Associate ProfessorPaul Agius

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health

  • Associate Professor, Biostatistics
    Faculty 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 RESEARCH
    City of Casey Household Health and Wellbeing survey (2027)
    City of Casey - $52k1 Oct 2026 - 31 May 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kavanagh S,
    • Nguyen D,
    • Gao L,
    • Agius P,
    • Cooper P
  • GRANT
    Determining health needs and outcomes of key populations of people who use drugs
    1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dietze P,
    • Maher L,
    • Hickman M,
    • Kerr T,
    • Stoove M
    NHMRC - Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant - 2023690 - $45,176.75
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Determining the social and criminological impacts of injecting drug use and methamphetamine use in Australia: A record linkage study
    Australian Research Council1 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Determining the impact of the Melbourne Supervised Injecting Rooms on health and social outcomes
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dietze P,
    • Maher L,
    • Kerr T,
    • Hickman M,
    • Stoove M
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Identifying the vaginal microbiota in Papua New Guinea, and its impact on birth weight and infant growth
    Ferring Pharmaceuticals1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Vector sero-surveillance tools to accelerate malaria elimination
    National Health and Medical Research Council - eAsia grant, $765K1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Global Fund Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative-3E: Optimizing 1-3-7 surveillance and response strategies to achieve malaria elimination across the Greater Mekong Subregion
    Global Fund1 Jan 2020
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Global 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 study
    Global Fund1 Jan 2020
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Global 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 study
    Global Fund1 Jan 2019
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Global 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 research
    Global Fund1 Jan 2019
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Intranasal naloxone for the reversal of opioid overdose: A double-blinded, double-dummy controlled non-inferiority trial in Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
    NHMRC1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dietze P,
    • Jauncey M,
    • Strang J,
    • Lenton S,
    • Kerr D
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Early Identification of Neonatal Sepsis using Whole Blood CD64 and Neutrophil Elastase: A Proof of Concept Study
    Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation1 Jan 2018
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Understanding the methamphetamine epidemic and its implications for service provision amd harm reduction: The VicMeth cohort
    NHMRC1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2022
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Determining patterns of cessation and relapse in a cohort of people who inject drugs
    NHMRC1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2021