Associate Professor James Wood

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School of Public Health and Community Medicine

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james.wood@unsw.edu.au

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Associate Professor

Dr James Wood is an applied mathematician with interests across a broad range from evolutionary and immunological processes to cost-effectivenesss evaluations for disease interventions. He completed his honours degree and PhD at the University of Queensland (both in mathematical physics). His primary application area is vaccine preventable diseases but he also has interests in tuberculosis and resistance in bacterial infections more broadly.

He has published over 50 papers in international journals, focussing on the impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccines on epidemiology, along with research related disease elimination and parameter estimation (particularly for measles). He was previously quite involved in research in emerging infections (particularly planning for influenza pandemics). His current interests are particularly in integrating genetic and immunologic elements into epidemiological models to account for trends in pathogen resistance and declining population immunity, with applications to infections such as pertussis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis and measles.

Current funded projects:

James leads an NHMRC project grant (2017-) on modelling evolution of pertussis bacteria and the influence on vaccine efficacy. He is also a CI on a 2018- looking at modelling improvements to gonorrhoea control and approaches to containing resistance.

He is a CI on a 2015- funded NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (Prism^2) in infectious disease modelling headed by A/Prof Jodie McVernon of University of Melbourne. We are holding an international conference at Palm Beach in August ... see here for more details http://prism.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Draft-Program-PRISM-International-Workshop-Aug18-Palm-Cove-2.1.pdf

James is also a CI on a large NHMRC funded community-wide wide trial of screening and treatment in Vietnam led by Professor Guy Marks.

Potential research students: Students with a strong quantitative background and interest in population dynamics of infectious diseases should contact me by email (james.wood@unsw.edu.au). Broad areas of interest at present are: Gonorrhoea resistance dynamics and spatial spread, duration, efficacy and herd immunity from pertussis vaccination, control strategies to reduce Tuberculosis in high-burden countries, population immunity to measles in elimination settings.

Qualifications :

BSc (Hons 1, Mathematics) University of Queensland 1997

PhD (Mathematical Physics) University of Queensland 2004

Keywords :

mathematical modelling

infectious disease epidemiology

computational biology

economic evaluation

Research

Socio-economic Objective (SEO) tags :

Preventive Medicine

Disease Distribution and Transmission (incl. Surveillance and Response)

Field of Research (FOR) Tag :

Biological Mathematics

Epidemiology

Simulation and Modelling

Infectious Diseases

Teaching & Supervision

I am available to supervise :

Yes

Areas of supervision :

Main areas

Epidemiological modelling of infectious diseases

Cost-effectiveness evaluations of infectious disease interventions

Advance statistical and epidemiological analysis of infectious disease data

Emerging areas

Immunological modelling for infectious diseases

Evolutionary models of infectious diseases

Currently supervising :

PhD/DrPH

Matt Begun (Agent based models of tuberculosis screening and control, primary)

Sevan Dirmesropian (cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in older Australians, joint)

Erin Sparrow (Monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases)

Pavithra Jayasundara (Models of gonorrhoea natural history and resistance)

Robert Leong (Modelling and economic evaluation of pertussis vaccination)

Thilini Padeniya (Modelling population intervention strategies for gonorrhoea)

Supervision keywords :

communicable disease control

analysis

disease surveillance

Publications related to this Person

Journal articles

Edirisuriya C; Beard FH; Hendry AJ; Dey A; Gidding HF; Hueston L; Dwyer DE; Wood JG; Macartney KK; McIntyre PB, 2018, 'Australian rubella serosurvey 2012–2013: On track for elimination?', Vaccine, vol. 36, pp. 2794 - 2798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.03.086

Chen C; Wood JG; Beutels P; Menzies R; MacIntyre CR; Dirmesropian S; Reyes JF; McIntyre P; Newall AT, 2018, 'The role of timeliness in the cost-effectiveness of older adult vaccination: a case study of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 36, pp. 1265 - 1271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.01.052

Iuliano AD; Roguski KM; Chang HH; Muscatello DJ; Palekar R; Tempia S; Cohen C; Gran JM; Schanzer D; Cowling BJ, 2018, 'Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study', The Lancet, vol. 391, pp. 1285 - 1300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33293-2

Costantino V; Gidding HF; Wood JG, 2017, 'Projections of zoster incidence in Australia based on demographic and transmission models of varicella-zoster virus infection', Vaccine, vol. 35, pp. 6737 - 6742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.09.090

