Professor Glenda Lawrence

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Sch of Public Health & Com Med

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53197

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g.lawrence@unsw.edu.au

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Research Interests:
1. Applied epidemiological research and analysis of routinely collected surveillance data for evaluation of immunisation programs.

2. Epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases, particularly vaccine preventable diseases.

3. Evaluation of public health programs across a broad range of areas to improve effectiveness in achieving program goals (see publications).

4. Scholarship in learning and teaching focussing on improving both the online and classroom experience and engagement of Masters coursework students in Public Health and other health-related degrees.

My research and teaching are strongly linked. I have developed and taught courses in core epidemiology and immunisation policy and practice to Master of Public Health students and previously had oversight of learning and teaching for postgraduate coursework students at UNSW Medicine in my role of Associate Dean for Postgraduate Coursework.

Broad Research Areas:
Population Health, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Program Evaluation; Learning and Teaching Research

Qualifications:
BSc (Hons I) (UNSW), PhD (Cambridge), MPH(Hons) (USyd), MAppEpid (ANU)

Society Memberships & Professional Activities:
Member of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)
Member Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)

Specific Research Keywords:
Epidemiology, infectious diseases, immunisation, research methods,research-policy interface, program evaluation, teaching research

Research

Socio-economic Objective (SEO) tags :

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Field of Research (FOR) Tag :

Medical and Health Sciences

Teaching & Supervision

Supervision keywords :

immunisation programs

program evaluation

policy development

Publications related to this Person

Book Chapters

Jones P; Meyer LD; Thompson R; Lawrence G, 2013, 'The Faculty of Medicine: Diversity, Validity and Efficiency of Assessment', in Marshall S; Henry R; Ramburuth P (ed.), Improving Assessment in Higher Education: A Whole of Institution Approach, edn. 1, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 208 - 233

Clements CJ; Lawrence GL, 2008, 'Vaccine safety', in Mahy Marc BWJ; van Regenmortel HV (ed.), Encyclopedia of Virology, edn. 3, Academic Press, United Kingdom, pp. 226 - 234

Journal articles

Biggs JS; Farrell L; Lawrence G; Johnson JK, 2014, 'Applying Process Mapping and Analysis as a Quality Improvement Strategy to Increase the Adoption of Fruit, Vegetable, and Water Breaks in Australian Primary Schools', Health Promotion Practice, vol. 15, pp. 199 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839913505291

Freeman E; Lawrence G; McAnulty J; Tobin S; MacIntyre CR; Torvaldsen S, 2014, 'Field effectiveness of hepatitis A vaccine and uptake of post exposure prophylaxis following a change to the Australian guidelines', Vaccine, vol. 32, pp. 5509 - 5513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.07.048

Maher L; Hope K; Torvaldsen S; Lawrence G; Dawson A; Wiley K; Thomson D; Hayen A; Conaty S, 2013, 'Influenza vaccination during pregnancy: Coverage rates and influencing factors in two urban districts in Sydney', Vaccine, vol. 31, pp. 5557 - 5564, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.08.081

Freeman EJ; Torvaldsen S; Capon A; Lawrence GL, 2013, 'Trends in notifiable blood lead levels in NSW, 1998-2008.', New South Wales public health bulletin, vol. 23, pp. 228 - 233

Maher L; Phelan C; Lawrence GL; Dawson A; Torvaldsen S; Wright C, 2012, 'The Early Childhood Oral Health Program: promoting prevention and timely intervention of early childhood caries in NSW through shared care', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, vol. 23, pp. 171 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/HE12171

Freeman E; Torvaldsen S; Tobin S; Lawrence GL; MacIntyre CR, 2012, 'Trends and risk factors for hepatitis A in NSW, 2000-2009: the trouble with travel', NSW Public Health Bulletin, vol. 23, pp. 153 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/NB11036

Maher L; Brown AJ; Torvaldsen S; Dawson AJ; Patterson J; Lawrence GL, 2012, 'Eye health services for Aboriginal people in the western region of NSW, 2010', NSW Public Health Bulletin, vol. 23, pp. 81 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/NB11050

