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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

Methods of analysis for health studies and their application, including:

• Controlling infectious diseases
  • Predicting the likely consequences of proposed vaccination strategies and other interventions under realistic assumptions about community structure, demography and social behaviour.
  • Estimating vaccine efficacy.
  • Determining factors associated with the transmission of infection.
    
    
• Triggers of adverse health events
  
  • Methods for establishing triggers of acute illness.
  • Applications, such as Deep Vein Thrombosis and Menière's disease.
    
    
• Analysis of foodborne disease data

Selected Recent Publications

Developing new methods

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

Becker NG , Salim A, Kelman CW. Analysis of a potential trigger of an acute illness. Biostatistics 2006; 7, 16-28.

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.

Applications

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.

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.

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)