Jayasundara D; Hui BB; Regan DG; Heywood AE; MacIntyre CR; Wood JG, 2017, 'Quantifying the population effects of vaccination and migration on hepatitis A seroepidemiology in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 35, pp. 5228 - 5234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.08.022

Dirmesropian S; Wood JG; MacIntyre CR; Beutels P; McIntyre P; Menzies R; Reyes JF; Chen C; Newall AT, 2017, 'Cost-effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in older Australians', Vaccine, vol. 35, pp. 4307 - 4314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.06.085

Narasimhan P; MacIntyre CR; Mathai D; Wood J, 2017, 'High rates of latent TB infection in contacts and the wider community in South India', Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 111, pp. 55 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trx016

Reyes JF; Wood JG; Beutels P; Macartney K; McIntyre P; Menzies R; Mealing N; Newall AT, 2017, 'Beyond expectations: Post-implementation data shows rotavirus vaccination is likely cost-saving in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 35, pp. 345 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.11.056

Wu Y; Wood J; Khandaker G; Waddington C; Snelling T, 2016, 'Informing rubella vaccination strategies in East Java, Indonesia through transmission modelling', Vaccine, vol. 34, pp. 5636 - 5642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.09.010

Stehling-Ariza T; Rosewell A; Moiba SA; Yorpie BB; Ndomaina KD; Jimissa KS; Leidman E; Rijken DJ; Basler C; Wood J, 2016, 'The impact of active surveillance and health education on an Ebola virus disease cluster - Kono District, Sierra Leone, 2014-2015', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1941-0

Dirmesropian S; Wood JG; MacIntyre CR; Beutels P; Newall AT, 2016, 'Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programmes in Older Adults and the Elderly: Important Issues and Challenges', PharmacoEconomics, vol. 34, pp. 723 - 731, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40273-016-0393-0

Regan DG; Wood JG; Benevent C; Ali H; Smith LW; Robertson PW; Ferson MJ; Fairley CK; Donovan B; Law MG, 2016, 'Estimating the critical immunity threshold for preventing hepatitis A outbreaks in men who have sex with men', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 144, pp. 1528 - 1537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268815002605

Onyango LA; Quinn C; Tng KH; Wood JG; Leslie G, 2015, 'A Study of Failure Events in Drinking Water Systems As a Basis for Comparison and Evaluation of the Efficacy of Potable Reuse Schemes.', Environ Health Insights, vol. 9, pp. 11 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/EHI.S31749

Newall AT; Reyes JF; McIntyre P; Menzies R; Beutels P; Wood JG, 2015, 'Retrospective economic evaluation of childhood 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Australia: Uncertain herd impact on pneumonia critical', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.053

Dirmesropian S; Wood JG; Macintyre CR; Newall AT, 2015, 'A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, vol. 11, pp. 818 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2015.1011954

Wood JG; Goeyvaerts N; Raina MacIntyre C; Menzies RI; McIntyre PB; Hens N, 2015, 'Estimating vaccine coverage from serial trivariate serologic data in the presence of waning immunity', Epidemiology, vol. 26, pp. 381 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/eDe.0000000000000278

Korostil IA; Wood JG; Regan DG, 2015, 'Periodicity of varicella-zoster virus in the presence of immune boosting and clinical reinfection with varicella', Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, vol. 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12976-015-0002-5

Gao Z; Wood JG; Gidding HF; Newall AT; Menzies RI; Wang H; McIntyre PB; MacIntyre CR, 2015, 'Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: A model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 143, pp. 1467 - 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814002222

Begun M; Newall AT; Marks GB; Wood JG, 2015, 'Revisiting Styblo's law: Could mathematical models aid in estimating incidence from prevalence data?', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 143, pp. 1556 - 1565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814002428

Rashid H; Ridda I; King C; Begun M; Tekin H; Wood JG; Booy R, 2015, 'Evidence compendium and advice on social distancing and other related measures for response to an influenza pandemic', Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, vol. 16, pp. 119 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prrv.2014.01.003

Gardner LM; Rey D; Heywood AE; Toms R; Wood J; Travis Waller S; Raina MacIntyre C, 2014, 'A scenario-based evaluation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and the Hajj', Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, vol. 34, pp. 1391 - 1400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12253

Davey HM; Muscatello DJ; Wood JG; Snelling TL; Ferson MJ; Macartney KK, 2014, 'Impact of high coverage of monovalent human rotavirus vaccine on Emergency Department presentations for rotavirus gastroenteritis', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.01.082