Polkinghorne B; Muscatello D; MacIntyre CR; Lawrence GL; Middleton PM; Torvaldsen S, 2011, 'Relationship between the population incidence of febrile convulsions in young children in Sydney, Australia and seasonal epidemics of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, 2003-2010: a time series analysis', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 11, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-291

Mahajan D; Roomiani I; Gold MS; Lawrence GL; McIntyre PB; Menzies RI, 2010, 'Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2009.', Communicable diseases intelligence, vol. 34, pp. 259 - 276

Mahajan D; Roomiani I; Gold M; Lawrence GL; McIntyre P; Menzies R, 2010, 'Annual report: Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2009', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 34, pp. 176 - 259, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-cdi3403d.htm

Chiu C; Dey A; Wang H; Menzies R; Deeks S; Mahajan D; Macartney K; Brotherton J; Jardine A; Quinn H; Jelfs J; Booy R; Lawrence GL; Jayasinghe S; Roberts-Witteveen AR; Senanayake SN; Wood N; McIntyre P, 2010, 'Vaccine preventable diseases in Australia, 2005 to 2007', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 34, pp. S1 - S167, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi34suppl.htm

Rosewell A; Patel MS; Viney K; Mariach A; Lawrence GL, 2010, 'Impact of faxed health alerts on the preparedness of general practitioners during communicable disease outbreaks', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 34, pp. 23 - 28, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-cdi3401c.htm

Mahajan D; Menzies R; Roomiani I; Lawrence GL, 2010, 'Supplementary report: Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than seven years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2009', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 34, pp. 49 - 53, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-cdi3401g.htm

Menzies R; Mahajan D; Gold MS; Roomiani I; McIntyre P; Lawrence G, 2009, 'Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2008.', Communicable diseases intelligence, vol. 33, pp. 365 - 381

Lawrence GL; Mahajan D; Roomiani I, 2009, 'Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged < 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2008.', Communicable diseases intelligence, vol. 33, pp. 27 - 31

Lawrence GL; Mahajan D; Roomiani I, 2009, 'Supplementary Report: Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Immunisation among Children Aged', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 33, pp. 27 - 31

Simpkins D; Wood N; Jelfs J; McIntyre PB; Menzies R; Lawrence GL; Booy R, 2009, 'Modern trends in mortality from meningococcal disease in Australia', Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, vol. 28, pp. 1119 - 1120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e3181accde8

Gidding H; Wallace C; Lawrence GL; McIntyre P, 2009, 'Australia`s national Q fever vaccination program', Vaccine, vol. 27, pp. 2037 - 2041, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.02.007

Lawrence GL; Gold MS; Hill R; Deeks S; Glasswell A; McIntyre PB, 2008, 'Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2007', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 32, pp. 371 - 387, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/Publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3204-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3204a.pdf

Lawrence GL; Dinh I; Taylor L, 2008, 'The Centre for Health Record Linkage: a new resource for health services research and evaluation', Health Information Management Journal, vol. 37, pp. 60 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183335830803700208

Lawrence GL; Aratchige PE; Hill R, 2007, 'AUSTRALIAN ROTAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM: ANNUAL REPORT, 2006-07', COMMUNICABLE DISEASES INTELLIGENCE, vol. 31, pp. 375 - 382, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000213204100003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Brotherton J; Wang H; Schaffer A; Quinn H; Menzies R; Hull B; Lawrence GL; Wood J; Wood N; Rosewell A; Newall AT; MacIntyre CR; Macartney K; Gidding HF; McIntyre P; Booy R, 2007, 'Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 2003 to 2005', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 31, pp. S1 - S152

Lawrence GL; Aratchige PE; Hill R, 2007, 'Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2006', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 31, pp. 379 - 382, http://www.nhhrc.org.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3104-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3104d.pdf

Lawrence GL; Aratchige PE; Boyd I; McIntyre PB; Gold MS, 2007, 'Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2006', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 31, pp. 269 - 282, http://www.nhhrc.org.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3103-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3103b.pdf

Lawrence GL, 2006, 'National Vaccine Safety Workshop: summary and draft recommendations', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 30, pp. 378 - 380, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3003-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3003l.pdf

Lawrence GL; Boyd I; McIntyre PB; Isaacs D, 2006, 'Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2005', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 30, pp. 319 - 333, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3003-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3003d.pdf

