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Email

jim.black@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary Fellow
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health - Centres and Institutes
Education
PhD
Monash University
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Graduate Diploma
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Bachelors Degree
Monash University
ORCID

0000-0002-9287-8712

A/Prof Jim Black

Honorary Fellow
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

122 Scholarly works
10 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Characterizing thunderstorm asthma emergency department presentations using natural language processing for improved real-time surveillance.
    DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwag076
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Actively Evaluating and Learning the Distinctions that Matter: Vaccine Safety Signal Detection from Emergency Triage Notes
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-6888-8_19
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Prevalence of Murray Valley encephalitis virus antibodies in northern Victoria following the 2023 outbreak: a cross-sectional serological survey
    DOI: 10.33321/cdi.2025.49.020
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Enhancing Vaccine Safety Surveillance: Extracting Vaccine Mentions from Emergency Department Triage Notes Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Models
    DOI: 10.3233/SHTI251023
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Serosurvey for Japanese encephalitis virus antibodies following an outbreak in an immunologically naïve population, Victoria, 2022: a cross-sectional study
    DOI: 10.5694/mja2.52344
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    Detecting Asthma Presentations from Emergency Department Notes: An Active Learning Approach
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8696-5_20
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Near Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Department Triage Texts Using Natural Language Processing: Case Study in Febrile Convulsion Detection
    DOI: 10.2196/54449
Jim Black

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2002
Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FAFPHM)
1986
Anne Griffin Prize (Best performance on a degree or diploma course for the year 1986) Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2023

    Conference Proceedings

    Rigid Chair Prescription: Creating a Design Template for Optimal Fit
  • 2023

    Conference Proceedings

    Data augmentation to improve syndromic detection from emergency department notes
    DOI: 10.1145/3579375.3579401
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Determinants of Health Service Utilization Among Adults at High Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes in Kerala, India
    DOI: 10.1177/10105395211072497

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2015

    Research Grant

    Oxygen System for Remote Communities
  • 2013

    Research Grant

    A Low-Cost, Electricity Free Oxygen Concentrator
  • 2011

    Research Grant

    A Cluster RCT of the Impact of a Community Based Hygiene and Sanitation Programme on Infection With Intestinal Parasites Following Mass Albendazole Chemotherapy in Timor Leste
  • 2011

    Research Grant

    Appropriate Health Diagnostic Tools for Developing Countries Using Mobile Phones and Inexpensive Sensors
  • 2012

    Research Contracts

    Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections Using Non-Invasive Specimens - Proof of Concept Phase

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