBLIC HEALTH
The occupant of the Chair in Public Health
is responsible to the Head of the School of
Population Health (or the Executive Dean
of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and
Health Science) and has a special
responsibility to provide leadership and to
foster excellence in research, teaching and
community service within the academic
discipline of Public Health in the School,
The University of Western Australia and
in the community generally.
According to the contract of appointment,
the Professor of Public Health shall:
1. Research:
1.1 demonstrate a personal commitment
to, and a high level of achievement in
scholarly research in public health,
and communicate that achievement to
others;
1.2 foster the research of other individuals
and groups within the Department and
related disciplines;
1.3 successfully supervise postgraduate
students and supervise postgraduate
research projects;
1.4 contribute to the development of
research policy; and
1.5 attract research resources.
2. Teaching:
2.1 demonstrate a distinguished personal
contribution and commitment to high
quality teaching at all levels; and
2.2 have an active role in the maintenance
of academic standards and in the
development of educational policy and
of curriculum areas within the
discipline;
3. Community Service:
3.1 provide leadership in community
affairs, particularly those related to the
discipline;
3.2 liaise and effectively communicate
with members of the community, and
where appropriate, professional and
industry bodies; and
3.3 develop an advisory and collaborative
relationship with the Western
Australian Department of Health and
accept the responsibilities that go with
that position of privilege;
4. Administration:
4.1 be involved in Departmental policy
development and administrative
matters; and
4.2 represent the discipline at
Departmental and University levels;
and
5. Other:
5.1 generate a commitment among the
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry to
the population health dimension of
their disciplines.
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3: ACADEMIC DISCOVERY
The following is a summary account of
traditional academic performance measures.
PUBLICATIONS
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Published 358 academic works in 19942013, including 283 peer-reviewed journal
articles, bringing career total to 521
academic works including 370 journal
articles.
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First authorship per se or by a supervised
student or postdoctoral fellow accounted
for 73% of journal articles.
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Citations to mid-2013 numbered 10,986,
including 5,005 since 2008. Ninety eight
works had >30 citations (highly cited by
NHMRC criteria), including 21 works with
>100 citations. h-index = 56; i10-index =
199. Proportion journal articles cited at
least once = 82%. The citations are high
given the number of works in Australasian
journals to maximise Australian policy and
practice impacts.

First author of the highest-cited journal
article ever to appear in the Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health (see
‘Ten citation classics’ ANZJPH 2008; 32:
105).

A list of publications appears in Appendix
B. A list of significant presentations and
conference papers appears in Appendix C.
RESEARCH GRANTS
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Awarded research grants valued at $64.8
million in 1994-2013, bringing career grant
earnings as a named investigator to $67.8
million (in 2013 Au$).
CIA (first named chief investigator) on a
medical research infrastructure grant,
1995-1997, awarded by the Lotteries
Commission of WA to create the now
iconic WA Data Linkage System.
CIA on a five-year extended NHMRC
Project Grant, 2001-2005, ranked in
category 7, ‘highest international quality
and research performance’. This required
every panel member to assign 7/7
independently. Selected as the public
health researcher to be professionally
profiled in the 2000 NHMRC Annual
Report.
CIA on Australia’s first and most
productive five-year NHMRC Population
Health Research Capacity Building Grant,
2003-2007. Its team investigators
generated 319 publications, 213
conference papers and 106 further
research grants.
CIA on a five-year Centre of Excellence in
Science and Innovation, 2006-2011,
awarded by the WA Government. The
Centre provided support to 41 PhD
students, published 351 peer-reviewed
journal articles and attracted $88.3 million
in out-of-state research revenue.
CIA on a five-year NHMRC Partnership
Project, 2010-2014, involving a large-scale
experimental trial of interventions to
improve rural cancer outcomes, ranked in
category 6 = ‘highly competitive’.
Numerous other NHMRC project and
program grants, including five NHMRC
project grants ranked in category 6, ‘highly
competitive’.

Supported and mentored 21 colleagues to
obtain their first research grant as CIA or
their first NHMRC grant as CIA by being
their senior co-investigator.
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A list of research grants appears in
Appendix A.
RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Responsible during 1994-2014 for
research training of 11 post-doctoral or
professional fellows; 33 candidates for the
PhD; 21 candidates for the MPH thesis or
dissertation; and 33 honours, medicine
and Aboriginal Research Award
candidates; bringing career total to 98
research trainees.
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Fourteen PhD graduates have received
honours or fellowships and 13 research
trainees have since achieved professorial
rank.
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Instigated a successful scheme to foster
participation of Indigenous Australians in
research training; recruited UWA’s first two
Indigenous lecturers in population health;
and supervised UWA’s first Indigenous
PhD in population health to successful
graduation.
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A list of research supervision roles and
candidates appears in Appendix D.
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TEACHING CONTRIBTIONS
SERVICE CONTRIBTIONS
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Teaching workload consistently around
double the UWA School of Population
Health average and the highest load in the
School each year in 2006-2011.
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Average SPOT score for overall
effectiveness of postgraduate teaching of
4.75 out of 5.00 (UWA average 3.7) with a
binary student satisfaction rating of 99.1%.
Participation in 1994-2014 as a member or
chair of 49 expert health policy groups at
international and national levels (often
representing WA), 33 such groups directly
at WA State level and 19 senior university
committees, bringing career total of such
contributions to 164 in number. A large
number of these roles involved significant
responsibility for authorship of reports.
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Unit coordinator in Health Policy and
Planning I and II 1991-1995; Epidemiology
1995; Foundations of Public Health 19962002; Leadership in Public Health 19972007; Scientific Basis of Health Services
1999; Introductory and Advanced Analysis
of Linked Health Data 2001-2013; Health
Administration 2003-2009; Leadership and
Management of Health Services 20082011. Supporting lecturer in Epidemiology
II 2012-2013.
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Instigator of the International Data Linkage
Network first convened in London in 2008
and inaugural directorship host 2008-2010.
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Two terms as the statutory board director
‘with public health expertise’ of the
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
in 1992-1997, a contested position filled by
elections conducted by the Public Health
Association of Australia.
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Contributions to the policy arm of NHMRC
as inaugural chair, Health Advancement
Standing Committee, and member,
National Health Advisory Committee in
1994-1996; and as a member of numerous
working groups.
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Contributions to the research arm of
NHMRC as member, Principal Research
Committee and chair, Enabling Grants
Committee in 2006-2009; member,
Program Grants Committee 2003-2005;
and chair of six Regional Grants
Interviewing Committees and Discipline
(Grant Review) Panels 1996-2003.
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Numerous high-level overseas and
Australian reviews, including the World
Health Organization, Canadian Institutes
for Health Research, Public Health
Research Committee of New Zealand,
NHMRC Public Health Committee, Public
Health Division of the Commonwealth
Health Department, Repatriation Medical
Authority and National Health Priority
Initiative.
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President, Cancer Council of Western
Australia in 1999-2003; vice-president
1998; council member 1997; and member,
Cancer Education Committee 1991-1997.
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Inaugural chair, Expert Medical Advisory
Panel, Health + Medicine in 1999-2014, an
award-winning weekly supplement in the
West Australia newspaper, providing
factual and balanced information on health
issues to the WA public.
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Designer of the world’s first internationally
successful training curriculum for linked
health data analysts, Introductory Analysis
of Linked Health Data and Advanced
Analysis of Linked Health Data, delivered
in five countries and four Australian states
2001-2013.
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Designer of Australia’s first nationally
successful Leadership in Public Health
professional development curriculum,
delivered in six Australian states in 19972009.
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Designer of national workshops on
Groundbreakers and Mythbusters of
Epidemiologic Thought and Data and
Biospecimen Law for Epidemiologists
delivered at the annual scientific meeting
of the Australasian Epidemiological
Association in 2011.
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Designer of WA’s successful Foundations
of Public Health inter-institutional core
MPH unit delivered at UWA and Curtin in
1996-2002.
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Principal architect of the Western
Australian Centre for Public Health, a
PHERP-funded multi-university consortium
established in 1995.
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Leader of an inter-faculty Task Force to
develop an undergraduate degree program
in Health Science at UWA established in
2000.
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A list of specific teaching contributions
appears in Appendix E.
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Director, HBF Health Benefits Fund Ltd in
2002-2012 and board chair, Healthguard
Health Benefits Funds Ltd 2005-2012, both
not-for-profit community organisations with
large turnovers.
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Chair, Ministerial Review of the Mental
Health Act 1996 and Criminal Law
(Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996
in Western Australia in 2002-2004.
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Independent chair, Road Safety Council of
Western Australia in 2009-2012 and
member, Road Safety Chief Executive
Officers Group 2011-2012.
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Chair of numerous other WA State expert
health policy groups including Steering
Committee for the Prevention, Early
Detection and Treatment of Cancer 19951998; Healthway Strategic Planning Forum
1999; Wagerup Medical Practitioners’
Forum 2001-2007; Health Standards and
Surveillance Council 2002-2003; and AMA
Healthway Healthier WA Awards 20082013.
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Inaugural head of the UWA School of
Population Health in 2002-2005, serving
previously as head of the UWA
Department of Public Health in 1996-1998.
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Chair, UWA Task Force for an
Undergraduate Degree Program in Health
Science in 1998 and inaugural chair, UWA
Health Science Program Committee 19992001.
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Chair, UWA Animal Ethics Committee in
2012-2014, including chair of both AECs
when UWA moved to a two committee
animal ethics system in 2014.
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Significant contributions to consumer and
community participation in health research:
appointed the first consumer advocate in
an Australian medical/health research
department in 1999, leading to many other
‘firsts’, including Australia’s inaugural
symposium on Involving People in
Research, sponsored by the NHMRC in
Perth in 2008.
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RECOGNITION
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Received the inaugural Healthway Award
for Innovation and Best Practice in Health
Promotion in 1998 from the WA Minister
for Health in recognition as architect of
Healthway’s evaluation program, which
had received national and international
acclaim and was replicated in the other
Health Promotion Foundations in Australia.
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Recognised for leadership in new degree
program development by naming of the
principal student prize for the Public Health
major in the UWA Bachelor of Health
Science established in 2000 as the CDJ
Holman Prize for Excellence in Public
Health.
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Awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia
in 2003 by the Australian Government for
‘services to medicine and as President of
the Cancer Foundation of Western
Australia’. The Centenary Medal was
awarded to Australians living at the time of
the commemoration of the nation’s first
100 years as a public recognition those
who had contributed to Australian Society
in a community or region, or particular
activity or profession.
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Awarded the Sidney Sax Public Health
Medal in 2006 by the Public Health
Association of Australia for ‘outstanding
contribution to promoting and protecting
the health of the community, solving public
health problems, advancing community
awareness of public health measures and
advancing the ideals and practice of equity
in the provision of health care’. The
Sidney Sax Medal is awarded annually to a
single Australian individual and is the
highest professional recognition provided
by the Association. The citation for the
Medal appears in Appendix G.
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Made a Permanent Guest Professor,
Zhejiang University Medical School,
People’s Republic of China in 2006.
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Noted to have the highest Socrates Score
for research performance of any UWA
academic, when the system began in
2007. The score of 102.4 compared with a
Medical Faculty average of 17.8 and a
University average for Level E of 43.8.
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Received the Citizenship Award in 2008
from the UWA School of Population Health
for ‘altruistic contributions devoted to
helping others and helping the School
overall to be more efficient, productive and
a good place to work and study’.
A list of specific service contributions
appears in Appendix F.
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Made a Fellow of the Public Health
Association of Australia in 2008.
Fellowship of the Association is an honour
conferred by its Board on members who
have made a significant contribution to
both the field of Public Health and the
Association.
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Awarded the Excellence in Teaching and
Student Support Certificate of
Commendation in 2009 by the UWA Health
Science Student Association.
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Received the Excellent Service to
Consumers Award in 2010 from the Health
Consumers Council of WA in recognition
of ‘commitment to and support for
community and consumer participation in
health research over the preceding
decade’. Also in 2010, received the
inaugural Consumer and Community
Participation Award of the Consumer and
Community Advisory Council, UWA School
of Population Health.
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Awarded the Francis Burt Chambers Law
Medal in 2010 by Murdoch University for
the most outstanding graduate in Law.
Also received the Freehills Prize in Law,
2006 (best overall academic performance
in part 2 units); LexisNexis Prize in
Contract Law 2006; LexisNexis Prize in
Constitutional Law 2006; Australian
Worker’s Union Prize for Excellence in
Employment Law 2007; LexisNexis Prize
in Torts 2007; Vice-Chancellor’s
Commendation for Academic Excellence
2007; Deacon’s Prize in Intellectual
Property Law 2008; Eldon Prize in Equity
2009; Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for
Academic Excellence 2009.
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Made an Honorary Professor, College of
Medicine, Swansea University, Wales in
2011.
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Received the inaugural Cancer Research
Career Achievement Award in 2013 of the
Cancer Council oof Western Australia.
The award goes to a senior cancer
researcher who has combined a history of
significant achievement in cancer research
with a strong record of leadership in
administration, advocacy and promotion of
cancer research, including mentoring of
junior researchers and inspiring the next
generation to take up careers in cancer
research.
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Awarded the Member of the Order of
Australia in 2014 by the Australian
Government for ‘services to medicine in
the fields of epidemiology and public
health’.
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4: ADVANCES
PUBLIC’S HEALTH
IN THE
Ten illustrative case studies
4.1 IMPROVING RURAL
CANCER OUTCOMES
Find Cancer Early: example of campaign messages
With NHMRC funding in 1997-2000, the
Professor of Public Health (PPH) supervised
Dr Sonj Hall’s PhD research on disparities in
health care and outcomes for people with
cancer. It showed that patients with prostate,
breast, colorectal and lung cancer in rural WA
experienced poorer access to curative or
reconstructive surgery and worse outcomes
than those living in metropolitan Perth.
This and other published research using the
WA Data Linkage System together with
reviews in NSW led to adoption of improving
rural cancer outcomes as a national priority by
the Community Affairs Standing Committee of
the Australian Parliamentary Senate, Cancer
Australia’s CanNET Program, and by the
Australian states including the WA Cancer and
Palliative Care Network. Subsequently, new
programs were implemented, directing
additional resources to regional areas.
The plight of rural cancer patients attracted the
attention of the AH Crawford Cancer
Treatment Society, which in partnership with
the Cancer Council WA, funded a rural cancer
research initiative to develop stronger
evidence-based solutions. A research team
led by General Practice Professor Jon Emery
and the PPH, together with Surgery Professor
Christobel Saunders and Oncologist Dr Kirsten
Auret was awarded these funds and used
them to prime a successful bid for a large
NHMRC Partnership Project grant awarded in
2010-2014 to an inter-agency collaboration
between the WADoH, Cancer Council WA and
UWA. Subsequently, resources for the project
were enhanced further by the Val Health
Research Lishman Foundation.
Significantly, the IRCO (Improving Rural
Cancer Outcomes) partnership has developed,
implemented and is now evaluating a bestprospects intervention, involving over 80% of
the regional WA population and delivered by a
Cancer Council field team led by Victoria Gray,
Emma Croager and Terry Slevin. Two
Interventions to reduce delay in rural cancer
presentation and treatment have been trialled
in a matrix arrangement to ensure that they
can be evaluated separately. The first targets
delays in symptom awareness and seeking
medical attention through the Find Cancer
Early campaign. The second aims to reduce
delays in diagnosis and specialist referral using
novel professional education methods at the
level of rural general practice.
The results of the IRCO trial, which has
already seen the delivery of new services in
regional WA, will be of international
significance in the fight against death and
morbidity caused by cancer.
Trial Coordinator Vicky Gray (centre), Professor Jon
Emery (behind), Terry Slevin and IRCO team members
The IRCO project is the most recent
contribution in a commitment to cancer control
that has spanned over the PPH’s entire career,
commencing in the WADoH Cancer Registry in
1973. Since then, one half of his 500 or so
scientific works have dealt with cancer
prevention, treatment and care, whereas some
30 newly trained cancer researchers have
received his supervision. Community service
in support of cancer control has included:
 Member of the Cancer Education
Committee, 1991-1997.
 A review of research funding in 1997-98,
resulting in adoption by the Cancer Council
of two-year grants and fellowships.
 President, 1999-2003, Deputy President
1998 and Member 1997 of the Cancer
Council’s governing board.
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Media work and expert advice, including
scientific review of commissioned reports
and information materials given to patients
and the general public.
The PPH’s presidency of the Cancer Council
saw many initiatives in cooperation with the
WADoH, including the opening of the Crawford
Lodge residential facility; regional cancer
centres; decentralisation of the Council’s
interest in hospice care; a new tobacco control
division taking over the Make Smoking History
and Quit campaigns from the Health
Department; the move to a new head office;
recruitment of two highly successful chief
executives; a large increase in public profile; a
State Cancer Conference; and the creation of
three new professorships in the behavioural
science of cancer; clinical cancer research and
palliative care.
In 2013, the PPH was presented with the
Cancer Council’s inaugural Cancer Research
Career Achievement Award. His voluntary
work for the Cancer Council was also cited
with his receipt of the Centenary Medal of
Australia.
4.2 BETTERING MENTAL
HEALTH OUTCOMES
Dr David Lawrence with WA Health Minister Bob
Kucera at the Launch of Duty to Care
This thread of advocacy and research began in
1997-1999 when the PPH and Psychiatry
Professor Assen Jablensky were awarded
NHMRC funding that enabled Dr David
Lawrence to complete a PhD based on a
ground-breaking study of the physical health
problems of 240,000 West Australians (8% of
the populations) who had used mental health
services in 1980-1999. The research
uncovered an abhorrent burden, characterised
by poor survival from chronic physical diseases
in people with mental disorders. The work
showed also that early post-discharge suicide
rates had worsened in mental health patients,
albeit that the biggest killer was their excess
mortality from heart disease.
With the assistance of Rebecca Coghlan,
appointed by the PPH to enhance consumer
participation in research, Dr Lawrence’s
research was transformed into an advocacy
strategy to advance the rights of mental health
patients to holistic health care, known as Duty
to Care. The was highly successful, with the
underlying research and Duty to Care lay
summary being cited extensively by
government reviews, including a $173 million
package to support better services unveiled by
the WA Government in 2004. One specific
manifestation was the WA Government’s
Healthright initiative, which used peer support
to improve health care access for chronic
diseases. The PPH donated well over
$100,000 in consultancy fees from chairing a
two-year review of WA mental health
legislation to contribute to Healthright as a new
service for people with mental illness.
The review of mental health legislation itself,
chaired by the PPH during 2002-2004, made
wide ranging recommendations to address
human rights and improve mental health
services, including improvements with respect
to holistic clinical assessment and discharge
planning directly as the result of Duty to Care.
A draft Mental Health Bill in response to the
‘Holman Report’ (as it has become known)
was released for public consultation by the WA
Mental Health Commission in 2011.
A working hypothesis arising from Dr
Lawrence’s work was that people with mental
illness might not participate sufficiently in
holistic health care provided by general
practice. This theory was subsequently proven
incorrect by Dr Bella (Qun) Mai’s PhD
research, supervised by the PPH, following the
award of Centre of Excellence in Science and
Innovation funds in 2005-2009. The Centre
resources enabled Commonwealth Medicare
and Pharmaceutical Benefits data to be linked
with WADoH mental health, hospital, cancer
and mortality data.
PPH with Health Department researcher Dr Bella Mai
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Dr Mai found that contrary to expectations,
most people with mental illness attended
general practitioners at higher than average
rates (a notable exception was the 4% with no
fixed address).
However, Dr Mai did observe evidence of
unacceptable differences in the quality of
primary care for chronic physical diseases in
people with mental illness, including
suboptimal clinical management of those with
diabetes and other causes of avoidable
hospitalisation. These results have only
recently appeared in the scientific literature
and are now being championed by the UWA
School of Population Consumer Advocate,
Anne McKenzie.
4.3 RAISING MEDICATION
SAFETY STANDARDS
Public media education on medication safety
Another thread of research with strong policy
implications began in 1993-94, when the PPH
supervised Dr Vivienne Dawes, whose MPH
thesis showed that hospital stays in WA
seniors for adverse drug reactions (ADRs)
doubled in the 1980s, mostly due to
cardiovascular medicines, antirheumatics and
cytotoxics. Opioids and corticosteroids were
also prominent. This work was updated in
2003 by Health Science Honours graduate,
Christel Burgess, who found a total increase by
2002 exceeding five-fold and that oral anticoagulants had joined the list of highest risk
drugs. By this time the recorded public burden
had risen to some 8,000 hospital episodes in
WA per annum from ADRs. An extension of
the work in 2007 by post-doctoral fellow,
Professor Min Zhang, found that repeat ADRs
had risen to become 30% of the overall
problem and were associated with multiple
comorbidity rather than a patient’s age.
The reports of these preliminary investigations
were highly cited and alerted quality use of
medicine proponents to a growing epidemic of
potentially avoidable hospitalisations from
ADRs in older Australians. They also provided
the impetus for a NHMRC-funded investigation
in which PhD candidate and WADoH data
analyst, Sylvie Price, commencing from 2006
has worked with the PPH and Professors Jon
Emery and Frank Sanfilippo to assess
accurately the burden of unplanned hospital
episodes from both the known high-risk drugs
and less well appreciated potentially
inappropriate medications (PIMs) in the elderly,
such as diazepam and temazepam.
Ms Price’s doctoral research is in the process
of reporting and examination and will have
major implications for policy and practice.
Using state-of-the-art methods of linked health
data analysis and taking advantage of the
linkage of Commonwealth Pharmaceutical
Benefits, Medicare and nursing home subsidy
data to WADoH hospital and mortality data
achieved by the Data Linkage Australia Centre
of Excellence in 2005-2009, she found that
routine coding of ADRs as a cause of
unplanned hospital admissions underestimated
the true level by up to 30-fold for different high
risk drugs.
Even more remarkable is the very substantial
hidden burden of unplanned hospitalisations
caused by the exposure of three quarters of
elderly Western Australians to PIMs. These
inappropriate medications may cause
unplanned hospital episodes through subtle
and indirect causal pathways. For example,
drowsiness from temazepam might cause an
elderly patient to fall and fracture their hip. Our
estimate was that exposure to PIMs in
Australian seniors accounts for around 15% of
all unplanned hospital admissions in the
exposed. The risks were particularly high in
nursing home residents and those taking
multiple medications.
Medication safety researcher, Sylvie Price
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This research has attracted strong community
involvement and consumer-driven initiatives,
leading to a 2010 Naming, Packaging and
Labelling of Medicine Report by the National
Prescribing Service and an agreement by the
Therapeutic Good Administration to conduct a
labelling and packaging review.
a large-scale experimental field trial of the use
of encapsulated green tea extract in cancer
chemoprophylaxis is warranted.
4.4 STRIVING FOR CANCER
CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS
Green tea polyphenols (GTPs) offer the
highest concentration of naturally occurring
anti-oxidants and inhibit cancer cells in
laboratory experiments. Evaluating their
effectiveness in humans has been a long term
goal of Professor Min Zhang, who joined the
PPH as a NHMRC post-doctoral fellow from
2004. The research has progressed in
systematic steps, starting with case-control
studies in South-East China, showing strong
inverse associations between intake of GTPs
and cancers of the breast, ovary and
leukaemia. These studies were followed in
2009 by an NHMRC-funded investigation of
molecular causal pathways whereby GTPs
could prevent or slow cancers of the breast,
large bowel and leukaemia in humans. The
latter study also validated the use of hospital
controls in Chinese case-control studies.
Green tea extract for use in clinical trials
compounded at Royal Perth Hospital
4.5 SUPPORTING TOBACCO
CONTROL
Prior to his UWA appointment, the PPH had
been lead author of The Quantification of DrugCaused Morbidity and Mortality in Australia,
which from 1988 had been the source of
Australia’s first national statistics on diseases
and deaths caused by tobacco, alcohol and
illicit drugs. At the time, the scientifically
defensible estimate that tobacco killed around
23,000 Australians per annum became an
influential fact, used to advocate for
progressing anti-tobacco legislation and other
tobacco control measures.
PPH with Director of Sino-Australian Green Tea Cancer
Research Collaboration, Professor Min Zhang
Most recently, this international collaborative
research program has implemented three
separate randomised controlled trials (RCTs)
of encapsulated green tea extract in patients
with a high risk of cancer or an early or
indolent form of leukaemia. These trials, two
in China and one in WA funded by the Cancer
Council are nearing completion. They include
an RCT of myeloplastic dysplasia undertaken
by doctoral candidate, Ping Liu, under
Professor Zhang and the PPH’s supervision.
The results of these preliminary RCTs are
expected to clarify if moving to the next step of
Chief Executive, National Heart Foundation WA,
Maurice Swanson, with a Holman invention
The methods originally developed during the
1980s by the PPH with collaborator and
mentor, Professor Bruce Armstrong, have
been followed extensively by the WADoH and
other health organisations in Australia and
throughout the world. They are, for example,
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used today by the Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare in its official statistics on
Australian deaths from smoking.
Throughout his career, the PPH has provided
professional support and advice to a legion of
users of these methods. During the last two
decades specifically, the PPH has continued to
lead and support the underpinning of tobacco
control efforts by rigorous scientific analysis.
Initiatives have included working with
Professor Dallas English and colleagues to
update the The Quantification of Drug-Caused
Morbidity and Mortality in Australia in 1994;
forming a multidisciplinary team with
Professors Rob Donovan and Billie Giles-Corti
to complete a comprehensive three-year
evaluation that demonstrated the effectiveness
of the WA Health Promotion Foundation in
replacing tobacco with health sponsorship of
sports, arts and racing events; and supervising
relevant MPH dissertations such as Maurice
Swanson’s product choice experiment,
showing the effectiveness of plain packaging,
an evaluation by the WADoH’s Gino Marinucci
of the Smoking in Enclosed Public Places
Regulations.
Other work has highlighted the adverse effects
of smoking on the life expectancy of Aboriginal
Australians and provided estimates of deaths
and hospital episodes caused by tobacco in
WA electoral districts in 2005-08 for use by the
Cancer Council in pre-election advocacy.
4.6 REDUCING ROAD
TRAUMA
PPH with Office of Road Safety
Executive Director, Iain Cameron
During 2009-2012, the PPH led the Road
Safety Council of WA, as its independent chair,
during a period of considerably increased
efforts to reduce WA’s excessive level of road
trauma. He inherited the newly released
Towards Zero road safety strategy and was
charged with leading its implementation
supported by a progressive increase from one
third to 100% of annual safety camera
revenues of $80 million or more being
allocated to WA’s Road Trauma Trust Account
to improve road safety outcomes.
Using an evidence-based approach, new
programs and plans were implemented to
tackle single-vehicle run-off-road and multivehicle intersection crashes by prioritising
stretches of regional roads and dangerous
intersections for safety treatments, including
audible edge lining, widened shoulders, wire
rope and other barriers, as well as right turn
green arrows, intersection safety cameras,
roundabouts and other devices to reduce entry
speeds and crash forces.
Road Safety Council members reviewing a fatal
run-off-road crash site
Other programs enhanced speed and drink
driving enforcement as well as safer vehicle
choices. The PPH led the design and
implementation of a system of performance
indicators to monitor progress and made
numerous media and other public
appearances to debunk common myths, such
as ‘low end speeding is safe’ and to advocate
for much needed policy and road law reforms.
A crucial and largely effective part of his
advocacy work was to resist the loss of the
precious new road safety funds to cost-shifting
schemes (paying for activities that had already
existed) and their use with popular yet
ineffectual measures in preventing road
trauma such as building more passing lanes
on WA regional roads when most victims died
in single vehicle crashes.
Other successes of the Council during his term
included being the first Australian jurisdiction to
introduce a minimum 5 star safety rating for
new government passenger vehicles (and a
timetable for introduction of a similar standard
for commercial vehicles); evidenced-based
young driver safety initiatives and laying the
foundation for WA’s alcohol interlock
legislation to be introduced to Parliament
during 2014.
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4.7 IMPROVING SURGICAL
CARE QUALITY & SAFETY
The Quality of Surgical Care Project began in
1996 as a collaborative venture of the Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons (WA
Branch), other clinical colleges, the UWA
Centre for Health Services Research
established by the PPH and the WADoH. It
remains unique in Australia and aims to
evaluate the safety, clinical epidemiology and
outcomes of surgical procedures with the
ultimate aim to recommend and evaluate
implementation of appropriate changes in
clinical practice to improve the quality of
surgical care in WA.
A team consisting of surgeons specialised in
the chosen procedure and one or more public
health researchers (usually Professor
Semmens or the PPH) investigated each
procedure, which included:
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Professor Semmens and Surgeon Leaders, Professors
David Fletcher and Michael Lawrence-Brown
Some 20 surgical procedures were initially
investigated using the WA Data Linkage
System and an NHMRC-funded program of
data enhancement and validation based on
hospital chart review (by 2012 more than 50
procedures or distinct clinical scenarios had
been evaluated). The Project was instigated
by the PPH and was subsequently led by
Professor James Semmens, whom the PPH
had recruited to the Centre for Health Services
Research, in collaboration with Dr Michael
Lawrence-Brown, Professor David Fletcher
and other senior surgeons.
Surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Carotid endarterectomy.
Breast-conserving surgery for breast
cancer.
Surgery for colorectal cancer.
Surgery for ovarian cancer.
Surgery for pancreatic cancer.
Surgery for prostate cancer.
Surgery for benign prostate disease.
Surgery and shock wave therapy for
urinary stones.
Vasectomy and its reversal.
Eye surgery for cataract.
Appendectomy.
Circumcism for medical indications.
Surgery and other treatments for chronic
low back pain.
Surgery for stress incontinence and pelvic
organ prolapse.
Prevention of post-operative venous
thrombosis.
The Quality of Surgical Care Project patented
a number of second generation initiatives with
further significant benefits to improved surgical
care. The award-winning Western Australian
Audit of Surgical Mortality, established by
Professor Semmens and surgeon Dr James
Aitkin in 2001 to independently review all
surgical deaths in WA, led to 73% of
participating surgeons adopting improvement
in their practice (participation by WA surgeons
is now mandatory) and has been extended as
a model throughout Australia and New
Zealand.
Another off-shoot has been the
Endophthalmitis Population Study of WA, led
by Professor Semmens and Dr Nigel Morlet,
which has confirmed the importance of
prophylactic use of anti-microbial ophthalmic
preparations prior to cataract surgery.
The College assumed ownership of the Project
and used the results to evaluate the quality of
surgical care in WA and to establish the
expected outcomes of care from competent
practice, as recommended by the Australian
Council on Health Care Standards. The
College established a Quality of Surgical Care
Committee, chaired by Professor Fletcher and
including surgical representatives from each
specialty, public health researchers, as well as
the Health Department’s Chief Medical Officer
and Information Centre General Manager.
Professor Semmens being honoured for his work by the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Still another area of surgical evaluation work
has been graduate research projects
improving consumer choice and surgical
outcomes undertaken by Fiona Hunt and Dr
Nicolas Tsokas on surgery for women’s pelvic
organ prolapse and by Elizabeth Lord,
Professor Judith Finn and Dr John Taylor, who
completed a randomised controlled trial
comparing the safety and effectiveness of two
different surgically implanted devices in the
treatment of stress incontinence.
4.8 SUPPORTING ACTION ON
ALCOHOL AND OBESITY
Second edition of Australia’s official statistics
on drug-caused deaths and illness
Under the direction of the National Drug
Strategy, in 1994-95 a UWA team led by
Professor Dallas English and the PPH
examined the epidemiologic evidence relating
more than 100 diseases and types of injury to
the use of tobacco, drinking alcohol unsafely
and abuse of illicit drugs. The project was a
massive undertaking, involving a literature
search and abstract review of some 10,000
scientific articles, and a series of metaregressions based on 2,700 studies.
The PPH assumed specific responsibility for
the quantification of alcohol-related harm to
health in the second edition of this work. A
new and improved method of estimation was
invented, based on a paradigm shift in which
the 'unsafe' drinker was compared with the
‘safe’ drinker; and not the drinker with the nondrinker.
The new method of estimating alcohol-related
harm to health was published and presented to
the Society for Epidemiologic Research, North
America’s leading scientific meeting on
advances in epidemiology. Scientific and
ethical aspect of this work were also the object
of an invited article in the Journal of the Royal
Society of Medicine, and led to an appointment
to advise the World Health Organization on the
health effects of alcohol (see below).
In preparation for a meeting of Ministers of the
European Economic Community to discuss
policies on alcohol, the World Health
Organization convened a working group of
international experts on alcohol-related harm to
health in Oslo in 1995. The PPH was invited to
attend and present as an expert on the
quantification of harm to health caused by
unsafe drinking patterns. The work of UWA
Public Health was used extensively in the
working group report.
The PPH and Professor English were
subsequently commissioned by the World
Health Organization to review the harmful
effects of unsafe alcohol consumption on
populations of non-European origin. They also
used the methods to publish validations in the
Medical Journal of Australia of NHMRC
recommendations on safe drinking levels and
of abstinence from alcohol in pregnancy.
The results of the project, which built on earlier
pioneering work by the PPH with Professor
Bruce Armstrong, provided the basis for an
update of Australia’s official health statistics on
drug-related harm. The study methods have
since been applied extensively at state and
local levels in Australia and replicated around
the world.
The WADoH has published numerous
substantive reports on drug-related health
statistics since 1995, using the HolmanArmstrong-English methodology, and the
methods and results were used to support the
Report of the WA Task Force on Drug Abuse.
Professor Dallas English (seated centre) with some of
the UWA research team quantifying drug-caused harm
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It other work in support of action on alcohol
misuse, the PPH and co-authors published
WA trend information using linked surveillance
data and quantified the contribution of unsafe
alcohol use to reduced life expectancy in
Indigenous Western Australians. Since 2011,
the PPH has been an active member of the
Alcohol Advertising Review Panel of the
McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and
Youth. In 2011, he also gave extensive
evidence before an inquiry by the WA
Parliament Health and Education Standing
Committee on reducing alcohol caused harm,
particularly in relation to road trauma caused
by alcohol misuse.
Whilst a different public health issue, action on
obesity has also been supported by the PPH
using scientific methods of analysis developed
from his involvement in research and advocacy
on alcohol caused harm. In 2009, in
collaboration with Fiona Hunt and Victoria
Gray, the PPH provided substantial analytical
support to the National Preventative Health
Taskforce, by quantifying the premature loss of
life that would occur in Australia from
overweight and obesity with and without
different intervention scenarios.
This work was noted for highlighting the fact
that, without intervention, Australian children of
today were destined for a life expectancy less
than that enjoyed by their parents. This fact
was used by the Commonwealth Minister for
Health in 2010 as her opening punch line when
releasing the Australian Government’s
response to the Taskforce report.
and economic evaluation. This followed from
the seminal work in evaluating the WA Health
Promotion Foundation (which later included an
economic evaluation component conducted by
Dr Delia Hendrie). Other work has focussed
on supporting the capacity of the WA health
system to undertake experimental and quasiexperimental evaluations of health care,
community and policy interventions. Examples
have included:
 The Falls Project, a randomised controlled
trial of the effectiveness of home hazard
reduction in the prevention of falls in the
community-dwelling elderly. The Project
was undertaken by WADoH Principal
Medical Officer, Dr Margaret Stevens, as
her PhD research supervised by the PPH.
The study found that the intervention was
ineffective, thus avoiding further waste of
resources.
 A product choice experiment to evaluate
plain packaging of cigarette packets
performed by the WADoH’s Director of
Health Promotion, Maurice Swanson, as
his MPH dissertation and supervised by
Professor Donovan and the PPH.
 A randomised controlled trial comparing
spiral computerised tomography with
intravenous pyelography in the diagnosis
of renal colic led by Royal Perth Hospital
consultant radiologist, Dr Richard
Mendelsohn. The PPH was a coinvestigator and advised on methods.
4.9 FOSTERING EVIDENCEBASED PRACTICE
CT Trial team members, Drs Delia Hendrie, Diane
Arnold-Reed, Richard Mendelsohn and Jim Anderson
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WA Health Department researcher, Dr Margaret Stevens
Important themes developed in relation to the
Chair in Public Health have been to foster
evidence-based public health policy, practice
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Quazi-experimental research by Professor
Rachael Moorin on the utilisation effects of
the Commonwealth’s lifetime health cover
policy and 30% rebate for private health
insurance on switching of demand from
the public to private hospital settings.
Professor Moorin’s PhD on this topic was
supervised by the PPH and found
evidence that the policy resulted in a
beneficial public to private shift in elective
surgery.
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A randomised controlled equivalence trial
of short-term complications and efficacy of
tension-free vaginal tape and suprapubic
urethral support sling for treating stress
incontinence led by MPH graduate,
Elizabeth Lord, and urogynaecological
surgeon, Dr John Taylor, from King
Edward Memorial Hospital for Women.
The PPH advised extensively on research
design, which showed a lesser need for
post-procedural adjustment in one device.
A randomised controlled trial of naltrexone
implant treatment compared with
methadone maintenance in heroin users
led by Professor Gary Hulse. The PPH
collaborated on preliminary research,
advised on methods and sat on the trial’s
monitoring committee.
A psychometric experiment in causal
inference in the evaluation by
epidemiologist of evidence of harmful
exposures led by the PPH.
Improving Rural Cancer Outcomes
(IRCO), a cluster randomised controlled
trial with factorial design presently on foot
to evaluate a best prospects intervention to
reduce delay in rural cancer presentation
and treatment. The trial is co-directed by
Professor Jon Emery and the PPH in
collaboration with Cancer Council WA and
the WADoH.
Brookdale Waste Treatment Facility; air quality
in Kalgoorlie; workers exposed to pesticides in
the Kimberley; cancer rates in Kwinana; the
Environmental Health Foundation; and a
strategic plan for chronic disease control
culminating in a workshop with the Clinical
Senate.