Wood JG; Heywood AE; Menzies RI; McIntyre PB; MacIntyre CR, 2014, 'Predicting localised measles outbreak potential in Australia', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.071

Gardner LM; Rey D; Heywood AE; Toms R; Wood J; Travis Waller S; Raina Macintyre C, 2014, 'A Scenario-Based Evaluation of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and the Hajj', Risk Analysis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12253

Chiew M; Gidding HF; Dey A; Wood J; Martin N; Davis S; McIntyre P, 2014, 'Estimating the measles effective reproduction number in Australia from routine notification data', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 92, pp. 171 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.13.125724

Newall AT; Reyes JF; Wood JG; Beutels P; McIntyre P; Menzies R, 2014, 'Economic evaluations of implemented vaccination programmes: key methodological challenges in retrospective analyses', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.11.067

Narasimhan P; Wood J; Macintyre CR; Mathai D, 2013, 'Risk factors for tuberculosis', Pulmonary Medicine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/828939

Begun M; Newall AT; Marks GB; Wood JG, 2013, 'Contact Tracing of Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of Transmission Modelling Studies', PLoS ONE, vol. 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072470

Horner J; Wood JG; Kelly A, 2013, 'Public health in/as 'national security': tuberculosis and the contemporary regime of border control in Australia', Critical Public Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.824068

Newall AT; Dehollain JP; Creighton P; Beutels P; Wood JG, 2013, 'Understanding the cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination in children: Methodological choices and seasonal variability', PharmacoEconomics, vol. 31, pp. 693 - 702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40273-013-0060-7

Dafilis MP; Frascoli F; Wood JG; McCaw JM, 2012, 'The influence of increasing life expectancy on the dynamics of sirs systems with immuneâ boosting', ANZIAM Journal, vol. 54, pp. 50 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1446181113000023

Jamie A; Mollee T; Wood J, 2011, 'Volatile earnings growth, the price of earnings and the value premium', Quantitative Finance, vol. 11, pp. 805 - 815, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697680903207163

Newall AT; Creighton P; Philp DJ; Wood JG; MacIntyre CR, 2011, 'The potential cost-effectiveness of infant pneumococcal vaccines in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 29, pp. 8077 - 8085, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.08.050

Newall AT; Viboud C; Wood JG, 2010, 'Influenza-attributable mortality in Australians aged more than 50 years: A comparison of different modelling approaches', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 138, pp. 836 - 842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095026880999118X

Newall AT; Wood JG; Oudin N; MacIntyre CR, 2010, 'Cost-effectiveness of pharmaceutical-based pandemic influenza mitigation strategies', Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 16, pp. 224 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1602.090571

Gao Z; Gidding HF; Wood JG; Macintyre CR, 2010, 'Modelling the impact of one-dose vs. two-dose vaccination regimens on the epidemiology of varicella zoster virus in Australia', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 138, pp. 457 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268809990860

Wood JG; Gidding HF; Heywood A; Macartney K; McIntyre PB; MacIntyre CR, 2009, 'Potential impacts of schedule changes, waning immunity and vaccine uptake on measles elimination in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 27, pp. 313 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.09.095

Maclntyre CR; Cauchemez S; Dwyer DE; Seale H; Cheung P; Browne G; Fasher M; Wood J; Gao Z; Booy R, 2009, 'Face mask use and control of respiratory virus transmission in households', Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 15, pp. 233 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1502.081167

Wood J; McCaw J; Becker N; Nolan T; MacIntyre CR, 2009, 'Optimal dosing and dynamic distribution of vaccines in an influenza pandemic', American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 169, pp. 1517 - 1524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwp072

McCaw JM; Wood JG; McBryde ES; Nolan TM; Wu JT; Lipsitch M; McVernon J, 2009, 'Understanding Australia's influenza pandemic policy on the strategic use of the antiviral drug stockpile', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 191, pp. 136 - 137

Jones VS; Wood JG; Godfrey C; Cohen RC, 2008, 'An optimum animal model for neonatal thoracoscopy', Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques, vol. 18, pp. 759 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/lap.2007.0224

Wood J; MacIntyre R; MacArtney K, 2008, 'Assessing varicella vaccine efficacy', Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, vol. 27, pp. 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e31816166f8

McCaw JM; Wood JG; McCaw CT; McVernon J, 2008, 'Impact of emerging antiviral drug resistance on influenza containment and spread: Influence of subclinical infection and strategic use of a stockpile containing one or two drugs', PLoS ONE, vol. 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002362

