Dr Nina Lazarevic

PhD MBiostat MAppSc(EnvSc) BCom(H1M)
Research Fellow

Research

Research interests

  • Statistical methods in environmental epidemiology 
  • Health effects of environmental chemical mixtures 
  • Health effects of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including phthalates, phenols, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides, flame retardants, and metals 
  • Prenatal and early postnatal environmental exposures and subsequent impacts on maternal and child health
  • Exposome–health associations

Publications

Lazarevic N, Knibbs LD, Sly PD, Barnett AG. 'Performance of variable and function selection methods for estimating the non-linear health effects of correlated chemical mixtures: a simulation study'. Stat Med 2020;39(27):3947–3967; doi: 10.1002/sim.8701.

Lazarevic N, Barnett AG, Sly PD, Knibbs LD. 'Statistical methodology in studies of prenatal exposure to mixtures of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: a review of existing approaches and new alternatives'. Environ Health Perspect 2019;127(2):026001; doi: 10.1289/EHP2207.

Lazarevic N, Dobson AJ, Barnett AG, Knibbs LD. 'Long-term ambient air pollution exposure and self-reported morbidity in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health: a cross-sectional study'. BMJ Open 2015;5:e008714; doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008714.