Fields of Research

Rheumatology and arthritis
Epidemiology
Pain
Endocrinology
Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Preventative health care
Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Health promotion
Epidemiological modelling
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Nephrology and urology
Cancer cell biology
Orthopaedics
Disease surveillance
Reproduction
Medical biochemistry - amino acids and metabolites
Primary health care
Behavioural epidemiology
Medical biochemistry - lipids
Aged health care

Research Objectives

Clinical health
Behaviour and health
Preventive medicine
Prevention of human diseases and conditions
Health inequalities
Human pain management
Social structure and health
Treatment of human diseases and conditions
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Determinants of health
Overweight and obesity
Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health)
Evaluation of health outcomes
Efficacy of medications
Health status (incl. wellbeing)
Health related to ageing

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Association between GDF5 rs143383 polymorphism and knee osteoarthritis: an updated meta-analysis based on 23,995 subjects; BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Association between metabolic syndrome and knee structural change on MRI; Rheumatology
Association between metabolic syndrome and trajectories of knee pain: a 10.7 year follow-up study
Association Between Pain at Sites Outside the Knee and Knee Cartilage Volume Loss in Elderly People Without Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Study; Arthritis Care & Research
Association of childhood obesity with female infertility in adulthood: a 25-year follow-up study; Fertility and Sterility
Association of pain phenotypes with risk of falls and incident fractures; Biomedicines
Association of TNF-α-308 and -238 polymorphisms with risk of cervical cancer: a meta-analysis; Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
Associations of a healthy lifestyle score from childhood to adulthood with subclinical kidney damage in midlife: a population-based cohort study; BMC Nephrology
Associations of childhood adiposity and changes in adiposity status from childhood to adulthood with pregnancy hypertension; Pregnancy Hypertension
Associations of childhood adiposity with menstrual irregularity and polycystic ovary syndrome in adulthood: the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study and the Bogalusa Heart Study; Human Reproduction
BMI Trajectories from Childhood to Midlife are Associated with Subclinical Kidney Damage in Midlife; Obesity
Body mass index trajectories from childhood to adulthood: Evidence from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium
Body mass index trajectories from childhood to midlife are associated with subclinical kidney damage in midlife
Body-mass index trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood and their sociodemographic predictors: evidence from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium; EClinicalMedicine
Calcium supplementation for improving bone density in lactating women: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Change in smoking status and change in health-related quality of life in young adults
Characterizing and validating the phenotype of knee pain: a latent class analysis
Childhood cardiorespiratory fitness and the early markers of kidney disease in middle age: A population-based cohort study; Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Childhood factors related to diverging body mass index trajectories from childhood into mid-adulthood: A mixed methods study; Social Science and Medicine
Determinants of trajectories of multi-site pain in knee osteoarthritis: a 10.7-year prospective study in older adults; Annual European Congress of Rheumatology
Differentiating knee pain phenotypes in older adults: a prospective cohort study; Rheumatology
Do knee pain phenotypes have different risks of total knee replacement?; Journal of Clinical Medicine
Does weight in the offspring of people with a total knee replacement for severe primary knee osteoarthritis have a more detrimental effect on knee cartilage and pain? A 10-year prospective study
Effects of partnering and parenting transitions on smoking continuity and change over 5 years
Lipidomic profiling identifies serum lipids associated with persistent multisite musculoskeletal pain; Metabolites
Metabolic syndrome and trajectory of knee pain in older adults; Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Muscle function, quality and relative mass are associated with knee pain trajectory over 10.7 years; Pain
Pain at multiple sites is associated with prevalent and incident fractures in older adults; Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
Pain at multiple sites is associated with prevalent and incident fractures in older adults: a 5.1-year follow-up study; ASBMR Annual Meeting 2018
Partnering and parenting transitions associate with changing smoking status: a cohort study in young Australians; International Journal of Public Health
Partnering and parenting transitions in Australian men and women: associations with changes in weight, domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviours; International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Predictors and health effects of smoking transitions in young adults
Predictors of pain severity trajectory in older adults: a 10.7-year follow-up study; Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Prospective association between inflammatory markers and knee cartilage volume loss and pain trajectory; Pain and Therapy
Sleep disturbance and bone mineral density, risk of falls and fracture: Results from a 10.7-year prospective cohort study; Bone
Sleep disturbance and its association with pain severity and multisite pain: a prospective 10.7-Year study; Pain and Therapy
Smoking cessation and weight gain: are changing health behaviours explanatory?
Smoking status and health-related quality of life: a longitudinal study in young adults; Quality of Life Research
Socioeconomic position over the life course from childhood and smoking status in mid-adulthood: results from a 25-year follow-up study; BMC Public Health
The association between quitting smoking and weight gain: a systemic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies; Obesity Reviews
The association of knee structural pathology with pain at the knee is modified by pain at other sites in those with knee osteoarthritis; Clinical Rheumatology
The associations of childhood adiposity with menopausal symptoms in women aged 45-49 years: An Australian Cohort Study; Maturitas
The interaction between weight and family history of total knee replacement with knee cartilage: a 10-year prospective study; Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Which factors associate with localized knee pain and generalized pain: A 10-year longitudinal study?; Arthritis & Rheumatology
Worsening dietary and physical activity behaviors do not readily explain why smokers gain weight after cessation: A cohort study in young adults; Nicotine & Tobacco Research

Research Projects

Improving outcomes in patients with knee osteoarthritis: identifying pain phenotypes with relationships to long-term health outcomes; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Understanding the determinants and cardiometabolic consequences of divergent adiposity trajectories from childhood to midlife: the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium; Heart Foundation (HF)
Understanding the life course relationship of DNA methylation with obesity traits and its association with obesity-related diseases; University of Tasmania (UTAS)

Research Candidate Supervision