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Professor Niels Becker BSc(Hons), MSc (Melbourne), PhD (Sheffield) Current Position: Professor of Biostatistics Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 2312 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

Modeling and developing methods of analysis for health studies, including:

• Controlling infectious diseases and analysis of disease transmission
  Predicting the likely consequences of proposed vaccination strategies and other control measures under realistic assumptions about community structure, demography and social behaviour. Also, estimating vaccine efficacy in a way that adjusts for transmission and determining factors that are associated with the transmission of infection.
• Risk exposures that may trigger illness
  Some illnesses are thought to be associated with certain risk exposures. Methods for studying such associations are being developed and applied to triggers of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Menière's disease.
• Analysis of foodborne disease data
  The analysis of trends in infection and methods for predicting AIDS incidence.

Selected Recent Publications

Becker NG , Britton T, O'Neill PD. Estimating vaccine effects from studies of outbreaks in household pairs. Statistics in Medicine 2006; 25: 1079-1093. ( DOI: 10.1002/sim.2236 )

Becker NG, Li Z, Hsu E, Andrews R, Lambert SB. Monitoring measles elimination in Victoria. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2005: 29: 58-63.
http://www.phaa.net.au/anzjph/journalpdf_2005/feb_2005/p.%2058-63.pdf

Triggered illness:

Becker NG , Salim A, Kelman CW. Analysis of a potential trigger of an acute illness. Biostatistics 2006; 7, 16-28. (doi:10.1093/biost a tistics/kxi037)

Becker NG , Salim A, Kelman CW. Air Travel and the Risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2006; 30: 5-9. (doi:10.1093/biost a tistics/kxi037)

Salim A, Becker NG , Möller J, Hessén-Söderman AC. An analysis for a crossover cohort study with an application to the study of triggers of Menière's disease. Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26: 1136-1149. (doi: 10.1002/sim.2601).

Foodborne diseases:

D'Souza R, Hall G, Becker NG , Vally H (2007). Climatic factors associated with hospitalisations for rotavirus diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age. Epidemiology and Infection. (doi:10.1017/S0950268807008229)