Internal reviews and reports for the WADoH
were produced by the PPH on recruitment and
training of public health physicians; the case
for a Public Health Leadership Institute (as
requested by the Department); and a short
review of Community Health Services. A policy
of no charge for advice given to Health
Department staff has always been observed.
Similarly, no charge was raised for the
supervision of Health Department projects
contracted to the Centre for Health Services
Research, nor for the time commitment of the
PPH to any other Health Department related
activity.
4.10 INFORMING THE
PUBLIC
In addition to the many collaborative research,
education and service initiatives described in
other sections of this report, the PPH has also
championed evidence-based policy and
practice by serving on numerous WADoH
policy committees, providing expert advice and
support. These have included the State Health
Goals and Targets Taskforce; Peak Advisory
Panel on STD Control; Steering Committee for
the Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment
of Cancer; Data Linkage Unit Management
Committee; consultant to the Health
Administration Review of 2001; Population
Health Advisory Council; Wagerup Medical
Practitioners’ Forum (including chair of three
public meetings with concerned residents, one
of which was a colloquium with three State
Government ministers, and extensive evidence
given before the WA Parliament Standing
Committee on Environment and Public Affairs);
Health Standard and Surveillance Council;
Ministerial Review of the Mental Health Act and
Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants)
Act; and WA Data Linkage Advisory Board.
The PPH has also provided expert advice on a
continuous ad hoc basis to many sections of
the WADoH on a wide range of public health
matters, including those above and also the
A sample of media headlines
The practice of Public Health is conducted in
the community. As a senior practitioner, as
well as a researcher and educator, the PPH
has been an active contributor to community
discussion on health issues. He has given
information, expert advice and informed
opinions on numerous occasions in the print,
radio and television media, and has worked
closely with health groups promoting public
health interests, including the Australian
Medical Association, Public Health
Association, Cancer Council WA, National
Heart Foundation and the WA Road Safety
Council.
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Within the general news sections of print
media and on talk-back radio, there have been
occasions when the PPH has been prepared to
be contentious by highlighting an important
public health issue in need of government
action in addition to community support. Few
threats to public health can be solved by
individual citizens alone, because they require
reforms to the physical, social or economic
environments for control measures to be
effective. The PPH has not shied away from
providing an independent critique in situations
where effective action by government is
waiting to be achieved. Equally, there have
been numerous occasions when media
statements by the PPH have praised the
government after progress has been
accomplished.
One of many awards won by the West Australian’s
Health + Medicine weekly supplement
Apart from hundreds of media interviews over
the last 20 years, the PPH has been an active
contributor to the West Australian’s mid-weekly
Health + Medicine supplement, which has
consistently provided the WA public with
balanced information on health issues sourced
from credible experts. In 1999, when H+M
began, the Editor of the West Australian
newspaper, Paul Murray, appointed the PPH
as chair of the H+M Expert Medical Advisory
Panel, a role that he has retained to the
present time. In this role, the PPH has advised
the newspaper on the credentials of potential
expert contributors, provided numerous
personal contributions to H+M articles within
his spheres of expertise and has reviewed and
maintained a minimum standard of medicoscientific evidence in support of
advertisements appearing in the supplement
and thus drawing from its credibility with the
public.
The PPH has also been active in providing
scientific support to the Public Health
Advocacy Institute of Western Australia,
directed by Professor Mike Daube of Curtin
University, and serving as Chair of its Advisory
Board since 2009.
Leading public health advocate, Professor Mike Daube
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5: ADVANCES
IN THE
HEALTH SYSTEM
Ten illustrative case studies
5.1 CULTIVATING
INDIGENOUS LEADERS
students and enjoyed a high level of
Indigenous participation as well as student
approval of encouragement by the syllabus of
future non-Indigenous and Indigenous health
leaders working together. Associate Professor
Marion Kickett was also awarded the PhD and
went on to lead Curtin University’s Aboriginal
Health and Education Research Unit.
Professor Rob Donovan and the PPH with UWA’s first
Indigenous Public Health PhD Graduate, Dr Julie Owen
The UWA Aboriginal Health Research Award
Scheme was established as a not-for-degree
apprenticeship to introduce Indigenous
Australians to the working environment of a
leading public health research organisation. It
used a culturally secure approach that
engendered confidence and broke down
barriers that existed to research training at
higher levels. The PPH worked with the UWA
Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental
Health, the Perth Aboriginal Medical Service,
the WADoH Office of Aboriginal Health and the
UWA Equity Program to bring the Scheme to
fruition in 1998.
Indigenous with non-indigenous participants in the
Leadership in Public Health intensive short course
5.2 CREATING THE WA DATA
LINKAGE SYSTEM
Of the first five trainees entering the Scheme,
three went on to complete graduate research
degrees, including Dr Julie Owen, who with
supervision by Adjunct Professor Rob
Donovan and the PPH and support from a
NHMRC Aboriginal Health Scholarship went on
to become UWA’s first doctoral graduate in
Public Health in 2008.
The PPH established the first academic
positions of Lecturer in Indigenous Health in
the UWA School of Population Health, filled by
Drs Owen and Marion Kickett in 2005. As well
as lecturing in Indigenous health, Dr Owen
worked with the PPH to introduce an Aboriginal
Leadership Stream into Professor Holman’s
intensive postgraduate coursework unit,
Leadership in Public Health, commencing in
2005. The initiative was supported by fees and
travel scholarships to attract Indigenous health
professionals to join as continuing education
Conception of the WA Data Linkage System during the
first 12 years of its creation and development
Linkage of health records to enable high
quality and highly relevant research was a
priority identified by the Australian Health
Ministers Advisory Council. WA was uniquely
placed to take a national lead due to the quality
of its health information systems and
pioneering work in the area by Professors
Michael Hobbs and Fiona Stanley.
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Commencing in 1995, the WA Lotteries
Commission awarded grants of around $1
million to a partnership between UWA and the
WADoH, led by the PPH, to create the WA
Data Linkage System (WADLS). A working
prototype, covering eight million health records
from six core data sets dating back to 1980,
was completed by mid-1997 to become one of
only five comprehensive data linkage systems
in the world. Computing architect, Dr John
Bass and his linkage team undertook this work
in an extra-mural unit of the UWA Centre for
Health Services Research located at the
Health Department by agreement between the
PPH and Dr Ian Rouse, the Department’s
Director of Health Statistics.
The PPH led a series of early demonstration
research projects to illustrate the value of the
WADLS across four areas of initial focus:
 Public health surveillance; eg, trends in
health problems caused by alcohol misuse
and illicit drugs.
 Health needs analysis; eg, trends and
distribution of end-stage renal disease;
prevalence trends of common cancers;
health care needs for Parkinson’s disease.
 Patterns of care; eg, equity in breastconserving surgery for breast cancer; care
patterns in the last year of life.
 Health care outcomes; eg, outcomes of
common surgical procedures; suicides and
preventable physical health problems in
people with mental illness.
During its first 12 years, the PPH chaired the
various management groups that oversaw the
creation and development phases of the
WADLS. In 1999, the WADoH became
principal funder and formalised a Data Linkage
Unit within its Health Information Centre with
mixed government and UWA staffing, joined
by the Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research. Links going back to 1966 were
included from a much wider range of data
collections, including those managed by
agencies outside the Health Department.
Dr Merran Smith, General Manager, Health Information
Centre and Dr John Bass, Manager, Data Linkage Unit
A successful bid for a five-year NHMRC
Capacity Building Grant in Population Health
Research, led by the PPH in 2002,
strengthened the WADLS and opened new
frontiers in community participation, crossjurisdictional linkage with Commonwealth
health data, the Family Connections
Genealogical Project and a significant
commitment to the development of a training
program for linked health data analysts.
The PPH brokered historical agreements
between the Commonwealth and WA health
departments that enabled Commonwealth
medical and pharmaceutical benefits and aged
care subsidy data back to 1990 to be included
in the WADLS, initially as a pilot project in
2001 covering records for diabetic patients,
and subsequently in 2003 as an all-population
cross-jurisdictional linkage. This was the first
time in 100 years of federation that health data
from the jurisdictions of the Commonwealth
and an Australian state were linked together to
render a complete picture for evaluation of
health system performance. The PPH chaired
the Cross-Jurisdictional Steering Committee,
leading to the release of the first linked aged
care data sets in 2005 and the first linked
medical and pharmaceutical data sets in 2007.
Future health workers with Minister Judy Edwards at the
Data Linkage Australia Centre of Excellence launch
Widespread appreciation of the value of the
WADLS underpinned a successful application
led by the PPH for five-year Centre of
Excellence funding from the WA Government
commencing in 2005. The resultant Data
Linkage Australia (DLA) Centre of Excellence,
which included Curtin University as a fourth
collaborator, signalled the start of an era of
WA’s leadership in national and international
developments. The DLA Centre conducted a
review in 2006 for the Sax Institute, prompting
establishment of the Centre for Health Record
Linkage in NSW. Also in 2006, the PPH led a
submission to the National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy, proposing a
national network of data linkage units. He then
worked with Dr John Bass to provide more
detailed proposals during 2007, and
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subsequently also with Dr Merran Smith and
Professor Fiona Stanley, resulting in WA’s
selection in 2008 to lead a $67 million roll out
of a national data linkage system, known as
the Population Health Research Network. This
was a rare success for WA, which is seldom
favoured for national coordination roles.
Internationally, with Fay Gale Fellow, Emma
Fuller, the PPH established the International
Health Data Linkage Network, convening its
first meeting in London in 2008 with support
from the UK National Health Service. The
Network was the world’s first international
association of data linkage units and has
grown from an initial 30 to over 220 mostly
organisational members. Co-incidentally,
training courses designed and delivered by the
PPH on linked health data analysis, already
popular around Australia, saw growing demand
overseas commencing from 2009.
First meetings of the International Health Data Linkage
Network in London 2008 and Winnipeg 2010
Today the WADLS has supported over 750
distinct research projects recognised as
generating significant community benefits to
WA through stimulating medical research
sector economics ($136 million from out-ofstate sources by 2010 returned on a $11.6
million investment); adding value to WADoH
and other government data collections;
improving research cost-efficiency; conserving
privacy (use of named patient data fell from
94% to 39% by 2003); strengthening
community machinery to address health
problems; providing unbiased contributions to
medical knowledge; and yielding identifiable
advances in population health. Areas in which
the WADLS has demonstrated health benefits
to the community have included:
 Rural cancer outcomes.
 Physical diseases in the mentally ill.
 Quality of Surgical Care Program.
 Affordability of prescription medicines.
 Medication safety in pregnancy.
 Folate in pregnancy and childhood.
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Out of-hospital cardiac arrests.
Last year of life and palliative care.
After hours primary medical care.
Patient blood transfusion management.
Burn injuries and their sequelae.
Blinding eye diseases.
Services for patients with dementia.
Deep vein thrombosis in air travellers.
IVF, birth defects and cancer.
Neonatal withdrawal and child protection.
Developmental pathways in childhood.
Alcohol and illicit drug abuse.
The PPH was involved as a lead or coinvestigator in 9 of these 18 exemplar areas.
Ongoing support for the WADLS was
confirmed in 2013 by a $5 million grant from
Lotterywest to support Data Linkage Australia
mark II, led at Curtin University by Professor
James Semmens and at UWA by Professor
David Preen, both of whom began their public
health research careers working with the PPH.
Among examples of how the WADLS has
added value to WADoH data collections was
the inclusion of the WA Reproductive
Technology Register. This statutory data
collection was designed by the PPH in the late
1980s, during an earlier phase in his career,
and records exposures of women in WA to
assistive reproductive technologies such as
IVF. With the advent of data linkage, it was
possible for the Telethon Institute for Child
Health Research to show a relationship with
birth defects and, more recently, for PhD
graduate, Dr Louise Stewart to evaluate both
the effectiveness of reproductive technology in
terms of live births and its associated cancer
risks in women. Dr Stewart’s PhD was
supervised by the PPH and provided evidence
of association between reproductive
technology in young women in their 20s and
subsequent breast cancer, results with
important consumer information implications.
Doctoral researcher, Dr Louise Stewart, using the
WADoH’s Reproductive Technology Register
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5.3 DEMYSTIFYING HUMAN
GENOMICS
register for use in medical research, known as
the Family Connections Genealogical Project.
The register already contains genealogical
links from electronic birth marriage and death
records back as far as 1974 and earlier paper
records back to 1950 are gradually being
processed.
Conception by Dr Bass of the Family Connections
Genealogical Project with illustrative pedigree
In 2001, after a study tour of genomic data
systems in Iceland and Cambridge University,
the PPH prepared a discussion paper entitled
Family Connections, outlining a vision for the
development of population-based human
genome research in WA. However, it was
clear that before such a plan could proceed,
the first essential step was to make a major
commitment to public consultation.
With funds awarded in 2001 by the Institute of
Advanced Studies, the PPH led a consortium
of 24 UWA departments, affiliated research
institutions and service organisations, including
WADoH, and the UWA Postgraduate Student
Association in the design and delivery of a
community and professional development
program on Genomics, Society and Human
Health, spanning ethics, the humanities, public
health, clinical medicine and molecular biology.
The program addressed a need at the time to
demystify recent advances in molecular
genetics, particularly the success of the
Human Genome Project, and to inform the
general public and health professionals about
the opportunities as well as cautions that
should be considered.
The two-year program was launched by His
Excellency the Governor and consisted of
public discussion forums, media work
(especially radio), professional presentations
and published resources. The PPH co-chaired
the Program Council with social scientist,
Professor Beverley McNamara, and also
worked with Program Coordinator, Anne
Same, to steer the initiative to its fruition.
With the better understandings achieved by
Genomics, Society and Human Health, it
became possible in 2003 for Dr John Bass, Dr
Emma Glasson, Professor Nick de Klerk,
Diana Rosman and the PPH to establish WA’s
first population-based, linkable, genealogical
Family Connections is now integrated within
the WA Data Linkage System, providing
internationally unique research infrastructure.
Research projects using the facility are now
well under way.
5.4 TRAINING LINKED DATA
ANALYSTS
Resources for one of two intensive short courses
on the analysis of linked health data
Based on the experience of leading the WA
Data Linkage System, in 2001 the PPH wrote
and delivered the world’s first training
curriculum on the theory and practical skills
needed to analyse complex linked health data
sets.
Demand for the unique course grew quickly
and by 2007, the offering was enhanced with
the first-ever advanced-level course, thus
creating a training curriculum in two articulating
parts: Introductory Analysis and Linked Health
Data: Principles and Hands-On Applications;
and Advanced Analysis of Linked Health Data:
Topics and Technologies. Both continue to
exist as self-contained, intensive, five-day
training courses.
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The courses share a number of distinct and
popular features:
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Content informed by an unmatched level
of theoretical expertise and real world
experience.
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A robust, modular structure with a theme
developed each day in a staged sequence
of theory; technical principles for
translation into practice; and a hands-on
computing exercise using fictitious but
realistic linked health data.
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Detailed, referenced and visually graphic
course manuals, practice linked data sets
and computing syntax solutions.
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Parallel training with full supports in all
three of the most common statistical
software packages: SAS, SPSS and Stata.
The success of the training program has been
reflected by its status as the standard pathway
whereby analysts are trained in WA; by the
highly favourable evaluation feedback from
participants (averages of 99.2% satisfaction
and 4.7/5.0 for quality); and by the extent of
invitations from host institutions to deliver it
around Australia and overseas. The program
has been delivered by the PPH on multiple
occasions in Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide,
Wellington NZ, Singapore, St Andrews in
Scotland, Leeds in England and Swansea in
Wales. In 2011, a report by the UK Medical
Research Council on e-health records
research capacity identified the courses as the
only ones available in the UK that specifically
catered to the analysis of linked health data.
Succession: Professor David Preen teaching the
Analysis of Linked Health Data syllabus
5.5 INTRODUCING SPATIAL
ANALYSIS TO HEALTH
Spatial analysis by Dr Jilda Hyndman showing the most
efficient route to visit several service locations
An establishment grant from the UWA ViceChancellor was used by the PPH to establish
WA’s first spatial analysis facility for health
services research in 1995. The facility
collected a library of spatial data sets covering
WA and was used to offer spatial analysis
services, including geocoding, mapping, route
networking and analytic support to researchers
and the WADoH. Projects with direct benefits
to the State included:
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Optimal location of future satellite renal
dialysis units.
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Spatial evaluation and planning of
mammography screening clinics for breast
cancer.
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Spatial evaluation of general practice
surgeries in metropolitan Perth.
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Spatial evaluation of child health clinics in
metropolitan Perth.
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Spatial analysis of access to community
facilities for physical activity.
Much of the pioneering work to demonstrate
the utility of geographic information systems in
the WA health sector and to develop advanced
methods of analysis was conducted by PhD
graduate, Dr Jilda Hyndman, working with the
PPH as her supervisor. Subsequently, similar
systems have been developed and exploited
by several other health planning and research
groups in WA and the technology has been
adopted as a routine analytic tool.
From 2013, after working with the PPH for
several years as a co-presenter, Professor
David Preen took over responsibility for the
curriculum, ensuring its continuing availability
and success.
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5.6 EVALUATING HEALTH
SPONSORSHIP
In 1998, after retiring from the Program, the
PPH was presented by the WA Minister for
Health with the inaugural Healthway Award for
Innovation and Best Practice in Health
Promotion. The citation read as follows:
‘D’Arcy Holman is recognised as being the main architect
of Healthway’s evaluation program, which has received
national and international acclaim. The evaluation has
provided Healthway with data which not only indicates
the success of projects both individually and collectively,
it provides vital information about what works and doesn’t
work in sponsorship and is an important tool in
determining funding directions and allocations. The
model of evaluation has now been replicated in the other
Health Promotion Foundations in Australia.
5.7 COACHING HEALTH
SERVICE LEADERS
Report of the Evaluation of Healthway
The WA Health Promotion Foundation
(Healthway) was established following passage
of the Tobacco Control Act 1990 (WA).
Because Healthway has a statutory obligation
to evaluate its performance, the PPH and
social marketing expert, Professor Rob
Donovan of the UWA Graduate School of
Management, were awarded a contract to
provide academic support in the areas of
professional skills development and evaluation.
The result was the Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program,
originally co-directed by Holman and Donovan
with Professor Billie Giles-Corti joining as their
research fellow. Each of the three principals of
the Program made important and
internationally significant contributions to the
evaluation of health sponsorship of sports, arts
and racing events in replacement of tobacco
messages.
The PPH was first author of the Report of the
Evaluation of the WA Health Promotion
Foundation, tabled in State Parliament and
quoted in Hansard, the media and high level
correspondence. This evaluation of Healthway
was selected by the Office of the Auditor
General as a case study of best practice in
performance measurement of a public sector
agency.
Leadership in Public Health participants, Dr Charles
Douglas, Darren Ponton and Jan de Groot
The Leadership in Public Health training
program was developed for health
professionals by the PPH starting from 1997 to
become an intensive five-day course with two
nested one-day continuing education
workshops. The program attracted a strong
following from staff of the WADoH and from
1999 to 2007 was also delivered nationally in
response to out-of-state demand with courses
in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,
Cairns and Darwin.
The program assisted participants to explore
the principles of effective leadership (as the
agency to create beneficial change) identified
by scholarly and popular authors, whilst also
covering hands-on practical skills such as
those essential to strategic visioning,
communication, negotiation and
implementation and evaluation of change
processes.
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An integrated Aboriginal Leadership Stream
was added in 2005. Leadership in Public
Health was rated very highly by participants
(averages of 100% satisfaction and 4.8/5.0 for
quality).
The review report, which included findings of a
site visit to the RMA in Brisbane where the
evidentiary basis for a sample of 25
Statements of Principle was evaluated in
detail, made recommendations accepted by
the Minister and the RMA for improving the
quality of medical-scientific decision-making
and equity of outcomes for veterans.
A further contribution to the Commonwealth
Department of Veterans’ Affairs was made
during 2001-2006, when the PPH served as a
member of the Scientific Advisory Committee
to the Atomic Test Participants Cancer
Incidence and Mortality Study, which found no
conclusive evidence that veteran participants
had suffered disease caused by radiation.
CEO, Neil Guard, and Professor Holman with
first participants in Healthway’s leadership program
As the request of the WADoH, a specialised
corporate version of the program was
delivered in 2000 and 2002. The success of
this in-house training led the PPH to propose
to the WA Health Promotion Foundation that it
should offer similar opportunities to future
health leaders in community organisations.
Thus the Healthway Leadership Development
in Health Promotion Program took birth in 2003
and continues to the present. The UWA
coursework version of Leadership in Public
Health evolved into the today’s post- and
undergraduate units in health leadership,
management and administration at the School
of Population Health.
5.8 APPRAISING VETERANS’
ENTITEMENTS
The Repatriation Medical Authority (RMA) and
its review body, the Specialist Medical Review
Council, are responsible for Statements of
Principles by which determinations are made
on claims for disability pensions made by
Australian veterans and their dependents.
In 1997, the PPH was appointed by the
Commonwealth Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
to review the decision making processes of the
RMA, the standards of proof of causation that
had been applied, and their consistency with
sound medical-scientific evidence and the
intent of the legislation. This medical-scientific
evaluation was undertaken in tandem with a
review of the administrative procedures by
Emeritus Professor Denis Pearce from the
Australian National University.
Review of the Repatriation Medical Authority
5.9 DEVELOPING HEALTH
SERVICES RESEARCH
Health services research activities of value to
WA and conducted in collaboration with the
Health Department have been a foremost
priority of the PPH.
The Centre for Health Services Research is a
research centre of the UWA School of
Population Health, established by the PPH in
1994 and still in existence. It collaborates
closely with the WADoH, Telethon Institute for
Child Health Research, Curtin University,
clinical practitioners and other health agencies.
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The mandate of the Centre encompasses four
inter-related areas: research infrastructure,
research projects, research training and
dissemination. The main activity is populationbased health services research, and projects
undertaken to date have included many
commissioned by or conducted in collaboration
with the WADoH. They include a large part of
the activities described throughout this
document.
They also go well beyond this document to
include the separate contributions and Health
Department collaborations of other staff of the
Centre, including its second and third directors
in succession after the PPH, Professor James
Semmens (now the leading health services
research at Curtin University) and Professor
David Preen, who is the current director. The
Centre has been not only a home for the
PPH’s research group within the School, but
also a successful incubator of WA’s future
leadership in health services research.
Early and important roles of the Centre were to
be the recipient of the initial Lotteries
Commission grants, making possible the
commencement of the WA Data Linkage
System. The Centre also hosted the First
Australian Conference on Record Linkage and
Health Research in 1996, attended by more
than 100 delegates from across Australia. Dr
Jane Barratt and the PPH convened the
conference and edited the Proceedings.
Logo of the UWA Centre for Health Services Research
depicting linked health records and spatial analysis
5.10 STRENGTHENING
THE PHAA
Having served as a WA State President and
Vice-President of the Public Health Association
of Australia (PHAA) and a long-standing
member of the State Executive, the PPH
continued to make a range of contributions to
the work of the Association. These included
delivery of a McNulty Oration, the Closing
Address at an annual national conference and
numerous other PHAA-sponsored
presentations and seminars. He was also a
member of the national Governance Review
Team in 2000, which made important
recommendations to put to rest issues
concerning the Association’s governance that
had become contentious.
The PPH also served as joint Guest Editor with
Professor Don Nutbeam of a special issue of
the Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Public Health that introduced an integrated
conception of health-promoting environments
to Australian public health. It covered aspects
of the physical, social and economic
environments that encourage the adoption of
practices conducive to good health. Examples
include smoke-free public places to discourage
smoking and control passive exposure; trafficcalming devices to reduce road crashes;
pricing policies to encourage use of lead free
fuel; server training to reduce sale of alcohol to
intoxicated patrons; no hat no play sun
protection policies in schools and healthy food
choices in school canteens; provision of bike
paths to promote exercise; and addition of
ramps to public buildings to facilitate access by
disabled people.
The special journal edition provided a forum for
international and national commentators to
express futuristic views, and an opportunity for
emerging authors on public health ecology to
present a conceptual framework for their
discipline and to evaluate the current state of
the environmental settings of everyday life
from a health-promoting perspective.
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Another important contribution was to perform
in the role of the PHAA’s nominee to the Board
of the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW) for a period of six years. The
AIHW is a statutory body responsible for the
coordination, collection and reporting of
national information on welfare services and
health. The AIHW Act provides for the Board
to include one member, nominated by the
PHAA, and having expertise in public health
research. The PPH was elected by ballot from
a national field of candidates to fulfil this role
for two triennia in succession, 1992-94 and
1995-98. Included among the contributions to
national health information systems were the
following specific activities:
 Chair of the Committee for Review of the
AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit.
 An international mission to North America
to investigate and report on the use of data
linkage to support health services planning
and research. The findings were
incorporated into a report to the Australian
Health Ministers’ Advisory Council.
 Chair of the Committee for Review of
Information Security and Privacy.
 Authorship and expert review of various
sections in the series of biennial reports on
Australia’s Health.
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6: ADVANCES
IN
ACADEMIC FOUNDATIONS
Ten illustrative case studies
6.1 BROKERING CONSUMER
PARTNERSHIPS
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Consumer advocate, Anne McKenzie, and the PPH
with consumer panel member, Ellen Dzienisz
In 1998, the PPH established a Consumer
Participation Program at the UWA School of
Population Health, initially in response to
concerns within the health consumer
movement about data protection. A consumer
liaison officer, Rebecca Coghlan, was
appointed at the School to work with
considerable independence and in close
association with the WA Health Consumers
Council. It was the first position of its type in
an Australian academic institution.
Models for implementing participation in
individual research projects, including a
‘community conversation’ process.
Australia’s first national symposium on
Involving People in Research, sponsored
by the NHMRC, and held in Perth in 2008.
The symposium was oversubscribed.
Consumer and Community Advisory
Councils providing strategic and research
grant inputs at the School and Institute.
Fact sheets and lay languages summaries
to make research results more accessible.
The Program has made WA the national
leader in this area with frequent requests for
advice, consultancy and invited presentations
from out-of-state. The PPH’s instigation of and
commitment to the Program was recognised in
2010 by the Excellent Service to Consumers
Award of the WA Health Consumers Council.
6.2 BRINGING HEALTH
SCIENCE TO UWA
From 2002, the Program was strengthened by
another ‘first’ – the inclusion of a consumer
participation stream in a successful bid for a
NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Public
Health Research led by the PPH. The key
position, renamed Consumer Advocate, was
taken over by Anne McKenzie in 2004, who
also facilitated a parallel program at the
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
Significant achievements of the Program, led
by Ms McKenzie and supported by the PPH,
have included
 Training workshops attended by over
1,200 researchers and consumers on
implementing participation strategies in
medical and health research.
 A website with resources visited, often
extensively, by 32 of the top 100
universities in the world.
 Collaboration with the UK-based health
consumer program, Involve, to develop
joint resources and exchanges, including a
much sought after Guidebook.
Health Science Faculty Dean Team: Professors Stewart
(Science), Porter (Commerce) and Landau (Medicine)
The Health Science program (BHlthSc)
responded to an identified gap in the health
sector labour market. In 1998, an academic
and industry Task Force chaired by the PPH,
with Professor Lorna Rosenwax as Executive
Officer, Professor Mathew Knuiman from
Population Health and 17 experts from
Science, Public Health, academic affairs and
industry sifted through international
documentation and consulted widely with
employers and career advisers to design a
new degree, with a unique course structure to
meet the needs of tomorrow’s health system.
The WADoH was represented on the Task
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Force and was actively engaged in its
recommendations. Apart from its strong links
with industry, the initiative was noted for its
high level of cooperation between three
different UWA faculties: Medicine, Science and
Commerce. The initiative arose from a
concept paper prepared by the PPH.
The four-year course commenced in 2000 with
38 students and grew to 86 by 2006. It offered
choice in areas of study, while ensuring that
core industry requirements were met.
Students chose a major in a science discipline
such as Human Biology, Physiology,
Microbiology, Pharmacology Psychology,
Information Technology or Human Movement,
but all students also completed a second major
in Public Health. The Science and Public
Health majors were combined with extensive
exposure to health services through industry
placements in third and fourth years. At the
request of industry, emphasis was given also
to business studies. All students completed a
minimum requirement in commerce and
economics, and those enrolled in the
combined degrees in business studies
(BHlthSc/BCom or BHlthSc/BEc) completed a
major in a designated field of Commerce or
Economics. Other combined degrees became
possible, including the BHlthSc/LLB
commencing from 2005.
UWA’s Health Science Society and the Health
Science Alumni Association. The degree also
developed an active honours program.
Camaraderie amongst Health Science students
at their annual dinner dance
The PPH chaired the Health Science Program
Committee in 1999-2001, and subsequently
represented the School of Population Health in
2003-2005 and 2008-2010 as the chair rotated
to other faculties. Professor Rosenwax was
appointed Health Science subdean. The PPH
also designed and taught Health
Administration in the last year of the Public
Health major during 2003-2009. His
leadership in creating the course was
recognised by naming of the principal student
prize for the Public Health major as the CDJ
Holman Prize for Excellence in Public Health.
The development was also influential in the
renaming of the Faculty of Medicine and
Dentistry to include ‘Health Sciences’.
Intake to the BHlthSc ceased in 2012 due to
UWA’s major restructuring of its
undergraduate degree programs. The
Population Health major continues within the
new Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of
Philosophy (Honours) programs as well as
being available as a second major within the
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Design.
Professor Lorna Rosenwax coaching
Health Science students in library skills
The Health Science program achieved
considerable success in its quality of entrants,
student satisfaction, career outcomes and
positive reactions from the WADoH and other
employers who continue to speak highly of the
unique range of skills possessed by graduates.
Teaching quality scores were consistently well
above Faculty averages and, in 2005, there
was a notable occurrence of 100% overall
satisfaction among first graduates on the
Course Experience Questionnaire compared
with a national average for health science of
76%. The program attracted a very high level
of student engagement and forged what is now
6.3 FORGING UNIVERSITY
COLLABORATIONS
In the context of the second cycle of the
Commonwealth’s Public Health Education and
Research Program (PHERP) funding, a
decision was taken by UWA and Curtin to
prepare a joint submission. An Intervarsity
Working Party was chaired by the Director of
Healthway, Addy Carroll, with representatives
of the WADoH and the two universities. The
PPH was the principal draftsperson of the
proposal to establish the WA Centre for Public
Health as a collaborative venture of UWA and
Curtin, to serve better the needs for
postgraduate public health education.
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The proposal was successful and attracted
significant funds to WA, benefitting both
universities and the continuation of the MPH
and related postgraduate coursework degrees.
It was the first time that UWA and Curtin had
cooperated in this way in the public heath
sphere.
The collaborative philosophy of the Centre
embodied the concepts of complementary
development and partial integration of MPH
teaching, while retaining the sovereignty of the
joint partners. Students at both institutions,
many of them WADoH staff, enjoyed the
following benefits:
 A new core unit, Foundations of Public
Health, common to both universities.
 A jointly presented core unit in
environmental health.
 Increased reciprocal use of guest lecturers
and locum lecturers during study leave.
 Cross-institutional access permitted to all
elective units.
 Complementary rather than competitive
development of elective units.
 Increased inter-school supervision of
postgraduate research students.
 Joint academic staff development
activities; eg, in cross-cultural awareness
and communication.
Centre. The collaborative arrangements have led
to joint development of courses, joint teaching and
collaborative research. It appears that due to the
alliance students have been offered a wider
selection of options for study, that the depth of
expertise has been enhanced in selected areas and
that efficiency in the use of resources has been
improved. The alliance of the two universities is
complementary and strategic.’ …. ‘On balance, the
panel observed a real cooperation between the two
institutions beyond the contractual paper
agreement.’
‘The alliance has created greater student choice in
subjects available. It has allowed rationalisation in
resources used through shared teaching and
reduced course duplication. It is apparent that
there is a clear understanding at all levels of the
unique contribution of each institution. The
relationship supports the development of cross
fertilisation in research. The review panel observed
a sense of participation that allows each institution
to focus and build on its own strengths.’
Foundations of Public Health was designed
and principally presented by the PPH from
1996 to 2002, alternating in campus location
between UWA and Curtin. It provided a
transdisciplinary overview of theory and
practice, drawing on the biomedical,
behavioural and social sciences, and offering
an integrated view of the entire field.
Previously, MPH students could graduate in
WA with their only integrating experience being
the completion of their research dissertation.
In 2002, the unit was updated to include new
material on public health and human genome.
It was highly rated in student evaluations and
continues today within the UWA MPH core.
The WA Centre for Public Health remains in
existence. Apart from its benefits for students,
its ethos of cooperation created a precedent,
enabling Curtin and UWA, as well as the
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, to
work on a united front in the ongoing
development of the WA Data Linkage System
and in the State’s leadership of Australia’s
Population Health Research Network.
6.4 GROWING GRADUATE
RESEARCH TRAINING
Syllabus cover of WA’s first MPH coursework unit
on the theory and practice of public health
An independent review had this to say about
the WA Centre for Public Health:
‘The review panel was impressed with the high
level of collaboration among the members of the
As graduate research coordinator in 1994-96,
the PPH oversaw a period of expansion in the
doctoral research training program at UWA
Public Health. Efforts were made to attract
and support doctoral candidates through a
stronger policy framework, with emphasis on
leadership development through mentoring
and a more diverse range of learning
experiences. The size of the PhD program
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more than doubled to 24 candidates by 1998.
The PPH also performed the duties of
graduate research coordinator in 1998-1999,
2002 and 2012-2013. Today the School’s
graduate research program has some 70
candidates in progress.
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An early group of research students and graduates
supervised by the PPH
The PPH himself has made a significant
contribution to research training, with an
emphasis on epidemiologic methods, having
supervised 11 post-doctoral and professional
fellows; 33 PhD candidates; 21 MPH thesis or
dissertation candidates; and 33 honours,
medicine and Aboriginal Research Award
candidates, amounting in total to 98 trainees.
WADoH staff has been well represented. For
example, 15 of the 33 doctoral students and 11
of the 21 MPH students supervised by the PPH
since 1994 have been Health Department
staff. Research projects undertaken by
research trainees have mostly been in areas of
direct relevance to the Health Department; eg:
 Physical activity promotion.
 Generic packaging of cigarettes.
 Smoking in enclosed public places
regulation.
 Falls prevention.
 HIV infection in Indigenous Australians.
 Culturally sensitive Indigenous health
promotion.
 Occupational hazards in veterinary
practice.
 Safety of reproductive technology.
 Inappropriate medications in the elderly.
 Medical complications of childhood
obesity.
 Preventable physical disease in people
with mental illness.
 Primary care outcomes in people with
mental illness.
 Health outcomes in criminal offenders.
Prevention of recurrent coronary events.
Spatial analysis of clinic locations.
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Fragility fracture management.
Treatment of urinary stress incontinence.
Post-operative anaesthetic mortality.
Quality of life outcomes in kidney and liver
transplantation.
Inequalities in rural cancer outcomes.
Classification of home care resources
needs.
Use of clinical information systems.
Methods of disease surveillance using
linked data.
Measuring hospital mortality.
Research training of staff in the health system
has had benefits beyond learning the skills of
formulating a research question, reviewing
literature, collecting and analysing data and
interpreting results. The philosophy of
research training promoted by the UWA
School of Population Health includes selfdevelopment on a broader front and
preparation for future leadership roles. A
notable 13 of the PPH’s research trainees
have achieved professorial rank and many
occupy senior service positions within the
health system.
6.5 REVITALISING POSTGRADUATE COURSES
PPH’s history-based approach to teaching
advanced theoretical concepts in epidemiology
The last two decades have seen postgraduate
students demanding improved quality coupled
with greater flexibility, a modular approach to
levels of achievement and greater ease of
access, especially for those who study while
maintaining their employment.
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A transdisciplinary view of curriculum
prevailed, drawing on health economics and
the behavioural and social sciences, as much
as the quantitative disciplines of epidemiology
and biostatistics. The emphasis given to
evidence-based medicine drove new demands
from the clinical sector for education in public
health disciplines. In a rapidly changing world,
leadership skills became of paramount
importance to graduates.
The establishment of the Chair in Public Health
was at the forefront of change processes in
postgraduate public health education as
illustrated by the following examples:
 A vision of Life-Long Learning in Public
Health, embodying the three A’s of
Assurance of quality, Articulation of
courses and Accessibility of units.
 Courses introduced at different levels of
achievement in addition to the MPH, such
as the Graduate Certificate in Public
Health, to give the workforce access to a
wider range of learning opportunities.
 Restructuring of core units to increase the
content of behavioural and social sciences,
and Foundations of Public Health to enable
students to place discipline-based subjects
within an integrated overview.
 New academic appointments in health
promotion, health economics and
Indigenous health to support the reforms
with a more diverse teaching faculty.
 The instigation of the Leadership in Public
Health training program as a MPH elective,
but also offered on a continuing education
basis in short course mode, which included
an Aboriginal Leadership Stream with
scholarship support.
 The new training program of introductory
and advanced units on the Analysis of
Linked Health Data as MPH electives and
offered in short course mode.
The PPH has been instrumental in each of
these initiatives. The MPH and related
postgraduate coursework programs at UWA
have some 60 candidates in progress in any
one year, mostly enrolled on a part-time basis.
Approximately one half of candidates have
been or will become WADoH staff. The close
involvement of the PPH in the ongoing design,
implementation and evaluation of the
postgraduate program has been a significant
contribution to staff development in the health
system, and especially in the case of the
Health Department.
