Adrian G. Barnett

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Adrian G. Barnett
BornJanuary 1973 [1]
Northampton, UK [1]
Alma mater University College London BSc (Hon)
University of Queensland (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
  • meta-research
  • research funding
  • data sharing
  • peer review
  • reducing research waste
Institutions Queensland University of Technology [2]
Thesis On the Use of the Bispectrum to Detect and Model Non-linearity [3]  (2002)
Doctoral advisor Rodney Carl Wolff [4]
Website staff.qut.edu.au/staff/a.barnett

Adrian Gerard Barnett FASSA (born 1973) is a professor in the faculty of Health in the school of Public Health and Social Work, at Queensland University of Technology [2] and was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2018 to 2020. [5]

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Early life and education

Adrian Gerard Barnett was born in Northampton, England in January 1973. He was awarded a first class honours B.Sc. in statistics from the University College London in 1994. On graduating from UCL he worked as a statistician for SmithKline Beecham and for the Medical Research Council (of Great Britain) before moving to Australia to study for his Ph.D. in mathematics. [2] He was awarded a Ph.D. in 2002 by the University of Queensland. [6]

Career

Barnett is committed to open research and concerned to make medical science more reproducible and less wasteful [7] and, together with colleagues, lodges prospective study protocols on F1000Research where they can be critiqued by the worldwide community. [8] [9] [10] In part, as a result of this commitment, he collaborates with scientists from New Zealand, [11] from China, [12] [13] [14] from the US, [15] as well as from Australia.

He has published articles on environmental health, [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [11] [12] [21] in particular, on the effects of high temperatures on work related injuries, [22] on death rates, [12] [20] [23] on other temperature-related health issues, [19] [24] [15] [25] and on the statistical methods for the analysis of such data. [26] [27] [28] Much of his work has been towards improving hospitals. [9] [29] [30] Air pollution and its effects on health is another area to which he and his colleagues have made many contributions. [18] [11] [21] [13] [31] [32]

His work on public health has meant that he enters the public arena in order to bring scientific knowledge into the public debate. Thus at the time of the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire in the Latrobe Valley, Barnett publicly criticised the handling of the fire, arguing that at least 11 additional deaths resulted from the long-burning fire and its toxic smoke. [33] [34] He served as an expert witness in the inquiry which followed. [1]

Barnett has criticised air quality standards in Australia as giving apparently safe cut-offs for air pollution concentrations whereas his and others' work shows that there are no safe levels for air pollutants, and thus the "standards" increase the health risks to all Australians. [35] [36] He has used The Conversation to further discuss issues concerning the toxicity of air pollution. [37] [38] [39] [40] [41]

