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/kwag0762026
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_192025
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.2025.49.0202025
Conference Proceedings
Enhancing Vaccine Safety Surveillance: Extracting Vaccine Mentions from Emergency Department Triage Notes Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Models
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI2510232024
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/mja2.523442024
Conference Proceedings
Detecting Asthma Presentations from Emergency Department Notes: An Active Learning Approach
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8696-5_202024
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
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: 10.1145/3579375.35794012022
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