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Janaki Amin is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, focusing primarily on epidemiology, infectious diseases, hepatology, general health professions, and oncology. Their research output includes 152 publications in medicine, with significant work in epidemiology (64 publications), infectious diseases (25), and hepatology (25).

Amin's research topics cover a range of issues including HIV, drug use, sexual risk, hepatitis C virus research, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, hepatitis B virus studies, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, child and adolescent health, and sex work and related issues. These focus areas are reflected in Amin's numerous scientific contributions.

The researcher has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • JHEP Reports

Janaki Amin has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Gregory J. Dore
  • Jason Grebely
  • Behzad Hajarizadeh
  • Phillip Read
  • Carla Treloar

Among Amin's recent papers are:

  • Long-term protection from HIV infection with oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in gay and bisexual men: findings from the expanded and extended EPIC-NSW prospective implementation study (2021, The Lancet HIV)
  • Evaluation of hepatitis C treatment-as-prevention within Australian prisons (SToP-C): a prospective cohort study (2021, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
  • Progress Towards Elimination of Hepatitis C Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs in Australia: The ETHOS Engage Study (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Azithromycin or Doxycycline for Asymptomatic Rectal Chlamydia trachomatis (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Comparison of Trends in Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections Before vs After Initiation of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (2020, JAMA Network Open)

In addition to journal publications, Amin has contributed to book publications with one title published by Verlag Barbara Budrich, titled Early Childhood Education Leadership in Times of Crisis (2023).

Best Publications

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma risk following direct-acting antiviral HCV therapy: A systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regression

    Reem Waziry;Behzad Hajarizadeh;Jason Grebely;Janaki Amin

  • The effects of female sex, viral genotype, and IL28B genotype on spontaneous clearance of acute hepatitis C virus infection

    Jason Grebely;Kimberly A Page;Rachel Sacks-Davis;Martin Schim van der Loeff

  • Life expectancy of HIV‐positive people after starting combination antiretroviral therapy: a meta‐analysis

    S Teeraananchai;SJ Kerr;SJ Kerr;J Amin;K Ruxrungtham

  • Mortality in well controlled HIV in the continuous antiretroviral therapy arms of the SMART and ESPRIT trials compared with the general population.

    Alison J. Rodger;Rebecca Lodwick;Mauro Schechter;Steven Deeks

  • Abacavir substitution for nucleoside analogs in patients with HIV lipoatrophy: a randomized trial.

    Andrew Carr;Cassy Workman;Don E. Smith;Jennifer Hoy

  • Reversibility of lipoatrophy in HIV-infected patients 2 years after switching from a thymidine analogue to abacavir: the MITOX Extension Study.

    Allison Martin;Don E Smith;Andrew Carr;Clare Ringland

  • Population-level effectiveness of rapid, targeted, high-coverage roll-out of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in men who have sex with men: the EPIC-NSW prospective cohort study.

    Andrew E. Grulich;Rebecca Guy;Janaki Amin;Fengyi Jin

  • Causes of death after diagnosis of hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection: a large community-based linkage study

    Janaki Amin;Matthew G Law;Mark Bartlett;John M Kaldor

  • Sofosbuvir and velpatasvir for hepatitis C virus infection in people with recent injection drug use (SIMPLIFY): an open-label, single-arm, phase 4, multicentre trial.

    Jason Grebely;Olav Dalgard;Brian Conway;Evan B Cunningham

  • Simplification of Antiretroviral Therapy with Tenofovir-Emtricitabine or Abacavir-Lamivudine: A Randomized, 96-Week Trial

    Allison Martin;Mark Bloch;Janaki Amin;David Baker

  • The pattern of excess cancer in dialysis and transplantation

    John H. Stewart;Claire M. Vajdic;Marina T. van Leeuwen;Janaki Amin

  • Efficacy of 400 mg efavirenz versus standard 600 mg dose in HIV-infected, antiretroviral-naive adults (ENCORE1): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial.

    Rebekah L. Puls;Janaki Amin;Marcelo Losso;Praphan Phanuphak

  • Cancer incidence in people with hepatitis B or C infection: A large community-based linkage study

    Janaki Amin;Gregory J. Dore;Dianne L. O’Connell;Mark Bartlett

  • Effect of reduced immunosuppression after kidney transplant failure on risk of cancer: population based retrospective cohort study

    Marina T van Leeuwen;Angela C Webster;Margaret R E McCredie;John H Stewart

  • HIV and hepatitis C coinfection within the CAESAR study.

    J Amin;M Kaye;S Skidmore;D Pillay

  • A randomized trial of combination hepatitis B therapy in HIV/HBV coinfected antiretroviral naïve individuals in Thailand

    Gail V. Matthews;Anchalee Avihingsanon;Sharon R. Lewin;Sharon R. Lewin;Janaki Amin

  • Evaluation of the Xpert HCV Viral Load point-of-care assay from venepuncture-collected and finger-stick capillary whole-blood samples: a cohort study

    Jason Grebely;Francois M J Lamoury;Behzad Hajarizadeh;Yasmin Mowat

  • Immunosuppression and other risk factors for early and late non-Hodgkin lymphoma after kidney transplantation.

    Marina T. van Leeuwen;Andrew E. Grulich;Angela C. Webster;Margaret R.E. McCredie

  • Quantifying the dose-response of walking in reducing coronary heart disease risk: meta-analysis.

    Henry Zheng;Nicola Orsini;Janaki Amin;Alicja Wolk

  • Measurement of Serum Levels of Macrophage Inhibitory Cytokine 1 Combined with Prostate-Specific Antigen Improves Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

    David A. Brown;Carsten Stephan;Robyn L. Ward;Mathew Law

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory J. Dore
Gregory J. Dore University of New South Wales
Jason Grebely
Jason Grebely University of New South Wales
David A. Cooper
David A. Cooper University of New South Wales
Matthew Law
Matthew Law University of New South Wales
Sean Emery
Sean Emery University of New South Wales
Anthony D. Kelleher
Anthony D. Kelleher University of New South Wales
Andrew E. Grulich
Andrew E. Grulich University of New South Wales
Andrew Carr
Andrew Carr University of Oxford
Margaret Hellard
Margaret Hellard Burnet Institute
Gail V. Matthews
Gail V. Matthews University of New South Wales

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