Newall AT; Wood JG; MacIntyre CR, 2008, 'Influenza-related hospitalisation and death in Australians aged 50 years and older', Vaccine, vol. 26, pp. 2135 - 2141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.01.051

Wood JG; Zamani N; Raina MacIntyre C; Becker NG, 2007, 'Effects of internal border control on spread of pandemic influenza', Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 13, pp. 1038 - 1045, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.060740

Gidding HF; Wood J; MacIntyre CR; Kelly H; Lambert SB; Gilbert GL; McIntyre PB, 2007, 'Sustained measles elimination in Australia and priorities for long term maintenance', Vaccine, vol. 25, pp. 3574 - 3580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.01.090

Newall AT; Beutels P; Wood JG; Edmunds WJ; MacIntyre CR, 2007, 'Cost-effectiveness analyses of human papillomavirus vaccination', Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 7, pp. 289 - 296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(07)70083-X

Newall AT; Beutels P; Macartney K; Wood J; MacIntyre CR, 2007, 'The cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 25, pp. 8851 - 8860, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.10.009

Bracken AJ; Wood JG, 2006, 'Semiquantum versus semiclassical mechanics for simple nonlinear systems', Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.012104

Wood JG; Bracken AJ, 2005, 'Bounds on integrals of the Wigner function: The hyperbolic case', Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1851971

Bracken AJ; Wood JG, 2004, 'Non-positivity of Groenewold operators', Europhysics Letters, vol. 68, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10175-8

Bracken AJ; Ellinas D; Wood JG, 2004, 'Non-positivity of the wigner function and bounds on associated integrals', Acta Physica Hungarica, Series B: Quantum Electronics, vol. 1, pp. 121 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/APH.20.2004.1-2.24

Bracken AJ; Cassinelli G; Wood JG, 2003, 'Quantum symmetries and the Weyl-Wigner product of group representations', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 36, pp. 1033 - 1056, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/36/4/313

Bracken AJ; Ellinas D; Wood JG, 2003, 'Group theory and quasiprobability integrals of Wigner functions', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/36/20/102

Bracken AJ; Doebner HD; Wood JG, 1999, 'Bounds on integrals of the wigner function', Physical Review Letters, vol. 83, pp. 3758 - 3761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3758

Conference Papers

MacIntyre CR; Kpozehouen E; Kunasekaran M; Harriman K; Conaty S; Rosewell A; Druce J; Martin N; Heywood AE; Gidding HF, 2018, 'Measles control in Australia – threats, opportunities and future needs', in Vaccine, pp. 4393 - 4398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.06.022

Newall AT; Reyes J; Wood JG; McIntyre PB; Menzies R; Beutels P, 2014, 'NOT AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS: CHALLENGES IN ASSESSING THE VALUE FOR MONEY OF IMPLEMENTED VACCINATION PROGRAMS', in VALUE IN HEALTH, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, pp. A186 - A186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2014.03.1085

Eaton S; Pacilli M; Wood J; McHoney M; Corizia L; Kingsley C; Curry JI; Herod J; Cohen R; Pierro A, 2008, 'Factors affecting ¹³C-natural abundance measurement of breath carbon dioxide during surgery: Absorption of carbon dioxide during endoscopic procedures', in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, pp. 1759 - 1762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcm.3572

Conference Abstracts

Narasimhan P; MacIntyre CR; Mathai D; Wood J, 2017, 'Incidence and risk factors for tuberculosis infection in a high endemic region: a follow up study among household and community contacts in Vellore, South India', in Oral Presentation, 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health, presented at 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health

Narasimhan P; Peter R; Manoharan A; Wood J; MacIntyre CR; Mathai D; John KR, 2010, 'A retrospective study to assess treatment outcomes among TB patients taking DOTS treatment in South India', in Poster Presentation, 14th International Congress for Infectious Disease conference, Miami, Florida, US, presented at 14th International Congress for Infectious Disease conference, Miami, Florida, US

Wood J; Caley P; Narasimhan P; MacIntyre CR, 2008, 'Modelling and estimation of BCG vaccine efficacy using TB transmission model', in Oral Presentation, First International Conference of South East Asia Region (The Union) & 63rd National Conference on Tuberculosis & Chest Disease, New Delhi India, presented at First International Conference of South East Asia Region (The Union) & 63rd National Conference on Tuberculosis & Chest Disease, New Delhi India

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