An additional technical role of the PPH in
postgraduate education has been to teach and
mentor colleagues in the theoretical concepts
of advanced epidemiology. This has been
achieved through doctoral training and
coauthorship of publications; through the
Advanced Analysis of Linked Health Data unit;
through School and conference workshops;
and, during 2012-2013, through assisting
Professor Jane Heyworth to mount an
Epidemiology II advanced unit.
Professor Jane Heyworth (centre left) with students
at Winthrop Hall
The PPH’s approach was somewhat unique,
believing that students should not only
understand an advanced concept, but also
consolidate it by knowing the history of how the
concept evolved over time. In 2011, the
Australasian Epidemiologic Association invited
the PPH to conduct an intensive workshop on
Groundbreakers and Mythbusters of
Epidemiologic Thought, which illustrated the
teaching method in association with its annual
scientific meeting.
6.6 EDUCATING FUTURE
MEDICAL DOCTORS
The principal teaching focus of the PPH has
been with postgraduate public health education
and the Health Science program.
Nevertheless, contributions were made to the
medical curriculum, especially through the
supervision of public health projects
undertaken by the medical students in the fifth
year of the undergraduate course, during the
period when that requirement existed. The ten
projects supervised by the PPH were mostly
concerned health services research or
evidence-based medicine. Service roles in
teaching epidemiology and public health theory
to medical students have also been
undertaken at various times.
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Dr Paul Psaila-Savona and PPH with medical student
winners of a WADoH public health project prize
6.7 FORMING A NEXUS
WITH THE LAW
The only existing textbook on anonymisation,
health data and biospecimen law in Australia
Motivated by the observation that superficial
opinions on legal aspects of data linkage
activities were aplenty, whereas carefully
researched legal analysis was almost nonexistent, the PPH endeavoured to bring a
greater level of rigour and objectivity to the
understanding of health data and biospecimen
law in Australia by those both for and against
the development of data linkage systems.
To pursue this objective from a position of
credibility, it was first necessary to obtain a law
degree. This was completed part-time by the
PPH at Murdoch University from 2004 to 2010,
receiving during his studies eight subject prizes
and two Vice-Chancellor’s commendations for
academic excellence, including the Francis
Burt Chambers Law Medical for the most
outstanding law graduate at the end of the
course. A research honours dissertation,
awarded a high distinction, was completed on
the topic that subsequently became a textbook
authored by the PPH and entitled Anonymity
and Research: Health Data and Biospecimen
Law in Australia.
The book sets out the rights, duties and
protections concerning health subject matter
that arise in strict common law, equity and
statute, including authorities from the United
Kingdom and other common law jurisdictions
that could have persuasive value. It offers a
careful legal analysis of the effects of
anonymisation on each of the legal constraints,
including commentary on international
variations. Its aim is to reveal the state of
Australian law that applies to health data and
biospecimens both before and after a process
of anonymisation. The text has been well
received and all profits from its publication
have been donated to further the education of
public health students in law, ethics and
community participation.
The PPH has presented material related to his
book at several national and international
conferences, including the Australian
Association of Bioethics and Health Law
Conference in 2010, a half-day training
workshop convened by the Australasian
Epidemiologic Association in 2011, and the
International Data Linkage Conference in
2012. He has also co-authored a paper with
Dr Judith Allen of the UWA Law School,
published in 2013 in Law and Medicine, which
deals with the topic of privacy protectionism,
including a legal and social analysis of its
harms to health. The PPH has also
strengthened the general law content of health
administration units taught at the UWA School
of Population Health.
6.8 CONTRIBUTING TO THE
NHMRC
The National Health and Medical Research
Council is the peak advisory body on matters
of national importance to Australia’s health. In
the 1994-96 triennium, the PPH was appointed
inaugural Chair of the NHMRC Health
Advancement Standing Committee, and an
executive member of the NHMRC National
Health Advisory Committee. The initiative
arose from an earlier review of the NHMRC,
which had found that insufficient attention had
been devoted to national policy development
on health promotion and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and injuries.
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During the triennium, the Health Advancement
Standing Committee commissioned major
reviews of key areas for policy development
and issued 13 reports covering the following:
 The Health Australia review of
infrastructure support for national health
advancement. A special stream of the
review dealt with infrastructure support for
improving Indigenous health.
 A review of dissemination failure – why
knowledge fails to translate into practice.
 Policy development on health-promoting
environments in schools and venues for
culture and recreation.
 Reviews of the effectiveness of community
interventions to prevent skin cancer and
reduce injury and alcohol-related harm.
 Evidence-based reviews of preventive
health services for cancer and
cardiovascular disease.
Much of the Health Australia recommendations
were subsequently adopted by the National
Public Health Partnership, and other reports
provided a basis for program development in
the states and territories. The work had a
positive effect on the development of the thenemerging academic discipline of health
promotion in Australia. Many contributors to
the work, including Indigenous contributors,
gained a first-time experience of participation
in NHMRC policy development processes.
A second area of contribution to the NHMRC
has been through a particularly high level of
support for its role as the major national funder
of health and medical research. At various
times between 1996 and 2009 the PPH
chaired six grant review committees, chaired
the Enabling Grants Committee and was a
member of the Program Grants Committee
and then a member of the Principal Research
Committee.
In addition to the NHMRC, the PPH has also
contributed to national developments in health
advancement through assisting the Australian
Department of Health. In 1995, the PPH and
Professor Robert Donovan of the UWA
Graduate School of Management were
appointed to conduct a review of the Public
Health Division of the then Commonwealth
Department of Human Services and Health.
Their report became the basis for
improvements in the way the Division was
structured and operated, and especially in
moves to improve the qualifications and
exposure of Division staff to postgraduate and
continuing professional education in public
health.
At different times between 1994 and 2007, the
PPH served the Commonwealth Department
as a member of the Public Health Education
Accreditation Working Party; as a member of
various reviews and advisory committees for
the Department’s Public Health Education and
Research Program; as a consultant on a
review of the National Health Priority Areas
Initiative; and as Chair of the CrossJurisdictional Data Linkage Steering
Committee.
The PPH also assisted agencies equivalent to
the Australian NHMRC in other countries. In
1995, the PPH was invited to join an
international review of the Health Research
Council Public Health Committee of New
Zealand, as the lead scientific adviser to the
review panel. The report of the review
recommended reforms to the policies and
procedures of the Health Research Council in
the way that priorities for research funding
were determined and put into practice. In
2005-06, the PPH served as a member of the
External Review of the Canadian Institutes for
Health Research; and since 2013, has been a
member of the International Advisory
Committee to the Singaporean Ministry of
Health concerning implementation and review
of their health services research competitive
grant scheme.
6.9 HEADING THE DEPT
THEN THE SCHOOL
Teamwork at the UWA School of Population Health
The PPH was privileged to serve as the third
Head of the UWA Department of Public Health
in 1996-1998, following Professors Michael
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Hobbs and Judith Straton, and as the inaugural
Head of the UWA School of Population Health
in 2002-2005. Responsibility was also taken
for strategic planning during these and other
periods. The following outcomes were
achieved at various times and had flow-on
benefits for staff, students and collaborators:
 Principal author of the School’s strategic
plans for 1996-2000, 2001-2005 and 20092013. Strategic planning at the School has
been acknowledged and promoted (eg, by
UWA’s publication The Leader) as an
example of best practice at UWA.
 Information systems for research
performance, a research planning cycle, a
research methods seminar program,
publications strategy and the first
handbook for postgraduate research
students.
 Establishment of the Jan Watt Prize for
Excellence in Public Health Field
Research.
 New academic appointments in health
promotion, health economics and
Indigenous health.
 Appointment of a consumer advocate, the
first position of its type in Australia.
 Appointment of a separate community
relations consultant and supports for
School staff to increase their contributions
to community affairs.
 Policies and initiatives on research staff
security and career paths.
 Accounting support systems and program
budgeting.
 Five-year financial planning and three-year
teaching and extended leave planning.
 Computing Policy Committee.
 A School complaints policy, which was
used by the University as a model for the
management of external complaints.
 Appointment of the first Deputy Head of
School, Professor Judith Finn.
 Accommodation plan and commissioning
of a second principal worksite for the
School.
The School grew in size five-fold to 259 staff,
including 150 non-casual staff, between the
time when the PPH first joined the School and
the completion of his second headship in 2005.
A key factor lying behind the School’s success
was his insistence on a disciplined and highly
participative approach to strategic planning.
6.10 SERVING WITHIN THE
UNIVERSITY
Service to the strategic planning efforts of the
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health
Sciences was rendered at various times,
including as Chair of the Interfaculty Task
Force for a New Undergraduate Degree
Program in the Health Sciences; Chair of the
Health Science Program Committee; and as a
member of the Faculty Board; the Faculty’s
Strategic Planning Working Party; Metropolitan
Health Services Liaison Committee; and
Committee for a Graduate Medical School in
WA.
The PPH is a member of the UWA Academic
Board; served on the UWA Promotions and
Tenure Committee in 1994-96; chaired the
Review of the UWA Department of Computer
Science in 1999; and, since 2012, has served
as Chair of the UWA Animal Ethics
Committee.
Winthrop Hall, The University of Western Australia
Upon his first retirement from the Headship in
1998, Department staff presented the PPH
with a framed Certificate of Appreciation,
signed by staff members. The citation read,
‘Presented by the staff of the Department of
Public Health in appreciation of your
commitment to excellence in Public Health, to
the strategic vision and mission of the
Department, and to the pursuit of equality of
opportunity for all staff members.’
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APPENDIX A: RESEARCH GRANTS
RESEARCH GRANTS
1994 to 2014
Donovan RJ, Corti B, Holman CDJ. Evaluating
sponsorship effectiveness. Western Australian
Health Promotion Foundation, 1995, $18,000.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Health
Promotion Development and Evaluation
Program. Western Australian Health Promotion
Foundation, 1992-1994, $579,000 (1992 $188,000;
1993 $193,000; 1994 $198,000).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1994. Health Department
of Western Australia, 1994, $20,000.
Stevens M, Duffield P, Holman CDJ, Johnson J,
Day P. Falls Prevention Program Pilot Study.
Western Australian Lotteries Commission, 1994,
$19,700.
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ. Evaluation of
the Be Active Every Day Community Project.
National Heart Foundation, 1994-1996, $70,000.
English DR, Holman CDJ. Methodology for
quantifying drug caused mortality and morbidity
in Australia. Commonwealth Department of
Health, Housing, Local Government and
Community Services, 1994, $231,406.
Holman CDJ, Hyndman JCG. Spatial analysis of
access to primary health care. NHMRC Public
Health Research and Development Committee,
1995-1996, $83,988 (1995 $38,857; 1996
$45,131).
Holman CDJ, Hobbs MST, Knuiman MW, Straton
JAY, Hockey RL. Health Service Research
Linked Database. Western Australian Lotteries
Commission, 1995-1997, $830,300 (1995
$326,000; 1996 $214,000; 1997 $290,300).
Stevens M, Duffield P, Holman CDJ, Johnson J,
Day P. Falls Prevention Program. Western
Australian Health Promotion Foundation, 19951996, $171,213 (1995 $108,372; 1996 $62,841).
Health Department of Western Australia, 1995,
$50,000.
Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ, Corti B.
Environmental and individual determinants of
physical activity and health. Western Australian
Health Promotion Foundation, 1995-1996,
$160,000 (1995 $90,000; 1996 $70,000).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Health
Promotion Development and Evaluation
Program: Future Directions. Western Australian
Health Promotion Foundation, 1995, $129,000.
Holman CDJ, English DR. Assessment of health
effects of alcohol in non-Caucasian
populations. World Health Organization, 1995,
US$5,000.
Holman CDJ. Special issue of AJPH on health
promotive environments. Commonwealth
Department of Human Services and Health, 1995,
$25,000.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ. Consultancy on the
Public Health Division Department of Human
Services and Health. Commonwealth Department
of Human Services and Health, 1995, $14,000.
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ. Health
Promotion Evaluation Unit. Western Australian
Health Promotion Foundation, 1996, $99,000.
Bass J, Holman CDJ. Record linkage
demonstration projects. Health Department of
Western Australia, 1996-1997, $77,694 (1996
$35,282; 1997 $42,412).
Arthur Andersen, Holman CDJ. Consultancy to
investigate the purchase of public health
services within a funder-owner-purchaserprovider model. Health Department of Western
Australia, 1995, $70,000.
Holman CDJ, Hobbs MST, Bass AJ, Rouse IL.
Population linkage studies of health care
utilisation and outcomes. NHMRC Public Health
Research and Development Committee, 19972000, $492,606 (1997 $66,805; 1998 $138,864;
1999 $142,190; 1999 $144,745).
Holman CDJ, Jablensky AV, Fazio SM, Bass AJ.
Population linkage studies of preventable comorbidity in people with mental illness. NHMRC
Public Health Research and Development
Committee, 1997-1999, $188,840 (1997 $34,638;
1998 $75,849; 1999 $78,353).
Holman CDJ, Jamrozik KJ, Dawes VP, Threlfall T,
Kricker A. Data linkage; developing a model for
breast cancer in WA. NHMRC National Breast
Cancer Centre, 1997, $49,558.
Holman CDJ, English DR. Studies of the
quantification of the health effects of drugs.
Research into Drug Abuse Grant, Commonwealth
Department of Human Services and Health, 1997,
$111,947.
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Corti B, Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Clarkson J. An
evaluation service to determine Healthway's
effectiveness and to provide advice on
Healthway projects. Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation, 1997-1999, $549,433 (1997
$177,166; 1998 $173,099; 1999 $199168) with a
further three year option.
Barratt J, Holman CDJ, Hobbs MST, Flett P.
Improved support for carers of people with
disabilities. Western Australian Health Promotion
Foundation, 1997-1999, $239,954 (1997 $62,762;
1998 $83,765; 1999 $93,427).
Rosenwax L, Holman CDJ. The effects of the
work environment on absenteeism in workers
with low back pain. Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation, 1997, $6,555.
Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ. Standard packaging
of tobacco products. Health Department of
Western Australia, 1996, $40,000.
Holman CDJ, English DR, Unwin E. Evaluation of
incidence, recurrence and survival from alcohol
and illicit drug abuse. Research into Drug Abuse
Grant, Commonwealth Department of Human
Services and health, 1997, $52,891.
Holman CDJ. Review of the Repatriation
Medical Authority and Specialist Medical
Review Council. Commonwealth Department of
Veterans’ Affairs, 1997, $26,225.
Rosenwax LK, Holman CDJ, Harper AC, de Klerk
NH. Effects of the psychosocial work
environment on absenteeism in workers with
low back pain. Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation, 1998-1999, $101,752 (1998
$69,044; 1999 $32,708).
Semmens JB, Holman CDJ. Quality of Surgical
Care Project Validation Program. Health
Department of Western Australia, 1998, $15,000.
Holman CDJ. Major trends in the incidence and
prevalence of health conditions. Health
Department of Western Australia, 1997, $15,000.
Holman CDJ, Jamrozik KJ. Examination of blood
use in WA. Health Department of Western
Australia, 1997, $30,000.
Holman CDJ, Bass AJ. Health Services Research
Linked Database Extramural Unit. Health
Department of Western Australia, $109,725 (1997
$73,150, 1998 $36,575).
Finn JC, Holman CDJ. A longitudinal study of
the morbidity and mortality outcomes of cardiac
arrest. NHMRC Project Grant, 1999, $27,670.
Mendelsohn R, Rao S, Sweetman G, Anderson J,
Mander J, Holman CDJ, Hendrie D. Spiral CT
scanning as the primary imaging investigation
in the non-traumatic acute abdomen and
suspected renal colic: a randomised controlled
trial of cost-benefit. Commonwealth Department
of Health and Family Services Diagnostic Imaging
Research Program, 1998, $60,744.
Bass AJ, Holman CDJ. Health Services Research
Data Linkage Unit. Health Department of Western
Australia, $732,000 (1998-99 $238,000; 1999-2000
$244,000; 2000-01 $252,000). Grant partly made
by virtue of appointing three staff as HDWA
employees.
Finn JC, Holman CDJ. Trends in first-time
hospital admission and cumulative lengths of
stay in the first year in Perth metropolitan
hospitals. Health Department of Western
Australia, 1998, $16,281.
Holman CDJ, Brameld KJ. Parkinson’s disease
needs analysis. Health Department of Western
Australia, 1998, $4,254.
Davis P, Holman CDJ, Brameld KJ. Outcomes in
a cohort of psychogeriatric referrals at 3-years.
North Metropolitan Health Service, Health
Department of Western Australia, 1998, $3,000.
Semmens J, Morlet N, Holman CDJ, Hendrie DV.
Endophthalmitis in Western Australia 19802002: Incidence, management and effectiveness
of chemoprophylaxis. NHMRC Project Grant,
2000-2002, $335,104 (2000 $112,313; $110,573;
2002 $112,218).
Brameld KJ, Ward AM, Surveyor M, Churchward I,
Holman CDJ. Health outcomes for people with
diabetes – a record linkage study. General
Practice Evaluation Program, Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care, 1999,
$12,009.
Stevens M, Cercarelli R, Holman CDJ. Falls and
the prevention of hip fractures in nursing home
residents. Injury Control Council of Western
Australia, 1999, $100,000.
Holman CDJ. Review of research funded by the
Cancer Foundation of WA. Cancer Foundation of
Western Australia, 1997, $7,000.
Semmens JB, Fletcher DR, Holman CDJ, Smith M.
The Quality of Surgical Care Project: quality
assurance, outcomes evaluation and the
benefits to evidence-based practice at a
community level. Health Department of Western
Australia, 2000, $100,000.
Holman CDJ, Hyndman JCG, Hobbs MST,
Semmens JB. A multi-purpose Australian comorbidity scoring system for use with linked
hospital morbidity data. NHMRC Project Grant,
1999-2001, $294,269 (1999 $91,458; 2000
$104,663; 2001 $98,148).
Wall B, Holman CDJ, Wood L. Review of the
National Health Priority Areas Initiative.
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged
Care, 1999, $5,564 to Professor Holman for the
component of the Review dealing with indicator
design and reporting.
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Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 3. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2000, $37,792.
Holman CDJ, Semmens JB, Brameld KJ, Bass AJ,
Durham GA, Smith MB. The Western Australian
Record Linkage Project: Population-based
studies of health system utilisation and
outcomes. NHMRC Extended 5-Year Project
Grant, 2001-2005, $975,000 (2001 $195,000; 2002
$195,000; 2003 $195,000; 2004 $195,000; 2005
$195,000). This application was ranked by NHMRC
in category 7 = highest international quality and
research performance and was 1 of 17 from some
2,000 applications Australia-wide, and the only WA
application. to be placed in the highest category.
The project was subsequently profiled in the
NHMRC Annual Report for 2000.
Semmens, JB, Aitken JR, Fletcher DR, LawrenceBrown MMD, Faulkner KW, Holman CDJ. The
Quality of Surgical Care Project: Quality
assurance, clinical audit and outcomes
evaluation in Western Australia. NHMRC Project
Grant, 2001-2003, $345,000 (2001 $115,000; 2002
$115,000; 2003 $115,000), This application was
ranked by NHMRC in category 5 = excellent.
Bartu A, Holman CDJ, Codde J, Unwin E.
Evaluating health outcomes and service
utilisation of illicit drug users using linked data.
NHMRC National Illicit drug Strategy Research
Program Project Grant, 2000, $184,500 (Year 1
$127,500; Year 2 $57,000).
Holman CDJ. Leadership in Public Health. The
Australian Curriculum. Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care. 2001-2003,
$177,000 (2001 $58,300; 2002 $59,900; 2003
$58,800).
Semmens JB, Fletcher DR, Holman CDJ, Smith M.
The quality of surgical care project: quality
assurance, outcomes evaluation and the
benefits to evidence based practice at the
community level. Health Department of Western
Australia, 2001, $150,000.
Multidisciplinary Consortium for Professional and
Community Development on the Social, Ethical,
Biomedical and Public Health Implications of
Human Genome Research (CDJ Holman,
Convenor). Genomics, society and human
health. Seeking wisdom at the frontiers of
human genome research. Institute of Advanced
Studies, The University of Western Australia, 20012002, $40,000.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 4. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2001, $66,863.
Chelvanayagam G, Holman CDJ, Begley G,
Thompson P, Day D. Intercommunication and
analysis of biomedical data and databases.
NHMRC Equipment Grant, 2001, $50,000.
McNamara B, Rosenwax L, Holman CDJ,
Nightingale E. Palliative care constituency,
utilisation and impact on health care: a Western
Australian based epidemiological and
sociological study. NHMRC Strategic Palliative
Care Research Grant, 2002-2004, $150,000 (2002
$65,000; 2003 $65,000; 2004 $20,000).
Holman CDJH, Brameld KJ. A health record
linkage project on diabetes. Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare, 2001, $68,970.
Semmens JB, Aitken J, Fletcher DR, LawrenceBrown MMD, Faulkner K, Holman CDJ. Safety and
quality in surgical care: the development of the
Western Australian audit of surgical mortality.
Health Department of Western Australia, 2001-2 to
2005-6, approx $1.5 million (2001-2 $310,000;
2002-3 $275,000; 2003-4 $250,000; 2004-5
$315,000; 2005-6 $350,000).
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 5. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2002, $75,682.
Holman CDJ, Stanley FJ, Zubrick SR, Knuiman
MW, Hobbs MST, de Klerk NH, Bower CI,
Stevenson M. Better health outcomes through
new research methods and population data.
NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Population
Health Research, 2002-3 to 2006-7, $3,050,000
(2002-3 $610,000; 2003-4 $610,000; 2004-5
$610,000; 2005-6 $610,000; 2006-7 $610,000).
This was the first grant of its type to be awarded in
Australia and the largest grant awarded in the first
round.
Finn JC, Holman CDJ, Flicker L, Jacobs IG, Jelinek
G. A population-based study of the use of acute
hospital services by elderly people living in
residential care. NHMRC Project Grant, 20032004, $120,000 (2003 $60,000; 2004 $60,000).
This application was ranked by NHMRC in category
5 = ‘excellent’.
Hulse GK, Holman CDJ, Arnold-Reed DE. Effect
of naltrexone treatment on mental health and
other health outcomes: a record linkage study.
NHMRC Project Grant, 2003, $105,000. This
application was ranked by NHMRC in category 6 =
highly competitive’.
Hobbs MST, Finn JC, Fletcher DR, Knuiman MW,
Holman CDJ, Semmens JB. The prevention of
venous thrombosis in hospital practice.
National Institute of Clinical Studies, Research
Funding, 2003-2004, $239,193 (2003 $200,274;
2004 $38,919).
Stanley F, Holman CDJ, Bittles A, Zeps N, Van
Bockxmeer F, Semmens JB. Infrastructure
funding for the major enhancement of: (1)
Phase I of the Family Connections Genealogical
Database; and (2) Biospecimen Database, and
their linkage to the WA Data Linkage Project.
Medical and Health Research Infrastructure
Council, 2002-3, $224,000.
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Holman CDJ. Healthwatch Health Standards and
Surveillance Council. Western Australian
Department of Health, 2002, $318,185.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 6. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2003, $63,340.
Semmens JB, Morlet N, Holman CDJ. Adverse
outcomes following cataract surgery in Western
Australia: a population study using record
linkage. NHMRC Project Grant, 2004-2006,
$351,850 (2004 $141,300; 2005 $141,300; 2006
$69,250). This application was ranked by NHMRC
in category 6 = ‘highly competitive’.
Bulsara MK, Holman CDJ, Knuiman M, Hobbs M,
Stevenson M. Computing equipment for
laboratory for spatial analysis in epidemiology.
NHMRC Equipment Grant, 2003, $50,000.
Palmer LJ, Holman CDJ, Stanley FJ, de Klerk N,
Zeps N, van Bockxmeer F, Semmens J, Smith MB.
A national population-based genetic
epidemiology, biospecimen and bioinformatics
resource. NHMRC Enabling Grant, 2004-5 to
2008-9, $2,660,000 ($1.9 million NHMRC with
$0.76 million matching UWA strategic initiative
funds)(2004-5 $532,000; 2005-6 $532,000; 2006-7
$532,000; 2007-8 $532,000; 2008-9 $532,000).
Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Sheiner H. Looking in to
reasons for poorer cancer outcomes in rural
areas. Crawford Society, 2004, $40,000.
Palmer LJ, Klinken SP, Holman CDJ, Leedman P.
PCR thermocycler and plate reader. NHMRC
Equipment Grant, 2004, $107,000.
Finn JC, Holman CDJ. Social determinants of
health. Western Australian Department of Health,
2004, $25,000.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 7. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2004, $37,680.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 8. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2005, $51,173.
Butler JBG, Luke C, Holman CDJ, McKibbin W,
Sidorenko A. Australian Centre for Economic
Research on Health (ACERH) Innovative
analysis of health insurance, ageing and the
economic burden of illness and injury. NHMRC
Health Services Research Program Grant, 20052009, $4.5million (2005 $1,061,200; 2006
$1,065,200; 2007 $853,200; 2008 $793,200; 2009
$727,200).
Holman CDJ, Hobbs MST, Emery JD, Preen DB,
Kelman CW, Rosman DL. Chronic disease
outcomes and improved care in seniors: a
cross-jurisdictional linkage project. NHMRC
Project Grant, 2006-2009, $1,012,100 (2006
$267,900; 2007 $238,150; 2008 $238,150; 2009
$267,900). This application was ranked by NHMRC
in category 6 = ‘highly competitive’.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Katzenellenbogen JM,
Bass JB, Sanfilippo FM. Population based
estimates of MBS, PBS and hospital utilisation
rates using prevalent chronic disease
denominators. NHMRC Project Grant, 2005-2007,
$242,250 (2005 $80,750; 2006 $80,750; 2007
$80,750). This application was ranked by NHMRC
in category 5 = ‘excellent’.
Finn JC, Holman CDJ, Jacobs IG, Hobbs MST,
Preen D, Thompson PL. A population based
linked data analysis of the prognostic
determinants of out of hospital cardiac arrest.
NHMRC Project Grant, 2005-2007, $171,500 (2005
$95,750; 2006 $75,750). This application was
ranked by NHMRC in category 5 = ‘excellent’.
Semmens JB, Fletcher DR, Lawrence-Brown M,
Holman CDJ, Hobbs MST. The WA Safety and
Quality of Surgical Care Project: Improving the
safety, quality and provision of surgical care.
NHMRC Project Grant, 2005-2007, $574,119 (2005
$191,373; 2006 $191,373; 2007 $191,373). This
application was ranked by NHMRC in category 6 =
‘highly competitive’.
McNamara B, Rosenwax L, Auret K, Holman CDJ.
A model of current and potential palliative care
constituency: measuring met and unmet needs.
NHMRC Strategic Palliative Care Research Grant,
2004-2006, $145,210 (2004 $42,405; 2005
$64,405; 2006 $38,400).
Holman CDJ, Semmens JB, Emery JD, Sanfilippo
FM, Kelman CW, Rosman DL. Improving
medication safety in seniors: a crossjurisdictional linkage project. NHMRC Project
Grant, 2006-2008, $601,700 (2006 $203,900; 2007
$193,900; 2008 $203,900). This application was
ranked by NHMRC in category 6 = ‘highly
competitive’.
Holman CDJ, Stanley FJ, Rouse IL, Smith MB,
Semmens JB, de Klerk NH, Bass JB, Rosman DL.
Data Linkage Australia: a WA-based centre of
excellence in science and innovation. Western
Australian Office of Science and Innovation, 20052009, $2,079,796.
Holman CDJ, Stanley FJ, Rouse IL, Smith MB,
Semmens JB, de Klerk NH, Bass JB, Rosman DL.
Data Linkage Facility - NSW. Institute for Health
Research of New South Wales, 2005, $53,475.
Holman CDJ. Cross-jurisdictional data
consultancy and linkage services to the
Department of Health. Western Australian
Department of Health, 2005, $93,500.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 9. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2006, $55,024.
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Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 10. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2007, $63,422.
Holman CDJ, Preen DB. Use of linked data to
inform NPS (National Prescribing Service)
Program Evaluation. National Prescribing
Service, 2007-2011, $383,820 (2007 $40,000; 2008
$16,500; 2009 $104,582; 2010 113,887; 2011
$123,850).
Moorin RM, Holman CDJ, Preen DB, McKenzie A.
Costs and availability of care for
catastrophically injured motor vehicle crash
victims. Insurance Commission of Western
Australia, 2008-2009, $198,000 (2008 $132,000;
2009 $66,000).
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 11. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2008, $76,016.
Holman CDJ, Xie X, Zhang M, Liu Y, Zhao X,
Bulsara M. Green tea polyphenols and cancer
prevention: use of population controls and
biomarkers to elicit causal pathways. NHMRC
Project Grant, 2009-2012, $913,289 (2009
$200,713; 2010 $298,788; 2011 $256,975; 2012
$156,813). This application was ranked by NHMRC
in category 6 = ‘highly competitive’.
Jorm LR, Roberts C, Preen DB, Simpson J, Moorin
R, Haines M, Bambrick H, Holman CDJ.
OSPREY: Building capacity for research to
improve health services for mothers, babies and
children. NHMRC Capacity Building Grant for
Population Health and Health Services Research,
2009-2013, $2,261,542 (2009 $452,309; 2010
$452,309; 2011 $452,308; 2012 $452,308; 2013
$452,308).
Cook A, Weinstein P, Holman CDJ.
Consequences of adverse air quality (as an
independent node of the Cooperative Research
Centre for Asthma and Airways), 2008-9 to 201011 triennium. Australian Government Cooperative
Research Centre Program, 2008- to 2010-11,
$1,367,052 (2008-9 $471,253; 2009-10 $452,241;
2010-11 $443,558).
Emery J, Holman CD, Saunders C, Fritschi L, Auret
K, Nowak A, Monterosso L, Preen D, Moorin R, Vaz
L, Walter F, Booth P, Mears M, Kirke A, Willix C,
Jeffries-Stokes C. Intervention to redress delay
and improve outcomes in rural cancer patients.
Cancer Council of Western Australia, 2009-2012,
$450,000.
Einarsdottir K, Haggar F, Bulsara M, Preen D,
Holman CDJ. Cancer in the adolescent and
young adult population: incidence, survival and
patterns of care in Western Australia from 19812007. Cancer Council of Western Australia, 2009,
$24,860.
Riley R, Holman CDJ, Fletcher D. Predictors of
mortality in adult patients following surgery in
teaching hospitals in Western Australia with
special reference to the classification of the
American Society of Anaesthesiologists.
Australian Society of Anaesthetists, project grant
(280808), 2008, $10,000.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 12. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2009, $75,769.
Holman, CDJ, Emery JD, Saunders SM, Walter FM,
Moorin RE, Auret KA, Preen DB, Bulsara MK.
Partnership Intervention Trial to Redress
Treatment Delay and Improve Outcomes in
Rural Cancer Patients. NHMRC Partnership
Project Grant, 2010-2014, $1,215,262 (2010
$243,262; 2011 $243,000; 2012 $243,000; 2013
$243,000; 2014 $243,000). Total budget with
partner agency grants $2,216,262 ($1,965,262
cash). This application was ranked by NHMRC in
category 6 = ‘highly competitive’.
Emery JD, Holman, CDJ, Saunders SM, Walter FM,
Moorin RE, Auret KA, Preen DB, Bulsara MK.
Partnership Intervention Trial to Redress
Treatment Delay and Improve Outcomes in
Rural Cancer Patients: WA Department of Health
Partner Funds Contribution. Western Australian
Department of Health, 2010-2014, $150,000 (2010
$30,000; 2011 $30,000; 2012 $30,000; 2013
$30,000; 2014 $30,000).
Emery JD, Holman, CDJ, Saunders SM, Walter FM,
Moorin RE, Auret KA, Preen DB, Bulsara MK.
Partnership Intervention Trial to Redress
Treatment Delay and Improve Outcomes in
Rural Cancer Patients: WA Cancer and Palliative
Care Network Contribution. Western Australian
Cancer and Palliative Care Network, 2010-2014,
$150,000 (2010 $30,000; 2011 $30,000; 2012
$30,000; 2013 $30,000; 2014 $30,000).
Preen DB, Holman CDJ, Judge D, Weinstein P,
Webb P, Slaney D, Milne F, Fearnley E. The
impact of early-life exposures and polycystic
ovarian syndrome on the risk of endometrial
cancer in Australian and New Zealand women.
The University of Western Australia Research
Collaboration Awards, 2010, $5,000.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 13. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2010, $64,177.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ, Bulsara MK, Fox R.
Policy translation of an Australian evaluation of
computed tomography (CT) Scanning. NHMRC
Project Grant, 2011-2013, $386,299 (2011
$186,130; 2012 $115,433; 2013 $84,736). This
application was ranked by NHMRC in category 5 =
‘excellent’.
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Preen D, Roughead L, Saunders C, Kemp A,
Bulsara M, Holman CDJ. Endocrine therapies for
early breast cancer: health outcomes and policy
implications in Australian clinical practice.
Cancer Australia (App 1011488), 2011-2013,
$466,498 (2011 $193,070; 2012 $136,714; 2013
$136,714).
Western Australia to support health research.
Lotterywest, 2013-2016, $5,113,948 (2013-14
$1,800,000; 2014-15 $1,813,948; 2015-2016
$1,500,000).
Gray V, Slevin T, Holman CDJ, Emery JD.
Campaign message development and formative
marketing research for a community
intervention to increase cancer symptom
awareness and reduce delays in help-seeking
behaviour in people in rural WA. Western
Australian Cancer and Palliative Care Research
and Evaluation Unit, The University of Western
Australia, 2011, $12,000.
Armstrong BK, Heenan PJ, Hansen H, Holman CDJ.
Survey of the epidemiology, aetiology, pathology
and clinical management of malignant melanoma in
Western Australia, 1980-1981. Lions Clubs of
Western Australia and Cancer Council of Western
Australia, 1980-1982, $69,584.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 14. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2011, $49,177.
Joske D, Zhang M, Cull G, Sanfilippo F, Bulsara M,
Holman CDJ. A pilot study of the effect of green
tea polyphenols in untreated patients with early
stage chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Cancer
Council of Western Australia, 2012, $90,000.
Mao WM, Ling ZQ, Zheng ZG, Zhu X, Ying LS, Du
LB, Wang XH, Yu CD, Yang J, Pan WH, Zhang
WM, Wang JH, Ying JW, Holman CDJ, Zhang M.
Study in susceptibility genes important for
regional oesophageal cancer in Zhejiang
Province, treatment of sensitive genes SNP, and
identification of screening haplotype and their
function. Science & Technology Department of
Zhejiang Province, Key Programs (ID 2011C130391) 2012-2014 ¥2,400,000 (2012 ¥800,000; 2013
¥800,000; 2014 ¥800,000
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 15. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2012, $39,779.
Lyons RA, Ford DV, Macleod J, Butler C, Palmer S,
Brophy S, Burton P, Carroll J, Cassell J, Dennis M,
El Emam K, Fielder H, Fone D, Gallacher J,
Gravenor M, Gunnell D, Hickman M, Holman CDJ,
Jones K, Lloyd K, Lowe S, Martin R, Moore L,
Paranjothy S, Preen D, Rodgers S, Russell I,
Siebert S, Snooks H, Williams J, Conley E, John G,
Roberts S, Gabbe B, Gissler M, John A. Centre for
the Improvement of Population Health through
E-health Research (CIPHER). Medical Research
Council (United Kingdom) (ID MR/K006525/1) 1
October 2012 – 30 September 2017, £4,373,292.
Holman CDJ. Medical and health research
infrastructure grant, Round 16. Medical and
Health Research Infrastructure Council of Western
Australia, 2013, $42,059.
Semmens JB, Preen DB, Rosman D, O’Leary P,
Holman CDJ, Stanley F, Daube M, Weeramanthri
T, de Klerk NH, McKenzie A, Ibrahim J, Glauert R.
Data Linkage Australia: Development and
expansion of data linkage infrastructure for
RESEARCH GRANTS 1980 to 1993
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Survey of skin cancer
and sun-related behaviour in the population of
Busselton 1981. Cancer Council of Western
Australia, 1981, $4,000.
Holman CDJ. Survey of the respiratory health of
Kalgoorlie miners. Mines Department of Western
Australia, 1985, $17,000.
Holman CDJ. Monitoring and evaluation of in-vitro
fertilisation in Western Australia. Western
Australian In Vitro Fertilisation Bioethics Committee,
1985-1988, $90,000.
Holman CDJ. Respiratory health survey of the
mining workforce of Collie. Mines Department of
Western Australia, 1987, $19,000.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Methods of quantifying
drug caused morbidity and mortality.
Commonwealth Department of Community Services
and Health, 1987, $29,807.
Holman CDJ. Prevalence of HIV antibody and risk
behaviours in Western Australian Aborigines.
NHMRC Commonwealth AIDS Research Grant, 1988,
$68,750 (grant offered but not taken up due to
appointment as an Assistant Commissioner).
Holman CDJ, Webb S. A prevalence survey of
infertility in Western Australia. TVW Telethon
Foundation, 1988, $30,000.
Holman CDJ. Survival from cancer in Western
Australia, 1982- 1987. Cancer Foundation of Western
Australia, 1988, $9,850.
Holman CDJ. Cervical cytology in Western
Australia - a second survey for 1992. Cancer
Foundation of Western Australia, 1991, $15,400.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Health Department of
Western Australia, 1992, $26,230.
Holman CDJ. Review of the Public Health
Committee of NHMRC. Commonwealth Department
of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community
Services, 1993, $31,000.
Holman CDJ, Donovan, Corti B. Impact evaluation of
support sponsorship kits. Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation, 1993, $9,000.
Holman CDJ, Lewin G, Hobbs MST, Penman AG.
North Metropolitan Health Service Needs Analysis.
North Metropolitan Health Service, 1993, $190,600.
