Associate Professor
Darren Wraith


Personal details

Positions

Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work

Keywords

air pollution, environmental health, latent variable modelling, structural equation modelling, bayesian statistics

Research field

Statistics, Public health, Other biomedical and clinical sciences

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020

Qualifications

  • PhD (Queensland University of Technology)

Teaching

Dr Wraith has taught at an undergraduate and postgraduate level for a decade and a half in several tertiary institutions, including:

His QUT teaching profile includes:

Semester 1 Subject Coordinator, Health Statistics 1 (Postgraduate) Approx. 80 students (students from cardiac imaging, public health, pharmacy) School of Public Health & Social Work QUT

Semester 1 & 2, Subject Coordinator, Statistical Methods in Health (Undergraduate) Approx. 300 students each semester (students from pharmacy, medical imaging, nursing, nutrition, radiology) School of Public Health & Social Work QUT

Experience

Publications

QUT ePrints

For more publications by Darren, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).

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2024

2023

2022

A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/d.wraith

Selected research projects

Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.

Supervision

Current supervisions

  • Gambling and mental health: uncovering the underlying temporal mechanisms
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Michelle Gatton
  • Evaluating the impact of casino developments and expansions: gambling related harm, benefits, and harm minimisation utilisation in vulnerable groups
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Christina Malatzky
  • Enhanced infectious disease modelling by integrating multiple sources of data under uncertainty
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Susanna Cramb
  • Exploring the Interrelationship Between Adolescent Marriage, Agency and Nutrition Among Adolescents and Young Women in Nepal
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Dr Margo Sendall, Dr Smita Nambiar-Mann
  • Impact of grass pollen exposures on public health: an investigation of pollen seasons, health indicators and sustainability
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Janet Davies
  • Evaluating Machine Learning Approaches on Big Data: Predicting Customer Contact from Services Australia's Large-Scale Longitudinal Administrative Data
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Richi Nayak
  • Enhanced Longitudinal Analyses for Community Opioid Dispensing following Injury
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Susanna Cramb
  • Associations between school disciplinary exclusion and mental health difficulties among children in New South Wales, Australia
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Kristin Laurens
  • Autonomous identification, quantification, and characterization of airborne grass pollen and investigation of contributing weather factors in subtropical Queensland
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Janet Davies, Dr Andelija Milic
  • Describing the relationship between food literacy, demographic characteristics, dietary intake and food insecurity
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Helen Vidgen

The supervisions listed above are only a selection.