In November 2021 Barnett was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. [42]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 Adrian Barnett: CV Archived 9 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine github.com
  2. 1 2 3 Barnett, Adrian. "QUT | Staff Profiles | Adrian Barnett". Faculty of Health. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Barnett, A.G. (2002). "On the use of the bispectrum to detect and model non-linearity". espace.library.uq.edu.au. UQ eSpace. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Adrian G. Barnett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Past Presidents – Statistical Society of Australia". statsoc.org.au. Archived from the original on 16 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Adrian Barnett". Orcid. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  7. ↑ Barnett, A. (8 December 2016). "I made my grant application public, here's why you should too". www.natureindex.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  8. ↑ Senanayake, S.; Barnett, A.; Graves, N.; Healy, H.; Baboolal, K.; Kularatna, S. (9 March 2020). "Using machine learning techniques to develop risk prediction models to predict graft failure following kidney transplantation: protocol for a retrospective cohort study". F1000Research. 8: 1810. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.20661.2 . ISSN   2046-1402. PMC   7199287 . PMID   32419922.
  9. 1 2 McCreanor, V.; Graves, N.; Barnett, A.G; Parsonage, W.; Merlo, G. (17 January 2018). "A systematic review and critical analysis of cost-effectiveness studies for coronary artery disease treatment". F1000Research. 7: 77. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.13616.1 . ISSN   2046-1402. PMC   6039943 . PMID   30026922.
  10. ↑ Graves, N; Barnett, A.G.; Burn, E.; Cook, D. (2 August 2018). "Smaller clinical trials for decision making; using p-values could be costly". F1000Research. 7: 1176. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.15522.1 . ISSN   2046-1402. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  11. 1 2 3 Barnett, A.G.; Williams, G.M.; Schwartz, J.; Best, T.L.; Neller, A.H.; Petroeschevsky, A.L.; Simpson, R.W. (2006). "The Effects of Air Pollution on Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular Diseasein Elderly People in Australian and New Zealand Cities". Environmental Health Perspectives. 114 (7): 1018–1023. doi:10.1289/ehp.8674. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   1513338 . PMID   16835053.
  12. 1 2 3 Guo, Y.; Barnett, A.G; Pan, X.; Yu, W.; Tong, S. (2011). "The Impact of Temperature on Mortality in Tianjin, China: A Case-Crossover Design with a Distributed Lag Nonlinear Model". Environmental Health Perspectives. 119 (12): 1719–1725. doi:10.1289/ehp.1103598. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   3261984 . PMID   21827978.
  13. 1 2 Guo, Y.; Zeng, H.; Zheng, R.; Li, S.; Barnett, A.G.; Zhang, S.; Zou, X.; Huxley, R.; Chen, W.; Williams, G. (2016). "The association between lung cancer incidence and ambient air pollution in China: A spatiotemporal analysis". Environmental Research. 144 (Pt A): 60–65. Bibcode:2016ER....144...60G. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2015.11.004. PMID   26562043.
  14. ↑ Guo, Y.; Tong, S.; Li, S.; Barnett, A.G.; Yu, W.; Zhang, Y.; Pan, X. (2010). "Gaseous air pollution and emergency hospital visits for hypertension in Beijing, China: a time-stratified case-crossover study". Environmental Health. 9 (1): 57. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-57 . ISSN   1476-069X. PMC   2972268 . PMID   20920362.
  15. 1 2 Barnett, A.G.; Hajat, S.; Gasparrini, A.; Rocklöv, J. (2012). "Cold and heat waves in the United States" (PDF). Environmental Research. 112: 218–224. Bibcode:2012ER....112..218B. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2011.12.010. PMID   22226140. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  16. ↑ Lazarevic, N.; Barnett, A.G.; Sly, P.D.; Knibbs, L.D. (2019). "Statistical Methodology in Studies of Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Review of Existing Approaches and New Alternatives". Environmental Health Perspectives. 127 (2): 026001. doi:10.1289/EHP2207. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   6752940 . PMID   30720337.
  17. ↑ Barnett, A.G. (2011). "Time-Dependent Exposures and the Fixed-Cohort Bias". Environmental Health Perspectives. 119 (10): A422-3, author reply A423. doi:10.1289/ehp.1103885. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   3230453 . PMID   21968256.
  18. 1 2 Barnett, A. (2008). "Reduction in Measurement Error Confounds Cumulative Pollution Exposure". Environmental Health Perspectives. 116 (10): A419-20, author reply A420-1. doi:10.1289/ehp.11804. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   2569113 . PMID   18941551.
  19. 1 2 Huang, C.; Barnett, A.G.; Xu, Z.; Chu, C.; Wang, X.; Turner, L.R.; Tong, S. (2013). "Managing the Health Effects of Temperature in Response to Climate Change: Challenges Ahead". Environmental Health Perspectives. 121 (4): 415–419. doi:10.1289/ehp.1206025. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   3620746 . PMID   23407064.
  20. 1 2 Hondula, D.M.; Barnett, A.G. (2014). "Heat-Related Morbidity in Brisbane, Australia: Spatial Variation and Area-Level Predictors". Environmental Health Perspectives. 122 (8): 831–836. doi:10.1289/ehp.1307496. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   4123028 . PMID   24787277.
  21. 1 2 Hansen, C.A.; Barnett, A.G.; Pritchard, G. (2008). "The Effect of Ambient Air Pollution during Early Pregnancy on Fetal Ultrasonic Measurements during Mid-Pregnancy". Environmental Health Perspectives. 116 (3): 362–369. doi:10.1289/ehp.10720. ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   2265059 . PMID   18335104.