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APPENDIX B: PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS 1994 to 2014
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Holman CDJ, English DR. An improved
aetiologic fraction of alcohol-caused mortality.
Australian Journal of Public Health 1995; 19(2):
138-141.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ, Hockey RL, Donovan
RJ, Corti B, Rivera J. Misclassification of social
disadvantage based on geographical areas:
comparison of postcode and collector’s district
analyses. International Journal of Epidemiology
1995; 24(1): 165-176.
Holman CDJ. Creating partnerships, building
systems: improving interactions between
research and practice. Health Promotion Journal
of Australia 1996; 6(2): 21-24.
Holman CDJ, Oddy WH, Corti B, Donovan RJ.
Epidemiologic measures of impact of
community health promotion projects.
International Journal of Epidemiology 1996, 25(3):
687-688.
Holman CDJ, English DR, Milne E, Winter M.
Further reflections on the NHMRC
recommendations for alcohol consumption –
reply. Medical Journal of Australia 1996; 165(2):
117.
Corti B, Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Coten NJ,
Dennis JR, Frizzell SK, Carroll AM. Public
attitudes to smoke-free areas in sports venues.
Medical Journal of Australia 1995; 162(11): 612.
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ. Factors
influencing the use of physical activity facilities:
results from qualitative research. Health
Promotion Journal of Australia 1996; 6(1): 16-21.
Oddy WH, Holman CDJ, Corti B, Donovan RJ.
Epidemiological measures of participation in
community health promotion projects.
International Journal of Epidemiology 1995; 24(5):
1013-1021.
Jones S, Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ,
Dennis JR. Public response to a smoke-free
policy at a major sporting venue. Medical
Journal of Australia 1996; 164(11): 759.
Corti B, Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Frizzell SK,
Carroll AM. Using sponsorship to create healthy
environments for sport, racing and arts venues
in Western Australia. Health Promotion
International 1995; 10(3): 185-197.
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Castine RM, Holman CDJ,
Shilton TR. Encouraging the sedentary to Be
Active Every Day: qualitative formative
research. Health Promotion Journal of Australia
1995; 5(2): 10-17.
McGuiness D, Corti B, Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ.
Do health promotion foundations give more
money to health promotion, sport, the arts and
research? - The case of Healthway. Health
Promotion Journal of Australia 1995; 5(3): 4-8.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B, Jalleh G.
Evaluating projects funded by the Western
Australian Health Promotion Foundation: first
results. Health Promotion International 1996;
11(2): 75-88.
Holman CDJ, English DR, Milne E, Winter MG.
Meta-analysis of alcohol and all-cause mortality:
a validation of NHMRC recommendations.
Medical Journal of Australia 1996; 164(3): 141-145.
Holman CDJ, English, DR. Ought low alcohol
intake to be promoted for health reasons?
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1996;
89(3): 123-129.
Holman CDJ, English DR, Bower C, Kurinczuk JJ.
NHMRC recommendations on abstinence from
alcohol in pregnancy. Medical Journal of
Australia 1996; 164(11): 699.
English DR, Holman CDJ. Does alcohol cause
breast cancer? Breast News 1996; 2: 6.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B, Jalleh G. The
myth of “healthism” in organized sports:
implications for health promotion sponsorship
of sports and the arts. American Journal of
Health Promotion 1997; 11(3): 169-176.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B, Jalleh G,
Frizzell SK, Carroll AM. Banning tobacco
sponsorship: replacing tobacco with health
messages and creating health-promoting
environments. Tobacco Control 1997; 6(2): 115121.
Holman CDJ. Measuring the occurrence of
health-promoting interactions with the
environment. Australian and New Zealand Journal
of Public Health 1997; 21(4): 360-364.
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ, Coten N, Jones
SJ. Using sponsorship to promote health
messages to children. Health Education &
Behaviour 1997; 24(3): 276-286.
Corti B, Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Frizzell SK,
Carroll AM. Warning: attending a sport, racing
or arts venue may be beneficial to your health.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health 1997; 21(4): 371-376.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ, Jamrozik K. The
effect of spatial definition on the allocation of
clients to screening clinics. Social Science in
Medicine 1997; 45(2): 331-340.
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Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ, Corti B, Jalleh G.
Face-to-face household interviews versus
telephone interviews for health surveys.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health 1997; 21(2): 134-140.
Arnold-Reed DE, Holman CDJ. Effects of
smoking and unsafe alcohol consumption on
Aboriginal life expectancy - reply. Medical
Journal of Australia 1998; 169(2): 120.
Norman PE, Semmens JB, Lawrence-Brown MMD,
Holman CDJ. Long-term survival after surgery
for abdominal aortic aneurysm in Western
Australia: population based study. British
Medical Journal 1998; 317(7162): 852-856.
Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ, Corti B, Jalleh G.
Evaluating sponsorship effectiveness: an
epidemiological approach to analysing survey
data. Australasian Journal of Market Research
1997; 5(2): 9-23.
English DR, Hulse GK, Milne E, Holman CDJ,
Bower CI. Maternal cannabis use and birth
weight: a meta-analysis. Addiction 1997; 92(11):
1553-1560.
Mak DB, Holman CDJ. Age at first episode of
venereal syphilis in an Aboriginal population: an
application of survival analysis. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health 1998; 22(6):
704-708.
Hulse GK, Milne E, English DR, Holman CDJ.
Assessing the relationship between maternal
cocaine use and abruptio placentae. Addiction
1997; 92(11): 1547-1551.
Hulse GK, Milne E, English DR, Holman CDJ.
Assessing the relationship between maternal
opiate use and neonatal mortality. Addiction
1998; 93(7): 1033-1042.
Hulse GK, English DR, Milne E, Holman CDJ,
Bower CI. Maternal cocaine use and low birth
weight newborns: a meta-analysis. Addiction
1997; 92(11): 1561-1570.
Hulse GK, Milne E, English DR, Holman CDJ.
Assessing the relationship between maternal
opiate use and antepartum haemorrhage.
Addiction 1998; 93(10): 1553-1558.
Hulse GK, Milne E, English DR, Holman CDJ. The
relationship between maternal use of heroin
and methadone and infant birth weight.
Addiction 1997; 92(11): 1571-1579.
Donovan RJ, Jones S, Holman CDJ, Corti B.
Assessing the reliability of a stages of change
scale. Health Education Research 1998; 13(2):
285-291.
Holman CDJ, Corti B, Donovan RJ, Jalleh G.
Associations of the health-promoting workplace
with trade unionism and other industrial factors.
American Journal of Health Promotion 1998; 12(5):
325-334.
Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ, Corti B, Jalleh G.
Community perceptions of health promotion
priorities for Western Australia. Health
Promotion Journal of Australia 1998; 8(3): 202-204.
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens JB, Rouse
IL, Bass AJ. Mortality and prostate cancer risk
in 19,598 men after surgery for benign prostatic
hyperplasia. British Journal of Urology
International 1999; 84(1): 37-42.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Bass AJ, Codde JP,
Rouse IL. Hospitalisation of the elderly during
the last year of life: an application of record
linkage in Western Australia 1985-1994. Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health 1998;
52(11): 740-744.
Holman CDJ, Bass AJ, Rouse IR, Hobbs MST.
Population-based linkage of health records in
Western Australia: development of a health
services research linked database. Australian
and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 1999;
23(5): 453-459 (feature topic).
Semmens JB, Lawrence-Brown MMD, Fletcher DR,
Rouse IL, Holman CDJ. The Quality of Surgical
Care Project: a model to evaluate surgical
outcomes in Western Australia using
population-based record linkage. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1998; 68(6): 397403.
Patterson KM, Holman CDJ, English DR, Hulse GK,
Unwin E. First-time hospital admissions with
illicit drug problems in indigenous and nonindigenous Western Australians: an application
of record linkage to public health surveillance.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health 1999; 23(5): 460-463 (feature topic).
Semmens JB, Lawrence-Brown MMD, Norman PE,
Codde JP, Holman CDJ. The Quality of Surgical
Care Project: benchmark standards of open
resection for abdominal aortic aneurysm in
Western Australia. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Surgery 1998; 68(6): 404-410.
Semmens JB, Norman PE, Lawrence-Brown MMD,
AJ Bass, Holman CDJ. Population-based record
linkage study of the incidence of abdominal
aortic aneurysm in Western Australia in 1985-94.
British Journal of Surgery 1998; 85(5): 648-652.
Arnold-Reed DE, Holman CDJ, Codde J, Unwin E.
Effects of smoking and unsafe alcohol
consumption on Aboriginal life expectancy.
Medical Journal of Australia 1998; 168(2): 95.
Brameld KJ, Thomas MAB, Holman CDJ, Bass AJ,
Rouse IL. Validation of linked administrative
data on end-stage renal failure: application of
record linkage to a ‘clinical base population’.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health 1999; 23(5): 464-467 (feature topic).
Lawrence DM, Holman CDJ, Jablensky AV, Fuller
SA. Suicide rates in psychiatric inpatients: an
application of record linkage to mental health
research. Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Public Health 1999; 23(5): 468-470 (feature topic).
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Brameld K, Holman D, Thomas M, Bass J. Use of
a State data bank to measure incidence and
prevalence of a chronic disease: end-stage
renal failure. American Journal of Kidney Disease
1999; 34(6): 1033-1039.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ, de Klerk NH. A
comparison of measures of access to child
health clinics and the implications for modelling
the location of new clinics. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Public Health 1999; 23(2): 189195.
Semmens JB, Wisniewski ZS, Bass AJ, Holman
CDJ, Rouse IL. Trends in repeat prostatectomy
after surgery for benign prostate disease:
application of record linkage to healthcare
outcomes. British Journal of Urology International
1999; 84(9): 972-975.
Hulse GK, English DR, Milne E, Holman CDJ. The
quantification of mortality resulting from the
regular use of illicit opiates. Addiction 1999;
94(2): 221-229.
Spilsbury K, Meyer J, Bridges J, Holman C. Older
adults’ experiences of A&E care. Emergency
Nurse 1999; 7(6): 24-31.
Holman CDJH, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens JB,
Rouse IL, Bass AJ. Population-based outcomes
following 28 246 in-hospital vasectomies and 1
902 vasovasostomies in Western Australia.
British Journal of Urology International 2000; 86(9):
1043-1049.
Lawrence D, Holman CDJ, Jablensky AV, Threllfall
TJ, Fuller SA. Excess cancer mortality in
Western Australian psychiatric patients due to
higher case fatality rates. Acta Psychiatrica
Scandinavia 2000; 101(5): 382-388.
Lawrence D, Jablensky AV, Holman CDJ, Pinder
TJ. Mortality in Western Australian psychiatric
patients. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric
Epidemiology 2000; 35(8): 341-347.
Lawrence D, Almeida OP, Hulse GK, Jablensky AV,
Holman CDJ. Suicide and attempted suicide
among older adults in Western Australia.
Psychological Medicine 2000; 30(4): 813-821.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ. Differential effects
on socioeconomic groups of modelling the
location of mammography screening clinics
using Geographic Information Systems.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health 2000; 24(3): 281-286.
Speechly CM, Johnson GH, Kamien M, Holman
CDJ, Ward AM, McComb C. The Bachelor of
Medical Science degree for medical students at
the University of WA: does it lead to a future
research career? Focus on Health Professional
Education: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal 2000: 2(2):
71-78.
Semmens JB, Platell C, Threllfall TJ, Holman CDJ.
A population-based study of the incidence,
mortality and outcomes in patients following
surgery for colorectal cancer in Western
Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Surgery 2000; 70(1): 11-18.
Semmens JB, Norman PE, Lawrence-Brown MMD,
Holman CDJ. Influence of gender on outcomes
from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
British Journal of Surgery 2000; 87(2): 191-194.
Norman PE, Semmens JB, Lawrence-Brown MMD,
Holman CDJ. The influence of gender on
outcome following peripheral vascular surgery:
a review. Cardiovascular Surgery 2000; 8(2): 111115.
Mak DB, Holman CDJ. STDs aren’t sexy: health
professionals’ lack of adherence to clinical
guidelines in an area of high STD endemicity.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2000; 22(4): 540545.
Mak DB, Holman CDJ. A decision to end a
periodic syphilis screening program in the
Kimberley region. Communicable Diseases
Intelligence 2000; 24(12): 386-390.
Semmens J, Normal P, Lawrence-Brown M,
Holman D. Influence of gender on outcome from
ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm – reply.
British Journal of Surgery 2000; 87(9): 1250.
Holman CDJ. The impracticable nature of
consent for research use of linked
administrative health records. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2001; 25(5):
421-422.
Holman CDJ, Arnold-Reed DE, de Klerk N,
McComb C, English DR. A psychometric
experiment in causal inference to estimate
evidential weights used by epidemiologists.
Epidemiology 2001; 12(2): 246-255 (special article).
Holman CDJ, Arnold-reed DE, de Klerk NH, English
DE, Donovan RJ. Epidemiologists’
characteristics had little influence on causal
inference. Epidemiology 2001; 12(6): 752-753.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ, Dawes VP. The
effect of distance and social disadvantage on
the response to invitations to attend
mammography screening. Journal of Medical
Screening 2000; 7(3): 141-145.
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens JB, Rouse
IL, Bass AJ. Population-based outcomes after
28,246 in-hospital vasectomies and 1902
vasovasostomies in Western Australia – reply.
BJU International 2001; 88(1) 125.
Davis PS, Holman CDJ, Brameld K. Gender
differences in survival of 234 patients referred
to a psychogeriatric service. International
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2000; 15(11): 10611069.
Holman CDJ, Arnold-Reed DE. Membership in
Australasian Epidemiological Association – the
authors respond. Epidemiology 2001; 12(5): 593.
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Lawrence DM, Holman CDJ, Jablensky AV, Fuller
SA, Stoney AJ. Increasing rates of suicide in
psychiatric patients in Western Australia: a
record linkage study. Acta Psychiatrica
Scandinavia 2001; 104(6): 443-451.
Stevens M, Holman CDJ, Bennett N. Preventing
falls in older people: impact of an intervention
to reduce environmental hazards in the home.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2001;
49(11): 1442-1447.
Stevens M, Holman CDJ, Bennett N, de Klerk NH.
Preventing falls in older people: outcome
evaluation of a randomised controlled trial.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2001;
49(11): 1448-1455.
Finn JC, Jacobs IG, Holman CDJ, Oxer HF.
Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
patients in Perth, Western Australia, 1996-1999.
Resuscitation 2001; 51(3): 247-255.
Rosenwax LK, Semmens JB, Holman CDJ. Is
occupational therapy in danger of ‘ad hocery’?
An application of evidence-based guidelines to
the treatment of acute low back pain. Australian
Occupational Therapy Journal 2001; 48(4): 181186.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ. Accessibility and
spatial distribution of general practice services
in an Australian city by levels of social
disadvantage. Social Science and Medicine 2001;
53: 1599-1609.
Donnelly NJ, Semmens JB, Fletcher DR, Holman
CDJ. Appendectomy in Western Australia:
profile and trends, 1981-1997. Medical Journal of
Australia 2001; 175(1): 15-18 (cover pictorial).
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens JB, Bass
AJ. Changing treatments for primary
urolithiasis: impact on services and renal
preservation in 16 679 patients in Western
Australia. BJU International 2002; 90(1): 7-15.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Threllfall TJ, Lawrence
DM, de Klerk NH. Increasing ‘active prevalence’
of cancer in Western Australia and its
implications for health services. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2002; 26(2):
164-169.
Brameld KJ, Ward A, Gavin A, Surveyor M, Holman
CDJ. Health outcomes in people with type II
diabetes – a record linkage study. Australian
Family Physician 2002; 31(8): 775-778, 782.
Calver J, Lewin G, Holman CDJ. Reliability of a
primary, generic assessment instrument for
home care. Australasian Journal of Ageing 2002;
21(4): 185-191.
Kelman CW, Bass AJ, Holman CDJ. Research
use of linked health data - a ‘best practice’
protocol. Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Public Health 2002; 26(3): 251-5.
Jalleh G, Donovan RJ, Giles-Corti B, Holman CDJ.
Sponsorship: impact on brand awareness and
brand attitudes. Sport Marketing Quarterly 2002;
8(1): 35-45.
Elder MJ, Morlet N and the EPSWA Team.
Endophthalmitis. EPSWA Endophthalmitis
Population Study of Western Australia. Clinical
and Experimental Ophthalmology 2002; 30(6): 394398.
Holman D, Bass J, Rosman D, Somerford P,
Brameld K. Workshop on data linkage in
epidemiologic research. Australasian
Epidemiologist 2003; 10(3): 14.
Lawrence DM, Holman CDJ, Jablensky AV, Hobbs
MST. Death rate from ischaemic heart disease
in Western Australian psychiatric patients 19801998. British Journal of Psychiatry 2003; 182: 3136.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ, Pritchard DA. The
influence of attractiveness factors and distance
to general practice surgeries by level of social
disadvantage and global access in Perth,
Western Australia. Social Science and Medicine
2003; 56(2): 387-403.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ. Estimation of excess
risk of readmission to hospital after an index
inpatient separation. Medical Care 2003; 41(5):
693-697.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Lawrence DM, Hobbs
MST. Improved methods for estimating
incidence from linked hospital morbidity data.
International Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 32(4):
617-624.
Hall SE, Holman CDJ. Inequalities in breast
cancer reconstructive surgery according to
social and locational status in Western
Australia. European Journal of Surgical Oncology
2003; 29(6): 519-525.
Young JM, Hollands MJ, Ward J, Holman CDJ.
Role for opinion leaders in promoting
evidenced-based surgery. Archives of Surgery
2003; 138(7): 758-791.
Preen DB, Holman CDJ, Lawrence DM, Baynham
NJ, Semmens JB. Accuracy of recorded
comorbidity with medical record linkage: a
hospital and primary care validation study.
Australian Epidemiologist 2003; 10(3): 24.
Semmens JB, Li J, Morlet N, Ng J on behalf of the
EPSWA Team. Trends in cataract surgery and
postoperative endophthalmitis in Western
Australia (1980-1998): the Endophthalmitis
Population Study of Western Australia. Clinical
and Experimental Ophthalmology 2003; 31(3): 213219.
Semmens JB and the Study Team. Circumcision
for phimosis and other medical indications in
Western Australian boys – reply. Medical Journal
of Australia 2003; 178(11): 589-590.
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Kelman CW, Kortt MA, Becker NG, Li Z, Mathews
JD, Guest CS, Holman CDJ. Deep vein
thrombosis and air travel: record linkage study.
British Medical Journal 2003; 327(7423): 10721076.
Laurvick CL, Semmens JB, Leung Y, Holman CDJ.
Ovarian cancer in Western Australia (1982-98):
trends in surgical intervention and relative
survival. Gynaecologic Oncology 2003; 88(2):
141-148.
Laurvick CL, Semmens JB, Holman CDJ, Leung
YC. Ovarian cancer in Western Australia (198298): incidence, mortality and survival. Australian
and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2003;
27(6): 588-595.
Spilsbury K, Semmens JB, Wisniewski ZS, Holman
CDJ. Circumcision for phimosis and other
medical indications in Western Australian boys.
Medical Journal of Australia 2003; 178(4): 155-158.
Spilsbury K, Semmens JB, Wisniewski ZS, Holman
CDJ. Routine circumcision practice in Western
Australia: 1981-99. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Surgery 2003; 73(8): 610-614.
Li J, Morlet N, Semmens JB, Gavin A on behalf of
the EPSWA Team. Coding accuracy for
endophthalmitis diagnosis and cataract
procedures in WA. Ophthalmic Epidemiology
2003; 10(2): 133-145.
Morlet N, Semmens JB, Li J on behalf of the
EPSWA Team. The endophthalmitis population
study of Western Australia (EPSWA): first
report. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2003;
87(5): 574-576.
Bartu A, Freeman NC, Gawthorne GS, Codde JP,
Holman CDJ. Psychiatric comorbidity in a
cohort of heroin and amphetamine users in
Perth, Western Australia. Journal of Substance
Use 2003; 8(3): 150-154.
Arnold-Reed DE, Hulse GK, Hansson RC, Murray
SD, O’Neill G, Basso MR, Holman CDJ. Blood
morphine levels in naltrexone-exposed
compared to non-naltrexone-exposed fatal
heroin overdoses. Addiction Biology 2003; 8(3):
343-350.
Preen DB, Holman CDJ, Lawrence DM, Baynham
N, Semmens JB. Hospital chart review provided
more accurate comorbidity information than
data from a general practitioner survey or an
administrative database. Journal of Clinical
Epidemiology 2004; 57(12): 1295-1304.
Preen DB, Holman CDJ, Lawrence DM, Semmens
JB, Spilsbury K. Modelling comorbidity recency,
duration and severity with risk adjustment for
mortality and morbidity outcomes with
administrative data. Australasian Epidemiologist
2004; 11(1): 12-19.
Calver J, Holman CDJ, Lewin G. A preliminary
casemix classification system for Home and
Community Care clients in Western Australia.
Australian Health Review 2004; 27(2): 28-40.
Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Hendrie DV, Spilsbury K.
Unequal access to breast-conserving surgery in
Western Australia 1982-2000. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Surgery 2004; 74(6): 413419.
Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Sheiner H. The influence
of socio-economic and locational disadvantage
on patterns of surgical care for lung cancer in
Western Australia 1982-2001. Australian Health
Review 2004; 27(2): 69-80.
Hall S, Holman CD, Sheiner H, Hendrie D. The
influence of socio-economic and locational
disadvantage on survival after a diagnosis of
lung or breast cancer in Western Australia.
Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2004;
9(Suppl.2): 10-16.
Hall SE, Bulsara CE, Bulsara MK, Leahy TG,
Culbong MR, Hendrie D, Holman CDJ. Treatment
patterns for cancer in Western Australia: does
being indigenous make a difference? Medical
Journal of Australia 2004; 181(4): 191-194.
Bulsara MK, Holman CDJ, David EA, Jones TW.
Evaluating risk factors associated with severe
hypoglycaemia in epidemiology studies – what
method should we use? Diabetic Medicine 2004;
21(8): 914-919.
Bulsara MK, Holman CDJ, Davis EA, Jones TW.
The impact of a decade of changing treatment
on rates of severe hypoglycaemia in a
population-based cohort of children with type I
diabetes. Diabetes Care 2004; 27(10): 2293-2298.
Borgmeier I, Holman CDJ. Does vasectomy
reversal protect against prostate cancer?
Annals of Epidemiology 2004; 14(10): 748-749.
Bartu A, Freeman NC, Gawthorne GS, Codde JP,
Holman CDJ. Mortality in a cohort of opiate and
amphetamine users in Perth, Western Australia.
Addiction 2004; 99(1): 53-60.
Li J, Morlet N, Ng JQ, Semmens JB, Knuiman MW
and the EPSWA Team. Significant nonsurgical
risk factors for endophthalmitis after cataract
surgery: EPSWA fourth report. Investigative
Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2004; 45(5):
1321-1328.
Holman CDJ, Preen DB, Baynham NJ, Finn JC,
Semmens JB. A multipurpose Australian
comorbidity scoring system performed better
than the Charlson index. Journal of Clinical
Epidemiology 2005; 58(10): 1006-1014.
Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens J.
Prostate cancer: socio-economic, geographical
and private-health insurance effects on care and
survival. BJU International 2005; 95(1): 51-58.
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Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Finn J, Semmens JB.
Improving the evidence base for promoting
quality and equity of surgical care using
population-based linkage of administrative
health records. International Journal of Quality in
Health Care 2005; 17(5): 415-420.
Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Platell C, Sheiner H, Threlfall
T, Semmens J. Colorectal cancer surgical care
and survival: do private health insurance,
socioeconomic and locational status make a
difference? Australian and New Zealand Journal
of Surgery 2005; 75(11): 929-935.
Harse JD, Holman CDJ. Charlson's Index was a
poor predictor of quality of life outcome scores
in a study of patients after joint replacement
surgery. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005;
58(11): 1142-1149.
Calver J, Wiltshire A, Holman CDJ, Hunter E,
Garfield C, Rosman DL. Does health assessment
improve health outcome in indigenous people?
A RCT with 13 years of follow up. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2005; 29(2):
107-111.
Burgess CL, Holman CDJ, Satti AG. Adverse drug
reactions in older Australians, 1981 to 2002.
Medical Journal of Australia 2005; 182(6): 267-271.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. Patient-initiated
switching between private and public inpatient
hospitalisation in Western Australia 1980-2001:
an analysis using linked data. Australian and
New Zealand Health Policy 2005; 2(1): 12.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. Development of a
health care policy characterisation model based
on use of private health insurance. Australian
and New Zealand Health Policy 2005; 2: 27.
Zhang M, Xie X, Lee AH, Binns CW, Holman CDJ.
Body mass index in relation to ovarian cancer
survival. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &
Prevention 2005; 14(5): 1307-10.
Zhang M, Xie X, Holman CDJ. Body weight and
body mass index and ovarian cancer risk: a
case-control study in China. Gynecologic
Oncology 2005; 98(2): 228-234.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ. The use of endquintile comparisons to identify under-servicing
of the poor and over-servicing of the rich: a
longitudinal study describing the effect of
socioeconomic status on healthcare. BMC
Health Services Research 2005; 5(1): 61.
Lawrence D, Holman D, Jablensky A. Re:
mortality and mental illness. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 39(11-12):
1048.
Rosenwax LK, McNamara B, Calver J, Blackmore
AM, Holman CDJ. Estimating the size of the
palliative care population. Palliative Medicine
2005; 19(7): 556-562.
Spilsbury K, Semmens JB, Saunders CM, Hall SE,
Holman CDJ. Subsequent surgery after initial
breast conserving surgery: a population-based
study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Surgery 2005; 75(5): 260-264.
Spilsbury K, Semmens JB, Saunders C, Holman
CDJ. Long-term survival outcomes following
breast cancer surgery in Western Australia.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
2005; 75(8): 625-630.
Ng J, Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Semmens J.
Inequalities in rural health care: differences in
surgical intervention between metropolitan and
rural Western Australia. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Surgery 2005; 75(5): 265-269.
Ng JQ, Morlet N, Pearman JW, Constable IJ,
McAllister IL, Kennedy CJ, Isaacs T, Semmens JB
and the EPSWA Team. Management and
outcomes of postoperative endophthalmitis
since the endophthalmitis vitrectomy study –
the EPWA’s fifth report. Ophthalmology 2005:
112(7): 1199-1206.
Holman CDJ. Nature, nurture and epidemiology.
Australasian Epidemiologist 2006; 13(2): 30.
Preen DB, Holman CDJ, Spilsbury K, Semmens JB,
Brameld KJ. Length of comorbidity lookback
period affected regression model performance
of administrative health data. Journal of Clinical
Epidemiology, 2006; 59(9): 940-946.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ, Garfield C, Brameld KJ.
Health related migration: evidence of reduced
“urban-drift”. Health and Place 2006; 12(2): 131140.
Moorin R, Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ. Health care
financing and public responses: use of private
insurance in Western Australia during 19802001. Australian Health Review 2006; 30(1): 7382.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. Do marginal changes
in PHI membership accurately predict marginal
changes in PHI use in Western Australia?
Health Policy 2006; 76(3): 288-298.
Moorin RE, Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ. The
influence of federal health care policy reforms
on the use of private health insurance in
disadvantaged groups. Australian Health Review
2006; 30(2): 241-251.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Moorin RE.
Possession of health insurance in Australia –
how does it affect hospital utilisation and
outcomes? Journal of Health Services Research
and Policy 2006; 11(2): 94-100.
Brameld K, Holman CDJ. Demographic factors
as predictors for hospital admission in patients
with chronic disease. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Public Health 2006; 30(6): 562566.
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Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ. The effect of
locational disadvantage on hospital utilisation
and outcomes in Western Australia. Health and
Place 2006; 12(4): 490-502.
Finn JC, Flicker L, MacKenzie E, Jacobs IG,
Fatovich DM, Drummond S, Harris M, Holman CDJ,
Sprivulis P. Interface between residential aged
care facilities and a teaching hospital
emergency department in Western Australia.
Medical Journal of Australia 2006; 184(9): 432-435.
Lord HE, Taylor JD, Finn JC, Tsokos N, Jeffrey JT,
Atherton MJ, Evans SF, Bremner AP, Elder GO,
Holman CDJ. A randomised controlled
equivalence trial of short-term complications
and efficacy of tension-free vaginal tape and
suprapublic urethral support sling for treating
stress incontinence. BJU International 2006;
98(2): 367-376.
Trutwein B, Holman CDJ, Rosman DL. Health
data linkage conserves privacy in a researchrich environment. Annals of Epidemiology 2006;
16(4): 279-280.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. The effects of
socioeconomic status, accessibility to services
and patient type on hospital use in Western
Australia: A retrospective cohort study of
patients with homogenous health status. BMC
Health Services Research 2006; 6(1): 74.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. Does federal health
care policy influence switching between the
public and private sector in individuals? Health
Policy 2006; 79(2-3): 284-295.
Ward AM, de Klerk N, Pritchard D, Firth M, Holman
CDJ. Correlations of siblings’ and mothers’
utilisation of primary and hospital health care: a
record linkage study in Western Australia.
Social Science and Medicine 2006; 62(6): 13411348.
McNamara B, Rosenwax LK, Holman CDJ. A
method for defining and estimating the
palliative care population. Journal of Pain and
Symptom Management 2006; 32(1): 5-12.
Spilsbury K, Semmens J, Saunders C, Holman
CDJ. Re: Long-term survival following breast
cancer surgery in Western Australia - Response
to Gough. Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Surgery 2006; 76: (1-2): 95.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ, Preen DB, Brameld KJ.
Repeat adverse drug reactions causing
hospitalization in older Australians: a
population-based longitudinal study 1980–2003.
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2007;
63(2): 163-170.
Preen DB, Calver J, Bulsara M, Sanfilippo FM,
Holman CDJ. Patterns of psychostimulant
prescribing to children with ADHD in Western
Australia: variations in age, gender, medication
type and dose prescribed. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Public Health 2007; 31(2): 120126.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. Modelling changes in
the determinants of PHI utilisation in Western
Australia across five health care policy eras
between 1981 and 2001. Health Policy 2007;
81(2-3): 183-194.
Bulsara MK, Holman CDJ, van Bockxmeer FM,
Davis EA, Gallego PH, Beilby JP, Palmer LJ,
Choong C, Jones TW. The relationship between
ACE genotype and risk of severe hypoglycaemia
in a large population-based cohort of children
and adolescents with type I diabetes.
Diabetologia 2007; 50(5): 969-971.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ. Prevalence of
occupational exposures and protective
practices in Australian female veterinarians.
Australian Veterinary Journal 2007; 85(1-2): 32-38.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ, Huang J-P, Xie X. Green
tea and the prevention of breast cancer: a casecontrol study in Southeast China.
Carcinogenesis 2007; 28(5): 1074-1078.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ, Binns CW. Intake of
specific carotenoids and the risk of epithelial
ovarian cancer. British Journal of Nutrition 2007;
98(1): 187-193.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ. Does green tea protect
against adult leukemia, breast, and ovarian
cancer? Australian Epidemiologist 2007; 14: 55.
Lynch C, Holman CDJ, Moorin RE. Use of
Western Australian linked hospital morbidity
and mortality data to explore theories of
compression, expansion and dynamic
equilibrium. Australian Health Review 2007;
31(4): 571-581.
Yazahmeidi B, Holman CDJ. A survey of
suppression of public health information by
Australian governments. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2007; 31(6): 551557.
Kelman CW, Pearson S-A, Day RO, Holman CDJ,
Kliewer EV, Henry DA. Evaluating medicines:
let’s use all the evidence. Medical Journal of
Australia 2007; 186(5): 249-252.
Huang J-P, Zhang M, Holman CDJ, Xie X. Dietary
carotenoids and risk of breast cancer in
Chinese women. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical
Nutrition 2007; 16(S1): 437-442.
Geelhoed EA, Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ,
Thompson PJ. Readmission and survival
following hospitalization for chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease: long-term trends. Internal
Medicine Journal 2007; 37(2): 87-94.
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Arnold-Reed DE, O’Neil P, Holman CDJ, Bulsara
MK, Rodriguez C, Gawthorne G, Tait RJ, Hulse GK.
A comparison of mental health hospital
admission in a cohort of heroin users prior to
and after rapid opiate detoxification and oral
naltrexone maintenance. American J Drug
Alcohol Abuse 2007; 33: 655-664.
Ng JQ, Morlet N, Bulsara MK, Semmens JB and the
EPSWA Team. Reducing the risk for
endophthalmitis after cataract surgery:
population-based nested case-control study:
Endophtalmitis Population Study of Western
Australia sixth report. Journal of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery 2007; 33: 269-280.
Holman CD, Bass AJ, Rosman DL, Smith MB,
Semmens JB, Glasson EJ, Brook EL, Trutwein B,
Rouse IL, Watson CR, de Klerk N, Stanley FJ. A
decade of data linkage in Western Australia:
Strategic design, applications and benefits of
the WA Data Linkage System. Australian Health
Review 2008; 32(4): 766-777.
Holman CDJ. An end to suppressing public
health information in Australia: how to
safeguard academic integrity in working with
Australian governments. Medical Journal of
Australia 2008; 188(8): 435-436.
Glasson EJ, de Klerk NH, Bass AJ, Rosman DL,
Palmer LJ, Holman CDJ. Cohort profile: The
Western Australian genealogical project.
International Journal of Epidemiology 2008; 37(1):
30-35.
Moorin RE, Holman CDJ. The cost of in-patient
care in Western Australia in the last years of
life: A population-based data linkage study.
Health Policy 2008; 85(3): 380-390.
Brook EL, Rosman DL, Holman CDJ. Public good
through data linkage: measuring research
outputs from the Western Australia Data
Linkage System. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Public Health 2008; 32(1):19-23.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ. Maternal
occupational exposures and risk of
spontaneous abortion in veterinary practice.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2008;
65(11): 719-725.
Hall SE, Holman CDJ Threlfall T, Sheiner H,
Phillips M, Kastriss P, Forbes S. Lung cancer: an
exploration of patient and general practitioner
perspectives on the realities of care in rural
Western Australia. Australian Journal of Rural
Health 2008; 16(6): 355-362.
Zhang M, Zhao X, Zhang X, Holman CDJ.
Possible protective effect of green tea intake on
risk of adult leukaemia. British Journal of Cancer
2008; 98(1): 168-170.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ, Price S, Sanfilippo F,
Preen D, Bulsara M. Comorbidity and repeat
admission to hospital for adverse drug
reactions in older adults: retrospective cohort
study. British Medical Journal 2009; 338(7687):
155-158.
Zhang M, Huang J, Xie X, Holman CDJ. Dietary
intakes of mushrooms and green tea combine
to reduce the risk of breast cancer in Chinese
women. International Journal of Cancer 2009;
124(6): 1404-1408.
Zhang M, Yang H, Holman CDJ. Dietary intake of
isoflavones and breast cancer risk by estrogen
and progesterone receptor status. Breast
Cancer Research and Treatment 2009; 118(3):
553-563.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ. Associations
of unscavenged anesthetic gases and long
working hours with preterm delivery in female
veterinarians. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009;
113(5): 1008-17.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ, Bower C. Birth
defects in offspring of female veterinarians.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine 2009; 51(5): 525-533.
Preen DB, Calver J, Sanfilippo FM, Bulsara M,
Holman CDJ. Prescribing of psychostimulant
medications for attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder in children: differences between
clinical specialties. Medical Journal of Australia
2008; 188(6): 337-339.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ. Associations
of unscavenged anaesthetic gases and long
working hours with preterm delivery in female
veterinarians. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009;
114(2): 380.
Zhang XD, Zhao XY, Zhang M, Liang Y, Xu XH,
Holman CDJ. A case-control study on green tea
consumption and the risk of adult leukemia.
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology (Zhonghua Liu
Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi) 2008; 29(3): 290-293.
Moorin R, Holman CDJ. Impact of the evolution
of surgical procedures for low back pain: a
population based study of patient outcomes
and hospital utilization. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Surgery 2009; 79(9): 610-618.
张宣东,赵小英,张敏,梁赟,许晓华, Holman CDJ.
饮绿茶与成年人白血病发病风险的病例对照研究.
中华流行病学杂志, 2008; 29(3):290-293.
Ingarfield SL, Finn JC, Jacobs IG, Gibson NP,
Holman CDJ, Jelinek GA, Flicker L. Use of
emergency departments by older people from
residential care: a population based study. Age
and Ageing 2009; 38(3): 314-318.
Smith F, Holman CDJ, Moorin R, Fletcher D.
Incidence of bariatric surgery and postoperative
outcomes: a population-based analysis in
Western Australia. Medical Journal of Australia
2008; 189(4): 198-202.
Qun Mai, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD,
Stewart LM. Do Users of mental health services
lack access to general practitioner services?
Medical Journal of Australia 2010; 192(9): 501-506.
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Zhang M, Liu X, Holman CDJ. Effect of dietary
intake of isoflavones on the estrogen and
progesterone receptor status of breast cancer.
Nutrition and Cancer 2010; 62(6): 765-773.
Smith FJ, Holman CDJ, Moorin RE, Tsokos N.
Lifetime risk of undergoing surgery for pelvic
organ prolapse. Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2010;
116(5): 1096-1100.
Einarsdottir K, Preen DB, Emery J, Holman CDJ.
Regular primary care decreases the likelihood
of mortality in older people with epilepsy.
Medical Care 2010; 48(5): 472-476.
Einarsdottir K, Preen DB, Emery JD, Kelman C,
Holman CDJ. Regular primary medical care
lowers hospitalisation and mortality in seniors
with chronic respiratory disease. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 2010; 25(8): 766-773.
Einarsdottir K, Preen DB, Sanfilippo FM, Reeve R,
Emery JD, Holman CDJ. Mortality in Western
Australian seniors with chronic respiratory
diseases: a cohort study. BMC Public Health
2010; 10: 385, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-385.