Lawrence GL; Boyd I, 2006, 'Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2006', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 30, pp. 438 - 442, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3004-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3004d.pdf

Yohannes K; Roche PW; Roberts A; Liu C; Firestone SM; Bartlett M; East I; Hull BP; Kirk MD; Lawrence GL; McDonald A; McIntyre PB; Menzies RI; Quinn HE; Vadjic C, 2006, 'Australia’s notifiable diseases status, 2004, annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 30, pp. 1 - 79, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi3001-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi3001a.pdf

Lawrence GL; Boyd I; McIntyre PB; Isaacs D, 2005, 'Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2004', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 29, pp. 248 - 262, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-cdi2903-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2903b.pdf

Lawrence GL; Boyd I, 2005, 'Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2005', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 29, pp. 413 - 416, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi2904-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2904m.pdf

Isaacs D; Lawrence GL; Boyd I; Ronaldson K; McEwen J, 2005, 'Reporting of adverse events following immunisation in Australia', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (Vol. 48, Suppl. 2, 2012, 1–13), vol. 41, pp. 163 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.2005.00580.x

Lawrence GL; Burgess MA; Kass RB, 2004, 'Age-related risk of adverse events following yellow fever vaccination in Australia.', Communicable diseases intelligence, vol. 28, pp. 244 - 248

Lawrence GL; Burgess MA; Kass RB, 2004, 'Age-related adverse events following yellow fever vaccination in Australia, 1993-2002', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 28, pp. 244 - 248, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-pubs-2004-cdi2802-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2802o.pdf

Brotherton J; McIntyre PB; Puesch M; Wang H; Gidding H; Hull B; Lawrence GL; MacIntyre R; Wood N; Armstrong D, 2004, 'Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 2001 to 2002', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 28, pp. 1 - 120, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-pubs-2004-cdi28suppl2-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi28suppl2.pdf

Lawrence GL; Hull B; MacIntyre CR; McIntyre PB, 2004, 'Reasons for incomplete immunisation in Australia: a national survey of parents', Australian Family Physician, vol. 33, pp. 568 - 571, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15301182

Lawrence GL; MacIntyre CR; Hull B; McIntyre PB, 2004, 'Effectiveness of the linkage of child care and maternity payments to childhood immunisation', Vaccine, vol. 22, pp. 2345 - 2350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2003.10.038

Lawrence GL; Boyd I; McIntyre PB; Isaacs D, 2004, 'Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation, Australian 2002-2003', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 28, pp. 324 - 338, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-pubs-2004-cdi2803-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2803b.pdf

Lawrence GL; Boyd I, 2004, 'Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation for children aged less than 7 years, 1 January to 30 June 2004', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 28, pp. 490 - 492, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-pubs-2004-cdi2804-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2804h.pdf

Hull B; Lawrence GL; MacIntyre CR; McIntyre PB, 2003, 'Is lower immunisation coverage in inner-urban areas of Australian due to low uptake or poor notification?', Australian Family Physician, vol. 32, pp. 1041 - 1043, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14708159

Hull BP; Lawrence GL; MacIntyre CR; McIntyre PB, 2003, 'Immunisation coverage in Australia after correcting for under-reporting to the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 27, pp. 533 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00829.x

Hull B; Lawrence GL; MacIntyre CR; McIntyre PB, 2003, 'Estimating immunisation coverage: is the 'third dose assumption' still valid?', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 27, pp. 357 - 361, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi2703-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2703e.pdf

Lawrence GL; MacIntyre CR; Hull B; McIntyre PB, 2003, 'Measles vaccination coverage among five-year-old children: implications for disease elimination in Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 27, pp. 413 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00419.x

Lawrence GL; Campbell-Llyod S; Rixon G, 2003, 'Monitoring adverse events following immunisation', NSW Public Health Bulletin, vol. 14, pp. 21 - 24, http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=NB03006.pdf

Lawrence GL; Menzies R; Burgess MA; McIntyre PB; Wood N; Boyd I; Purcell P; Isaacs D, 2003, 'Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation: Australia, 2000-2002', Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007--Amended, vol. 27, pp. 307 - 323, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi2703-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2703a.pdf

