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Dr Keith Dear MA (Cantab) MSc PhD (Reading) Current Position: Senior Fellow (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 4865 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Keith.Dear@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Statistical methods in environmental health
• Spatial epidemiology and GIS
• Ultraviolet radiation and autoimmune disease

Selected Recent Publications

Christie DRH, Gabriel S, Dear K. Adverse effects of a multicentre system for ethics approval on the progress of a prospective multicentre trial of cancer treatment: how many patients die waiting? Internal Medicine Journal, 2007; 37:680-686.

Berry H, Rodgers B, Dear KBG. Preliminary development and validation of an Australian Community Participation Questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community. Social Science & Medicine, 2007; 64: 1719-1737.

Hanigan I, Hall G, Dear KBG . A comparison of methods for calculating population exposure estimates of daily weather for health research. International Journal of Health Geographics 2006; 5:38.

Dear K, Ranmuthugala G, Kjellstrom T, Skinner C, Hanigan I. Effects of temperature and ozone on daily mortality experienced in France during the August 2003 heat wave. Arch.Env.Occup.Health, 2006; 60(4) 205-212.

Jorm AF, Dear KBG, Burgess NM. Projections of future numbers of dementia cases in Australia with and without prevention. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2005; 39: 959-963.

Eckersley R, Dear K. Cultural correlates of youth suicide. Social Science & Medicine, 2002; 55(11): 1891-1904.