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Dr Rennie D'Souza MBBS (Dow Medical College, Karachi), MSc (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston), PhD (Australian National University, Canberra) Current Position: Fellow 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 5622 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Rennie.DSouza@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Work and Health: Demands, Control and Insecurity and how they affect health

• Climate change and food borne diseases

• Indigenous health

Selected Recent Publications

Broom DH, D’Souza RM, Strazdins L, Butterworth, P, Parslow R, Rogders B. The lesser evil: bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians. Social Science and Medicine. 2006, 63, 3: 575-586.

D’Souza RM, Strazdins L, Broom DH, Rogders B, Berry H. Work demands, job insecurity and sickness absence from work. How productive is the new, flexible labour force? . Australia New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2006; 30(3): 205-212.

D'Souza RM, Butler T, Petrovsky. Assessment of cardiovascular disease risk factors and diabetes mellitus in Australian prisons: is the prisoner population unhealthier than the rest of the Australian population? Australia New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2005; 29, 4: 318-323.

D’Souza RM, Strazdins L, Clements MS, Broom DH, Parslow R, Rodgers B. The health effects of jobs: status, working conditions or both? Australia New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2005; 29, No 3: 222-228 .

Parslow RA, Jorm AF, Christensen H, Rodgers B, Strazdins L, D'Souza RM. A comparison of the effects of work stress on the mental health of organisationally employed and self-employed workers: Analysis from a community sample. Accepted in Work and Stress 23 August, 2004.

Parslow RA, Jorm AF, Christensen H, Broom DH, Strazdins L, D'Souza RM. The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: an analysis of a sample of Australian government employees. BMC Public Health. 2004; 4(1): 1-9.

Strazdins L, D'Souza RM, Lim L, Broom D, Rodgers B. Job Strain and Health: Rethinking the Relationship. Journal of Occupational Health and Psychology. 2004; 9(4): 296-305.

D’Souza RM. Should Vitamin A be used for the treatment of Measles: Is there any doubt? Postgraduate Doctor 2004; March/April:62-66.

D’Souza RM, Becker N, Hall G, Moodie KBA. Does ambient temperature affect foodborne disease? Epidemiology. 2004; 15, 86-92.

D'Souza RM, Strazdins L, Lim L, Broom D, Rodgers B. Work and Health in Contemporary Society: Demands, Control and Insecurity. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003;57:849-54.