Associate Professor Paul Agius
Honorary Principal Research Fellow
Background
Paul is a public health researcher with over 15 years of research experience. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute.
Paul’s academic research interests include young people’s sexual behaviour and associated risk; and applied statistics and quantitative research methodology more generally.
Paul has collaborated with researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington on research examining the association between adverse sexual health outcomes and alcohol use for Australian adolescents as well as other research focusing on adult sexual/reproductive health and perinatal epidemiology.
Qualifications
- 2006: MSc (Applied statistics), School of Mathematical Sciences, Swinburne University
- 1988: BA, School of Social Science, La Trobe University
Appointments
- 2022: Honorary Principal Research Fellow
- 2016-present: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University
- 2012-2022: Applied Statistician, Burnet Institute
- 2012-present: Adjunct Research Fellow, Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University
- 2010-2012: Research Fellow, Mother and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University
- 2008-2010: Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University
- 2005-2008: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
Current projects
Victorian Drug Trends
The Drugs Trends Program includes the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) and the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS).
Injecting drug use in Melbourne: SuperMIX cohort study
The largest and longest-running active cohort study of people who inject drugs in Australia (since 2008).
Past projects
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Young adults and alcohol
The young adults and alcohol study is a prospective cohort study of 800 young risky drinkers recruited in Melbourne in 2012 through computer-assisted telephone interviewing.
WHISPER and SHOUT: mobile phone health interventions among sex workers in Kenya
We conducted a mobile phone-based health promotion with women who are sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya, to reduce unintended pregnancy.
Interventions for monastic schools in Myanmar (WASH)
We partnered with the Monastic Education Development Group to build the capacity of the monastic school system in Myanmar to provide quality education and promote safe, healthy and child-friendly school environments.
