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Research InterestsDr Geetha Ranmuthugala | | (Position Details) | | Phone 02 9385 3265 | | Email | | | | School/Unit |
| Australian Institute of Health Innovation | | http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/ClinGov_About
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| | Broad Research Areas | |
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Epidemiology
Population Health
Clinical Governance
Health Services Research
Health Policy
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| | | | Specific Research Keywords | |
| Health Care Quality
Research methods
Healthcare Financing
Evidence-informed Health Policy
Ageing
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| | | | Research Interests | |
| Epidemiologist with particular interest in quantitative methods with experience in the fields or rural and environmental health and in economic modelling. Special interest in health services research focusing on quality of health care.
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| | | | ILP Research Interests (Will supervise ILP students) |
| Environmental Health
Epidemiologic Methods
Epidemiology
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| | | | Teaching Interests | |
| Epidemiology, research methods. | |
| | | | Society Memberships & Professional Activities | |
| Fellow Royal Society of Public Health (UK)
Associate Fellow Australian College of Health Services Executives | |
| | | | Key works/Publications | |
| Nepal B, Brown L, Ranmuthugala G. Modelling the impact of modifying lifestyle risk factors on dementia prevalence in Australian population aged 45 years and over, 2006 2051" Australasian Journal on Ageing, in press (Accepted 02/09/09)
Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, J., Ranmuthugala, G., et al. The development, design, testing, refinement, simulation and application of an evaluation framework for communities of practice and social-professional networks. BMC Health Services Research. 2009;9(1):162
Ranmuthugala G, Nepal B, Brown L. Impact of home-based long-term care on informal carers. Australian Family Physician.2009;38(8):618-620.
Nepal B, Brown L, Ranmuthugala G. Years of life lived with and without dementia in Australia, 2004-2006: a population health measure. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2008 Dec;32(6):565-8.
Spencer R, Cardin A, Ranmuthugala G, Somers G, Solarsh B. Influences on medical students’ decisions to study at a Rural Clinical School. Australian Journal of Rural Health.2008;16(5), 262-268.
Nepal B, Ranmuthugala G, Brown L, Budge M. Modelling costs of dementia in Australia: evidence, gaps, and needs. Australian Health Review. 2008; 32 (3): 479-487.
Ranmuthugala G, Brown L, Lymer S, Thurecht S. Hospital admissions in the NHS and hospital separations in the NHMD: What is the difference? Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2008;32:276 - 281
Ranmuthugala G. Ensuring the delivery of quality health care (letter to the editor). Australian Health Review. 2008 Feb 1;32(1):5-6.
Wright AA, Ranmuthugala G, Jones J, Disler P, Maydom B, Charnley C, Kronus R, et al. Rural Organisation of Acute Stroke Team (ROAST) project. Internal Medicine Journal. 2008 Jan;38(1):32-7
Ranmuthugala G, Humphreys J, Solarsh B, et al. Where is the evidence that rural exposure increases uptake of rural medical practice? Australian Journal of Rural Health. 2007;15(5):285-8. Review
Ranmuthugala G, Humphreys J, Solarsh B, Walters L, Wakerman J, Dunbar JA, Solarsh G. Identifying the aspects of rural exposure that influence medical students to take up rural practice. Medical Education (Letter to the editor). 2007 Jul;41(7):718
Milton AH, Smith W, Dear K, Sim M, Ranmuthugala G, Lokuge K, et al. Randomised intervention trial to assess two arsenic mitigation options in Bangladesh. J. Environ. Sci. Health, Part A. 2007;A42(12): 1897 – 1908.
Caldwell BK, Smith WT, Lokuge K, Ranmuthugala G, et al. Access to drinking water and arsenicosis in Bangladesh. J Health Population and Nutrition. 2006;24(3)336-345.
Falconer I, Chapman H, Moore M, Ranmuthugala G. Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds: A review of their challenge to sustainable and safe water supply and water re-use. Environ Toxicol. 2006;21:181-191.
Dear K, Ranmuthugala G, Kjellstrom T, Skinner C, and Hanigan I (2006) Effects of temperature and ozone on daily mortality experienced in France during the August 2003 heat wave. Archives of Environmental Health.2005;60(4)205-212.
Ranmuthugala G, Milton AH, Smith WT, Ng J, Sim M, Dear K, Caldwell B. Intervention trial to assess arsenic exposure from food crops in Bangladesh. Archives of Environmental Health. 2004;59(4);209-212
Pilotto L, Hobson P, Burch M, Ranmuthugala G, Attewell R, Weightman W. Acute skin irritant effects of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in healthy volunteers. Aust N Z J Public Health 2004; 28: 220-4
Murshed R, Douglas R, Ranmuthugala G, Caldwell B.. Clinicians' roles in management of arsenicosis in Bangladesh: Interview study. BMJ. 2004; 328(7438):493.
Ranmuthugala G,† Pilotto L, Smith W, Vimalasiri T, Dear K, Douglas R. Chlorinated drinking water and micronuclei in urinary bladder epithelial cells. Epidemiology. 2003;14: 617-622
Ranmuthugala G, Karr M, Mira M, Causer J, Alperstein G, Jones M. Opportunistic sampling from early childhood centre: A substitute for random sampling to determine lead and iron status of pre-school children? ANZJPH 1998;22(4):512-514
Hellard M.E, Sinclair M.I, Ranmuthugala G. Pilotto L.S, Padiglione A, Robertson B.E, Fairley C.K. Beyond Coliforms: Measuring Human Health Water (Journal Australian Water and Wastewater Association) 1997; 24(5):26 - 28
Ranmuthugala G, McInness E, Mira M, Atkin N, Rendalls S, Kennedy P. A comparison of stated versus actual GP participation rates in the general practitioner pre-discharge project. Australian Family Physician. 1997; Vol 26(s2):104 - 108
Mira M, Alperstein G, Karr M, Ranmuthugala G, Causer J, Niec A, Lilburne A. Haem iron intake in 12-36 month old children depleted in iron: case-control study. BMJ 1996;312:881-3. | |
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