Nick Osborne

Combined synoptic and regional weather patterns affecting atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentrations in Sydney, Australia

Charlotte M Waudby, Steven C Sherwood, Nicholas J Osborne, Paul J Beggs, Jane Al-Kouba, Elizabeth E Ebert, David J Muscatello

Journal article  |  2022  |  AEROBIOLOGIA

Inhalation of grass pollen can result in acute exacerbation of asthma, prompting questions about how grass pollen reaches metropol..

Biodiversity Effects on Human Mental Health via Microbiota Alterations

Yee Sang Wong, Nicholas John Osborne

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The biodiversity hypothesis postulates that the natural environment positively affects human physical and mental health. We evalua..

Student reflections on an interdisciplinary pandemics course utilising systems thinking

Karen Shelley, Nicholas J Osborne, Simon Reid, Angela Willemsen, Sheleigh Lawler

Journal article  |  2022  |  HEALTH PROMOTION JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

ISSUE ADDRESSED: The complexity and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need to change training of public health p..

Impact of low-intensity heat events on mortality and morbidity in regions with hot, humid summers: a scoping literature review

Melanie Strathearn, Nicholas J Osborne, Linda A Selvey

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

The objective of this study is to determine the impacts of low-intensity heat on human health in regions with hot, humid summers. ..

Two decades of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) research: Existing evidence and persistent gaps from epidemiological studies in Sri Lanka

Jennifer Pett, Fahim Mohamed, John Knight, Christine Linhart, Nicholas J Osborne, Richard Taylor

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEPHROLOGY

BACKGROUND: Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown origin (CKDu) excludes known primary renal conditions or systemic disease (such as d..

Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in India: What Do We Know and Where We Need to Go

Oommen John, Balaji Gummudi, Anubhuti Jha, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan, Om P Kalra, Prabhdeep Kaur, Vijay Kher, Vivek Kumar, Ravi Shankar Machiraju, Nicolas Osborne, Subrata Kumar Palo, Sreejith Parameswaran, Sanghamitra Pati, Narayan Prasad, Vinay Rathore, Mohan M Rajapurkar, Manisha Sahay, Ravi Raju Tatapudi, Jarnail S Thakur, Vidhya Venugopal, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) not associated with known risk factors has been reported from parts of India and is presumed to be si..

Environmental DNA analyses reveal links between abundance and composition of airborne grass pollen and population scale respiratory health.

S Creer, FM Rowney, GL Brennan, C Skjoth, G Griffith, RN Mcinnes, Y Clewlow, B Adams-Groom, A Barber, N Devere, T Economou, M Hegarty, H Hanlon, L Jones, A Kurganskiy, G Petch, C Potter, A Rafiq, A Walker, B Wheeler, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  ALLERGY

228 Relationship of pesticide exposure with kidney function in NHANES: lessons from low level chronic exposure (vol 50, dyab168.517, 2021)

Nicholas Osborne, Simon Reid, Shamshad Karatela, Yibeltal Assefa, En-Tzu GraceWan

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Association of Pesticides and Kidney Function among Adults in the US Population 2001-2010

En-Tzu Wan, Darsy Darssan, Shamshad Karatela, Simon A Reid, Nicholas John Osborne

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Chronic kidney disease of unknown cause is prevalent in a range of communities; however, its etiology remains unclear. We examined..

Indigenous microbial surrogates in wastewater used to understand public health risk expressed in the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) metric

Christopher EL Owens, Peter T Cox, Paul M Byleveld, Nicholas J Osborne, Md Bayzidur Rahman

Journal article  |  2021  |  MICROBIOLOGY AUSTRALIA

In any wastewater recycling scheme, the protection of public health is of primary importance. In Australia, the public health requ..