Inderjeeth CA, Glennon DA, Poland KE, Ingram KV,
Prince RL, Van VR, Holman CDJ. A multimodal
intervention to improve fragility fracture
management in patients presenting to
emergency departments. Medical Journal of
Australia 2010; 193(3): 149-153.
Pereira G, De Vos AJ, Cook A, Holman CDJ.
Vector fields of risk: a new approach to
geographical representation of childhood
asthma. Health & Place 2010; 16(1): 140-146.
Pereira G, Cook A, De Vos AJ, Holman CDJ. A
case-cross-over analysis of traffic-related air
pollution and emergency department
presentations for asthma in Perth, Western
Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 2010;
193(9): 511-514.
Clark A, Preen DB, Ng JQ, Semmens JB, Holman
CDJ. Is Western Australia representative of
other Australian States and Territories in terms
of key socio-demographic and health economic
indicators? Australian Health Review 2010; 34(2):
210-215.
Emery J, McKenzie A, Bulsara C, Holman D.
Controversy over generic substitution. British
Medical Journal 2010 (Online); 341: c 3570, . doi:
10.1136/bmj.c3570.
Bulsara C, McKenzie A, Sanfilippo F, Holman CDJ,
Emery JE. ‘Not the full Monty’: A qualitative
study of seniors’ perceptions of generic
medicines in Western Australia. Australian
Journal of Primary Health 2010; 16(3): 240-245.
Shi J, Zhang M, Li L, Holman CDJ, Chen J, Teng
YE, Liu YP. Body mass index and its change in
adulthood and breast cancer risk in China.
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2010:
11(5): 1213-1218.
Einarsdóttir K, Preen DB, Clay TD, Kiely L, Holman
CDJ, Cohen, LD. Effect of a single ‘megadose’
intramuscular vitamin D (600,000 IU) injection
on vitamin D concentrations and bone mineral
density following biliopancreatic diversion
surgery. Obesity Surgery 2010; 20(6): 732-737.
Einarsdottir K, Preen DB, Emery J, Holman CDJ..
Regular primary care plays a significant role in
secondary prevention of ischemic heart
disease. International Journal of Longitudinal and
Life Course Studies 2010; 1(3): 182.
Einarsdottir K, Preen DB, Emery J, Holman CDJ.
Regular primary care plays a significant role in
secondary prevention of ischemic heart disease
in a Western Australian cohort. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 2011; 26(10): 10921097.
Gibson DAJ, Moorin RE, Preen DB, Emery JD,
Holman CDJ. Effects of the Medicare enhanced
primary care program on primary care physician
contact in the population of older Western
Australian with chronic diseases. Aust Health
Rev 2011; 35(3): 334-340.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ. Low-to-moderate alcohol
intake and breast cancer risk in Chinese
women. British Journal of Cancer 2011; 105(7):
1089-95.
Shirangi A, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Vienneau D,
Holman CDJ. Living near agricultural pesticide
applications and the risk of adverse
reproductive outcomes: a review of the
literature. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
2011; 25(2): 172-191.
Qun Mai, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD.
The impact of mental illness on potentially
preventable hospitalisations: a populationbased cohort study. BMC Psychiatry 2011; 11(1):
163, doi:10.1186/1471-244X-11-163.
Qun Mai, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD,
Preen DB. Mental illness related disparities in
diabetes prevalence, quality of care and
outcomes: a population-based longitudinal
study. BMC Medicine 2011; 9(1): 118,
doi:10.1186/1741-7015-9-118.
Stewart LM, Holman CDJ, Hart R, Finn J, Qun Mai,
Preen DB. How effective is in vitro fertilization,
and how can it be improved? Fertility and
Sterility 2011; 95(5): 1677-1683.
Stewart LM, Holman CDJ, Hart R, Finn J, Qun Mai,
Preen DB. How effective is in vitro fertilization,
and how can it be improved? Reply. Fertility and
Sterility 2011; 95(5): E28.
Stewart LM, Holman CDJ, Hart R, Finn J, Qun Mai,
Preen DB. Should there be a (or any) limit to IVF
cycles? A rejoinder to Stewart et al. Reply.
Fertility and Sterility 2011; 96(6): E168.
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Einarsdottir K, Kemp A, Haggar FA, Moorin RE,
Gunnell AS, Preen DB, Stanley FJ, Holman CDJ.
Increase in Caesarean deliveries after the
Australian private health insurance incentive
policy reforms. PLoS ONE 2012; 7(7): e41436.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041436.
Li L, Zhang M, Holman CDJ. Population versus
hospital controls for case-control studies on
cancers in Chinese hospitals. BMC Medical
Research Methodology 2011; 11: 167. doi:
10.1186/1471-2288-11-167.
Li L, Zhang M, Holman CD. Characteristics of
hospital controls according to willingness to
participate in a cancer genetic epidemiologic
research in China. Asian Pacific Journal of
Cancer Prevention 2011; 12(9): 2323-2328.
Smith M, Semmens J, Rosman D, Ford J, Storey C,
Holman C, Fuller E, Gray V. International Health
Data Linkage Network. Healthcare Policy 2011; 6:
94-96.
Olsen CM, Zens MS, Green AC, Stukel TA, Holman
CDJ, Mack T, Elwood JM, Holly EA, Sacerdote C,
Gallagher R, Swerdlow AJ, Armstrong BK, Rosso
S, Kirkpatrick C, Zanetti R, Bishop JN, Bataille V,
Chang Y-M, Mackie R, Osterlind A, Berwick M,
Karagas MR, Whiteman DC. Biologic markers of
sun exposure and melanoma risk in women:
pooled case-control analysis. International
Journal of Cancer 2011; 129(3): 713-723.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ. Tubal ligation and
survival of ovarian cancer patients. Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research 2012; 38(1):
40-47.
Zhang M, Li L, Liu P, Holman CDJ. Green tea for
the prevention of cancer: evidence of field
epidemiology. Journal of Functional Foods in
Health and Disease 2012; 2(10): 339-350.
Gibson DAJ, Moorin RA, Preen D, Emery J,
Holman CDJ. Enhanced primary care improves
GP service regularity in older patients without
impacting on service frequency. Australian
Journal of Primary Care 2012; 18(4): 295-303.
Haggar FA, Preen DB, Pereira G, Holman CDJ,
Einarsdottir K. Cancer incidence and mortality
trends in Australian adolescents and young
adults, 1982-2007. BMC Cancer 2012; 12: 151161.
Stewart LM, Holman CD, Hart R, Bulsara MK,
Preen DB, Finn JC. In vitro fertilization and
breast cancer: is there cause for concern?
Fertility and Sterility 2012; 98(2): 334-340.
Moorin R, Gibson D, Bulsara CE, Holman CDJ.
Challenging the perceptions of cancer service
provision for the disadvantaged: evaluating
utilisation of cancer support services in
Western Australia. Supportive Care in Cancer
2012; 20(8): 1687-1697.
Moorin R, Gibson D, Holman D, Hendrie D. The
contribution of age and time-to-death on health
care expenditure for out-of-hospital services.
Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2012;
17(4): 197-205.
Kemp A, Preen DB, Rogers K, Saunders C,
Holman CD, Bulsara M, Boyle F, Roughead EE.
The validity of prescription and other health
service claims and self-report in identifying
cases of invasive breast cancer in Australia.
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2012; 21:
8-9.
Stewart LM, Holman CDJ, Aboagye-Sarfo P, Finn
JC, Preen DB, Hart R. In vitro fertilisation,
endometriosis, nulliparity and ovarian cancer
risk. Gynacologic Oncology 2013; 128(2): 260264.
Stewart LM, Holman CD, Finn JC, Preen DB, Hart
R. In vitro fertilization is associated with an
increased risk of borderline ovarian tumors.
Gynaecologic Oncology 2013; 129(2): 372-376.
Price SD, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD.
Use of case-time-control design in
pharmacovigilance applications: exploration
with high-risk medications and unplanned
hospital admissions in the Western Australian
elderly. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
2013; 22(11): 1159-1170.
Haggar FA, Pereira G, Preen DB, Holman CDJ,
Helman A, Einarsdottir K. Cancer survival and
excess mortality estimates among adolescents
and young adults in Western Australia, 19822004: a population-based study. PLoS ONE
2013; 8(2): e55630; doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0055630.
Emery JD, Walter FM, Gray V, Sinclair C, Howting
D, Bulsara M, Bulsara C, Webster A, Auret K,
Saunders C, Nowak A, Holman CDJ. Diagnosing
cancer in the bush: a mixed methods study of
symptom appraisal and help-seeking behaviour
in people with cancer from rural Western
Australia. Family Practice 30 January 2013; 30(3):
294-301.
Li L, Zhang M, Holman CDJ. Population versus
hospital controls in the assessment of dietary
intake of isoflavone for case-control studies on
cancers in China. Nutrition and Cancer 2013;
65(3): 390-397.
Li L, Zhang M, Holman CDJ. Hospital outpatients
are satisfactory for case-control studies on
cancer and diet in China: a comparison of
population versus hospital controls. Asia Pacific
Journal of Cancer Prevention 2013; 14(5): 27232729.
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Hunt FJ, Holman CD, Einarsdottir K, Moorin RE,
Tsokos N. Pelvic organ prolapse surgery in
Western Australia: a population-based analysis
of trends and peri-operative complications.
International Urogynecology Journal 2013; 24(12):
2031-8.
Price SD, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD.
Are older Western Australians exposed to
potentially inappropriate medications according
to the Beers Criteria? A 13-year prevalence
study. Australasian Journal of Ageing, in press
(accepted 3 December 2013).
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ, Morrison D.
Mental health in female veterinarians: effects of
working hours and having children. Australian
Veterinary Journal 2013; 91(4): 123-130.
Price SD, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD.
Are high-care nursing home residents at greater
risk of unplanned hospital admission than other
elderly patients when exposed to Beers
potentially inappropriate medications?
Geriatrics & Gerontology International, in press
(accepted 21 October 2013).
Kemp A, Preen DB, Saunders C, Holman CDJ,
Bulsara M, Rogers KD, Roughead EE.
Ascertaining invasive breast cancer cases; the
validity of administrative and self-reported data
sources in Australia. BMC Medical Research
Methodology 2013; 13(1): 17.
Emery JD, Walter FM, Gray V, Sinclair C, Howting
D, Bulsara M, Bulsara C, Webster A, Auret K,
Saunders C, Nowak A, Holman D. Diagnosing
cancer in the bush: a mixed methods study of
GP and specialist diagnostic intervals in rural
Western Australia. Family Practice 2013
doi:10.1093/fampra/cmt016.
Gunnell AS, Einarsdottir K, Sanfilippo F, Liew D,
Holman CDJ, Briffa T. Improved long-term
survival in patients on combination therapies
following an incident acute myocardial
infarction: a longitudinal population-based
study. Heart 2013; 0: 1–6. doi:10.1136/heartjnl2013-304348.
Moorin RE, Gibson DAJ, Forsyth RK, Bulsara MK,
Holman CDJ. Evaluating data capture methods
for the establishment of diagnostic reference
levels in CT scanning. European Journal of
Radiology 2013; doi:
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2013.11.00.
Allen J, Holman CDJ, Meslin EM, Stanley F.
Privacy protectionism and health information: is
there any redress for harms to health? Journal
of Law and Medicine 2013; 21: 473-485.
Kemp A, Preen DB, Saunders C, Boyle F, Bulsara
M, Holman CDJ, Malacova E, Roughead EE.
Women commencing anastrozole, letrozole or
tamoxifen for early breast cancer: the impact of
comorbidity and demographics on initial choice.
PLoS ONE 2014; 9(1): e84835.
Stewart LM, Holman, CDJ, Finn JC, Preen DB, Hart
R. Association between in vitro fertilization,
birth and melanoma. Melanoma Research, in
press (accepted 5 August 2013).
Price SD, Holman CDJ, Sanfilippo FM, Emery JD.
Potentially inappropriate medications from the
Beers Criteria may increase the risk of
unplanned hospitalization in elderly patients.
Annals of Pharmacology, in press (accepted 21
August 2013).
HIGHLY CITED COMMISSIONED
WORK
English DR, Holman CDJ, Milne E, Winter MJ,
Hulse GK, Codde J, Bower CI, Corti B, Dawes VP,
de Klerk N, Lewin GF, Knuiman M, Kurinczuk JJ,
Ryan GA. The Quantification of Drug Caused
Morbidity and Mortality in Australia 1995
Edition. Commonwealth Department of Human
Services and Health, Canberra, 1995 (ISBN 0644429-798).
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS AND LECTURES
Holman CDJ. Evaluating projects funded by the
WA Health Promotion Foundation. In:
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Conference. What’s Working, Not Working and
Networking in Health Promotion, February 1995,
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Association of Health Promotion Professionals,
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Holman CDJ. The role of the NHMRC Health
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Networking in Health Promotion, February 1995,
Brisbane (Eds Ballard R, Fisher J, Gillespie A,
O’Connor M, Peterson K), pp.154-159. Australian
Association of Health Promotion Professionals,
Brisbane, 1995.
Holman CDJ. Analysis, Action and the Third
Creation of Public Health. Inaugural lecture
from the Foundation Chair in Public Health of
The University of Western Australia and a
McNulty Oration of the Public Health
Association of Australia. Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1995.
Holman D. Output and outcome measures: data
systems for quality in health care. In: Quality
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Holman CDJ, English DR. Design and
application of an improved etiologic fraction of
alcohol-caused mortality. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1997; 145(11): A239.
Holman CDJ. Developments in record linkage in
Western Australia – but how far are we from the
apotheosis? Proceedings of the First Australian
Conference on Record Linkage and Health
Research, 3rd October 1996, Perth, pp.34-40.
Centre for Health Services Research, Department
of Public Health, The University of Western
Australian, Perth, 1997.
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens J, Rouse
IL, Bass AJ. Outcomes of surgery for benign
prostatic disease: new methods of comorbidity
adjustment using linked data. American Journal
of Epidemiology 1998; 147(11): S34, A133.
Holman CDJ, Bass AJ, Rouse IL, Hobbs MST.
Population-based linkage of health records in
Western Australia: Development of a health
services research linked database. Proceedings
of the Symposium on Medical Research in Western
Australia. Progress and Possibilities. 22
September 1998, pp.7-8. Perth: WA Lotteries
Commission, 1998.
Norman PE, Semmens JB, Lawrence-Brown M,
Holman CDJ. The influence of gender and age
on the long-term relative survival following
surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
1998; 68(Suppl.):A152, V59.
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens JB, Bass
AL. Vasectomy and vasectomy reversal:
utilisation and outcomes using record linkage.
Proceedings of the Health Services Research
Australia and New Zealand Conference, Sydney,
10 August 1999. Health Services Research
Conference, Sydney, 1999.
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens J, Rouse
IL, Bass AJ. Outcomes of surgery for benign
prostate disease: new methods of comorbidity
adjustment using linked data. Proceedings of the
XV International Scientific Meeting of the
International Epidemiological Association,
Epidemiology for Sustainable Health, Florence,
Italy, 31 August – 4 September 1999, Oral
Sessions, Volume 1, p.221. International
Epidemiological Association, Florence, 1999.
Holman CDJ. Prospects for Cancer Control in
the 21st Century: Old Dreams, New Hopes.
Cancer Foundation of Western Australia
Monograph Series No. 1, Perth, 2000.
Holman CDJ, Arnold-Reed DE, Donovan RJ, de
Klerk N, English DR. Evidential weights used by
Epidemiologists to attribute causality: overview
and effects of respondent characteristics.
American Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 153(11):
S208, A764.
Lawrence D, Holman CDJ, Jablensky A. Physical
illness and death in psychiatric patients.
American Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 153(11):
S102, A339.
Holman D, Bass J. The value of linked data for
research into health outcomes. Proceedings of
the Symposium on Health Data Linkage. Its Value
for Australian Health Policy Development and
Policy Relevant Research, 20-21 March 2002,
Sydney, pp.22. Commonwealth Department of
Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002.
Holman D, Wisniewski S, Semmens J, Bass J.
Evolving treatments for primary urolithiasis:
impact on services and renal preservation in
16,679 patients in Western Australia.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Health Data
Linkage. Its Value for Australian Health Policy
Development and Policy Relevant Research, 20-21
March 2002, Sydney, pp.30, 35. Commonwealth
Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002.
Also as Semmens JB, Holman CDJ, Bass JA,
Wisniewski ZS in the Proceedings, pp.191-198, as
published by The University of Adelaide, Adelaide,
2003.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Owen T. The effect of
locational and social disadvantage on
utilisation and outcomes of health care:
cardiovascular disease. Proceedings of the
Symposium on Health Data Linkage. Its Value for
Australian Health Policy Development and Policy
Relevant Research, 20-21 March 2002, Sydney,
pp.14, 35. Commonwealth Department of Health
and Ageing, Canberra, 2002. Also in the
Proceedings, pp.46-49, as published by The
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2003.
Finn J, Holman D, Jacobs I. The use of linked
ambulance data to estimate the effect of
comorbidity on determinants and outcomes of
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Perth, Western
Australia. Proceedings of the Symposium on
Health Data Linkage. Its Value for Australian Health
Policy Development and Policy Relevant Research,
20-21 March 2002, Sydney, pp.17, 35.
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing,
Canberra, 2002. Also in the Proceedings, pp.7277, as published by The University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, 2003.
Geelhoed EA, Frith P, Holman D, Thompson PJ.
Economic evaluation of a pulmonary
rehabilitation program for COPD patients – in
search of outcome. In: Economics and Health
2000. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second
Australian Conference of Health Economists, Gold
Coast, Queensland (Ed J. Bridges), pp.129-137.
School of Health Services Management, University
of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001.
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Gawthorne G, Bartu A, Johnson S, Codde J, Unwin
E, Holman CD. Death subsequent to treatment
for heroin and amphetamine use. A record
linkage study. Proceedings of the Symposium on
Health Data Linkage. Its Value for Australian Health
Policy Development and Policy Relevant Research,
20-21 March 2002, Sydney, pp.19, 35.
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing,
Canberra, 2002. Also in the Proceedings, pp.8285, as published by The University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, 2003.
Laurvick C, Semmens S, Leung Y, McCartney A,
Hammond I, Holman D. Ovarian cancer in
Western Australia, 1982-98: a population-based
review of trends and outcomes. Proceedings of
the Symposium on Health Data Linkage. Its Value
for Australian Health Policy Development and
Policy Relevant Research, 20-21 March 2002,
Sydney, pp.23, 35. Commonwealth Department of
Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002. Also in the
Proceedings, pp.126-136, as published by The
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2003.
Li J, Semmens JB, Morlet N on behalf of the
EPSWA Team. Trends of cataract Surgery and
Postoperative Endophalmitis in Western
Australia (1980-1998): a population-based study.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Health Data
Linkage. Its Value for Australian Health Policy
Development and Policy Relevant Research, 20-21
March 2002, Sydney, pp.23, 35. Commonwealth
Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002.
Also in the Proceedings, pp.137-143, as published
by The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2003.
Bulsara MK, Holman DJ, Jones TW. Modelling
hypoglycaemic count data with extra observed
zeros. Diabetologia 2003; 46: A303-A304.
Morlet N, Li J, Ng JQ, Semmens JB and the
EPSWA Team. Non-surgical risk factors for
endophthalmitis after cataract surgery.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2004; 45(S1): U201.
Ng J, Morlet N, Semmens JB and the EPSWA
Team. Postoperative endophthalmitis? Check
the weather. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual
Science 2004; 45(S2): U683.
Holman CDJ, Preen DB, Semmens JB, Finn JC.
Performance evaluation of the Multipurpose
Australian Comorbidity Scoring System
(MACSS). Proceedings of the AcademyHealth
2005 Annual Research Meeting, June 26-28,
Boston, p.27. Washington DC: AcademyHealth,
2005.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ. Occupational
factors and pregnancy outcomes in Australian
female veterinarians. American Journal of
Epidemiology 2006; 163(11): S157.
Zhang M, Holman CDJ, Preen DB. Epidemiology
of repeat adverse drug reactions in older
Australians: a Population-based longitudinal
study 1980-2003. Australasian Epidemiologist
2006; 13(3): 85.
Glasson EJ, de Klerk NH, Bass AJ, Rosman DL,
Palmer LJ, Holman CDJ. The Western Australian
Family Connections Genealogical Database.
Australasian Epidemiologist 2006; 13(3): 103.
Qun Mai; Holman D; Sanfilippo F. How to control
confounding by severity of mental illness.
Australasian Epidemiologist 2006; 13(3): 111.
Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ. Occupational
hazards associated with pre-term delivery (PTD)
in Australian female veterinarians. Australasian
Epidemiologist 2006; 13(3): 117.
Gibson DAJ, Moorin R, Preen DB, Emery J,
Holman CDJ. Can increasing physician fee-forservice payments improve service regularity in
elderly patients with chronic disease?
Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies International
Journal 2010; 1(3) Suppl: 60 (S3.4.3).
Preen DB, Emery J, Holman CDJ. The influence
of frequency and periodicity of primary health
care contact on disease progression,
unplanned hospitalisation and mortality in
patients with type 2 diabetes. Longitudinal and
Lifecourse Studies International Journal 2010; 1(3)
Suppl: 181 (T5.5.3).
Moorin R; Holman D. Evaluation of the
compression expansion and dynamic
equilibrium theories using western Australian
linked hospital morbidity and mortality data.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
2011; 65 Suppl: A56.
Moorin R, Gibson D, Holman D. Healthcare
expenditure in the last years of life for out-ofhospital Medicare Benefits Schedule funded
services in Western Australia: A populationbased data linkage study. Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health 2011; 65
Suppl: A110.
Gibson D, Moorin R, Preen D, Emery J, Holman D.
Can increasing physician fee-for-service
payments improve service regularity in elderly
patients with chronic disease? Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health 2011; 65
Suppl: A246.
Qun Mai, Holman D, Sanfilippo F, Emery J. Mental
illness related disparities in potentially
preventable hospitalisations: a populationbased cohort study from 1990 to 2006. Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health 2011; 65
Suppl: A267.
Qun Mai, Holman D, Sanfilippo F, Emery J, Preen
D. Mental illness related disparities in diabetes
prevalence, quality of care and outcomes: a
population-based longitudinal study in Western
Australia from 1990 to 2006. Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health 2011; 65
Suppl: A267.
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Qun Mai, Holman D, Sanfilippo F, Emery J. Do
mental health clients lack access to general
practitioner services? Journal of Epidemiology
and Community Health 2011; 65 Suppl: A267A268.
Emery J, Walter FM, Gray V, Sinclair C, Bulsara C,
Bulsara M, Auret K, Nowak A, Saunders C, Holman
D. Diagnosing cancer in the bush: a mixed
methods study of diagnostic intervals in people
with cancer from rural Western Australia. AsiaPacific Journal of Cancer 2012; 8(S1, Supply 3):
322, A769.
Gunnell A, Einarsdottir K, Sanfilippo F, Liew D,
Holman C, Briffa T. Improved long-term survival
in patients on combination therapies following
acute myocardial infarction: a longitudinal
population-based study. Heart, Lung and
Circulation 2013; 22: S262-S263.
EDITOR OF NATIONAL
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Barratt JM, Holman CDJ (Eds). Record Linkage
and Health Research. Proceedings of the First
Australian Conference on Record Linkage and
Health Research, 3rd October 1996, Perth.
Centre for Health Services Research, Department
of Public Health, The University of Western
Australian, Perth, 1997 (ISBN 1-875912-12-6).
GUEST EDITOR OF A SPECIAL
EDITION OF THE ANZ JOURNAL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH
Holman CDJ, Nutbeam D (Guest Editors). HealthPromoting Environments. Special Issue
Sponsored by the Commonwealth Department
of Health and Family Services. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health 1997; 21(4).
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Harper AC, Holman CDJ, Dawes VP. The Health
of Populations: An Introduction. Australasian
Edition. Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne, 1994
(ISBN 0-443-04932-7).
Harper AC, Lambert LJ, Holman CDJ. The Health
of Populations: An Introduction. Second
Edition. Springer Publishing Company, New York,
1994 (ISBN 0-8261-5511-1).
Ward JE, Holman CDJ. Who needs to plan? In:
Health Research (Ed. Berglund CA), pp.47-61.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.
Holman CDJ. Anonymity & Research: Health
Data and Biospecimen Law in Australia. ISBN
978-0-646-57417-2. Perth: Uniprint, The University
of Western Australia, 2012.
RESEARCH DISSERTATION
Holman CDJ. Anonymity and Medical Research:
Do Persons Have Legal Interests in Anonymised
Health Information or Biospecimens? Research
honours dissertation. Perth: Murdoch University
School of Law, 2010.
REPORTS OF MAJOR REVIEWS
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Report of the
Evaluation of the Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department
of Public Health and Graduate School of
Management, The University of Western Australia,
Perth, 1994 (ISBN 0-86422-393-5).
Holman CDJ, Jolley GH. Assessment of Local
Health Authority Service Delivery Needs in
Aboriginal Communities. Report to the Working
Party on Local Health Authority Services to
Aboriginal Communities. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1994.
Report of the Committee of Review of the
National Injury Surveillance Unit. (C.D.J.
Holman, Chairman). Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare, Canberra, 1994.
Holman CDJ. Review of The Repatriation
Medical Authority and The Specialist Medical
Review Council. Part Two: The Application of
Sound Medical-Scientific Evidence. Department
of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-64228364-8).
Wall BP, Wood LJ, Holman CDJ. Review of the
National Health Priority Areas Initiative, June
1999. Commonwealth Department of Health and
Aged Care, Canberra, 1999.
Holman CDJ. The Case for A Western Australian
Institute for Leadership in Public Health. Perth:
Western Australian Department of Health, 2002.
Holman CDJ. A Plan for the Recruitment and
Retention of Public Health Physicians. Perth:
Western Australian Department of Health, 2002.
Holman CDJ. A Framework for Health System
Growth and Reform in Western Australia. Perth:
Western Australian Department of Health, 2002.
Report of the Working Group for the
Establishment of the Health Standards and
Surveillance Council – ‘Healthwatch’. (C.D.J.
Holman, Chairman and Principal Author). Perth:
Western Australian Department of Health, 2002.
Holman CDJ, Titmus JS, Rapp J. The Way
Forward. Synthesis of the Review of the Mental
Health Act 1996. Perth: Government of Western
Australia, 2003 (ISBN 0-9751498-3-0).
Holman CDJ. The Way Forward.
Recommendations of the Review of the Mental
Health Act 1996. Perth: Government of Western
Australia, 2003 (ISBN 0-9751498-2-2).
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Holman CDJ, Titmus JS, Rapp J. The Way
Forward. Synthesis of the Review of the
Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants)
Act 1996. Perth: Government of Western
Australia, 2003 (ISBN 0-9751498-0-6).
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Threlfall TJ, de Klerk
NH. Lung Cancer Prevalence Models. Centre for
Health Services Research, Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1997.
Holman CDJ. The Way Forward.
Recommendations of the Review of the Criminal
Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996.
Perth: Government of Western Australia, 2003
(ISBN 0-9751498-5-7).
Watson NA, Holman CDJ, Jamrozik K, Threlfall T,
Kricker A. Validation of Linked Administrative
Data on Primary Clinical Management of Breast
Cancer in Western Australia in 1989. Centre for
Health Services Research, Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1997.
Data Linkage Australia (C.D.J Holman, Ed.).
Scoping Paper – A Model for a Data Linkage
Facility in NSW. Sydney: The Sax Institute,
October 2005.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Holman CDJ. Report on a Second Round of
Consultations Concerning the Western
Australian Health Promotion Foundation. Health
Promotion Development and Evaluation Program,
Department of Public Health and Graduate School
of Management, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1994.
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ, Castine RM.
NHF Be Active Every Day Qualitative Report.
Health Promotion Development and Evaluation
Program, Department of Public Health and
Graduate School of Management, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 1994.
Holman CDJ, English DR. Preliminary
Assessment of the Health Effects of Alcohol in
Populations of Non-European Origin. A Report
to the World Health Organization. Department of
Public Health, The University of Western Australia,
Perth, 1995.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ. Report of a
Consultancy on the Public Health Division,
Department of Human Services and Health.
Department of Public Health and Graduate School
of Management, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1995.
Donovan R, Jalleh G, Corti B, Holman D. Survey
of Perth Central Coastal Division GPs'
involvement in an attitudes towards obstetric
care. Health Promotion Development and
Evaluation Program, Graduate School of
Management and Department of Public Health, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1996.
Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens J, Rouse
IL, Bass AJ. Outcomes of Surgery for Benign
Prostatic Hypertrophy in Western Australia
1980-1995. Centre for Health Services Research,
Department of Public Health, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 1997.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Hyndman J.
Geographic Modelling of Dialysis Services in
Metropolitan Perth. Centre for Health Services
Research, Department of Public Health, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1997.
Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ. Preliminary Needs
Analysis for Parkinson’s Disease Patients.
Centre for Health Services Research, Department
of Public Health, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1998.
Finn JC, Holman CDJ, Jamrozik K, Cobain T,
McCloy C. Use of Blood Products in Adults in
Western Australia from July 1994 to June 1995.
Centre for Health Services Research, Department
of Public Health, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1998.
Finn JC, Holman CDJ, Codde, J. Trends in FirstTime Hospital Admission and Cumulative
Lengths of Stay in the First Year in Perth
Metropolitan Hospitals in 1989-1997. Centre for
Health Services Research, Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1998.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ. The Spatial
Distribution of General Practice Services.
Metropolitan Perth 1997. Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1998.
Patterson KM, Holman CDJ, Bass AJ.
Hospitalisation for Abuse of Illicit Drugs in
Western Australia 1980 to 1995: Incidence,
Recurrence and Survival. Centre for Health
Services Research, Department of Public Health,
The University of Western Australia, Perth, 1998.
Patterson KM, Holman CDJ, Bass AJ.
Hospitalisation for Diseases of Chronic Alcohol
Abuse in Western Australia 1980 to 1995:
Incidence, Recurrence and Survival. Centre for
Health Services Research, Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1998.
Watson NA, Holman CDJ, Jamrozik K, Threlfall TJ,
Kricker A. Trends in the Incidence, Surgical
Management and Survival of Breast Cancer
Patients over a 13 Year Period in Western
Australia: 1982-1994. Centre for Health Services
Research, Department of Public Health, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1998.
Arnold-Reed DE, Holman CDJ, English DR, Winter
MG, McComb C, de Klerk N. Use of the Excess
Risk Function and Aetiologic Fraction Function
in Modelling the Effects of Alcohol Control
Policies. Centre for Health Services Research,
Page 65
Department of Public Health, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 1999.
Hyndman JCG, Holman CDJ, Dawes VP. Spatial
Access to Mammography Screening Clinics in
Metropolitan Perth. Centre for Health Services
Research, Department of Public Health, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1999.
Arnold-Reed DE, Holman CDJ. Summary of
Cancer Statistics Available in Western Australia.
Department of Public Health, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 2000.
Lawrence D, Holman CDJ, Jablensky AV. Duty to
care. Preventable physical illness in people with
mental health problems. Centre for Health
Services Research, Department of Public Health,
The University of Western Australia, Perth, 2001.
Coghlan R, Lawrence D, Holman D, Jablensky A.
Duty to care. Physical illness in people with
mental health problems. Consumer summary.
Centre for Health Services Research, Department
of Public Health, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 2001.
Spilsbury K, Semmens JB, Wisniewski ZS, Holman
CDJ. Circumcision trends in Western Australia
1981 to 1999. Centre for Health Services
Research, Department of Public Health, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 2001.
Holman CDJ, Codde J, Unwin E. Smokingcaused deaths and hospitalisations 1998-2002,
by Western Australia state electoral districts for
the upper and lower house, with projections for
the period 2005-2008. Perth: The Cancer Council
of Western Australia, monograph series number 5,
2004 (ISBN 1 876628 37 5).
Moorin R, Holman D. A Longitudinal Study of Inpatient Insurance Classification in Western
Australia using Linked Hospital Morbidity Data.
Perth: Centre for Health Services Research, School
of Population Health, The University of Western
Australia, 2004 (ISBN 1-876999-60-8).
Brook EL, Rosman DL, Holman CDJ, Trutwein B.
Summary report: research outputs project, WA
Data Linkage Unit (1995-2003). Perth: Health
Department of Western Australia, 2004.
McNamara B, Rosenwax, L, Holman CD,
Nightingale E. Who receives specialist palliative
care in Western Australia – and who misses out.
Perth: The University of Western Australia, 2004.
Holman CDJ. Adverse drug events in seniors.
Medical Forum 2005; November: 12.
Hall S, Holman D, Threlfall T, Sheiner H, Phillips M,
Katriss P, Forbes S. Cancer Care for People in
Rural Areas. Perth: School of Population Health,
The University of Western Australia, 2005.
Brook EL, Rosman DL, Holman CDJ, Trutwein B.
Summary Report: Research Outputs Project,
WA Data Linkage Unit (1995-2003). Perth:
Western Australian Department of Health, 2005.
Preen D, Holman CDJ, Daube M, Robinson M,
Wilson L, Mitchell H. Preventable illness by
Western Australian upper and lower house
electorates from 2001 – 2005. Perth: Public
Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia,
2008.
Gray V, Holman D. Deaths and premature loss of
life caused by overweight and obesity in
Australia in 2011-2050: benefits from different
intervention scenarios. Canberra: National
Preventative Health Taskforce, 2009.
Holman D. Experts back new tax to reduce
obesity and binge drinking. Medicus 2010; 50(5):
13.
Holman D. De-bunking road mythology. Medicus
2011; 51(8): 38-39.
REPORTS OF THE NHMRC HEALTH
ADVANCEMENT STANDING
COMMITTEE
(in which, as Standing Committee Chair, the
Professor of Public Health had a significant role
in conceptual design, writing and/or editing)
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing Committee.
Health Australia. Promoting Health in Australia.
Discussion Paper, December 1995. Canberra:
NHMRC, 1995.
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing
Committee’s Health Promoting Schools Working
Party. Effective School Health Promotion.
Towards Health Promoting Schools, 1996.
AGPS, Canberra, 1996 (ISBN O-642-2722-8).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing
Committee’s Sun Protection Programs Working
Party. Primary Prevention of Skin Cancer in
Australia. Report of the Sun Protection
Programs Working Party, December 1996.
AGPS, Canberra, 1996 (ISBN 0-642-27247-6).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing Committee.
Promoting the Health of Australians. A Review
of Infrastructure Support for National Health
Advancement, December 1996. AGPS,
Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-642-27225-5).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing Committee.
Promoting the Health of Australians. A Review
of Infrastructure Support for National Health
Advancement. Summary Report and
Recommendations, December 1996. AGPS,
Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-642-27226-3).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing Committee.
Promoting the Health of Australians. Case
Studies of Achievements in Improving the
Health of the Population, December 1996.
AGPS, Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-642-27227-1).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing Committee.
Promoting the Health of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Island Communities. A Review of
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Infrastructure Support for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health Advancement. Final
Report and Recommendations, December 1996.
AGPS, Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-642-27229-8).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing Committee.
Promoting the Health of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Island Communities. Case Studies and
Principles of Good Practice, December 1996.
AGPS, Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-642-27223-9).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing
Committee’s Health Promoting Sport and Arts
Venues Working Party. Health-Promoting Sport,
Arts and Racing Settings. New Challenges for
the Health Sector, December 1996. AGPS,
Canberra, 1997 (ISBN 0-642-27221-2).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing
Committee’s Injury Prevention Programs Working
Party. Unintentional Injury in Young Males 15 to
29 Years, November 1996. AGPS, Canberra,
1997 (ISBN 0-644-39752-7).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing
Committee’s Scientific Review Group for the
Assessment of Preventive Activities in the Health
Care System. Preventive Interventions in
Primary Health Care. Cardiovascular Disease
and Cancer. Report of the Assessment of
Preventive Activities in the Health Care System
Initiative, December 1996. AGPS, Canberra,
1997 (ISBN 0-642-27222-0).
NHMRC Health Advancement Standing
Committee’s Workplace Injury and Alcohol Working
Party. Workplace Injury and Alcohol. AGPS,
Canberra, 1998.
NHMRC Environmental Health and Nutrition and
Health Advancement Standing Committees’
Working Party on the Prevention of Overweight and
Obesity. Acting on Australia’s Weight: A
Strategic Plan for the Prevention of Overweight
and Obesity. AGPS, Canberra, 1998.
WORKS CONCERNING UNIVERSITY
DEVELOPMENT
Holman CDJ, Barratt J. Guidelines for
Postgraduate Research Degree Candidates.
Department of Public Health, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 1995 (ISBN 0-86422-4168).
Holman CDJ. Report to the Executive Dean on a
Short Round of Consultations Towards the
Faculty Strategic Plan. Faculty of Medicine and
Dentistry, The University of Western Australia,
Perth.
Strategic Plan. Mission, Vision and Strategic
Objectives 1996-2000 (CDJ Holman, Principal
Author). Department of Public Health, The
University of Western Australia, Perth.
Holman CDJ, Barratt J. Guidelines for
Postgraduate Research Degree Candidates.
Second Edition 1999. Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
1999 (ISBN 0-86422-416-8).
Report of the Task Force for an Undergraduate
Degree Program in Health Science. (C.D.J.
Holman, Chairman). The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1999.
Report of the Review of the Department of
Computer Science. (C.D.J. Holman, Chairman).
The University of Western Australia, Perth, 1999.
Report of the Review of the Bachelor of
Computer and Mathematical Sciences. (C.D.J.
Holman, Chairman). The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1999.
PUBLICATIONS 1980 to 1993
Holman CDJ, Mulroney CD, Armstrong BK.
Epidemiology of pre-invasive and invasive
malignant melanoma in Western Australia.