McIntyre P; Gidding H; Gilmour R; Lawrence G; Hull B; Horby P; Wang H; Andrews R; Burgess M, 2002, 'Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 1999 to 2000.', Communicable diseases intelligence, vol. Suppl, pp. i - 111, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12194422

McIntyre P; Amin J; Gidding H; Hull B; Torvaldsen S; Tucker A; Turnbull F; Burgess M, 2000, 'Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 1993-1998.', Communicable diseases intelligence, vol. Suppl

Lawrence G; Bammer G; Chapman S, 2000, ''Sending the wrong signal': Analysis of print media reportage of the ACT heroin prescription trial proposal, August 1997', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 24, pp. 254 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2000.tb01565.x

Wellington JE; Lawrence GL; Love DN; Whalley JM, 1996, 'Expression and characterization of equine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein D in mammalian cell lines', Archives of Virology, vol. 141, pp. 1785 - 1793, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01718301

Gompels UA; Nicholas J; Lawrence G; Jones M; Thomson BJ; Martin MED; Efstathiou S; Craxton M; Macaulay HA, 1995, 'The DNA Sequence of Human Herpesvirus-6: Structure, Coding Content, and Genome Evolution', Virology, vol. 209, pp. 29 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/viro.1995.1228

Tewari D; Nair SV; De Ungria MC; Lawrence GL; Hayden M; Love DN; Field HJ; Whalley JM, 1995, 'Immunization with glycoprotein C of equine herpesvirus-1 is associated with accelerated virus clearance in a murine model', Archives of Virology, vol. 140, pp. 789 - 797, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01309967

Baxi MK; Efstathiou S; Lawrence G; Whalley JM; Slater JD; Field HJ, 1995, 'The detection of latency-associated transcripts of equine herpesvirus 1 in ganglionic neurons', Journal of General Virology, vol. 76, pp. 3113 - 3118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-76-12-3113

Lawrence GL; Nicholas J; Barrell BG, 1995, 'Human herpesvirus 6 (strain U1102) encodes homologues of the conserved herpesvirus glycoprotein gM and the alphaherpesvirus origin-binding protein', Journal of General Virology, vol. 76, pp. 147 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-76-1-147

Lawrence GL; Gilkerson J; Love DN; Sabine M; Whalley JM, 1994, 'Rapid, single-step differentiation of equid herpesviruses 1 and 4 from clinical material using the polymerase chain reaction and virus-specific primers', Journal of Virological Methods, vol. 47, pp. 59 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0166-0934(94)90066-3

Gilkerson J; Jorm LR; Love DN; Lawrence GL; Millar Whalley J, 1994, 'Epidemiological investigation of equid herpesvirus-4 (EHV-4) excretion assessed by nasal swabs taken from thoroughbred foals', Veterinary Microbiology, vol. 39, pp. 275 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1135(94)90164-3

Love DN; Bell CW; Pye D; Edwards S; Hayden M; Lawrence GL; Boyle D; Pye T; Whalley JM, 1993, 'Expression of equine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein D by using a recombinant baculovirus', Journal of Virology, vol. 67, pp. 6820 - 6823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.67.11.6820-6823.1993

1993, 'Human herpesvirus-6 strain groups: a nomenclature.', Archives of virology, vol. 129, pp. 363 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01316913

Efstathiou S; Lawrence GL; Brown CM; Barrell BG, 1992, 'Identification of homologues to the human cytomegalovirus US22 gene family in human herpesvirus 6', Journal of General Virology, vol. 73, pp. 1661 - 1671, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-73-7-1661

Littler E; Lawrence G; Liu MY; Barrell BG; Arrand JR, 1990, 'Identification, cloning, and expression of the major capsid protein gene of human herpesvirus 6', Journal of Virology, vol. 64, pp. 714 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.64.2.714-722.1990

Lawrence GL; Chee M; Craxton MA; Gompels UA; Honess RW; Barrell BG, 1990, 'Human herpesvirus 6 is closely related to human cytomegalovirus', Journal of Virology, vol. 64, pp. 287 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.64.1.287-299.1990

Chee MS; Lawrence GL; Barrell BG, 1989, 'Alpha-, beta- and gammaherpesviruses encode a putative phosphotransferase', Journal of General Virology, vol. 70, pp. 1151 - 1160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-70-5-1151

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