Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research student supervision
Current candidates:
PhD
Muhammad Chutiyami: Utility of parent held health records
Kristy Burns: Health economic evaluation of mental health conditions
Xiaochi Lui: Impacts of blood lead levels in mothers and children on childhood health ouctomes
MPH (res)
Sytuha Binta Ali: Impact of COVID19 on MPH students
Pritam Dasgupta: Changes in media coverage and people’s attitude towards masks in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biography
BSc (Hons), MPH (Hons), PhD
Professor Janaki Amin is the head of Department of Health Systems and Populations and course director for the Master of Public Health. She is an infectious diseases epidemiologist, working across clinical trials, cohort studies and the analysis of routinely collected population data. She has a particular interest in public health impact in marginalised populations.
Janaki’s major fields of research include data linkage studies examining morbidity and mortality in population-based cohorts of people with hepatitis B and C; clinical trials and cohort studies of therapies for the treatment of HIV, hepatitis C and STIs. These studies have encompassed populations with poor access to therapeutics, people who inject drugs and the LGBTQI+ community
She has been a chief investigator in studies which have been awarded over $200M in research grants and resulted in over 170 publications. She is currently an investigator in large implementation studies of HIV prevention in NSW (EPIC-NSW) and hepatitis C treatment in prisons (STOP-C). As part of her work in clinical trials she has managed and participated by invitation in Data Safety Monitoring Boards for local and international studies. Janaki’s work also includes research into methodological aspects of epidemiology, particularly in data linkage and meta-analysis. She has also lead research training programs focused on epidemiological and biostatistical methods and clinical trial design in Australia, Indonesia, and Cambodia. She is a keen mentor of early career researchers.
Teaching
Master of Public Health Course Director
Unit convenor:
- Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Public health capstone
Research interests
Epidemiology, infectious diseases, marginalised populations, data linkage, clinical trials, cohort studies, biostatistics, public health
Education/Academic qualification
The University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales
University of Sydney, Australia
External positions
Member Health Ethics Advisor Panel
2020 → …Executive member
2019 → …Member Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies GRP
2019 → …Visiting Professor
2017 → …Fingerprint
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Research Output
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Usefulness of parent-held child health records in low, middle, and high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Chutiyami, M., Wyver, S. & Amin, J., 6 Nov 2019. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Research
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