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Professor Adrian Sleigh MB.BS (Hons)(Monash), DTM & H (London), MPH (Harvard), MD (Monash), FRCP (London, Edinburgh), FRACP (Australia), American Board of Internal Medicine (USA) Current Position: Professor 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 2145 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Adrian.Sleigh@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Epidemiology

• Impact and control of important endemic infections

• Health consequences of large dams

• Health systems

• Tropical and international health

 

Selected Recent Publications

Valery PC, Holly EA, Sleigh AC, Williams G, Kreiger N, Bain C. Hernias and Ewing’s sarcoma family of tumours: a pooled analysis and meta-analysis. Lancet Oncology, 2005; 6 (7): 485-490

Harley D, Ritchie S, Bain C and Sleigh AC. Risks for Ross River virus disease in tropical Australia. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2005; 34: 548-555 http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/34/3/548

Jackson S, Sleigh AC, Li P and Liu XL. Health Finance in Rural Henan: Low Premium Insurance Compared to the Out-of-Pocket System. China Quarterly 2005; 181: 137-157

Sleigh A and Jackson S. Socio-economic and health impacts of hydropower resettlement projects. In: Cleveland CJ Encyclopedia of Energy; Academic Press Reference Series, 2004. Vol 3: 315-323 www.sciencedirect.com and ISBN 0-12-176480-X (6 Volumes)

Li Y, Yu ITS, Xu PC, Lee JHW, Wong TWi, Ooi PL, and Sleigh AC. Predicting super spreading events during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemics in Hong Kong and Singapore. American Journal of Epidemiology 2004; 160 (8): 719–728

Jackson S, Sleigh AC, Liu XL. Economics of malaria control in China: cost, performance and effectiveness of Henan's consolidation programme. WHO-TDR Research Report Publication Series No. 1 (monograph) TDR, Geneva: 2002; 1-52.

Sleigh AC, Jackson S. Dams, development and health: a missed opportunity. Lancet 2001; 357: 570-571.

Jackson S, Sleigh A. Resettlement for China's Three Gorges Dam: socio-economic impact and institutional tensions. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2000; 33: 223-241.

Sleigh A, Jackson S. Public health and public choice: dammed off at China's Three Gorges. The Lancet. 1998; 351: 1449-1450.

Sleigh A, Li X, Jackson S, Huang K. Eradication of schistosomiasis in Guangxi, China. Part 3: Community diagnosis of the worst affected areas and maintenance strategies for the future. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1998; 76 (6): 581-590.