International Journal of Cancer 1980; 25(3): 317-323.
Holman CDJ, James IR, Gattey PH, Armstrong BK.
An analysis of trends in mortality from malignant
melanoma of the skin in Australia. International
Journal of Cancer 1980; 26(6): 703-709.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, James IR. Sunscreen
misconception. Medical Journal of Australia 1980;
1(13) 669.
Heenan PJ, Mulroney CD, Holman CDJ, Armstrong
BK. Frequency of thin malignant melanoma.
Lancet 1980; 2(8193): 530.
Holman CDJ, James IR, Gattey PH, Armstrong BK.
An analysis of trends in mortality from malignant
melanoma of the skin in Australia. Fourth
International Symposium on the Prevention and
Detection of Cancer. Cancer Detection and Prevention
1980; 3: 233A.
Holman CDJ, James IR, Segal MR, Armstrong BK.
Trends in mortality from prostate cancer in the
male populations of Australia and England and
Wales. Proceedings of the 1980 Annual Scientific
meeting of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia,
p.62. Clinical Oncological Society of Australia,
Sydney, 1980.
Holman D, Armstrong B. Skin melanoma and
seasonal patterns. American Journal of Epidemiology
1981; 113(2): 202.
Holman CDJ, James IR, Segal MR, Armstrong BK.
Recent trends in mortality from prostate cancer in
male populations of Australia and England and
Wales. British Journal of Cancer 1981; 44(3): 340348.
Holman CDJ, McCartney AJ, Hyde KL, Armstrong BK.
Cervical cytology histories of 100 women with
invasive carcinoma of the cervix. Medical Journal of
Australia 1981; 2(11): 597-598.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Malignant melanoma in
British women. Lancet 1981(8229): 1099-1100.
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Armstrong B, Holman D. Increasing mortality from
cancer of the cervix in young Australian women.
Medical Journal of Australia 1981; 1(9): 460-462.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Hutchinson's
melanotic freckle associated with non-permanent
hair dyes. British Journal of Cancer 1983; 48(4): 599601.
Armstrong B, Holman CDJ. Cervical cancer and
promiscuity. Medical Journal of Australia 1981; 2(1):
45-46.
Lemish WM, Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK.
Survival from pre-invasive and invasive malignant
melanoma in Western Australia. Cancer 1983;
52(3): 580-585.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Distribution of
malignant melanoma on the body surface. British
Journal of Cancer 1982; 45(2): 317.
Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ. Survival from invasive
cutaneous malignant melanoma in Western
Australia and the Oxford Region: a comparative
histological study of high and low incidence
populations. Pathology 1983; 15(2): 147-152.
Holman CDJ, James IR, Heenan PJ, Matz LR,
Blackwell JB, Kelsall GRH, Singh A, Ten Seldam REJ.
An improved method of analysis of observer
variation between pathologists. Histopathology
1982; 6(5): 581-589.
Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ. A histological comparison
of cutaneous malignant melanoma between the
Oxford Region and Western Australia.
Histopathology 1982; 6(6): 703-716.
Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ. Nodular malignant
melanoma - A distinct entity or a common end
stage? American Journal of Dermatopathology 1982;
4(5): 477-478.
Holman CDJ. ODDS. A program for the statistical
analysis of case-control studies based on classical
methods. In: Risk Factors in the Causation of Human
Malignant Melanoma of the Skin (C.D.J. Holman),
pp.580-595. University of Western Australia, Perth,
1982.
Armstrong BK, Holman CDJ, Ford JM, Woodings TL.
Trends in melanoma incidence and mortality in
Australia. In: Trends in Cancer Incidence. Causes
and Practical Implications (Ed. K. Magnus), pp.399417. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, New York,
1982.
Holman D, Armstrong B. Cancer Mortality Trends in
Australia, 1910-1979. Part 1 and Part 2. Cancer
Council of Western Australia, Perth, 1982.
Holman CDJ, Heenan PJ, Caruso V, Glancy RJ,
Armstrong BK. Seasonal variation in the junctional
component of pigmented naevi. International
Journal of Cancer 1983; 31(2): 213-215.
Holman CDJ, Gibson IM, Stephenson M, Armstrong
BK. Ultraviolet irradiation of human body sites in
relation to occupation and outdoor activity: field
studies using personal UVR dosimeters. Clinical
and Experimental Dermatology 1983; 8(3): 269-277.
Holman CDJ, Matz LR, Finlay-Jones LR, Waters ED,
Blackwell JB, Joyce PR, Kelsall GRH, Shilkin KB,
Cullity GJ, Williams KE, Matthews MLV, Armstrong
BK. Inter-observer variation in the histopathologic
reporting of Hodgkin's disease: an analysis of
diagnostic subcomponents using kappa statistics.
Histopathology 1983; 7(3): 399-407.
Holman CDJ, Reynolds PM, Byrne MJJ, Trotter JM,
Armstrong BK. Possible infectious etiology of six
cases of Ewings sarcoma in Western Australia.
Cancer 1983; 52(10): 1974-1976.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Heenan PJ. A theory of
the etiology and pathogenesis of human cutaneous
malignant melanoma. Journal of the National Cancer
Institute 1983; 71(4): 651-656.
Byrne MJ, Van Hazel G, Reynolds PM, Lemish WM,
Holman CDJ. Adjuvant immunotherapy with BCG in
stage II malignant melanoma. Journal of Surgical
Oncology 1983; 23(2): 114-116.
Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ, Matz LR, Blackwell JB,
Kelsall GRH, Singh A, Ten Seldam REJ, Armstrong
BA. A histological study of cutaneous malignant
melanoma in Western Australia 1980-1981. Medical
and Pediatric Oncology 1983; 11(3): 191.
Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ, Matz LR, Blackwell JB,
Kelsall GRH, Singh A, Ten Seldam REJ, Armstrong
BA. A histological study of cutaneous malignant
melanoma in Western Australia 1980-1981. Journal
of Cutaneous Pathology 1983; 10(5): 371.
Holman CDJ. Risk Factors in the Causation of
Human Malignant Melanoma of the Skin. Doctoral
thesis, University of Western Australia, Perth, 1982.
Published by University Microfilms International, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, 1983.
Holman CDJ. Water quality and health in 58
Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.
Public Health Department, Perth, 1983.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Evans PR, Lumsden GJ,
Dallimore KJ, Meehan CJ, Beagley J, Gibson IM.
Relationship of solar keratosis and history of skin
cancer to objective measures of actinic skin
damage. British Journal of Dermatology 1984; 110(2):
129-138.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Pigmentary traits,
ethnic origin, benign nevi and family history as risk
factors for cutaneous malignant melanoma.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1984; 72(2):
257-266.
Holman CDJ, Evans PR, Lumsden GJ, Armstrong BK.
The determinants of actinic skin damage: problems
of confounding among environmental and
constitutional variables. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1984; 120(3): 414-422.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Cutaneous malignant
melanoma and indicators of total accumulated
exposure to the sun: an analysis separating
histogenetic types. Journal of the National Cancer
Institute 1984; 73(1): 75-82.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Heenan PJ. Cutaneous
malignant melanoma in women: exogenous
hormones and reproductive factors. British Journal
of Cancer 1984; 50(5): 673-680.
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Holman CDJ. Analysis of inter-observer variation
on a programmable calculator. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1984; 120(1): 154-160.
Zhong X, Armstrong BK, Holman CDJ, Stenhouse NS,
Giles PFH, Waters ED. Cytological abnormalities of
the cervix. Fifteen years' follow-up of a
gynaecological cancer survey. Medical Journal of
Australia 1984; 141(11): 711-713.
Armstrong BK, Heenan PJ, Caruso V, Glancy RJ,
Holman CDJ. Seasonal variation in the junctional
component of pigmented naevi. International
Journal of Cancer 1984; 34(4): 441-442.
Heenan PJ, Matz LR, Blackwell JB, Kelsall GR, Singh
A, Ten Seldam REJ, Holman CDJ. Inter-observer
variation between pathologists in the classification
of cutaneous malignant melanoma in Western
Australia. Histopathology 1984; 8(5): 717-729.
English D, Holman D, Armstrong B, Heenan P. The
incidence of malignant melanoma in Western
Australia, 1980-81. Community Health Studies 1984;
8(1): 150.
Holman CDJ. Mortality in Western Australia 19531982. Analysis of age, sex and cause specific
rates, trends in rates and causes of premature
death. Position Paper No 1, Data Base Working
Group, Steering Committee on the Review of Health
Promotion and Health Education in Western Australia.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1984.
Holman CDJ, Brooks BH. Inpatient hospital
morbidity in Western Australia 1971-1981. An
analysis of principal conditions treated, medical
and surgical procedures and hospital bed days.
Position Paper No 2, Data Base Working Group,
Steering Committee on the Review of Health Promotion
and Health Education in Western Australia. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1984.
Stanley FJ, Bedford JE. (Ed. CDJ Holman). Maternal
and child health in Western Australia 1968-1983.
Position Paper No 3, Data Base Working Group,
Steering Committee on the Review of Health Promotion
and Health Education in Western Australia. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1984.
Allen R, Bucens MR, Cassidy JT, Gollow MM, Iveson
JB, Pashley JL, Wong CT (Ed. CDJ Holman).
Infectious diseases in Western Australia 1950-1983.
Position Paper No 9, Data Base Working Group,
Steering Committee on the Review of Health Promotion
and Health Education in Western Australia. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1984.
Holman CDJ, Morrison PW. An investigation of
reported ill-effects of exposure to Datura arborea L.
(Angel's trumpet plant). Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1984.
Holman CDJ, Henderson MH, Summer NR. Trends in
hospitalisation due to conditions related to
excessive consumption of non-prescription
analgesics. Western Australia 1977-1983. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1984.
Holman CDJ. Premature mortality in Western
Australia. Stat Link 1985; 8: 4-5.
Heenan PJ, Weeramanthri T, Holman CDJ, Armstrong
BK. Surgical treatment and survival from
cutaneous malignant melanoma. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1985; 55(3): 229-234.
English DR, Rouse IL, Zhong X, Watt JD, Holman
CDJ, Heenan PJ, Armstrong BK. Cutaneous
malignant melanoma and fluorescent lighting.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1985; 74(6):
1191-1197.
Armstrong BK, Holman CDJ. Hutchinson’s
melanotic freckle melanoma and the use of nonpermanent hair dyes. British Journal of Cancer 1985;
52(1): 135.
Holman CDJ, Watson CR, Brooks BH, Brown H. The
use of mortality, hospital and community morbidity
data to define health priorities in Western
Australia. In: Progress on Health for All.
ANZSERCH/APHA Annual Conference Papers 1985,
pp.65-80. ANZSERCH/APHA, Canberra, 1985.
Armstrong BK, de Klerk NH, Holman CDJ. The
aetiology of common acquired melanocytic naevi.
Constitutional variables, sun exposure and diet.
Proceedings of Statcomp-Medstat 85, pp.26-55. The
Statistical Society of Australia, Macquarie University,
1985.
Holman CDJ, Ed. Causes of perinatal and
childhood mortality and hospital morbidity in
Western Australia 1979-1983. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
Holman CDJ, Ed. Short-stay hospitalisation in
Western Australia and in the Geraldton postcode
area attributable to the consumption of alcohol
1983. Health Department of Western Australia, Perth,
1985.
Holman CDJ, Ed. General practice morbidity in
Australia 1983. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1985.
Moore DJ, Holman CDJ, Bucens MR. Prenatal
screening for markers of hepatitis B infection in
Aboriginal mothers in the Southern Divisions of
Western Australia. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1985.
Bedford JE, Christianopoulos VC, Holman CDJ. First
annual report of the Sentinel Schools Surveillance
Program for Immunisation Status and VaccinePreventable Diseases. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
Holman CDJ, O'Neil DF. Premature adult mortality
and short-stay hospitalisation attributable to
Aboriginal ill-health in Western Australia 1983.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
Waddell VP, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, McNulty JC,
Psaila-Savona P. A population-based study of
hospital morbidity by occupation in Western
Australian males ages 15-64 years 1981-1982.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
Holman CDJ, Ed. Vaccine-preventable diseases
surveillance bulletin No.1, January-March 1985.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
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Holman CDJ, Ed. Premature adult mortality in
Western Australia and in the Geraldton local
government area attributable to the consumption
of alcohol 1979-1983. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1985.
Holman CDJ, Gollow MM, Pashley JL, Brooks BH.
Trends in STD epidemiology in Western Australia.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
Holman CDJ, Shean RE. Premature adult mortality
and short-stay hospitalisation in Western Australia
attributable to the smoking of tobacco 1979-1983.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Heenan PJ.
Relationship of cutaneous malignant melanoma to
individual sunlight-exposure habits. Journal of the
National Cancer Institute 1986; 76(3): 403-414.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Heenan PJ and 11
others. The causes of malignant melanoma:
results of the West Australian Lions Melanoma
Research Project. Recent Results in Cancer
Research 1986; 102: 18-37.
Holman CDJ, Shean RE. Premature adult mortality
and short-stay hospitalisation in Western Australia
attributable to the smoking of tobacco, 1979-83.
Medical Journal of Australia 1986; 145(1): 7-11.
English DR, Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK,
Blackwell JB, Kelsall GRH, Matz LR, Singh A, Ten
Seldam REJ. Melanoma in Western Australia 197576 to 1980-81: trends in demographic and
pathological characteristics. International Journal of
Cancer 1986; 37(2): 209-215.
Armstrong BK, de Klerk NH, Holman CDJ. Etiology of
common acquired melanocytic nevi: constitutional
variables, sun exposure and diet. Journal of the
National Cancer Institute 1986; 77(2): 329-335.
Holman CDJ. Epidemiology of tobacco-related
diseases in Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth
Annual Conference of the Australian Medical Society
on Alcohol and Drugs, p.25. AMSAD, Perth, 1986.
Holman CDJ. CHAMP. Computerized Handling of
Arithmetic Matrix Procedures. A multi-purpose
utilities package for the analysis of vital and
morbidity statistics. Epiwest Software, Perth, 1986.
Holman CDJ (Ed.) and 41 others. Our State of
Health. An Overview of Health and Illness in
Western Australia in the 1980's. Steering Committee
for the Review of Health Promotion and Health
Education in Western Australia. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Moore DJ, Bucens MR, Holman CDJ, Ott AK, Wells JI.
Prenatal screening for markers of hepatitis B in
Aboriginal mothers resident in the Midlands,
Southeastern, Central , Pilbara and Kimberley
statistical divisions of Western Australia. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Holman CDJ, Psaila-Savona P, Roberts M, McNulty
JC. The determinants of chronic bronchitis and
respiratory dysfunction in employees of the
Kalgoorlie mining industry. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Holman CDJ, Quadros CF. Health and disease in
the Aboriginal population of the Kimberley Region
of Western Australia 1980-85. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Hunt TB, Holman CDJ. An investigation of the
occurrence of asthma in relation to sulphur dioxide
atmospheric contamination in the Kwinana
industrial area 1979-1984. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Holman CDJ. The health effects of electromagnetic
fields, microwaves and radiofrequency radiation. A
brief review of epidemiologic literature. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Roberts M, Holman CDJ, Sumner NR, Hilton JMN.
Poisoning in Western Australia 1979-1985. An
analysis of sex, age and location-specific
hospitalisation and mortality due to accidental and
self-inflicted poisonings. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1986.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Cervical cancer
mortality trends in Australia - an update. Medical
Journal of Australia 1987; 146(8): 410-412.
Holman CDJ, Bucens MR, Quadros CF, Reid MR.
Occurrence and distribution of hepatitis B infection
in the Aboriginal population of Western Australia.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 1987;
17(5): 518-525.
Holman CDJ, Shean RE. Tobacco-related hospital
admissions. Medical Journal of Australia 1987;
146(2): 117.
Holman CDJ, Bucens MR, Sesnan TMK. AIDS and
the Grim Reaper Campaign. Medical Journal of
Australia 1987; 147(6): 306.
Holman CDJ, Psaila-Savona P, Roberts M, McNulty
JC. Determinants of chronic bronchitis and lung
dysfunction in Western Australian gold miners.
British Journal of Industrial Medicine 1987; 44(12):
810-818.
Holman CDJ. Sun exposure in Australian youth. A
critical determinant of melanoma risk. The Skin
Cancer Foundation Journal 1987; 5: 9, 58.
Hunt TB, Holman CDJ. Asthma hospitalisation in
relation to sulphur dioxide atmospheric
contamination in the Kwinana industrial area of
Western Australia. Community Health Studies 1987;
11(3): 197-201.
Moore DJ, Bucens MR, Holman CDJ, Ott AK, Wells JI.
Prenatal screening for markers of hepatitis B in
Aboriginal mothers resident in non-metropolitan
Western Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 1987;
147(2): 557-558.
Armstrong BK, Holman CDJ. Acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome in Australia. Medical
Journal of Australia (leading article) 1987; 146(2): 6162.
Heenan PJ, Armstrong BK, English DR, Holman CDJ.
Pathological and epidemiological variants of
cutaneous malignant melanoma. Pigment Cell 1987;
8: 107-146.
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English DR, Heenan PJ, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK,
Blackwell JB, Kelsall GRH, Matz LR, Singh A, Ten
Seldam REJ. Melanoma in Western Australia in
1980-81. Incidence and characteristics of
histological types. Pathology 1987; 19(4): 383-392.
Report to the Minister for Health for Western
Australia from the Working Party on Screening
Mammography (B.K. Armstrong, Chairman; C.D.J.
Holman, Executive Secretary). Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Armstrong BK, Holman CDJ. Malignant melanoma of
the skin. Bulletin of the World Health Organization
1987; 65(2): 245-252.
Bucens MR, Reid MR, Holman CDJ, Quadros CF.
Survey of HIV infection in Aborigines. Australian
and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 1988; 18(2):
179.
Binns CW, Holman CDJ, Manning K. Mortality and
morbidity due to substance abuse in Western
Australia. Community Health Studies 1987; 11(3):
213.
Bedford JE, Holman CDJ. Second annual report of
the Sentinel Schools Surveillance Program for
Immunisation Status and Vaccine-Preventable
Diseases. Health Department of Western Australia,
Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ. Smoking 2000. Projections of deaths
caused by smoking in Australia in the absence of
effective intervention. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ. Smoking-attributable mortality,
morbidity and economic costs. Application of the
Minnesota SAMMEC analysis to Western Australia
1981-85. Health Department of Western Australia,
Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ. Smoking-attributable mortality,
morbidity and economic costs. Application of the
Minnesota SAMMEC analysis to Australia 1984.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ. Smoking-attributable economic costs
in the Australian States and Territories 1984.
Application of the Minnesota SAMMEC analysis.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ, Brooks BH. Morbidity statistics in
Western Australia. An overview of the data
collections and their applications. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ, Brooks BH. Surgical procedures in
Western Australia. An analysis of distribution of
surgery type in 1985 and trends in surgical
procedure rates 1982 to 1985. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Holman CDJ, Hatton WM, Armstrong BK, English DR.
Cancer mortality trends in Australia, Volume II
1910-1984. Health Department of Western Australia,
Perth, 1987.
Sprague DL, Holman CDJ. RAWP in Australia - an
update. Health Department of Western Australia,
Perth, 1987.
Roberts M, Holman CDJ, Machin J. Trends in
sexually transmitted diseases in Western Australia
1974-1987 with special reference to effects of the
AIDS public education campaign. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Sprague DL, Roberts M, Holman CDJ. The utility of
multi-cause coding of death certificates. A Western
Australian pilot study. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1987.
Waddell VP, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, McNulty JC,
Psaila-Savona P. Variation in hospital morbidity
rates in the male workforce of Western Australia.
British Journal of Industrial Medicine 1988; 45(3): 139147.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Arias LN, Martin CA,
Hatton WM, Hayward LD, Salmon MA, Shean RE,
Waddell VP. The Quantification of Drug Caused
Morbidity and Mortality in Australia. Part 1 and
Part 2. Commonwealth Department of Community
Services and Health, Canberra, 1988 (republished in
1990).
Wan KC, Holman CDJ, Street NA. Vibration white
finger. Survey of employees of the Collie coal
mining industry. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1988.
Holman CDJ, Psaila-Savona P, Roberts M, Wan KC,
McNulty JC (Eds). The respiratory health of
employees of the Collie coal mining industry.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1988.
Report of the Reproductive Technology Working
Party to the Minister for Health (MM Daube,
Chairman; CDJ Holman, Executive Secretary). Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1988.
Holman CDJ, Cameron PV, Bucens MR, Kellar AJ,
Machin J, McNulty JC and Members of the Western
Australian AIDS Advisory Committee. Populationbased epidemiology of human immunodeficiency
virus infection in Western Australia. Medical
Journal of Australia 1989; 150(7): 362-370.
Holman CDJ, Psaila-Savona P. Determinants of
chronic bronchitis and lung dysfunction in Western
Australian gold miners. British Journal of Industrial
Medicine 1989; 46(2): 143-144.
Holman CDJ. Epidemiology in a State Government
Health Department. Proceedings of the Annual
General Meeting of the Australian Epidemiological
Association, p.11. AEA and NCEPH, Canberra, 1989.
Webb SM, Holman CDJ. Western Australian
IVF/GIFT pregnancies and confinements:
Comparisons with other Western Australian
pregnancies and confinements. Health Department
of Western Australia, Perth, 1989.
Holman CDJ. Program management in the Health
Department of Western Australia. Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1989.
Report of the Working Party on Cholesterol
Screening and Counselling Services (CDJ Holman,
Chairman; BP Wall, Executive Secretary). Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1989.
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The Accident and Emergency Services Review
Committee Report to the Commissioner of Health
(CDJ Holman, Chairman; R Graydon, Executive
Secretary). Health Department of Western Australia,
Perth, 1989.
Holman CDJ. Overview of Health Status. In: Our
State of Health. An Overview of the Health of the
Western Australian Population, 1991 Edition (Waddell,
V.P. and Lee, N.A., Eds), pp.1-12. Health Department
of Western Australia, Perth, 1991.
Report of the Steering Committee on Aged and
Young Disabled Persons Residential Care Services
in the Perth Metropolitan Area. Phase 1:
Residential Care Policies and Proposals (CDJ
Holman, Chairman; L Whiteley, Secretary). Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1989.
Holman CDJ. The quantification of drug-caused
morbidity and mortality in Western Australia, 19851988. Health Department of Western Australia, Perth,
1991.
A Plan for Health. Strategic Plan of the Health
Department of Western Australia 1989-1993 (CDJ
Holman, Principal Author). Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1989.
Webb SM, Holman CDJ. Methodology used to
monitor and evaluate in vitro fertilisation and
related procedures in Western Australia, 19831987. Community Health Studies 1990; 14(3): 235245.
Stockwell AJ, Medcalf GW, Rutledge GJ, Holman CDJ,
Roberts M. Dental-caries experience in
schoolchildren in fluoridated and nonfluoridated
communities in Western Australia. Community
Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 1990; 18(4): 184-189.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Arias LN, Martin CA,
Hatton WM, Hayward LD, Salmon MA, Shean RE,
Waddell VP. The quantification of drug caused
morbidity and mortality in Australia. In: Tobacco &
Health 1990. The Global War. Proceedings of the
Seventh World Conference on Tobacco and Health, 15 April 1990, Perth, Western Australia (Eds B. Durston
and K. Jamrozik), p.41-42. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1990.
Holman CDJ. Lung cancer - The down side of the
epidemic curve. Cancer Forum 1991; 15(3): 169-170.
Heenan PJ, English DR, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK.
Survival among patients diagnosed with clinical
stage I cutaneous malignant melanoma diagnosed
in Western Australia in 1975/76 and 1980/81.
Cancer 1991; 68(9): 2079-2087, 1991.
Holman D. The political arithmetic of public health.
Health Promotion Journal of Australia (leading article)
1992; 2(1): 4-6.
Holman CDJ. Something old, something new:
perspectives on five 'new' public health
movements. Health Promotion Journal of Australia
(refereed leading article) 1992; 2(3): 4-11.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. Lack of positive bias of
the confounding effects of risk factors estimated
by marginal aetiological fractions. International
Journal of Epidemiology 1992; 21(4): 820-823.
Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK. The quantification of
alcohol-caused morbidity and mortality in
Australia: the authors respond. Medical Journal of
Australia 1992; 157(8): 560-561.
Webb SM, Holman D. A survey of infertility,
surgical sterility and associated reproductive
disability in Perth, Western Australia. Australian
Journal of Public Health 1992; 16(4): 376-381.
Webb SM, Holman D. A survey of contraceptive use
and unplanned pregnancy in Perth, Western
Australia. Australian Journal of Public Health 1992;
16(4): 382-386.
Heenan PJ, English DR, Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK.
The effects of surgical treatment on survival and
local recurrence of cutaneous malignant
melanoma. Cancer 1992; 69(2): 421-426.
Heenan PJ, English DE, Holman CDJ. The effects of
surgical treatment on survival and local recurrence
of cutaneous malignant melanoma (letter to the
Editor). Cancer 1992; 70(6): 1650-1651.
Holman CDJ, Coster HM. Report of the Special
Consultant on Community and Child Health
Services, Volume I. The History of Community and
Child Health Services in Western Australia.
Epidemiology and Research Branch, Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1991.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ. Interim Report on
Project Evaluation to the Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1992.
Holman CDJ. Report of the Special Consultant on
Community and Child Health Services, Volume II.
Community and Child Health Services Today:
Roles, Resources and Issues. Epidemiology and
Research Branch, Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1991.
Holman CDJ. Report on a Short Round of
Consultations Concerning the Western Australian
Health Promotion Foundation. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1992.
Holman CDJ. Report of the Special Consultant on
Community and Child Health Services, Volume III.
Building the Future of Community and Child Health
Services. Epidemiology and Research Branch, Health
Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1991.
Report of the Western Australian Omnibus Health
Survey Task Force (CDJ Holman, Chairman; SM
Webb, Executive Secretary). Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1992.
Holman CDJ. Report to the Commissioner of
Health on the State Child Development Centre.
Health Department of Western Australia, Perth, 1991.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Evaluating
projects funded by the Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation: a systematic approach.
Health Promotion International 1993; 8(3): 199-208.
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Holman CDJ, Corti B, Donovan RJ, Dawes VP.
Tobacco control and health expectancy in
Australia. Tobacco Control 1993; 2: 195-200.
Straton JAY, Holman CDJ, Edwards BM. Cervical
cancer screening in Western Australia in 1992:
progress since 1983. Medical Journal of Australia
1993; 159(10): 657-661.
Donovan RJ, Corti B, Holman CD, West D, Pitter D.
Evaluating sponsorship effectiveness. Health
Promotion Journal of Australia 1993; 3(1): 63-67.
Heenan PJ, English DR, Holman CDJ. The effects of
surgical treatment on survival and local recurrence
of cutaneous malignant melanoma. Cancer 1993;
71(11): 3792.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 6: Health
Environments in Sport and Arts Venues.
Health
Promotion Development and Evaluation Program,
Department of Public Health and Department of
Management, The University of Western Australia,
Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-329-3).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 7: Health
Environments in the Workplace. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 086422-330-7).
Holman CDJ. Report of an Inquiry into the Public
Health Committee of the National Health and
Medical Research Council. Commonwealth
Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and
Community Services, Canberra, 1993.
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Graduated
Project Evaluation Basic and Process Measures
June 1993. Health Promotion Development and
Evaluation Program, Department of Public Health and
Graduate School of Management, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-332-3).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Executive Overview.
Health Promotion Development and Evaluation
Program, Department of Public Health and Department
of Management, The University of Western Australia,
Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-323-4).
Corti B, Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ. Survey on the
Impact of Healthway on Organisations It Funds
1992. Health Promotion Development and Evaluation
Program, Department of Public Health and Department
of Management, The University of Western Australia,
Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-322-6).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 1:
Participation in Sport and Racing. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 086422-324-2).
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Holman CDJ. Project Specific
Sponsorship Survey Results - Health Behaviours
and Demographics. Health Promotion Development
and Evaluation Program, Department of Public Health
and Graduate School of Management, The University
of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-3315).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 2:
Participation in the Arts. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 086422-325-0).
Corti B, Donovan RJ, Coten N, Jones S, Holman CDJ.
Football Clinic Sponsorship Field Study. Health
Promotion Development and Evaluation Program,
Department of Public Health and Graduate School of
Management, The University of Western Australia,
Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-333-1).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 3: Priorities
for Health Promotion. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 086422-326-9).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 4: Healthway
and Health Messages. Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, Department of
Public Health and Department of Management, The
University of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 086422-327-7).
Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ, Corti B. Survey on
Recreation and Health 1992. Volume 5: Health
Behaviours. Health Promotion Development and
Evaluation Program, Department of Public Health and
Department of Management, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 1993 (ISBN 0-86422-328-5).
Lewin G, Codde JP, Holman CDJ, Oddy WH,
Creelman A, Leivers S, Palandri G. North
Metropolitan Health Needs Analysis. Stage 1
Report: Content Specification. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1993.
Oddy WH, Leivers S, Palandri G, Codde JP, Lewin G,
Holman CDJ, Creelman A. North Metropolitan
Health Needs Analysis. Stage 2 Report: Current
Performance. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1993.
Holman CDJ, Lewin G, Creelman A, Codde JP, Leivers
S, Oddy WH, Palandri G. North Metropolitan Health
Needs Analysis. Stage 3 Report: Benchmark
Development. Health Department of Western
Australia, Perth, 1993.
Holman CDJ, Lewin G, Penman AG, Creelman A,
Codde JP, Leivers S, Oddy WH, Palandri G. North
Metropolitan Health Needs Analysis. Stage 4
Report: Gap Analysis. Health Department of
Western Australia, Perth, 1993.
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APPENDIX C: PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS 1994 to 2014
"The science and ethics of low alcohol intake."
Keynote Presentation delivered to the Annual
Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College
of Physicians (WA) and Faculties, 28 October 1994
(invited presentation).
"Overview of carers in Western Australia."
Presentation at the Carers Forum held by the
Carers Council of Western Australia, 21 October
1994 (invited presentation).
"The importance of vision in public health."
Presentation delivered at a seminar on Providing
Strategic Leadership in Public Health, 11 February
1994 (invited presentation).
"The science and ethics of low alcohol intake."
Keynote Presentation delivered to the Annual
Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College
of Physicians (WA) and Faculties, 28 October 1994
(invited presentation).
"Overview of carers in Western Australia."
Presentation at the Carers Forum held by the
Carers Council of Western Australia, 21 October
1994 (invited presentation).
"The role of the NHMRC Health Advancement
Standing Committee." Seventh National Health
Promotion Conference of Health Promotion,
Brisbane, 13 February 1995 (invited presentation).
"Improving the quality of interaction between
research and practice: the role of the NHMRC
and research institutions." Plenary Address
delivered at the National Centre for Health
Promotion 2nd Annual Symposium, Sydney, 5
December 1995 (invited presentation).
"Health Australia." Presentation delivered to the
full Council of NHMRC, Canberra, 22 November
1995 (invited presentation).
"The impact of Healthway health promotion
research funding in WA." Opening address
delivered at the Healthway Health Promotion
Research Seminar, 9 November 1995 (invited
presentation).
"Alcohol and risk to health." Opening
presentation to the World Health Organization
Working Group on Alcohol and Health, Oslo, 9
October 1995.
"An improved aetiological fraction for alcoholcaused mortality." Alcohol Advisory Council of
WA workshop, To Drink or Not to Drink for Your
Health, 24 July 1995 (invited presentation).
"What are the key challenges in planning for a
physically active community beyond the year
2000." Panelist presentation, National Physical
Activity and Health Conference, Perth, 21 July 1995
(invited presentation).
"The future potential of the Australian health
promotion foundation model." What Works With
Health Promotion Foundations? Conference on the
Three Year Evaluation of the Western Australian
Health Promotion Foundation, 19 July 1995.
"Graduated project evaluation and distributive
results." What Works With Health Promotion
Foundations? Conference on the Three Year
Evaluation of the Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation, 19 July 1995.
"Analysis, action and the third creation of
public health." Inaugural lecture from the Chair in
Public Health, The University of Western Australia,
and a McNulty Oration of the Public Health
Association of Australia, 22 May 1995.
"Prospects for health promotion in Australia."
Keynote Address delivered at the Official Opening
of the National Centre for Health Promotion,
Sydney, 10 May 1995 (invited presentation).
"People are concerned about cancer." Public
Address to launch the Cancer Information Service,
Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, 31 March
1995 (invited presentation).
"Evaluating projects funded by the WA Health
Promotion Foundation." Seventh National Health
Promotion Conference, Brisbane, 15 February
1995.
"The role of the NHMRC Health Advancement
Standing Committee." Seventh National Health
Promotion Conference of Health Promotion,
Brisbane, 13 February 1995 (invited presentation).
"The value of intervention research to health
promotion." Address delivered to the Healthway
Health Promotion Research Seminar 1996:
Enriching and improving health promotion research,
Perth, 16 October 1996 (invited presentation).
"Alcohol - its joys and evils." Sir Charles
Gairdner Hospital Spring Lecture Series, 5
September 1995 (invited presentation),
"Developments in Record Linkage in Western
Australia - But How Far Are We from the
Apotheosis." Plenary paper delivered at the First
Australian Conference on Record Linkage and
Health Research, Perth, 3 October 1996.
"The North Metropolitan Health Services Needs
Analysis." Health Department of Western
Australia workshop, From Needs Analysis to
Purchasing Plans, 17 August 1995 (invited
presentation).
"Threats to Public Health - Responding to the
Challenge." Closing address delivered to the 28th
Annual Conference of the Public Health Association
of Australia, Perth, 2 October 1996 (invited
presentation).
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"Quality of Surgical Care Programme." Plenary
paper delivered to the Western Australian state
meeting of the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons, Perth, 2 August 1996 (invited
presentation).
"Health Services Research Linked Database.
Establishment and Strategic Directions."
Presentations given at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota; Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario;
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation,
Winnipeg, Manitoba; 3-7 June 1996.
"National Briefing: Record Linkage in Western
Australia." High level briefing given to an invited
audience of senior health officials, hosted by the
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
Canberra, 7 May 1996.
"Data Systems for Quality in Health Care."
Conference on Quality Health Care. How Do We
Know? Australian Faculty of Public Health
Medicine, Perth, 1 May 1996 (invited presentation).
"Health Australia." A series of 14 national
presentations and workshops delivered as a part of
the second stage public consultation conducted by
the NHMRC in Perth, Bunbury, Adelaide,
Melbourne and Canberra, 21 February-6 March
1996.
"Outcomes research and health planning."
Plenary speaker at the Metropolitan Health
Services Strategic Plan Options Development
Workshop, Perth, 26 November 1997 (invited
presentation).
"New methods in outcomes research.
Application to surgery for benign prostate
disease." Seminar delivered to the UWA
Department of Public Health, Perth, 18 November
1997.
"Health ecology. A new public health for the 21st
century." Keynote address delivered at the SWAP
Vision 2000 Convention. Perth, 10 October 1997
(invited presentation).
"Surgery, record linkage and public health
research: are they comfortable travelling
companions?" Paper delivered at the Annual
Scientific Meeting of The Surgical Research Society
of Australasia, Fremantle, 7 August 1997 (invited
presentation).
"An ‘epidemiologist’ goes back to school. Ten
short topics from the Society for Epidemiologic
Research Conference, Edmonton, and New
England Epidemiology Institute Summer
School, Boston, June 1997." Research methods
seminar delivered to the UWA Department of Public
Health, 1 August 1997.
"Design and application of an improved
etiologic fraction of alcohol-caused mortality."
Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Epidemiologic Research, Edmonton, 1214 June 1997.
"Health Services Research Linked Database.
Establishment and Strategic Directions."
Presentations given at the Information and
Statistics Division, NHS in Scotland, Edinburgh,
Oxford University Unit of Health Care Epidemiology,
Oxford, and Karolinska Institute Division of
Epidemiology, Stockholm, Sweden; 17-21 March
1997.
"How epidemiologists think. A psychometric
experiment in causal inference." Seminar
delivered to the UWA Department of Public Health,
Perth, 10 October 1998.
"Population-based linkage of health records in
Western Australia: development of a Health
Services Research Linked Database." Paper
delivered at the Symposium on Medical Research
in Western Australia, Progress and Possibilities,
presented by the Medical Research Advisory
Committee to the Lotteries Commission, Perth, 22
September 1998 (invited presentation).
"Vision and best practice for health promotion."
Keynote address to the Healthway Seminar Series
1998, Perth, 22 April 1998 (invited presentation).
"The quantification of harm to health from
unsafe alcohol consumption in Australia: the
effect on Aboriginal life expectancy." Paper
delivered at the 2nd International Conference on
Drinking Patterns and their Consequences. A
thematic meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society for
Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol,
Perth, 1 February 1998 (invited presentation).
"Healthway’s Strategic Planning Forum."
Designer and facilitator of a forum of 200 people
conducted at the Challenge Stadium, Perth, on
behalf of the Western Australian Health Promotion
Foundation, 6 December 1999 (by invitation). The
Forum used state-of-the-art interactive keypad
technology.
"Current directions in public health research."
Presentation delivered to the State Divisions
Forum, General Practice Divisions of Western
Australia Ltd, Perth, 15 October 1999 (invited
presentation).
"Outcomes of surgery for benign prostate
disease: new methods of comorbidity
adjustment using linked data." Paper delivered
to the XV International Scientific Meeting of the
International Epidemiological Association,
Epidemiology for Sustainable Health, Florence, 31
August – 4 September 1999.
"Vasectomy and vasectomy reversal: utilisation
and outcomes using record linkage." Paper
delivered to the Health Services Research Australia
and New Zealand Conference, Sydney, 10 August
1999.
"The Western Australian Data Linkage Project."
Presentation delivered to the National Public Health
Partnership Group, Perth, 26 May 1999 (invited
presentation).