  22. ↑ Varghese, B.M.; Barnett, A.G.; Hansen, A.L.; Bi, P.; Hanson-Easey, S.; Heyworth, J.S.; Sim, M.R.; Pisaniello, D.L. (2019). "The effects of ambient temperatures on the risk of work-related injuries and illnesses: Evidence from Adelaide, Australia 2003–2013". Environmental Research. 170: 101–109. Bibcode:2019ER....170..101V. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2018.12.024. hdl: 2440/118426 . PMID   30579159. S2CID   58654648.
  23. ↑ Huang, C.; Chu, C.; Wang, X.; Barnett, A.G. (2015). "Unusually cold and dry winters increase mortality in Australia" (PDF). Environmental Research. 136: 1–7. Bibcode:2015ER....136....1H. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.08.046. PMID   25460613. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  24. ↑ Strand, L.B.; Barnett, A.G.; Tong, S. (2011). "The influence of season and ambient temperature on birth outcomes: A review of the epidemiological literature". Environmental Research. 111 (3): 451–462. Bibcode:2011ER....111..451S. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2011.01.023. PMID   21333980.
  25. ↑ Wang, X.Y.; Barnett, A.G.; Hu, W.; Tong, S. (2009). "Temperature variation and emergency hospital admissions for stroke in Brisbane, Australia, 1996–2005" (PDF). International Journal of Biometeorology. 53 (6): 535–541. Bibcode:2009IJBm...53..535W. doi:10.1007/s00484-009-0241-4. ISSN   0020-7128. PMID   19506912. S2CID   27068034. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  26. ↑ Guo, Y.; Barnett, A.G.; Tong, S. (2013). "Spatiotemporal model or time series model for assessing city-wide temperature effects on mortality?". Environmental Research. 120: 55–62. Bibcode:2013ER....120...55G. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2012.09.001. PMID   23026801.
  27. ↑ Barnett, A.G.; Tong, S.; Clements, A.C.A. (2010). "What measure of temperature is the best predictor of mortality?" (PDF). Environmental Research. 110 (6): 604–611. Bibcode:2010ER....110..604B. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2010.05.006. PMID   20519131. S2CID   24769662. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  28. ↑ Wang, X.Y.; Barnett, A.G.; Yu, W.; FitzGerald, G.; Tippett, V.; Aitken, P.; Neville, G.; McRae, D.; Verrall, K.; Tong, S. (2012). "The impact of heatwaves on mortality and emergency hospital admissions from non-external causes in Brisbane, Australia". Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 69 (3): 163–169. doi:10.1136/oem.2010.062141. ISSN   1351-0711. PMID   21719563. S2CID   9335572.
  29. ↑ Barnett, A.G.; Graves, N.; Rosenthal, V.D.; Salomao, R.; Rangel-Frausto, M.S. (2010). "Excess Length of Stay Due to Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection in Intensive Care Units in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico". Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 31 (11): 1106–1114. doi:10.1086/656593. ISSN   0899-823X. PMID   20923287. S2CID   10671676. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  30. ↑ Wozniak, T.M.; Graves, N.; Barnett, A.G. (2018). "How much do superbugs cost Australian hospitals? An evidence-based open-access tool". Infection, Disease & Health. 23 (1): 54–56. doi: 10.1016/j.idh.2017.11.002 . PMID   30479305.
  31. ↑ Knibbs, L.D.; Hewson, M.G.; Bechle, M.J.; Marshall, J.D.; Barnett, A.G. (2014). "A national satellite-based land-use regression model for air pollution exposure assessment in Australia" (PDF). Environmental Research. 135: 204–211. Bibcode:2014ER....135..204K. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.09.011. PMID   25282278. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 November 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  32. ↑ Knibbs, L.D.; Coorey, C.P.; Bechle, M.J.; Marshall, J.D.; Hewson, M.G.; Jalaludin, B.; Morgan, G.G.; Barnett, A.G. (2018). "Long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure assessment using back-extrapolation of satellite-based land-use regression models for Australia". Environmental Research. 163: 16–25. Bibcode:2018ER....163...16K. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.046. PMID   29421169. S2CID   4486601.
  33. ↑ "Hazelwood mine fire pollution blamed for 11 deaths – ABC News". www.abc.net.au. 12 September 2014. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  34. ↑ Barnett, A. (2014). "Analysis of death data during the Morwell mine fire" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  35. ↑ Salleh, A. (1 October 2014). "Air quality standards 'increase pollution and health risks'". www.abc.net.au. ABC. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  36. ↑ Barnett, A.G. (2014). "It's safe to say there is no safe level of air pollution" (PDF). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 38 (5): 407–408. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12264 . PMID   25269976. S2CID   27909052. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  37. ↑ Barnett, A. (6 April 2011). "Counting the ways vehicle emissions (still) make us sick". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  38. ↑ Barnett, A.; Rocklöv, J.; Graves, N. (20 June 2012). "Creating a stink about traffic pollution". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  39. ↑ Barnett, A. (29 September 2014). "Dirty air, dodgy politics: why it's easier to attack science than listen to Morwell fire death stats". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  40. ↑ Barnett, A. (29 April 2013). "OPINION: Air pollution produces postcode lottery". Newcastle Herald. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  41. ↑ Barnett, A.; Knibbs, L. (23 September 2015). "Diesel fumes and your health: VW cover-up shows we need to test local cars". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  42. ↑ "37 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 8 November 2021. Archived from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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