Tony Blakely

Disability, social mobility and the wellbeing of people with disabilities

This project aims to analyse the effect the acquisition of a disability in adulthood has on subsequent socio-economic circumstances (employm..

2017 - 2021

Smokefree NZ by 2025

2021 - 2021

Modelling for the development of Accentures Rapid Antigen Test

2021 - 2021

Evaluation of Health and Support Services

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 398 for Tony Blakely.

Epidemiologic and economic modelling of optimal COVID-19 policy: public health and social measures, masks and vaccines in Victoria, Australia.

Joshua Szanyi, Tim Wilson, Samantha Howe, Jessie Zeng, Hassan Andrabi, Shania Rossiter, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2023 | Lancet Reg Health West Pac

BACKGROUND: Identifying optimal COVID-19 policies is challenging. For Victoria, Australia (6.6 million people), we evaluated 104 p..

Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity: longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data for a whole country.

Finn Sigglekow, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2023 | J Epidemiol Community Health

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the income loss from having two or more diseases, over and above the independent and separate effects of ha..

Disease-Related Loss to Government Funding: Longitudinal Analysis of Individual-Level Health and Tax Data for an Entire Country.

Jennifer A Summers, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely, Finn Sigglekow

Journal article | 2023 | Value Health

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this longitudinal analysis was to estimate funding loss in terms of tax revenue to the New Zealand (N..

Prioritization of intervention domains to prevent cardiovascular disease: a country-level case study using global burden of disease and local data.

Nick Wilson, Christine Cleghorn, Nhung Nghiem, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2023 | Popul Health Metr

AIM: We aimed to combine Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study data and local data to identify the highest priority intervention do..

Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Maori:non-Maori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan

Driss Ait Ouakrim, Tim Wilson, Andrew Waa, Raglan Maddox, Hassan Andrabi, Shiva Raj Mishra, Jennifer A Summers, Coral E Gartner, Raymond Lovett, Richard Edwards, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2023 | TOBACCO CONTROL

BACKGROUND: The Aotearoa/New Zealand Government is aiming to end the tobacco epidemic and markedly reduce Māori:non-Māori health i..

Protection against Omicron from Vaccination and Previous Infection.

Jessie Zeng, Joshua Szanyi, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2023 | N Engl J Med

Effect of voluntary Health Star Rating labels on healthier food purchasing in New Zealand: longitudinal evidence using representative household purchase data.

Laxman Bablani, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Bruce Neal, Christopher L Skeels, Kevin E Staub, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2022 | BMJ Nutr Prev Health

Front-of-pack labelling (FoPL) aims to promote healthier diets by altering consumer food purchasing behaviour. We quantify the imp..

Effectiveness of fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant compared with no vaccination

Jessie Zeng, Joshua Szanyi, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2022 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Correction: Improving on estimates of the potential relative harm to health from using modern ENDS (vaping) compared to tobacco smoking.

Nick Wilson, Jennifer A Summers, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2022 | BMC Public Health

The corrected Abstract of this article [1] should read as follows: This corrected Abstract replaces the previous one. The original..

Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table

Natalie Carvalho, Tanara Vieira Sousa, Anja Mizdrak, Amanda Jones, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article | 2022 | POPULATION HEALTH METRICS

BACKGROUND: This study compares the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hundreds of Australian and New Zealand (NZ) hea..

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Displaying the 10 most recent news articles from 38 for Tony Blakely.

The steps we can take to combat COVID-19 in 2023

Joshua Szanyi, Tim Wilson, Samantha Howe, Jessie Zeng, Hassan Andrabi, Shania Rossiter, Tony Blakely

Despite everyone wanting 2023 to be the year we go ‘back to normal’, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us, and with open borders, increas..

January 20, 2023

More money and smarter choices: how to fix Australia's broken NHMRC medical research funding system

Tony Blakely

Most health research in Australia is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), which distributes around $800 ..

August 3, 2022

New Zealand’s ‘tobacco endgame’ law will be a world first for health – here’s what the modelling shows us

Tony Blakely, Andrew Waa, Driss Ait Ouakrim

With the first reading of a new bill in parliament today, Aotearoa New Zealand’s plan to be smokefree by 2025 takes another tangible step f..

July 26, 2022

How are Australia and NZ managing the rising COVID winter wave – and is either getting it right?

Tony Blakely, Michael Baker

New Zealand, Australia and many countries are experiencing a further Omicron wave driven by the latest BA.4/BA.5 subvariants. Our response ..

July 15, 2022

COVID cases are rising but we probably won't need more restrictions unless a worse variant hits

Tony Blakely

COVID case numbers are tracking up in Australia, with an average of 57,000 new cases recorded each day. New South Wales is recording aro..

April 4, 2022

NSW should be ‘okay’ opening up

Tony Blakely, Hassan Andrabi, Tim Wilson

New South Wales has a roadmap to ease restrictions. An initial easing at 70 per cent for people aged over 16 who are double vaccinated is p..

October 5, 2021

What if Victoria cannot eliminate Delta this time?

Tony Blakely

Lockdown 5 in Victoria was textbook. Outbreak occurred, contact tracing swung into action, cases were found and, over time, the number of d..

August 23, 2021

The strength of Sydney’s lockdown is crucial over the next 100 days

Laxman Bablani, Tim Wilson, Hassan Andrabi, Vijaya Sundararajan, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Patrick Abraham, Jason Thompson, Tony Blakely

Despite the strong restrictions in New South Wales, particularly in those Local Government Authorities (LGAs) of concern, COVID-19 case nu..

August 22, 2021

We need to talk about elimination vs suppression in Australia again

Tony Blakely, Jason Thompson, Laxman Bablani, Patrick Andersen, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Natalie Carvalho, Patrick Abraham, Marie-Anne Boujaoude, Ameera Katar, Edifofon Akpan, Nick Wilson, Mark Stevenson

It was the ‘big question’ of 2020 and remains so in 2021 – is an elimination strategy that tries to get rid of COVID-19 better than a suppr..

August 9, 2021

Australia needs a more rational, evidence-based border policy

Nathan Grills, Tony Blakely, Alexander van Heusden

Australia’s low vaccination coverage is currently holding back the reopening of our domestic and international borders. And it will be som..

August 2, 2021