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"Population-based linkage of health records in
Western Australia." Presentation delivered to the
Australian Casemix Coordinating Committee,
Adelaide, 31 March 1999 (invited presentation).
"Overview of developments in record linkage in
Western Australia." Delivered with Professor
Fiona Stanley as a briefing for senior staff and
officials of Commonwealth and national health
agencies, Canberra, 1 December 2000.
"The effect of shock-wave lithotrypsy for the
treatment of urinary calculi in Western Australia
on outcomes and use of hospital services."
Paper delivered at a Symposium with Professor Sir
Donald Acheson on Record Linkage in Western
Australia, National and International Implications for
Epidemiological and Health Service Research,
Perth, 23 October 2000.
"Record linkage in health services research;
overview of developments." Paper delivered at a
Symposium with Professor Sir Donald Acheson on
Record Linkage in Western Australia National and
International Implications for Epidemiological and
Health Service Research, Perth, 23 October 2000
(invited presentation).
"Prospects for cancer control in the 21st
century: old dreams, new hopes." Delivered as
part of the Scitech Making Health Your Priority
Public Lecture Series, Perth, 23 May 2000 (invited
presentation).
"Inequality is a health hazard." Western
Australia discussant in response to a lecture by
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Perth, 2 May 2000
(invited presentation).
"On the theme of how a civil society treats
those who are vulnerable." Ceremonial address
delivered as President of the Cancer Foundation of
Western Australia to mark the occasion of the
opening of the A.H. Crawford Lodge for country
patients by the State Premier, Perth, 29 February
2000. The Lodge was the largest capital works
ever completed by the Foundation following a $5
million public appeal.
"Integrating data sets – what prospects exist for
asthma and COPD?" Paper delivered at the
national Margaret River Meeting 2001 of the
Asthma & Allergy Research Institute, Margaret
River, 16 November 2001.
"Cancer: where next?" Closing address delivered
at the WA State Cancer Conference of the Cancer
Foundation of Western Australia, Perth, 9 October
2001.
"Preventable physical illness in people with
mental health problems." Public address
delivered at the launch by the Minister for Health of
‘Preventable physical illness in people with mental
health problems’, Perth, 11 October 2001.
"Launch of Genomics, Society and Human
Health." Public briefing delivered at the launch by
His Excellency, the Governor of Western Australia,
Perth, 14 August 2001.
"HuGE – prospects for development of
infrastructure for population-based human
genome epidemiology in Western Australia."
Seminar delivered to the TVW Telethon Institute for
Child Health Research, Perth, 27 July 2001.
"Trends in population, health expenditure and
consumer expectations." Presentation delivered
at a strategy workshop for senior policy staff of the
Hospital Benefit Fund of WA, Perth, 24 July 2001.
"Cancer survival in WA – overview of data."
Delivered at the workshop on Cancer Survival in
WA, 1982-1997, The Clinicians’ Perspective,
Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group, Perth,
29 March 2001.
"New direction for public health." Keynote
address delivered at the North Metropolitan health
service Upper Zone Planning Workshop, 20-21
November 2002.
"The Family Connections Vision in Western
Australia." Paper delivered at the Symposium on
Genetics and Epidemiology of the Asthma and
Allergy Research Institute, Perth, 11 November
2002.
"Making the difference." Opening address
delivered at the WA State Cancer Conference of
the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, Perth,
29 October 2002.
"In Partnership for Discovery." Address given at
the Opening of the School of Population Health,
The University of Western Australia, Perth, 10
October 2002.
"General practice and the new genetics."
Discussion led at the Annual Convention of the
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners,
Perth, 7 October 2002.
"Prospects for human genome-based research
in Western Australia." Lecture delivered to the
Human Genetics Society of Australasia (WA
Branch), Perth, 18 June 2002.
"Leadership in population health." Paper
delivered at the Population Health Conference of
the Western Australian Department of health, Perth,
10 June 2002.
"Genomics, Society and Human Health."
Presentation given at the Family History Seminar of
the Western Australian Genealogical Society,
Perth, 23 March 2002.
"Review of mental health legislation in WA."
Keynote address delivered at the handover of
review recommendation on mental health
legislation to the Minister for Health in WA, Perth,
12 December 2003.
"Nature, nurture and epidemiology." Closing
address delivered at the 12th Annual Scientific
Meeting of the Australasian Epidemiologic
Association, Perth, 23 September 2003.
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"Workshop on data linkage in epidemiologic
research." Workshop convened at the 12th Annual
Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Epidemiologic
Association, Perth, 23 September 2003.
"Leadership development in health promotion."
Graduating address and presentation of awards to
graduates of the Healthway Leadership in Health
Promotion Program, Perth, 16 May 2003.
"WA research tissue network." Official Address
delivered at the launch of the WA Research Tissue
Network, WA Institute for Medical Research, Perth,
17 April 2003.
"Leadership in health promotion. Demystifying
the potency for change." Keynote address
delivered at the LEAP Health Promotion
Conference of Western Australia, Perth, 3 April
2003.
"Navigating the daily risks of life." Public lecture
given as part of a UWA Extension lecture series
from the School of Population Health, Perth, 16
January 2004.
"Non-Experimental epidemiologic Research –
Its unique contribution compared to the RCT."
Invited plenary paper given at the Annual Scientific
Congress of the Royal Australian College of
Surgeons, Perth, 11 May 2005.
"Capitalising on WA’s population health
databases: Community benefits of data
linkage." Invited address at the Medical and
Dental Faculty 50/60th Anniversary Symposium,
The University of Western Australia, Perth, 3
November 2006.
"Healthway: The next fifteen years." Invited
address given at the 15th Anniversary Awards of the
Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation,
Perth, 31 August 2006.
"Adverse drugs reactions in older women:
Western Australian data linkage research."
Inaugural Lecture a Permanent Guest Professor,
Zhejiang University Medical School, Hangzhou,
People’s Republic of China, 19 April 2006.
"Prevention in the 21st century: requiem, replay
or renaissance?" Invited plenary presentation,
Public Health Association of Australia (WA Branch)
State Conference, Public health in the 21 st Century:
People, places and Priorities, 1 November 2007.
"Capitalising on WA’s population health
databases: Community benefits of data
linkage." Invited plenary presentation, Workshop
on Record Linkage: Past, Present and Future,
National health Services Scotland, Edinburgh, 2
August 2007.
"Epidemiology and progress in early detection
and treatment of breast cancer in Australia."
Invited lecture at the China Medical University
School of Medicine, Shenyang, People’s Republic
of China, 29 July 2007.
"Funding and application process." Seminar
given at a consumer and community training
workshop for the UWA School of Population Health
and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research,
11 June 2007.
"Adverse events in Australian hospital and
community settings: how can linked data
improve our understanding." Invited address at
the Policy Forum to mark the Launch of the
Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health
(ACERH), Canberra, 23 February 2007.
"Purpose of the meeting." Opening address to
the inaugural meeting of the International Health
Data Linkage Network, London, 4 December 2008.
"Introduction to the linkage of clinical
databases to evaluate health care." Invited
clinician leadership in research workshop,
Singapore National Healthcare Group, Singapore,
17 September 2008.
"Development and uses of health data linkage
systems in Western Australia." Invited plenary
address, Third Singapore Public Health and
Occupation medicine Conference, Academy of
Medicine, Singapore, 16 September 2008.
"Clinical research methods." Invited two-day
course, Zhejiang University Medical School
Women’s Hospital, Hangzhou, 26-27 April 2008.
"Writing for publication." Invited workshop
presentation, Cancer Council of Western Australia
and The university of Western Australia, Perth, 20
March 2008.
"Developing a score-card to measure and
evaluate participation in research
organisations." Invited plenary debate
presentation, National symposium on Consumer
and Community Participation in Health and Medical
Research, Perth, 6 March 2008.
"Point for debate: should health data integration
for research develop separately from integration
for patient care?" Invited keynote address,
Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research
Conference, Scottish Health Informatics
Programme, St Andrews, Scotland, 18 September
2009.
"Towards Zero." Invited opening address to the
Australian College of Road Safety National
Conference, Perth, 5 November 2009.
"Case-control design: implications for green tea
studies." Invited grand round presentation, 1st
Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University,
Shenyang, People’s Republic of China, 3 April
2009.
"Case-control design: implications for green tea
studies." Invited grand round presentation, 2nd
Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
People’s Republic of China, 31 March 2009.
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"Myth-busters: the contributions of Miettinen
and Rothman to the discipline of modern
epidemiology." Invited seminar, School of
Population Health, The University of Western
Australia, 3 February 2009.
"Research funding and application process."
delivered on two occasions during 2012 in Perth to
audiences of recruited health consumer panel
members.
"Workshop: ground-breakers and myth-busters
in the evolution of epidemiologic thought."
Invited workshop, School of Population Health, The
University of Western Australia, 3 February 2009.
PRESENTATIONS 1980 to 1993
"Data linkage: summary and next steps." Invited
closing address, Dialogue on Data Linkage –
Health, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies,
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Population Health
Research Network and Science Network WA,
Perth, 14 July 2010.
"Anonymity and medical research: do persons
have legal interests in anonymised health
information or biospecimens?" School of
Population Health, The University of Western
Australia, 6 July 2010.
"Mr Ennie Citizen (a mental health patient) and
the researcher." Presented paper, Australian
Association of Bioethics and Health Law
Conference, Adelaide, 2 July 2010.
"Road Safety in WA." Invited opening address at
the Insurance Commission of Western Australia
Road Safety Forum and Awards, Perth, 6
September 2010.
"Road Safety in WA." Invited welcoming address
and invited closing address, The Australasian Road
Safety Research policing and Education
Conference, Perth, 7 November 2011.
"Performing case-control studies in China:
should we use hospital or community
controls?"
在中国做病例对照研究：
我们应该用医院对照还是社区对照？ Seminar
presented in English and Mandarin on three
occasions in China: (i) Zhejiang Cancer Hospital
grand round, Hanzhou, 17 March 2011; (ii) School
of Public Health seminar series, Zhejiang
University, Hanzhou, 18 March 2011; and (iii)
Renmin Hospital grand round, Wuhan, 19 March
2011.
"Legal aspects of data ownership and privacy."
Invited plenary address, 2012 International Data
Linkage Conference, Perth, 3 May 2012. This was
followed by the delivery of a five-day short course
at The University of Western Australia, Advanced
Analysis of Linked Health Data, featured as a
training workshop in association with the
conference.
"Opportunities for record linkage today and
tomorrow – but will the obstacles prevail?"
Invited keynote address, Scottish Health
Informatics Program Annual Retreat, Dunblane,
Scotland, 31 May 2012.
"Anonymity and research: data linkage and the
law." Invited public lecture, Statistical Society of
Australia in association with SA-NT Data Link and
Flinders University, Adelaide, 12 July 2012.
"The epidemiology of malignant melanoma in
Western Australia." First presentation made to a
professional scientific audience (as a 6th year medical
student) at a University Department of Medicine
Workshop conducted in association with a visit by Sir
Richard Doll, October 1978.
"The epidemiology of malignant melanoma in
Western Australia." Joint Meeting of the Association
of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and the Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons, 7 February 1979.
"An analysis of trends in mortality from malignant
melanoma of the skin in Australia." Fourth
International Symposium on the prevention and
Detection of Cancer, 29 July 1980.
"Trends in mortality from prostate cancer in the
male populations of Australia and England and
Wales." Annual Scientific meeting of the Clinical
Oncological Society of Australia, 27 November 1980.
"Modern perspectives in epidemiologic
measurement." Dental Health Professional Session
including Community Medical Officers Inservice
Seminar, 2 March 1984 (invited presentation).
"Controversies in epidemiologic measurement."
NHMRC Research Unit Seminar, 6 March 1984
(invited presentation).
"Further controversies in epidemiologic
measurement." NHMRC Research Unit Seminar, 12
June 1984 (invited presentation).
"The West Australian Lions Melanoma Research
Project." International Workshop on the Epidemiology
of Malignant Melanoma, Cancer Control Agency of
British Columbia, 25 August 1984 (invited
presentation).
"Epidemiology of carcinoma of the cervix." Swan
Districts Hospital Postgraduate Medical Education
Seminar, 5 September 1984 (invited presentation).
"Defining the health status of the population."
Health Education Officers Inservice Seminar, 28
September 1984 (invited presentation).
"Epidemiology of AIDS." ANZSERCH/APHA
Professional Seminar, 16 October 1984.
"Five fallacies of epidemiologic research." Feature
presentation, ANZSERCH/APHA Annual General
Meeting, 26 November 1984 (invited presentation).
"Health and illness in Western Australia: priorities
for health promotion." Health Department
Professional Seminar, 19 March 1985.
"New approach to the study of occupation-related
diseases in routine health data." NHMRC Research
Unit Seminar, 7 May 1985 (invited presentation).
"The epidemiology of AIDS." Churchlands College
Inservice Seminar for Local Education District, 14 June
1985 (invited presentation).
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"Epidemiology of health and illness in Western
Australia." Community Nurses Inservice Seminar, 12
August 1985 (invited presentation).
"Determinants of chronic bronchitis." Mining
Industry Conference, 15 October 1987 (invited
presentation).
“The epidemiology of STDs in Western Australia."
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Venereal Disease
Society of Australia, 17 August 1985 (invited
presentation).
"Epidemiology of AIDS." Fremantle Hospital
Postgraduate Education Conference, 16 October 1987
(invited presentation).
"Mortality and morbidity data." Community Nurses
Inservice Seminar, 18 October 1985 (invited
presentation).
"Hepatitis B in Aboriginal Australians." Community
Nurses Inservice Seminar, 19 October 1985 (invited
presentation).
“AIDS: future directions." Health Education Field
Officers Inservice Seminar, 5 September 1986 (invited
presentation).
"Epidemiology of hepatitis B in Western Australia."
Infectious Disease Society of Australia Conference, 18
September 1986.
"Chronic bronchitis and underground gold
mining." Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian
and New Zealand Society for Occupational Medicine,
24 September 1986 (invited presentation).
"Heptachlor: effects on human health." Public
Health Association Seminar, 1988.
"A Plan for Health." Numerous presentations to
professional groups in 1989.
"The quantification of drug caused morbidity and
mortality in Australia." Seventh World Conference
on Tobacco and Health, 5 April 1990 (invited
presentation).
"Health planning in Western Australia implications for genetic services." Opening address
at the 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Human
Genetics Society of Australia, 4 July 1990 (invited
presentation).
"The determinants of chronic bronchitis and
respiratory dysfunction in Kalgoorlie mining
industry employees." NHMRC Research Unit
Seminar, 29 October 1986 (invited presentation).
"Report of the Special Consultant on Community
and Child Health Services." Numerous presentation
to professional groups in 1991, including Princess
Margaret Hospital Postgraduate Seminar, 5 April 1991;
Public Health Association Seminar, 24 April 1991;
North Metropolitan Health Region, 1 May 1991; South
Metropolitan Health Region, 3 May 1991; South West
Health Region, 2 May 1991; and Mid-West and
Gascoyne Health Region, 5 June 1991.
"The epidemiology of RSIDS." Annual Scientific
Meeting of the Australian Medical Society for Alcohol
and Drugs. 11 December 1986 (invited presentation).
"Recent trends in male lung cancer." Presentation
to mark the Launch of the 1991 Quit Campaign, 25
June 1991 (invited presentation).
"Epidemiology in a state government health
department." Annual General Meeting of the
Australian Epidemiological Association, 27 February
1987 (invited presentation).
"Public health - a personal perspective."
Community Medical Officers Inservice Seminar, 16
July 1991 (invited presentation).
"Epidemiology of AIDS." Community Nurses
Inservice Seminar, 4 March 1987 (invited
presentation).
"The political arithmetic of public health." Address
to mark the Launch of the Second Edition of Our State
of Health, 9 August 1991.
"The epidemiology of RSIDS." King Edward
Memorial Hospital Postgraduate Education Seminar,
13 March 1987 (invited presentation).
"What's new in public health?" Keynote address at
the Launch of the Public Health Unit in the Mid-West
and Gascoyne Health Region, 14 December 1992
(invited presentation).
"Occurrence and distribution of hepatitis B
infection in the Aboriginal population of Western
Australia." NHMRC Research Unit Seminar, 7 April
1987 (invited presentation).
"Public health and health promotion - what now?"
Opening address delivered at the Public Health
Association Workshop of the same title, 15 October
1992.
"The epidemiology of surgical procedures in
Western Australia." General Scientific Meeting of the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Faculty of
Anaesthetists, 18 May 1987 (invited presentation).
"Health inequalities." An address to mark the
Launch of the Social Health Atlas in Western Australia,
29 July 1992 (invited presentation).
"Matching in epidemiologic research." NHMRC
Research Unit Seminar, 28 July 1987 (invited
presentation).
"Predicting the future in health care - can
epidemiology help?" South Perth Clinical Centre
Postgraduate Education Seminar, 17 September 1987
(invited presentation).
"Predicting the future in health care - can
epidemiology help?" Royal Australian College of
Medical Administrators Seminar, 25 September 1987
(invited presentation).
"Future schools." Swanbourne Education District
Conference, 15 June 1992 (invited presentation).
"New directions in cancer registration in Western
Australia." Western Australian Anatomical
Pathologists Meeting, 8 June 1992 (invited
presentation).
"Total public health: perspectives on five 'new'
public health movements." Public lecture to mark
the commencement of the Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, 5 June 1992.
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"An overview of the health promotion development
and evaluation program." Regional Health Education
Officers Inservice Seminar, 20 May 1992 (invited
presentation).
"Will a non-smoking society be happy and
healthy?" University Department of Public Health
Seminar, 14 April 1992.
"North Metropolitan health needs analysis." A
series of presentations to managers and health
professionals of the North Metropolitan Health Region,
19 November 1993 to 22 November 1993.
"Report of an inquiry into the Public Health
Committee of NHMRC." Presentation delivered to
NHMRC executives and members of the Binenstock
Review, 9 November 1993.
"Evaluating health promotion - a framework for
accountability." A series of professional seminars by
the Health Promotion Development and Evaluation
Program, 11 June 1993 to 28 July 1993.
"Defending the quantification of drug caused
morbidity and mortality in Australia." University
Department of Public Health Seminar, 8 July 1993.
"Who needs needs analysis?" Address to the
Australian College of Health Services Executives, 1
July 1993 (invited presentation).
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APPENDIX D: RESEARCH SUPERVISION
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1994 to 2014
POST-DOCTORAL AND
PROFESSIONAL FELLOWS
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisor, Dr Jane
Barratt, Churchill Fellow (The Winston Churchill
Memorial Trust of Australia), Support programs for
carers of people with disabilities and the frail aged.
UWA Department of Public Health, 1997-1999.
Visiting Research Fellowship Supervisor, Mr Neil
Donnelly, Visiting Research Fellow, Populationbased outcomes of appendectomy in Western
Australia. UWA Department of Public Health, 1999.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisor, Dr Fiona
Bull, National Heart Foundation Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow (acting at the request of Assoc
Prof Konrad Jamrozik while on study leave). UWA
Department of Public Health, 1999. Dr Bull has
since achieved professorial rank.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisor, Dr Margaret
Stevens, NHMRC Australian Part-time Research
Fellow, Preventable hospital admission:
contributing factors and potential solutions. UWA
Department of Public Health, 2000-2001.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisor, Dr Jane
Young, NHMRC Public Health Fellow, Promoting
evidenced-based surgical practice. UWA
Department of Public Health, 2000-2002. Dr Young
has since achieved professorial rank.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisor, Dr James
Semmes, NHMRC Public Health Research
Capacity Building Grant Research Fellow, Better
health outcomes through new research methods
and population data. UWA School of Population
Health, 2002-2006. Dr Semmens has since
achieved professorial rank.
International Internship Supervisor, Ms Ingrid
Borgmeier, Dietze Foundation Scholar, Health
Science Program, University of Applied Science,
Hamburg, 2003.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisor, Dr Min
Zhang, NHMRC Public Health (Australia) Fellow,
Diet, tea consumption, physical activity and breast
cancer risk. UWA School of Population Health,
2004-2007. Dr Zhang was the recipient of Best
Poster Award of the Australasian Epidemiological
Association in 2006, the Jan Watt Prize for
Excellence in Public Health Fieldwork Research in
2007, and an Australian Government Endeavour
Research Fellowship in 2009.
National Institute of Clinical Studies Fellow Mentor,
Dr Charles Inderjeeth, NICS - Department of
Veterans’ Affairs Fellow, A multimodal intervention
to improve fragility fracture management in patients
presenting to emergency departments. UWA
School of Population Health, 2007. Dr Inderjeeth
has since achieved professorial rank.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Co-Supervisor, Dr Adeleh
Shirangi, NHMRC Sidney Sax Overseas Public
Health Fellow, A multi-ethnic longitudinal birth
cohort study of the determinants of fetal
development and birth weight. UK Bradford
Infirmary and Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research, 2007-2010.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Co-Supervisor, Dr
Kristjana Einarsdottir, NHMRC Public Health
(Australia) Fellow, Pregnancy Outcomes and
Antenatal Care in WA 1988-2008. UWA School of
Population Health and Telethon Institute for Child
Health Research, 2010-2011.
DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Dr Billie Corti, The
relative influence of, and interaction between,
environmental and individual determinants of
recreational physical activity in sedentary workers
and homemakers. UWA Department of Public
Health, PhD awarded with distinction in 1998. Dr
Corti has since achieved professorial rank.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Margaret Stevens, The
Falls Project. A randomised controlled trial to
evaluate an intervention to prevent falls in the well
elderly. UWA Department of Public Health, PhD
awarded in 1998. Dr Stevens was awarded a
NHMRC Australian Part-time Research Fellowship
in 2000.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr David Lawrence,
Preventable physical illness in people with mental
health problems. UWA Department of Public
Health and Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioural Science, PhD awarded in 2001. Dr
Lawrence won the Achievement Award for Mental
Health Services Research from the WA Association
for Mental Health in 2000; and the Public Health
Association of Australia (WA Branch) Student
Award in 2001. Dr Lawrence has since achieved
professorial rank.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Kate Brameld, Methods
for the use of linked administrative health data in
disease surveillance and measurement of patterns
of care. UWA Department of Public Health, PhD
awarded without need for revision in 2001. Dr
Brameld was awarded a NHMRC Sidney Sax
Overseas Public Health Fellowship in 2000.
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PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Peter Harvey,
Coordinated care and change leadership: inside the
change process, SA Health Plus, South Australian
Eyre Region. UWA Department of Public Health,
PhD awarded as an external student in 2001.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Jilda Hyndman, Spatial
analysis of access to primary health care with
respect to social disadvantage. UWA Department
of Public Health, PhD awarded without need for
revision in 2002. Dr Hyndman won the Public
Health Association of Australia (WA Branch)
Student Award in 2002.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Judith Finn, Prognostic
determinants of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in
Perth, Western Australia: identification of strategies
to improve outcome. UWA School of Population
Health, PhD awarded in 2002. Dr Finn has since
achieved professorial rank.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Lorna Rosenwax,
Impact of psychosocial work factors on
occupational low back pain: a prospective
longitudinal study. UWA School of Population
Health, PhD awarded in 2002. Dr Rosenwax won
the Jan Watt Prize for Excellence in Public Health
Field Research in 2000. Dr Rosenwax has since
achieved professorial rank.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Janine Calver,
Developing a method of classifying and predicting
home care resource use by frail aged and adult
disabled people in Western Australia. UWA School
of Population Health, PhD awarded in 2003. Dr
Calver was the recipient of a NHMRC Public Health
Scholarship during 2001-2003.
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Dr Julie Owen,
Development of a culturally sensitive program
delivering cardiovascular health education to
Indigenous Australians in South-West towns of
Western Australia with lay educators as community
role models. UWA School of Population Health,
PhD awarded in 2006. Dr Owen was the recipient
of a NHMRC Aboriginal Health Scholarship during
2002-2004. She was the first Indigenous Australian
to be awarded the PhD in population health from
UWA.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Margherita Veroni, The
utilisation of pharmacotherapies in the secondary
prevention of coronary heart disease. UWA School
of Population Health and School of Medicine and
Pharmacology, PhD awarded in 2006. Dr Veroni
was the recipient of a Quality Use of Medicines
Postgraduate Scholarship of the Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care during 20002002.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Adeleh Shirangi,
Occupational hazards in veterinary practice and
possible effects on reproductive outcomes in
female veterinarians. UWA School of Population
Health, PhD awarded in 2006. Ms Shirangi was the
recipient of a Student Bursary of the Australasian
Epidemiological Association in 2006, and a Sidney
Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2007.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Max Bulsara,
Epidemiology of severe hypoglycaemia in children
and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. UWA
School of Population Health, PhD awarded with
distinction in 2008. Dr Bulsara has since achieved
professorial rank.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Elizabeth Geelhoed,
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease –
characteristics and outcome determinants for
burden of disease, as derived from a hospital
cohort. UWA School of Population Health and
School of Medicine and Pharmacology, PhD
awarded in 2004. Dr Geelhoed has since achieved
professorial rank.
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Dr Catherine
O’Driscoll, A study to determine the quality of life
and experiences for liver and kidney transplant
recipients and living donors in Western Australia:
the economic implications. UWA School of Surgery
and Pathology and School of Population Health,
PhD awarded in 2008.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Amy Wiltshire, Mental
health and hospital morbidity outcomes in women
receiving assisted reproduction technology services
in Western Australia. UWA School of Population
Health, PhD enrolled in 2004. Ms Wiltshire was the
recipient of a NHMRC Public Health Research
Scholarship during 2004.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Qun Mai, The use,
quality and outcomes of primary health services in
Western Australian mental health clients: a
population-based longitudinal study. UWA School
of Population Health, PhD awarded in 2011. Dr
Qun Mai was the recipient of a University
Postgraduate Award during 2005-2007 and won a
Student Researcher Award of the Australasian
Epidemiological Association in 2006.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Sonj Hall, Inequalities
in health care and outcomes for people with cancer:
a Western Australian linked database study. UWA
School of Population Health, PhD awarded in 2005.
Dr Hall was the recipient of a NHMRC Public Health
Scholarship during 2002-2004. She was
subsequently awarded an international Harkness
Fellowship in 2005.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Rachael Moorin, A
longitudinal study of inpatient classification in
Western Australia using linked hospital morbidity
data. UWA School of Population Health, PhD
awarded in 2005.
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Mr David Gibson,
Evaluation of enhanced primary care item numbers
in the Australian Medical Benefits Schedule. UWA
School of Population Health, PhD enrolled in 20072011.
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Ms Fatima Haggar,
Adolescent and young adult cancer incidence,
survival and patterns of care in Ontario. UWA
School of Population Health, PhD enrolled in 20072012.
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PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Ms Jean Mangharam,
An epidemiological approach to investigate
occupational slips, trips and falls in Western
Australia. UWA School of Population Health, PhD
enrolled in 2008-2012.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Lin Li, Variations in
sociodemographic features, exposure
characteristics and genetic polymorphisms between
community and hospital controls: a validation study
of control selection in case-control designs. UWA
School of Population Health, PhD awarded in 2013.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Louise Stewart,
Selected health outcomes in women following in
vitro fertilization and related procedures in Western
Australia. UWA School of Population Health, PhD
thesis submitted in 2013. Ms Stewart was the
recipient of a Part-time Australian Postgraduate
Award 2006-2008; and the winner of a UWA Higher
Degree by Research Achievement Award for her
journal article in Fertility & Sterility 2012; 98(2):
334-340, which was judged as the best publication
of the year by a graduate research student in the
Clinical Medicine & Dentistry discipline.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Sylvie Price,
Unplanned hospitalisations and exposure to highrisk and potentially inappropriate medications in
elderly Western Australians: a cross-jurisdictional
data linkage approach. UWA School of Population
Health, PhD thesis to be submitted in 2014.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Fiona Hunt,
Occurrence, aetiology and outcomes of surgically
managed pelvic organ prolapse in Western
Australian women 1980-2005. UWA School of
Population Health, PhD enrolled since 2005. Ms
Hunt was the recipient of an Australian
Postgraduate Award 2006-2008.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Silvana Sgro,
Australia’s health workforce reform: are we there
yet …? UWA School of Population Health, PhD
enrolled since 2005. Ms Scro was the recipient of
an Australian Postgraduate Award during 20062008.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Denise Sullivan,
Getting to know you: attitudes and values of
generation Y public health graduates, and
implications for transition to work. UWA School of
Population Health, PhD enrolled since 2006.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Richard Riley, A study
of risk factors that influence 30-day mortality
following elective surgery in Western Australian
teaching hospitals; with special emphasis on the
patient classification system devised by the
American Society of Anesthesiologists. UWA
School of Population Health and School of Surgery,
PhD enrolled since 2006.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Manonita Ghosh,
Cultural influences on the treatment of attention
deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) in the
Western Australian community. UWA School of
Population Health, PhD enrolled since 2007. Ms
Ghosh was the recipient of an Australian
Postgraduate Award during 2007-2011.
Thesis Co-Supervisor, Ms Khadra Jama Alol,
Trends in surgical sterilisation, reversal procedures
and related health outcomes in Western Australian
women from 1980 to 2008: a whole-population
medical record linkage study. UWA School of
Population Health, PhD enrolled since 2009.
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor, Ms Julia Logan, A
framework of the determinants of success or failure
in the implementation and continued use of clinical
information systems in primary, secondary and
tertiary health care facilities. UWA School of
Population Health, PhD enrolled since 2010.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Ms Liu Ping, Green tea
and dietary factors in the aetiology of adult
leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. UWA
School of Population Health, PhD enrolled since
2011. Ms Liu was the recipient of an International
Postgraduate Research Scholarship during 20122014.
MASTERS THESIS AND
DISSERTATION CANDIDATES
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Wendy Oddy,
The distributive participation in events sponsored
by the Western Australian Health Promotion
Foundation. UWA Department of Public Health,
MPH (24 point dissertation) awarded in 1994. Dr
Oddy has since achieved a doctorate and
professorial rank.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Dr Vivienne Dawes,
Poisoning in Western Australia: overview, and the
investigation of therapeutic poisoning in the elderly.
UWA Department of Public Health, MPH (24 point
dissertation) awarded in 1994.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Delys
McGuiness, Government funding of health
promotion, the arts and sport in Western Australia:
the impact of the Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation. UWA Department of Public
Health, MPH (12 point dissertation) awarded in
1994.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Dr Douglas Cordell,
The career structure of Aboriginal health workers
within the Health Department of Western Australia a policy analysis and critique. UWA Department of
Public Health, MPH (12 point dissertation) awarded
in 1995.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Dr Christine
Jeffries, Goolleelar Ngoodah! A qualitative study of
the attitudes of the Aboriginal people of the Eastern
Goldfields of Western Australia to the health
services offered to them and comparison with the
perceptions of the medical staff providing those
services. UWA Department of Public Health, MPH
(24 point dissertation) awarded in 1996.
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MPH Dissertation Co-Supervisor, Ms Melissa
Broomhall, Study of the availability and
environmental quality of urban space used for
physical activity. UWA Department of Public
Health, MPH (12 point dissertation) awarded in
1997.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Mr Maurice
Swanson, Generic packaging of cigarettes. UWA
Department of Public Health, MPH (24 point
dissertation) awarded in 1998.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Tanyana
Jackiewicz, Prevention in general practice – ideal
or ‘idealistic’: the design of a randomised controlled
trial to determine the most effective and most
efficient funding system for prevention in general
practice. UWA Department of Public Health, MPH
(12 point dissertation) awarded in 1998.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Mr Phillip Davis,
Outcomes in a cohort of psychogeriatric referrals at
3 years: an analysis of morbidity and mortality.
UWA Department of Public Health, MPH (12 point
dissertation) awarded in 1998.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Dr Duane
Pennebaker, The use of comparative standards in
consumer evaluation of mental health service
attributes. UWA School of Population Health, MPH
(12 point dissertation) awarded in 2002.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Janis Harse,
Adjustment for comorbidity with health-related
quality of life outcomes: is there a better method
than Charlson’s index. UWA School of Population
Health, MPH (12 point dissertation) awarded with
distinction in 2003.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Caroline Giele,
The epidemiology of HIV infection on Aboriginal
and Non-Aboriginal Western Australians, 19832002. UWA School of Population Health, MPH (24
point dissertation) awarded in 2004.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Mr Gino Marinucci,
Critique of the Review of the Operation of Part IXB
of the Health Act 1911 (WA) and the Health
(Smoking in Enclosed Public Places) Regulations
1999 (WA). UWA School of Population Health,
MPH (12 point dissertation) awarded in 2005.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Emma Brook,
The Western Australian Data Linkage Unit
Research Outputs Project 1995-2003. UWA
School of Population Health, MPH (12 point
dissertation) awarded with distinction in 2005.
MPH Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Maria CuestaBriand, Comparison of administrator, community,
consumer and research-nominated rankings of the
value of population health research domains. UWA
School of Population Health, MPH (12 point
dissertation) awarded in 2006.
MMedSc Thesis Supervisor, Ms Elizabeth Lord, A
randomised controlled equivalence trial comparing
tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) with suprapublic
urethral support sling (SPARC). UWA School of
Population Health, MMedSc by thesis awarded in
2007.
MPH Dissertation Co-Supervisor, Ms Joanne
Thompson, The Diagnosis of Pulmonary
Embolism. UWA School of Population Health, MPH
(12 point dissertation) commenced in 2005-2007.
MPH Thesis Co-Supervisor, Dr Nita Sodhi, Mental
Health outcomes and health service utilisation in a
cohort of adult criminal offenders: a Western
Australian, wholepopulation, linked data study.
UWA School of Population Health, MPH by thesis
enrolled in 2008.
MPH Thesis Supervisor, Dr Lana Bell, The medical
complications of childhood obesity. UWA School of
Population Health, MPH by thesis awarded in 2008.
MPH Thesis Supervisor, Dr David Preen, Health
services research using linked data on diabetes
mellitus. UWA School of Population Health, MPH
by thesis enrolled in 2003-2010.
MPH Thesis Supervisor, Dr Sunil Bhat, Validation
of Jarman’s Method of Calculation of Hospital
Standardised Mortality Ratios. UWA School of
Population Health, MPH by thesis awarded in 2011.
HONOURS AND MEDICINE
CANDIDATES AND ABORIGINAL
RESEARCH AWARDEES
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Curran GM, Hanemaaijer IC, Malone
BB, Rural surgical services needs analysis. UWA
Department of Public Health, awarded the prize for
best project in 1995.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Kwek L, Ngeow P, Is screening for
cystic fibrosis worthwhile?. UWA Department of
Public Health, 1995.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Chan I, Nguyen SN, The therapeutic
efficacy of alpha interferon in the treatment of
chronic hepatitis C: a meta-analysis of recent
randomised controlled trials. UWA Department of
Public Health, 1995.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Corrigan B, Ward D, Whittaker K,
Haak S, Follow-up study of attempted suicide in
Western Australia. UWA Department of Public
Health, 1996.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Rennie D, Gupta A, Diagnostic
practices in attention deficit and hyperactivity
disorder. UWA Department of Public Health, 1996.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Steed S, Collins N, Diabetic
complications in non-insulin dependent diabetes
mellitus patients. UWA Department of Public
Health, 1996.
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Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Razak S, Dhillon PS, Imani P, A
retrospective case review of prognostic factors for
hepatic resection of colorectal metastases. UWA
Department of Public Health, 1997.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Johnson G, Speechly C, Evaluating
the careers and research activities of graduates of
The University of Western Australia medical school
who have undertaken a Bachelor of Medical
Science Degree. UWA Department of Public
Health, 1997.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, Balaratnasingam S, Surgery without
blood transfusion. UWA Department of Public
Health, 1997.
Social & Preventive Medicine Research Project
Supervisor, O’Loughlin, Pavey W, Nguyen M,
Cheng K, Evidence-based medicine and
information technology. UWA Department of Public
Health, 1997.
BHlthSc(Hons) Dissertation Supervisor, Ms
Charlene Singh, Social justice and cancer control:
an evaluation of distributive utilisation of cancer
support services provided by the Cancer Council of
WA. UWA School of Population Health,
BHlthSc(Hons) awarded in 2007.
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1980 to 1993
MAppSc Thesis Supervisor, Mr Brian Wall, A study of
persons notified as drug addicts in the State of
Western Australia during 1980-1985. Curtin University
of Technology, MAppSc awarded in 1989.
PhD Thesis Supervisor, Dr Sandra Webb, In vitro
fertilisation and related procedures in Western
Australia 1983-1987. A demographic, clinical and
economic evaluation of participants and procedures.
University of Cambridge, PhD awarded in 1990.
Aboriginal Health Research Award Co-Supervisor,
Ms Julie Owen, Information dissemination on
cardiovascular disease for Aboriginal people. UWA
Department of Public Health, awarded in 1999.
Aboriginal Health Research Award Co-Supervisor,
Mr Michael Wright, Multidisciplinary program
evaluation of the Derbarl Yerrigan Mental Health
Support Service. UWA Department of Public
Health, awarded in 1999.
BHlthSc(Hons) Dissertation Supervisor, Ms
Christel Burgess, Trends in therapeutic poisoning
in elderly West Australians 1980-2002. UWA
School of Population Health, BHlthSc(Hons)
awarded in 2003.
BHlthSc(Hons) Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Brooke
Trutwein, Impact of population-based data linkage
in Western Australia on the protection of privacy on
health research. UWA School of Population
Health, BHlthSc(Hons) awarded in 2004.
BHlthSc(Hons) Dissertation Supervisor, Mr
Cameron Lynch, Evaluation of the compression of
morbidity hypothesis in Western Australia. UWA
School of Population Health, BHlthSc(Hons) with
first class honours awarded in 2005.
