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Tony Blakely is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and specializes primarily in Medicine with a significant research focus in public health and epidemiology. Their scholarly activity spans several interconnected subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics reflect a concentration on issues critical to health at both population and global levels. Main topics covered in their work include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Recent publications featuring Tony Blakely's contributions include:

  • "The effect of food taxes and subsidies on population health and health costs: a modelling study" (2020, The Lancet Public Health)

Other notable papers associated with their research circle include:

  • "Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19 and other emerging pandemic diseases" (2020, BMJ)
  • "The acceptability of using a lottery to allocate research funding: a survey of applicants" (2020, Research Integrity and Peer Review)
  • "Failures of quarantine systems for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia and New Zealand" (2021, The Medical Journal of Australia)
  • "Closing the gaps in tobacco endgame evidence: a scoping review" (2022, Tobacco Control)

Frequent collaborators include colleagues with whom Tony Blakely has co-authored numerous studies. Key frequent co-authors are:

  • Nick Wilson
  • Driss Ait Ouakrim
  • Anja Mizdrak
  • Tim Wilson
  • Coral Gartner

Tony Blakely has published extensively in well-known scientific venues. The most frequent venues for their research publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Tobacco Control
  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Young Ho Khang;Perviz Asaria;Tony Blakely

  • Unemployment and suicide. Evidence for a causal association

    Tony A. Blakely;Sunny C. Collings;Joshua Atkinson

  • Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Anna Matheson;Julian Crane;Helen Viggers

  • Ecological effects in multi-level studies

    Tony A Blakely;Alistair J Woodward

  • Fixed effects analysis of repeated measures data

    Fiona Imlach Gunasekara;Ken Richardson;Kristie Carter;Tony Blakely

  • Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study.

    Jamie Pearce;Tony Blakely;Karen Witten;Phil Bartie

  • Food Pricing Strategies, Population Diets, and Non-Communicable Disease: A Systematic Review of Simulation Studies

    Helen Eyles;Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Nhung Nghiem;Tony Blakely

  • Effects of price discounts and tailored nutrition education on supermarket purchases: a randomized controlled trial

    Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Tony Blakely;Yannan Jiang;Helen C Eyles

  • Probabilistic record linkage and a method to calculate the positive predictive value

    Tony Blakely;Clare Salmond

  • Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources?

    Jamie Pearce;Karen Witten;Rosemary Hiscock;Tony Blakely

  • Metropolitan area income inequality and self-rated health--a multi-level study.

    Tony A Blakely;Kimberly Lochner;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Neighbourhood access to open spaces and the physical activity of residents: a national study.

    Karen Witten;Rosemary Hiscock;Jamie Pearce;Tony Blakely

  • The contextual effects of neighbourhood access to supermarkets and convenience stores on individual fruit and vegetable consumption

    J Pearce;Rosemary Hiscock;T Blakely;K Witten

  • Measuring cancer survival in populations: relative survival vs cancer-specific survival

    Diana Sarfati;Tony Blakely;Neil Pearce

  • Socioeconomic inequality in voting participation and self-rated health.

    Tony A. Blakely;Bruce P. Kennedy;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Decades of disparity: widening ethnic mortality gaps from 1980 to 1999.

    Tony A. Blakely;Shilpi Ajwani;Bridget Robson;Martin Tobias

  • Housing affordability and mental health: does the relationship differ for renters and home purchasers?

    Kate E Mason;Emma Baker;Tony Blakely;Rebecca J Bentley

  • What is the lag time between income inequality and health status

    Tony A Blakely;Bruce P Kennedy;Roberta Glass;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Effectiveness of monetary incentives in modifying dietary behavior: a review of randomized, controlled trials

    Joanne Wall;Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Tony Blakely;Anthony Rodgers

  • Do nutrition labels influence healthier food choices? Analysis of label viewing behaviour and subsequent food purchases in a labelling intervention trial.

    Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Helen Eyles;Yannan Jiang;Tony Blakely

  • Survival Disparities in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous New Zealanders with Colon Cancer: The Role of Patient Comorbidity, Treatment and Health Service Factors

    Sarah Hill;Diana Sarfati;Tony Blakely;Bridget Robson

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson University of Otago
Alistair Woodward
Alistair Woodward University of Auckland
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards University of Otago
Martin Tobias
Martin Tobias Wellington Management Company
Karen Witten
Karen Witten Massey University
Rebecca Bentley
Rebecca Bentley University of Melbourne
Philippa Howden-Chapman
Philippa Howden-Chapman University of Otago
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Anne M Kavanagh
Anne M Kavanagh University of Melbourne
Janet Hoek
Janet Hoek University of Otago

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