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 (6)

Current (5)

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  Accelerating healthy agriculture and nutrition

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  ANCP – Kickstarting antimicrobial resistance responses in PNG (KICK AMR)

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  Australia Awards Fellowship: KICK-AMR to Address Antimicrobial Resistance

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  Integrated solutions for healthy birth, growth, and development in Lao PDR

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  The production of guidance for the laboratory sector to prepare for emergency situations

Publications (25)

2020 (4)

• Victoria’s response to a resurgence of COVID-19 has averted 9,000-37,000 cases in July 2020.
  Saul A, Scott N, Crabb BS, Majumdar SS, Coghlan B, Hellard ME
  MJA. 2020 Aug; Preprint Epub ahead of print
• Tracking, tracing, trust: contemplating mitigating the impact of COVID-19 through technological interventions.
  Coghlan S, Cheong M, Coghlan B
  Med J Aust. 2020 Jun; 213(2):94-94e1
• A strategic framework to ease community-wide Covid-19 suppression measures.
  Coghlan B, Majumdar SS, Pedrana A, Hellard ME, Crabb BS
  MJA. 2020 Apr; Epub ahead of print
• Antimicrobial resistance in the Pacific Island countries and territories.
  Loftus M, Stewardson A, Naidu R, Coghlan B, Jenney A, Kepas J, Lavu E, Munamua A, Peel T, Sahai V, Tekoaua R, Tudravu L, Zinihite J, Cheng A, Rafai E, Peleg A
  BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Apr; 5(4)

2019 (3)

• Nutrition education fit for modern health systems.
  Coghlan B, Coghlan S, Wilson A
  Lancet. 2019 Dec; 394(10214):2071
• Consequences of the evolutionary cardiovascular challenge of human bipedalism: orthostatic intolerance syndromes, orthostatic hypertension.
  Esler M, Julius S, Coghlan B, Sari CI, Guo L, Esler D
  J Hypertens. 2019 Jul; Epub ahead of print
• Harnessing synergies at the interface of public health and the security sector.
  Thomson N, Littlejohn M, Strathdee SA, Southby RF, Coghlan B, Rosenfeld JV, Galvani AP
  Lancet. 2019 Jan; 393(10168):207-209

2018 (2)

• One Health, Bioethics, and Nonhuman Ethics.
  Coghlan S, Coghlan B
  Am J Bioeth. 2018 Nov; 18(11):3-5
• Adverse effects of amphotericin B in children; a retrospective comparison of conventional and liposomal formulations.
  Andrew EC, Curtis N, Coghlan B, Cranswick N, Gwee A
  Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2018 Jan; 84(5):1006-1012

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 (13)

2021 (1)

• Global COVID-19 pandemic: latest

2020 (4)

• Refugees at serious risk from COVID-19
• Burnet a knowledge hub for COVID-19
• Evidence-based focus the key for Australia's COVID-19 exit strategy
• Lessons learned in global health security and solidarity: Tuberculosis and COVID-19

2019 (2)

• Federal funding boost to address ‘superbugs’ in Asia-Pacific
• Security and public health

2018 (1)

• New project to address child undernutrition in Lao PDR

2017 (3)

• Burnet to advise WHO on global emergency guidelines for labs
• Pacific health leaders learning about antimicrobial resistance
• Burnet welcomes new regional Health Security Initiative

2016 (1)

• Evidence is clear in ANCP workshop

2014 (1)

• World Polio Day: Pakistan children going unvaccinated