Background

Dr Ben Coghlan works on a variety of topics across epidemiological training and studies including mortality surveys in resource-constrained settings, emerging infections and control of communicable diseases, and impact evaluation of health programs.

Ben is a doctoral research candidate with the Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He also supports MPH teaching in field methods for program planning and evaluation, and in the health of refugee populations.

Appointments

2017: Program Director, Expansion Programs (Health Security), Burnet Institute

Qualifications

• MBBS, University of Melbourne
• MPH&TM, James Cook University
• MAppEpid
• FAFPHM

Projects (1)

Past (1)

• Socioeconomic impact of HIV at household level in Myanmar
  This study sought to gain a deeper understanding of the socioeconomic impact of HIV in Myanmar by looking at individual and community groups.

Publications (16)

2016 (2)

• Timing of influenza vaccination in an Australian community-based surveillance system, 2010-2014.
  Coghlan B, Carlson S, Leder K, Dalton C, Cheng AC
  Commun Dis Intell Q Rep. 2016 Sep; 40(3):E347-350
• Estimates of influenza vaccine coverage from Victorian surveillance systems based in the community, primary care and hospitals.
  Coghlan B, Kelly HA, Carlson SJ, Grant KA, Leder K, Dalton CB, Cheng AC
  Commun Dis Intell Q Rep. 2016 Jun; 40(2):E204-E206

2014 (3)

• The impact on child wasting of a capacity building project implemented by community and district health staff in rural Lao PDR.
  Coghlan B, Toole MJ, Chanlivong N, Kounnavong S, Vongsaiya K, Renzaho A
  Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2014 Feb; 23(1):105-111
• Fortnightly emergency department case-file audit for timely detection of missed cases of suspicious injury.
  Amanda Gwee, Benjamin Coghlan, Cate Rayner, Anne Smith, David Krieser
  Med J Aust. 2014 Jan; 200(1):23
• Neonatal Vancomycin Continuous Infusions: Still a Confusion?
  Gwee A, Cranswick N, Metz D, Coghlan B, Daley AJ, Bryant P, Curtis N
  Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2014 Jan; 33(6):600-605

2013 (2)

• Question 1 * What are the options for treating latent TB infection in children?
  Gwee A, Coghlan B, Curtis N
  Arch Dis Child. 2013 Jun; 98(6):468-474
• The Development of One Health Approaches in the Western Pacific.
  Coghlan B, Hall D
  Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2013 Jan; 366:93-111

2012 (2)

• Bacteraemia in Malawian neonates and young infants 2002-2007: a retrospective audit.
  Gwee A, Coghlan B, Everett D, Chagoma N, Phiri A, Wilson L, Molyneux E
  BMJ Open. 2012 May; 2(3):e000906
• An online framework for introducing STI point-of-care tests in Pacifi c island countries and areas
  Natoli L, Coghlan B
  West Pac Surv Resp. 2012 Mar; 3(3):1-2

2011 (1)

• The HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea.
  Coghlan B, Millan J, Malau C, Kaldor J, Toole M
  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 Oct; 58(2):e48-e51

2010 (2)

• Are hard-to-reach populations being reached with immunization services? Findings from the 2005 Papua New Guinea national immunization coverage survey.
  Toikilik S, Tuges G, Lagani J, Wafiware E, Posanai E, Coghlan B, Morgan C, Sweeney R, Miller N, Abramov A, Stewart A, Clements CJ
  Vaccine. 2010 Jun; 28(29):4673-4679
• Global control of hepatitis B virus: does treatment-induced antigenic change affect immunization?
  Clements CJ, Coghlan B, Creati M, Locarnini S, Tedder RS, Torresi J
  Bull World Health Organ. 2010 Jan; 88(1):66-73

2009 (1)

• Learning lessons from field surveys in humanitarian contexts: a case study of field surveys conducted in North Kivu, DRC 2006-2008.
  Grais RF, Luquero FJ, Grellety E, Pham H, Coghlan B, Salignon P
  Confl Health. 2009 Sep; 3:8

2006 (3)

• Low frequency of poultry-to-human H5NI virus transmission, southern Cambodia, 2005.
  Vong S, Coghlan B, Mardy S, Holl D, Seng H, Ly S, Miller MJ, Buchy P, Froehlich Y, Dufourcq JB, Uyeki T, Lim W, Sok T
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Oct; 12(10):1542-1547
• Understanding male sexual behaviour in planning HIV prevention programmes: lessons from Laos, a low prevalence country.
  Toole MJ, Coghlan B, Xeuatvongsa A, Holmes WR, Pheualavong S, Chanlivong N
  Sex Transm Infect. 2006 Apr; 82(2):135-138
• Avian influenza: Clinical and epidemiological information for paramedics and emergency healthcare workers
  Smith E, Coghlan B, Leder K
  J Emerg Prim Health Care. 2006 Jan; 4(1):990175

News Articles (2)

2016 (1)

• Evidence is clear in ANCP workshop

2014 (1)

• World Polio Day: Pakistan children going unvaccinated