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Associate ProfessorPaul Agius

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health

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  • Associate Professor, Biostatistics
    Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Deakin University Faculty Research and Research Training Committee
    11 Apr 2025
    Member since April 2025
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    NHMRC Panel Member (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2025
    Clinical Trial and Cohort Studies
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  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    NHMRC Panel Member (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2024
    Clinical Trial and Cohort Studies
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  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    NHMRC External Assessor
    1 Jan 2016
    Project Grant
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    PLoS ONE Statistical Advisory Board Member
    1 Jan 2015
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Blogger bungles analysis of Swiss COVID figures (FACT check article for AAP) (opens in a new tab)⁠
    22 Nov 2022
    AAP media consultation for expert opinion re: an analysis of Swiss COVID data published on social media.
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  • CONFIRMATION OF CANDIDATURE
    Depression in Older Adults: Physical Health Determinants and Modifiable Lifestyle Risk Factors
    1 Dec 2023 - 1 Dec 2023
    Panel member for confirmation of candidature. PhD candidate: Belayneh Mengist Miteku
  • AFFILIATION
    Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination - Fellow (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2020
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  • AFFILIATION
    Genital Microbiome Consortium
    1 Jan 2019
    Member - Senior Biostatistician
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Australasian Epidemiological Association Member
    1 Jan 2026
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Data Safety Monitoring Board (Biostatistician) - Clinical CRC trial (nutrition trial, Laos PDR)
    29 Apr 2022
    SUANHOAM – Supporting Action on Nutrition in the Home and the Community – an CRCT in Vientiane Province, Lao PDR
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Statistical Society of Australia (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2012
    Accredited Member (AStat)
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  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Burnet Institute Crofts publication award for the best public health research (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2022
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  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Burnet Institute Crofts publication award for the best biomedical research (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2017
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  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Oceania Stata Conference (Melbourne, 2025)
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Gadi high-performance computing system - seminar
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Cross-Institute Faculty of Health reearch showcase 2024
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Australasian Epidemiological Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
    Long Oral Presentation: Effectiveness of the Community-delivered Integrated Malaria Elimination intervention: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Australasian Epidemiological Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2025
    Long Oral Presentation: Effectiveness of topical mosquito repellent distributed by village health volunteer networks in the reduction of Plasmodium spp. infection in Myanmar: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Australasian Epidemiological Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2026
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    The Joint International Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Australian Statistical Conference 2018 - Melbourne
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Australasian Epidemiological Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2011, Perth
    Oral Presentation: Twenty years of births to Vietnamese-born women: how do caesarean rates compare over time to Australian-born women
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Western Health Research Forum
    30 Apr 2026 - 30 Apr 2026
    Representing Deakin University, Faculty of Health (Biostatistics Unit) as a formal research partner of Western Health and contributing to this research forum (Footscray Hospital)
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Invited presenter at the Deakin University, School of Psychology planning day
    16 Dec 2025 - 16 Dec 2025
    Presentation introducing the Deakin Biostatistics Unit (BU) to encourage and develop research collaboration between School of Psychology and the BU.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Introduction to Logistic Regression Workshop
    9 Sep 2025 - 9 Sep 2025
    Developed and delivered an in-person all-day logistic regression biostatistics workshop for academics and HDR students (Burwood Corporate Centre)