BHlthSc(Hons) Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Fiona
Smith, Utilisation of surgery for obesity in Western
Australia 1988-2004. UWA School of Population
Health, BHlthSc(Hons) with first class honours
awarded in 2005.
BHlthSc(Hons) Dissertation Supervisor, Ms Boshra
Yazahmeidi, A survey of population health
academics’ experiences of suppression of public
good health information. UWA School of
Population Health, BHlthSc(Hons) awarded in
2006.
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APPENDIX E: TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS
TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS
1994 to 2014
Co-Presenter and Facilitator, Principles of an
Evidence-Based Approach to Population Health
(4 sessions during a two day continuing education
workshop), Central Sydney Area Health Service,
Sydney, 2000.
Unit Co-Designer and Co-ordinator, Health Policy
and Planning II (9 lectures), MPH Degree
Program, UWA, 1991-1994.
Unit Designer and Co-ordinator, [Introductory]
Analysis of Linked Health Data, Principles and
Hands-On Applications (5 extended theory
classes, 5 training sessions and 5 interactive
computing clinics using fictitious training data),
MPH Degree Program, UWA 2001-2013. Designed
as a new unit and presented as a five-day
international short-course at the TVW Telethon
Institute for Child Health Research in 2001; as part
of the UWA Public Health Summer School from
2002; in Canberra 2001 and 2003 by invitation of
the National Centre for Epidemiology and
Population Health; in Sydney 2001 by invitation of
the National Prescribing Service; in Perth 2002 as a
five-day short course as part of the UWA
Population Health; in Adelaide 2004 by invitation of
The University of Adelaide; in Sydney 2005 and
2007 by invitation of The University of Sydney; in
Wellington 2009 by invitation of the University of
Auckland, University of Otago and Victoria
University; in St Andrews 2009 and 2011 by
invitation of St Andrews University; and in Swansea
2010, 2012 and 2014 by invitation of Swansea
University. From 2013 the unit co-ordination was
taken over by Professor David Preen.
Unit Co-Designer and Co-ordinator, Health Policy
and Planning I (6 lectures), MPH Degree Program,
UWA, 1992-1995.
Unit Co-ordinator, Epidemiology (12 lectures),
Second Year Medicine, UWA, 1985-1988 and
1995.
Guest Lecturer, Health Planning and Evaluation
582 (lecture on Health needs analysis), Curtin
University of Technology, 1994.
Unit Co-Designer and Co-ordinator, Foundations
of Public Health (11 lectures and 4 interactive
sessions), MPH Degree Program, UWA and Curtin
University of Technology, 1996-2002. Designed
and presented as a new inter-institutional core unit
in 1996. In 1999, it included a trial of on-line webassisted delivery systems. In 2002; it introduced
new sections on public health and the human
genome.
Guest Lecturer, Medical Biomorphology (lecture on
the Ecology of public health), First Year Medicine,
UWA, 1996.
Unit Co-Designer and Co-ordinator, Scientific
Basis of Health Care (10 lectures and 6 interactive
sessions), Grad Dip Clinical Epidemiology Program,
UWA, 1999. Designed and presented as a new
core unit in 1999 and offered in short-course format
as part of the UWA Public Health Summer School.
Unit Designer and Co-ordinator, Leadership in
Public Health, (10 lectures and 8 interactive
sessions), MPH Degree Program, UWA, 19972007. Designed and presented as a new unit in
1997. Offered in workshop and short-course format
from 1998, as part of the inaugural UWA Public
Health Summer School. Presented in Darwin 1999
by invitation of the Menzies School of Health
Research; in Brisbane 2000 and 2002 by invitation
of the Public Health Services, Queensland
Department of Health; in Cairns 2001 by invitation
of the Queensland Tropical Public Health Unit, in
Perth 2002 and 2004 by invitation of the WA
Department of Health; in Canberra 2002 by
invitation of the Commonwealth Department of
Health and Ageing; in Sydney 2002 by invitation of
the University of Sydney School of Population
Health and Health Services; and in Melbourne 2003
by invitation of the Victorian Health Promotion
Foundation. In 2005-2007, an Aboriginal
Leadership stream was added to the unit combined
with the offer of fees scholarships to attract
Aboriginal health professionals to participate in the
short-course.
Unit Co-Designer and Co-ordinator, Health
Administration (14 lectures and 7 tutorials),
BHlthSc Degree Program, UWA, core unit
developed and presented 2003-2009.
Unit Designer and Co-ordinator, Advanced
Analysis of Linked Health Data, Topics and
Technologies (5 extended theory classes, 5
training sessions and 5 interactive computing
clinics using fictitious training data), MPH Degree
Program, UWA 2006-2013. Designed as a new
unit and presented as a five-day international shortcourse as part of the UWA Public Health Summer
School from 2006; in Sydney 2007 and 2010 by
invitation of The University of Sydney; as part of the
UWA Singapore Public Health School in 2008; in
Wellington 2010 by invitation of the University of
Auckland, University of Otago and Victoria
University; in St Andrews 2010 and 2012 by
invitation of St Andrews University; and in Swansea
2011 and 2013 by invitation of Swansea University.
From 2013 the unit co-ordination was taken over by
Professor David Preen.
Lecturer, Managing in the Public Sector (half-day
session on Leadership and strategic visioning),
John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Western
Australia, 2007.
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Workshop Designer and Presenter, Clinical
Research Methods (two-day workshop), 2008.
Designed and presented as a new workshop in
English and Chinese in Hangzhou 2008 by
invitation of the Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang
University.
Unit Co-Designer and Co-ordinator, Leadership
and Management of Health Services (13
extended lecture sessions), MPH Degree Program,
UWA, 2008-2011. Designed and presented as a
new unit to replace Leadership in Public Health in
2008, with an increased emphasis on managerial
theory and addition of a health law component.
Workshop Designer and Presenter, Linkage of
Clinical and Administrative Databases to
Evaluate Health Care (half-day workshop), 20082011. Designed and presented as a new workshop
in Singapore 2008 by invitation of the National
Health care Group; in Wellington 2009 by invitation
of the University of Auckland, University of Otago
and Victoria University; and Leeds 2011 by
invitation of the Bradford Institute for Health
Research, University of Leeds.
Workshop Designer and Presenter,
Groundbreakers and Mythbuster of
Epidemiologic Thought (half-day workshop),
2009-2011. Designed and presented as a new
workshop at the UWA School of Population Health
in 2009; and in Perth 2011 by invitation of the
Australasian Epidemiological Association in
conjunction with their annual scientific meeting.
Workshop Designer and Presenter, Data and
Biospecimen Law for Epidemiologists (half-day
workshop), 2011. Designed and presented in Perth
2011 by invitation of the Australasian
Epidemiological Association in conjunction with
their annual scientific meeting.
Unit Co-Designer and Supporting Lecturer,
Epidemiology II (4 extended lecture sessions),
MPH Degree Program, The University of Western
Australia, section of new unit developed and
presented 2012-13.
Guest Lecturer, Leadership and Management of
Health Services (lecture on Legal issues in the
health system), MPH Degree Program, UWA,
2013.
TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS
1980 to 1993
Lecturer, Case-Control Studies (10 lectures) given
as part of a postgraduate course, Introduction to
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, offered by the
NHMRC Research Unit in Epidemiology and
Preventive Medicine, UWA Department of
Medicine, 1983.
Lecturer, IARC Western Pacific Regional Course
in Cancer Epidemiology (6 lectures and other
student interaction during a two week block),
International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Kuala Lumpur, 1986.
Guest Lecturer, Social and Preventive Medicine
(lectures on epidemiology and prevention of
infectious diseases, epidemiology and
prevention of cancer, and the scope of public
health), Third Year Medicine, The University of
Western Australia, 1986-1987 and 1993.
Convener, Epidemiology I, Epidemiology II,
Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases, and
Mathematical Foundations of Biostatistics Course
Planning Groups, Master of Public Health Degree
Program, The University of Western Australia,
1987.
Guest Lecturer, Course for Infectious Disease
Control Nurses (2 lectures on principles of
epidemiology for infectious disease control
nurses), Fremantle Hospital, 1987.
Lecturer, Epidemiology I (10 lectures) and
Epidemiology II (5 lectures), Master of Public
Health Degree Program, The University of Western
Australia, 1988.
Guest Lecturer, Epidemiology I (lectures on health
services evaluation using epidemiologic methods
and measures of public health impact), Master of
Public Health Degree Program, The University of
Western Australia, 1991 and 1997.
Guest Lecturer, Environmental Health I (lecture on
risk assessment), Master of Public Health Degree
Program, The University of Western Australia,
since 1991-1993.
Guest Lecturer, Spring Course in Maternal and
Child Health (lecture on the structural framework
for the delivery of health, education and welfare
services), Master of Public Health Degree
Program, The University of Western Australia,
1993.
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APPENDIX F: SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS
SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS
1994 to 2014
Panel Member, Quality Enhancement Visit Panel
to the National Centre for Epidemiology and
Population Health (under the auspices of the
Public Health Education and Research Program),
1998.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
Member, NHMRC Regional Grants Interviewing
Committee (Public Health), Sydney, 1998.
Chairman, National HIV Surveillance Committee,
1992-1994.
Member, Resource Group, Public Health
Education and Research Review, 1998-1999.
Board Director, Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, 1992-1998 (a contested position filled by
election conducted by the Public Health Association
of Australia; re-elected for a second term in 1995).
Member, NHMRC Working Party for the Review
of Responsible Drinking Guidelines, 1998-2000.
Consultant, World Health Organization on DrugRelated Harm, 1994.
Chair, NHMRC Discipline Panel for Health
Services Research, 1999.
Member, Review Panel for the National Centre
for Health Program Evaluation, 1994.
Consultant, Commonwealth Department of
Health and Aged Care on the review of the
National Health Priority Areas Initiative, 1999.
Chairman, Committee of Review for the National
Injury Surveillance Unit, 1994.
Visiting Professor, Menzies School of Health
Research on a professional development program
on Leadership in Public Health, 1999.
Member, Public Health Education Accreditation
Working Party, Department of Human Services
and Health, 1994.
Member and Executive Member, NHMRC National
Health Advisory Committee, 1994-1996 triennium.
Inaugural Chair, NHMRC Health Advancement
Standing Committee, 1994-1996 triennium,
including Chair, Health Australia Project
Executive, 1995-1996.
Member, Review of the Health Research Council
Public Health Research Committee of New
Zealand, 1995.
Member, World Health Organization Working
Group on Alcohol and Health, 1995.
Consultant, Public Health Division,
Commonwealth Department of Human Services
on the review of the Division, 1995.
Chair and Guest Editor, Editorial Advisory
Committee, Special Edition of the Australian
Journal of Public Health on Health Promotive
Environments, 1995-1997.
Chair, Regional Grants Interviewing Committee,
NHMRC Public Health Research and
Development Committee, Melbourne, 1996.
Chair, NHMRC Regional Grants Interviewing
Committee (Public Health), Sydney, 1997.
Consultant, Commonwealth Department of
Veterans’ Affairs on the application of sound
medical-scientific evidence in evaluation of
veterans’ health benefit entitlements, 1997.
Member, Expert Panel for the Revision of
Aetiologic Fractions for Diseases Associated
with Tobacco, Alcohol and Illicit Drugs and the
Estimation of the Burden of Disease
Attributable to these Risk Factors, Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare, 1999-2000.
Member, Public Health Education and Research
Program Advisory Committee, Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care, 1999-2000.
Convenor of the Research Task Group, 1999.
Member, PHAA Governance Review Team, Public
Health Association of Australia, 2000.
Chair, NHMRC Discipline Panel for
Epidemiology, 2000.
Consultant, Population Health Division, Central
Sydney Area Health Service, NSW Department
of Health on a continuing professional
development workshop on Principles of an
Evidence-Based Approach to Population Health,
2000.
Consultant, Public Health Service, Queensland
Department of Health on a professional
development program on Leadership in Public
Health, 2000.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the
Atomic Test Participants Cancer Incidence and
Mortality Study, Commonwealth Department of
Veterans’ Affairs, 2001-2006.
Member, NHMRC Career Development Awards
Ranking Panel, 2002.
Chair, NHMRC Discipline Panel for Public
Health, 2003.
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Chair, NHMRC Health Service Research
Workshop, April 2003.
Member, State Health Goals & Targets
Taskforce, 1993-1995.
Member, NHMRC Program Grants Committee,
2003-2005.
Member, Peak Advisory Panel STD Control,
Health Department of Western Australia, 19951996.
Chair, Cross-Jurisdictional Data Linkage
Steering Committee, Commonwealth Department
of Health and Aged Care and Western Australian
Department of Health, 2003-2007.
Member, Australian Screening Advisory
Committee, Commonwealth Department of Health
and Ageing, 2004.
Member, Editorial Board, Health Policy Reviews
Journal, 2004-2008.
Member, Aboriginal Health Program
Development Committee, Australian Medical
Association, 1995-1997.
Member and Interim Chair, Steering Committee
for the Prevention, Early Detection and
Treatment of Cancer in Western Australia,
Health Department of Western Australia, 19951998.
Member, NHMRC Research Committee, 20062009.
President and Member, General Council of the
Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, 19972003. Vice-President, 1998. President 1999-2003.
Chair of Selection Committee for the appointment
of the Chief Executive, 1999 & 2002.
Permanent Guest Professor, Zhejiang Medical
School, Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of
China, 2006-2014.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee,
Fremantle Hospital Medical Research
Foundation, 1998-2000.
Member, Editorial Board, Special Edition on
Health Workforce, Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Health Policy, 2007.
Chair, Management Committee, Data Linkage
Unit, Health Department of Western Australia,
1998-2007.
Chair, NHMRC Enabling Grant Committee, 20072008.
Facilitator, Healthway Strategic Planning Forum,
Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation,
1999.
Member, External Review of the Canadian
Institutes for Health Research, 2005-2006.
Member, NHMRC Policy and Practice Advisory
Committee, 2008-2009.
Member, International Health Data Linkage
Network, 2008-2014. Directorship host 20082010.
Member, International Advisory Board, Scottish
Health Informatics Programme, 2008-2014.
Member, Population Health Research Network
Management Council (responsible for the
implementation of Australia’s $67 million national
health data linkage system), 2009-2010.
Member, NHMRC Public Health Research
Register Working Party, 2009-2012.
Member, International Advisory Committee for
the Health Services Research Competitive
Research Grant in Singapore, 2009-2014.
Honorary Professor, College of Medicine,
Swansea University, Wales, 2011-2016.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Second
International Health Data Linkage Conference,
Vancouver, 2013-2014.
STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Member, Cancer Education Committee, Cancer
Foundation of Western Australia, 1991-1997.
Council Member, Australian Council on Smoking
and Health (Western Australia), 1992-2010.
Member, Scientific Peer Review Panel for the
Centre for Mental Health Services Research,
Western Australia, 1999-2000.
Board Member, Asthma & Allergy Research
Institute, 1999-2000.
Board Member, Western Australia Institute for
Medical Research, 1999-2000.
Member of Council, Australian Cancer
Society/Anti-Cancer Council of Australia, 19992003. Chair, Target 15 Expert Advisory Group,
2001-2003.
Consultant, Western Australian Health
Promotion Foundation on the development of the
Foundation’s Strategic Plans for 1999-2000 and
2000-2003.
Chair, Expert Medical Advisory Panel, Health +
Medicine, weekly eight-page supplement in The
West Australian Newspaper, and member of the
Health + Medicine Consortium Committee, 19992014.
Vice-President, Public Health Council of Western
Australia, 2000-2004.
Member, Scientific Subcommittee, Asthma &
Allergy Research Institute, 2000-2010.
Visiting Professor, TVW Telethon Institute for
Child Health Research, Western Australia, to
develop a plan for the design and implementation
of research infrastructure for human genome
epidemiology in Western Australia, 2001-2002.
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Consultant, Minister for Health and Health
Department of Western Australia on the
population health aspects of the Health
Administration Review 2001-02 and a series of
organisation development projects 2002.
Member, Population Health Advisory Council of
Western Australia, Western Australian
Department of Health, 2001-2005.
Chair, Management Committee, Centre for
Health Services Research, Department of Public
Health, The University of Western Australia, since
1995-97.
Chair, Roadwatch Advisory Committee,
Department of Public Health, The University of
Western Australia, 1995-1999.
Member, Hospital Advisory Committee, Hospital
Benefit Fund of Western Australia, 2001-2005.
Chair, Task Force for an Undergraduate Degree
Program in Health Science, The University of
Western Australia, 1998.
Chair, Wagerup Medical Practitioners’ Forum, an
intersectoral group dealing with health problems at
the Wagerup aluminium refinery by the Health
Department of Western Australia, 2001-2007.
Chair, Review of the Bachelor of Computer and
Mathematical Sciences, The University of
Western Australia, 1999.
Chair, Working Group for the Establishment of
the Health Standards and Surveillance Council –
‘Healthwatch’, Western Australian Department of
Health, 2002.
Chair, Health Standards and Surveillance
Council, Western Australian Department of Health,
2002-2003.
Chair, Ministerial Review of the Mental Health
Act 1996 and Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired
Defendants) Act 1996 in Western Australia,
2002-2004.
Director, Board of Directors, HBF Health Benefits
Fund Ltd (a not-for-profit community organisation
and Western Australia’s largest private health
insurer), 2002-2012.
Chair, Board of Directors, HealthGuard Health
Benefits Fund Ltd (a not-for-profit community
organisation and Australia’s 16th largest private
health insurer), 2005-2012.
Member, Western Australian Data Linkage
Advisory Board, 2007-2011.
Chair, Selection Panel, Australian Medical
Association (WA) and Healthway Healthier WA
Awards, 2008-2014.
Independent Chair, Road Safety Council of
Western Australia, 2009-2012, and Member, Road
Safety Chief Executive Officers Group, 2011-2012.
Chair, Advisory Board to the Public Health
Advocacy Institute of Western Australia, since
2009-2014.
Member, Alcohol Advertising Review Panel,
McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth,
2011-2014.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
Member, MPH Steering Committee, The
University of Western Australia, 1987-1988 and
1992-98.
Member, Promotions and Tenure Committee,
The University of Western Australia, 1994-1996.
Member, Academic Board. The University of
Western Australia, 1994-2014.
Chair, Review of the Department of Computer
Science, The University of Western Australia,
1999.
Member, Metropolitan Health Services Liaison
Committee, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, The
University of Western Australia, 1999-2000.
Member, Committee for a Graduate Medical
School in Western Australia, Faculty of Medicine
and Dentistry, The University of Western Australia
and Notre Dame University, 1999-2000.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the
Naltrexone Research Project, The University of
Western Australia, 1999-2000.
Chair, Program Committee for the Bachelor of
Health Science, The University of Western
Australia, 1999-2001.
Member, Program Committee for the Bachelor of
Health Science. The University of Western
Australia, 1999-2001, 2003-2005, 2008-2010.
Member, Project Team for Human Genome
Research, The University of Western Australia,
2000-2002.
Convenor, Multidisciplinary Consortium for
Professional and Community Development on
the Social, Ethical, Biomedical and Public
Health Implications of Human Genome
Research (a consortium of 17 university
departments and affiliated research institutes with
the UWA Postgraduate Student Association), The
University of Western Australia, 2000.
Chair, Program Council, Genomics, Society and
Human Health, Institute of Advanced Studies, The
university of Western Australia, 2001-2002. Chair,
Executive Committee, 2001-2002. Member,
Planning Groups 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7, 2001-2002.
Member, Faculty Board, Faculty of Medicine and
Dentistry, The University of Western Australia,
1996-98 and 2002-2005.
Member, Management Committee and
Consultative Committee, Western Australian
Centre for Public Health, 2002-2006.
Member, Steering Committee for Development
of Leadership Programmes for Heads of
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Member, Statistics Standing Committee of the
National Occupational Safety and Health
Commission, 1985-1987; and Member, Health and
Vital Statistics Working Party, 1986.
Schools. The University of Western Australia,
2004-2005.
Chair, Animal Ethics Committee. The University
of Western Australia, 2012-2014, including Chair of
both the ‘Blue’ and ‘Green’ Animal Ethics
Committees when UWA moved to a two committee
animal ethics system in 2014.
Member, Child Injury Surveillance Committee, Child
Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia, 19851987.
Member, Confidentiality of Health Statistics
Committee, Western Australia, 1985-1988.
SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS
1980 to 1993
Deputy Member, Perinatal and Infant Mortality
Committee of Western Australia, 1985-1988.
Deputy Member, Health Education Council of
Western Australia, 1982.
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee of
Community Health Studies, 1986.
Epidemiologist, Data Base Working Group, Steering
Committee on the Review of Health Promotion and
Health Education in Western Australia, 1983-1985.
Member, Advisory Committee for Graduate Studies,
Division of Health Sciences, Western Australian
Institute of Technology, 1986.
Chairman, Western Australian Drug Information Coordinating Committee, 1986.
Epidemiologist and Executive Secretary, Western
Australian AIDS Advisory Committee, 1983-1988.
Member, National Campaign Against Drug Abuse
Evaluation and Drug Data Network Committee,
1986-1987.
Member, Water Purity Committee of Western
Australia, 1984.
Deputy Chairman, Western Australian Pesticides
Advisory Committee, 1984-85.
Member, TVW Telethon Foundation Medical and
Scientific Advisory Committee, Western Australia,
1986-1988.
Member, Health Computing and Information Policy
Committee, Health Department of Western Australia,
1984-85.
Member, Injury Surveillance Evaluation
Subcommittee of the Child Accident Prevention
Foundation of Australia, 1986-1988.
Epidemiologist, Western Australian
Interdepartmental Committee to Co-ordinate Action
on the Use of Asbestos, 1984-1985.
Member, Federal Council, Public Health Association
of Australia, 1986-1992.
Member, Working Party to Provide a Comparative
Cost Analysis of Terminal Cancer Care in Western
Australia, Cancer Foundation of Western Australia,
1984-1985.
Member, Special Working Party to Review AIDS
Data Needs in Australia, Commonwealth Department
of Health, 1987.
President and Member, State Executive, Public Health
Association of Australia (WA Branch), 1984-1993.
President 1992-1993. Seminar Co-ordinator and VicePresident, 1986-1987. Member, National Conference
Organising Committee, 1986. WA Representative,
PHAA Health Statistics Group, 1984-1990.
Member, Selection Panel for the National Centre for
Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, 1985.
Member, Australian Health Ministers' Advisory
Council Health Targets and Implementation (Health
for All) Committee, 1987.
Member, Human Papilloma Virus Steering
Committee, Health Department of Western Australia,
1987.
Executive Secretary, Ministerial Working Party on
Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer,
Western Australia, 1987.
Member, Working Group to Develop Health
Warnings for Cigarette Packets, Health Department
of Western Australia, 1985.
Member, Grants Commission Working Party, Health
Department of Western Australia, 1987.
Member, Steering Group for the Geraldton Pilot
Alcohol Education Project, Health Department of
Western Australia, 1985.
Team Leader, Health Surveillance and Protection
Corporate Planning Group, Western Australia, 1987.
Consultant in Melanoma Studies, Queensland
Institute of Medical Research, 1985.
Consultant, Master of Public Health Degree Program,
Division of Public Health, Department of Medicine,
The University of Western Australia, 1987.
Member, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Sentinel
School System Working Group of the Immunisation
Committee, Western Australia, 1985-1986.
Member, State Co-ordinating Committee for
Venereal Disease Control, Western Australia, 19871988
Member, Hospital Morbidity Data System Review
Committee, Western Australia, 1985-1986.
Chairman, Hospital Morbidity System Management
Committee, Western Australia, 1987-1988.
Member, Education Committee of the Cancer
Foundation of Western Australia, 1985-1987, and
Member, Epidemiology, Cancer Prevention and
Education Subcommittee, 1987.
Member, Public Health Advisory Committee of
Western Australia, 1987-1988.
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Member, Programme Committee of the Seventh
World Conference on Smoking and Health, 19871990.
Member, Working Party to Develop Guidelines for
Self-Tanning Sun Filter Cream, Cancer Foundation
of Western Australia, 1992.
Member, Review Panel for the National Centre for
Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, 1988.
Member, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services
Review Committee, 1992.
Member, Selection Panel for the Western Australian
Road Accident Research Unit, 1988.
Chairman, Western Australian Omnibus Health
Survey Task Force, 1992.
Member, Research Advisory Committee of the
Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, 1988.
Member and Coordinator of Postgraduate Education,
Western Australian Executive Committee of the
Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 1992.
Member, Women's Cancer Prevention Advisory
Board of Western Australia, 1988.
Member, Reproductive Technology Working Party,
Western Australia, 1988.
Chairman, Committee on the Review of State
Residential Care Services in the Perth Metropolitan
Area, 1988-1989.
Chairman, Committee on the Review of Accident
and Emergency Services in the Perth Metropolitan
Area, Western Australia, 1988-1989.
Member, Ministerial Steering Committee for
Metropolitan Health Services Reforms and
Evaluation Subcommittee, 1992.
Member, Intervarsity Working Party to Establish the
Western Australian Collaborative Centre for Public
Health Education and Research, 1993.
Consultant, Public Health Committee, National
Health and Medical Research Council on the review
of the Committee, 1993.
Member, Corporate Executive of the Health
Department of Western Australia, 1988-1990.
Member, Road Accident Prevention Research Unit
Steering Committee, The University of Western
Australia, 1989.
Chairman, Working Party on Cholesterol Screening
and Counselling Services, Western Australia, 1989.
Western Australian Delegate, National Health and
Medical Research Council of Australia, 1990.
Member, NHMRC Public Health Committee, National
Health and Medical Research Council, 1991.
Member, Panel for Review of the Master of Public
Health Programme, The University of Western
Australia, 1991.
Visiting Public Health Fellow, Division of Public
Health, Department of Medicine, The University of
Western Australia, 1991.
Member, Advisory Committee to the National
Review of the Public Health Education and
Research Program, 1991-1992.
Member, Legislation Advisory Committee to the
Metropolitan Health Services Review, Western
Australia, 1991-1992.
Member, Public and Environmental Health
Legislation Review Steering Committee and Public
Health Information Working Party, Western
Australia, 1991- 1992.
Member, Health Services Ethics Committee
established by the Western Australian Minister for
Health, 1991-1992.
Deputy Chairman, Radiological Council of Western
Australia, 1991-1993; Chairman, New Dose Limits
Working Party, 1992; and Chairman, Working Party
for Referral for X-ray and Nuclear Examinations,
1992.
Member, Review Panel for the National Centre in
HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, 1992.
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APPENDIX G: MEDAL CITATION
SIDNEY SAX PUBLIC HEALTH MEDAL 2006
The Sidney Sax Medal is Australia’s highest
professional peer award for lifetime achievement in
Public Health. The PHAA bestows the Medal
annually on a person who has provided a notable
contribution to the protection and promotion of
public health, solving public health problems,
advancing community awareness of public health
measures and advancing the ideals and practice of
equity in the provision of health care. The Medal
was first awarded in 2000 to Hon Dr Neal Blewitt for
his record of advancement of public health.
Professor D’Arcy Holman has been a public health
leader nationally and internationally for many years,
is well recognised nationally and internationally as
an outstanding and innovative epidemiologist and
has made an extraordinarily productive contribution
to research, teaching, mentoring, the development
of epidemiology, data linkage in Australia,
leadership development, health communication,
national and state government health departments,
health organisations, health advocacy and
community service in the health arena.
He has had a long association with PHAA. He has
been a member since 1980, was President of the
WA Branch in 1992 and 1993, Western Australian
Representative, PHAA Health Statistics Group,
1984-1990, Member, Western Australian State
Executive of PHAA, 1985-1993, Seminar Coordinator and Vice-President, 1986 and 1987,
Member, National Conference Organising
Committee, 1986, Member, Federal Council, 19861992, Member, PHAA (National) Governance
Review Team, 2000.
He merits recognition not only for his leadership,
his many achievements, and the sheer breadth and
range of his contributions to public health, but also
for his generous contributions to so many public
health causes, organisations and individuals. He
has been a constant and willing supporter of public
health activity and people working in public health.
Some of his achievements, such as leadership in
data linkage, will be well known; others, such as his
work in mental health, with the Cancer Council or in
mentoring and supporting others, have been
equally important, but much less well publicised.
BIOGRAPHY OCTOBER 2006
D’Arcy Holman graduated in Medicine from The
University of Western Australia in 1979 with his first
international publication in press with the
International Journal of Cancer. He was awarded a
NHMRC Medical Postgraduate Research
Scholarship and, in 1984, became the first doctoral
graduate of the NHMRC Research Unit in
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. His PhD
investigated the aetiology of cutaneous malignant
melanoma, with specific reference to the
associations of histogenetic subtypes to different
patterns of sun exposure. He was awarded a
postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship from the
International Agency for Research on Cancer. It
enabled him to receive advanced research training
at the Harvard School of Public Health where he
graduated with the MPH with straight distinctions.
Upon his return to Perth he established the
Epidemiology Branch of the Health Department of
Western Australia as inaugural Director and, in
1988, became the Assistant Commissioner for
Planning. He was responsible for turning WA’s
administrative health data into knowledge to
influence policy and practice. His work as Director
of Epidemiology, including Scientific Editor of Our
State of Health, an overview of health and illness in
the WA population, provided the epidemiologic
foundation for WA’s internationally acclaimed
health promotion programs of the 1980s. On the
national scene he became first author of Australia’s
first official statistics on deaths and illness caused
by tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. He also played
significant roles in program design and evaluation
with respect to Aboriginal environmental health, HIV
infection, hepatitis B, childhood immunisation,
mammographic and cervical cancer screening and
reproductive technology. For example, his work on
environmental health in remote Aboriginal
communities resulted in large injections of
infrastructure funds and his research on hepatitis B
brought forward the control program in the same
communities by two decades. As Assistant
Commissioner and later as a Commissioner’s
Special Consultant, he was responsible for major
reviews and reforms of community and child health
services, accident and emergency services and
residential care services in WA. Most of these
reforms were motivated by Holman’s commitment
to social justice, especially areas of need in socially
depressed locales, such as the young head-injured
in Perth’s most disadvantaged suburbs.
He prepared the Health Department’s first programbased strategic plan, A Plan for Health, noted for its
consumer focus and emphasis on addressing
health needs at the population level many years
before such priorities became the norm in other
jurisdictions.
Professor Holman returned to full-time academia in
1992 when, as Director of UWA’s Health Promotion
Development and Evaluation Program, he led a
multidisciplinary research team of social and
behaviour scientists and epidemiologists
responsible for an independent three-year
evaluation of the newly created WA Health
Promotion Foundation. The system of evaluation
was subsequently profiled by the Auditor General
as an example of best practice in performance
measurement of a public sector organisation. For
this work he received the Inaugural Healthway
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Award from the Minister for Health for Innovation
and Best Practice in Health Promotion.
In 1994, D’Arcy Holman was appointed to the
Foundation Chair in Public Health at The University
of Western Australia. Shortly afterwards he
established the UWA Centre for Health Services
Research. He served as Head of Department in
1996-98 and was inaugural Head of the new School
of Population Health in 2002-5. During his terms as
Head, he instigated a successful Aboriginal Health
Research Award Scheme to foster the participation
of Aboriginal people in flexible and culturallysensitive research training arrangements, recruited
the School’s first two indigenous lecturers and
supervised the School’s first indigenous PhD
student, who has since been awarded her PhD. He
also led an inter-faculty task force responsible for
setting up WA’s fastest growing undergraduate
degree of recent years, the industry-responsive
BHlthSc and BHlthSc/BCom programs, and
convened a consortium of 17 academic
departments and research institutes, creating a
program of professional and community
development on Genomics, Society and Human
Health spanning ethics, the humanities, public
health, clinical medicine and molecular biology. In
all of these initiatives, the hallmarks of the Holman
approach have been visionary innovation; an
exceptional commitment to multidisciplinary
principles (for example, all health science students
complete double majors in public health and a
science area, while one third in the double degree
program complete also a major in commerce or
economics); and always the guiding light of ‘what’s
best for the community’. His leadership role in the
creation of the entire undergraduate health science
program at UWA has been acknowledged by the
principal prizes in the course bearing his name.
Professor Holman, his research coworkers and
students have published extensively in health
services research, health promotion program
evaluation, and the epidemiology, prevention and
treatment of chronic and communicable diseases.
His present research interests focus on the study of
utilisation and outcomes of health care, particularly
applications of record linkage and spatial analysis
and the evaluation of hospital and communitybased health interventions, with a particular interest
in issues concerning social justice and inequalities
in health and health services. His work with his
PhD students on physical illness in people with
mental disorders (the Duty to Care study) and
social and locational inequalities in access to
cancer services have been cited at length by high
level social justice reviews, including the Australian
Senate’s inquiry into services and treatment options
for people with cancer which engaged Holman as
their adviser. His Duty to Care work led to the
‘HealthRight’ program to improve access of the
mentally ill to primary health care as well as a new
section in the Mental Health Act (WA) on discharge
planning.
The world class WA Data Linkage Project was
instigated by Professor Holman in 1995 as a joint
venture of UWA, Curtin University, the Telethon
Institute for Child Health Research and the Health
Department of WA, with an infrastructure grant from
the WA Lotteries Commission. The system links
together health records for the entire population of
the State, going back to the 1960s, on deaths,
hospital episodes, mental health services, perinatal
events, cancers and many other administrative and
research databases. It is a national icon, being
unique in Australia and one of only six
comprehensive systems of its type in the world.
Results arising from research based on record
linkage in WA are having an immediate impact on
the health system, especially in areas such as the
quality of surgical care and better health outcomes
for people with mental disorders. His research
team includes a consumer liaison officer, the first in
Australia to be appointed to an academic school of
population health, who ensures that research
priorities are influenced by consumer priorities and
that results are disseminated in a form suitable for
health care consumers and the general public. It is
now recognised that the WA Data Linkage System
has achieved a major contribution to the protection
of patient privacy in population health research by
reducing the necessity for researcher access to
name-identified health data.
Professor Holman worked tirelessly behind the
scenes for six years to achieve the nation’s first allpopulation linkage of Commonwealth and state
health data since federation. This extraordinary
health system resource, linking Medicare,
pharmaceutical benefit and aged care data with a
state’s hospital morbidity, cancer, perinatal and
death data has become the desirable model for
emulation in other Australian states, and in 2005,
Professor led a team of consultants commissioned
by the Sax Institute to advise on introduction of a
similar system in New South Wales.
Professor Holman published works number over
380, including over 230 full-length, peer-reviewed
journal articles reporting original research results.
Citations of his works number well over 3,000 and
some 30 of his articles fall into NHMRC’s ‘highly
cited paper’ category. His competitive grant
earnings exceed well over $30 million, including an
extended five-year project grant ranked in category
7, the highest rank assigned by the NHMRC, and
several program and enabling grants including CIA
on an NHMRC Population Health Research
Capacity Building Grant, CIC on a NHMRC Health
Services Research Program Grant, and CIA on a
State-based Centre of Excellence grant for Science
and Innovation. In 2002, he was awarded
Australia’s first Population Health Research
Capacity Building Grant. He has made significant
contributions to population health research training
in Australia by national teaching courses in linked
health data analysis and public health leadership
taught by invitation in every mainland state and
territory and having successfully supervised over 30
graduate research students and post-doctoral
fellows. Professor Holman is renowned for the high
quality of his mentorship with many of his former
students winning prizes, going on to head up health
agencies or achieving professorial rank.
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Professor Holman has served on both the policy
and research arms of NHMRC. He has
represented WA on Council, was Chair of the
Health Advancement Standing Committee and an
Executive Member of the National Health Advisory
Committee during the 1994-96 triennium and has
served on numerous working parties and reviews
for NHMRC, the Commonwealth Department of
Health and Ageing, and the Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare. He was the AIHW board
member with expertise in public health research for
two terms. He has chaired several NHMRC
regional grants interviewing committees, discipline
panels and grant review groups in public health and
related research disciplines, and has served on the
NHMRC Program Grants Committee and has
recently been appointed as the public health expert
to the NHMRC’s principal Research Committee.
He has worked with WHO, and has been a member
of review panels for the New Zealand Health
Research Council and, in 2006, the panel for the
review of the Canadian Institutes for Health
Research. Professor Holman has active research
collaborations in the People’s Republic of China
and was appointed, in 2006, as Permanent Guest
Professor at the School of Medicine of Zhejiang
University in Hangzhou.
Professor Holman is a former State President of
PHAA, in which he has been an active member
since 1980, foundation Fellow of the Australian
Faculty of Public Health Medicine, an overseas
Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology
and was awarded Fellowship of the Australian
Institute of Management in recognition of his
contributions to the leadership of health
organisations and the development of leadership
skills in health practitioners. Professor Holman is
and has been chairperson or member of a vast
number of Boards and committees in Western
Australia, nationally and internationally. He is a
director of HBF Health Inc. and board chairman of
Healthguard Inc. (both large not-for-profit health
insurers) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors. He is also a law student at
Murdoch University and well on the way to
completion of the graduate LLB. His advice and
comments on health issues are frequently sought
by the media.
His record of community service to government and
non-government health organisations is exemplary.
Apart from his activity with PHAA and other
professional organisations, he is, for example,
immediate past President of the Cancer Council of
WA, Honorary Chair of the WA Review of the
Mental Health Act, and Honorary Chair of the
Expert Medical Advisory Panel to Health + Medicine
(the award-winning eight-page supplement that
appears every Wednesday in the West Australian
newspaper, providing factual and balanced
information on health issues to the public),
Honorary Chair of the Wagerup Medical Forum, a
member of the WA Population Health Advisory
Council, Vice-president of the Public Health Council
of WA, and a member of the Australian Council on
Smoking and Health. Professor Holman has
received the Centenary Medal of Australia for his
voluntary services to the health system.
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