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  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Peter D. Sly is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and environmental science. Their main areas of study encompass pulmonary and respiratory medicine, health toxicology and mutagenesis, epidemiology, physiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The researcher has focused on several key topics, including neonatal respiratory health research, air quality and health impacts, asthma and respiratory diseases, cystic fibrosis research advances, respiratory viral infections research, climate change and health impacts, and birth, development, and health.

Peter D. Sly has published in a range of frequent venues that include Pediatric Pulmonology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Reviews on Environmental Health.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission (2020), The Lancet
  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits (2020), PLoS Genetics
  • Health consequences of exposure to e-waste: an updated systematic review (2021), The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy associates with protection against food allergy in the offspring (2020), Nature Communications
  • Gut microbiota composition during infancy and subsequent behavioural outcomes (2020), EBioMedicine

Coauthors with whom Peter D. Sly has frequently collaborated include Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Peter Vuillermin, Richard Saffery, Dwan Vilcins, and Martin O'Hely.

Best Publications

  • The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

    Philip J Landrigan;Richard Fuller;Nereus J R Acosta;Olusoji Adeyi

  • An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: pulmonary function testing in preschool children.

    Nicole Beydon;Stephanie D. Davis;Enrico Lombardi;Julian L. Allen

  • Consequences of bullying victimization in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Sophie E Moore;Rosana E Norman;Shuichi Suetani;Hannah J Thomas

  • Definition, assessment and treatment of wheezing disorders in preschool children: An evidence-based approach

    P. L P Brand;E. Baraldi;H. Bisgaard;A. L. Boner

  • Development of allergen-specific T-cell memory in atopic and normal children

    S. L. Prescott;C. Macaubas;T. Smallacombe;B. J. Holt

  • After asthma: redefining airways diseases

    Ian D Pavord;Richard Beasley;Alvar Agusti;Gary P Anderson

  • A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

    Helen Clark;Awa Marie Coll-Seck;Anshu Banerjee;Stefan Peterson

  • The infant nasopharyngeal microbiome impacts severity of lower respiratory infection and risk of asthma development

    Shu Mei Teo;Danny Mok;Kym Pham;Merci Kusel

  • Transplacental Priming of the Human Immune System to Environmental Allergens: Universal Skewing of Initial T Cell Responses Toward the Th2 Cytokine Profile

    Susan L. Prescott;Claudia Macaubas;Barbara J. Holt;Troy B. Smallacombe

  • Early-life respiratory viral infections, atopic sensitization, and risk of subsequent development of persistent asthma

    Merci M.H. Kusel;Nicholas H. de Klerk;Tatiana Kebadze;Vaike Vohma

  • International consensus on (ICON) pediatric asthma

    N. G. Papadopoulos;H. Arakawa;A. Custovic;J. Gern

  • Health consequences of exposure to e-waste: a systematic review

    Kristen Grant;Fiona C Goldizen;Peter D Sly;Marie-Noel Brune

  • Association Between Breast Feeding and Asthma in 6 Year Old Children: Findings of a Prospective Birth Cohort Study

    W. H. Oddy;P. G. Holt;P. D. Sly;A. W. Read

  • Risk Factors for Bronchiectasis in Children With Cystic Fibrosis

    Peter D. Sly;Catherine L. Gangell;Linping Chen;Robert S. Ware

  • Extending the simple linear regression model to account for correlated responses: an introduction to generalized estimating equations and multi-level mixed modelling.

    Paul Burton;Lyle Gurrin;Lyle Gurrin;Peter Sly;Peter Sly

  • Risk assessment for respiratory complications in paediatric anaesthesia: a prospective cohort study

    Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg;Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg;Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg;Krisztina Boda;Neil A Chambers;Claudia Rebmann

  • Allergic respiratory disease: strategic targets for primary prevention during childhood.

    P G Holt;P D Sly

  • E-waste: A global hazard

    Devin N. Perkins;Marie Noel Brune Drisse;Tapiwa Nxele;Peter D. Sly

  • Lung disease at diagnosis in infants with cystic fibrosis detected by newborn screening.

    Peter D. Sly;Siobhain Brennan;Catherine Gangell;Nicholas de Klerk

  • Phenotypic, Functional, and Plasticity Features of Classical and Alternatively Activated Human Macrophages

    Abdullah A. Tarique;Jayden Logan;Emma Thomas;Patrick G. Holt

  • Effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy and a family history of asthma on respiratory function in newborn infants

    S. M. Stick;P. R. Burton;L. Gurrin;P. D. Sly

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick G. Holt
Patrick G. Holt University of Western Australia
Stephen M. Stick
Stephen M. Stick University of Western Australia
Alan H. Jobe
Alan H. Jobe Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Nicholas de Klerk
Nicholas de Klerk University of Western Australia
Claire E. Wainwright
Claire E. Wainwright University of Queensland
Heather J. Zar
Heather J. Zar University of Cape Town
Machiko Ikegami
Machiko Ikegami University of Cincinnati
David O. Carpenter
David O. Carpenter University at Albany, State University of New York
Jochen F. Mueller
Jochen F. Mueller University of Queensland
Kathryn E. Holt
Kathryn E. Holt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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