Associate ProfessorPaul Agius
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
Orcid identifier0000-0002-6075-8548 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate Professor, BiostatisticsFaculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
A/Prof. Agius' areas of methodological interest/expertise include causal inference, explanation in causal inference (causal mediation), statisitical modelling (linear and generalised linear) of repeated measures and complex event history longitudinal data from prospective cohort studies, statistical modelling for pragmatic and clinical randomized control studies, latent variable modelling, structural equation models and statistical modelling for diagnostic accuracy studies.
GRANTS
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCity of Casey Household Health and Wellbeing survey (2027)City of Casey - $52k1 Oct 2026 - 31 May 2027People funded by this grant:
- Kavanagh S,
- Nguyen D,
- Gao L,
- Agius P,
- Cooper P
- GRANTDetermining health needs and outcomes of key populations of people who use drugs1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2028People funded by this grant:
- Dietze P,
- Maher L,
- Hickman M,
- Kerr T,
- Stoove M
- COMPETITIVE GRANTDetermining the social and criminological impacts of injecting drug use and methamphetamine use in Australia: A record linkage studyAustralian Research Council1 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
- COMPETITIVE GRANTDetermining the impact of the Melbourne Supervised Injecting Rooms on health and social outcomesNational Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Dietze P,
- Maher L,
- Kerr T,
- Hickman M,
- Stoove M
- COMPETITIVE GRANTIdentifying the vaginal microbiota in Papua New Guinea, and its impact on birth weight and infant growthFerring Pharmaceuticals1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
- COMPETITIVE GRANTVector sero-surveillance tools to accelerate malaria eliminationNational Health and Medical Research Council - eAsia grant, $765K1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
- COMPETITIVE GRANTGlobal Fund Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative-3E: Optimizing 1-3-7 surveillance and response strategies to achieve malaria elimination across the Greater Mekong SubregionGlobal Fund1 Jan 2020
- COMPETITIVE GRANTGlobal Fund Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative-3E: Personal protection packages for reducing residual malaria transmission in forest-going mobile and migrant populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS): Stepped-wedge trials with nested mixed-methods studyGlobal Fund1 Jan 2020
- COMPETITIVE GRANTGlobal Fund - Save the Children International: Assessing the effectiveness of the Malaria Case-Based Reporting (MCBR) application compared to the Paper-Based Reporting (PBR) system for the reporting of malaria cases in Myanmar: a mixed methods evaluation studyGlobal Fund1 Jan 2019
- COMPETITIVE GRANTGlobal Fund Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative-2: Strengthening quality and sustainability of community-based services. This project aims to improve access to malaria testing and treatment in Myanmar and Laos through randomised controlled trials and implementation researchGlobal Fund1 Jan 2019
- COMPETITIVE GRANTIntranasal naloxone for the reversal of opioid overdose: A double-blinded, double-dummy controlled non-inferiority trial in Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting CentreNHMRC1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Dietze P,
- Jauncey M,
- Strang J,
- Lenton S,
- Kerr D
- COMPETITIVE GRANTEarly Identification of Neonatal Sepsis using Whole Blood CD64 and Neutrophil Elastase: A Proof of Concept StudyNorman Beischer Medical Research Foundation1 Jan 2018
- COMPETITIVE GRANTUnderstanding the methamphetamine epidemic and its implications for service provision amd harm reduction: The VicMeth cohortNHMRC1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2022
- COMPETITIVE GRANTDetermining patterns of cessation and relapse in a cohort of people who inject drugsNHMRC1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2021