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Dr Sam Toloo Sheikhzadeh Yazd
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
Demand for emergency health services, Health seeking behaviour, Hospital based emergency services, Pre-hospital emergency services, Ambulance, Queensland, Australia, Sociology of health and medicine, Utilisation behaviour, Heatwaves, health, social factors, Emergency Department, Heatwaves and Community Vulnerability
Research field
Public health, Policy and administration, Sociology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Australian National University)
Professional memberships and associations
- Editorial Board, BMC Health Services Research
- Health Service Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ)
- Research Portal: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/sam.toloo
- ORCID: 0000-0001-5694-288X
- Publons & Web of Science ResearcherID: V-4465-2019
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ghasem_Toloo
Publications
Research outputs by year
- Toloo, G., Pizzino, S., Durham, J. & Fitzgerald, G. (2024). Understanding physical and mental health impacts of flooding: flood risk perception and communication. In J. Lamond, D. Proverbs & N. Bhattacharya Mis (Eds.), Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management (pp. 38–51). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248655
- Toloo, G., Fredriksen, M. & Pizzino, S. (2024). Community engagement. Disaster Health Management: A Primer for Students and Practitioners, 101–113. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248654
- Scanlon, B., Durham, J., Wyld, D., Roberts, N. & Toloo, G. (2023). Exploring equity in cancer treatment, survivorship, and service utilisation for culturally and linguistically diverse migrant populations living in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective cohort study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/242521
- Scanlon, B., Wyld, D., Roberts, N., Durham, J. & Toloo, G. (2023). Rethinking cancer prevention for migrant populations in Queensland, Australia: A retrospective cohort study comparing culturally and linguistically diverse and Australian born cancer patients. Global Public Health, 18(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/239301
- Toloo, G., Lim, D., Chu, K., Kinnear, F., Morel, D., Wraith, D. & FitzGerald, G. (2022). Acceptability of emergency department triage nurse's advice for patients to attend general practice: A cross-sectional survey. EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 34(3), 376–384. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226667
- Toloo, G., Bahl, N., Lim, D., FitzGerald, G., Wraith, D., Chu, K., Kinnear, F., Aitken, P. & Morel, D. (2020). General practitioner-type patients in emergency departments in metro North Brisbane, Queensland: A multisite study. EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 32(3), 481–488. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/135588/
- Bell, A., Toloo Sheikhzadeh Yazd, S., Crilly, J., Burke, J., Williams, G., McCann, B. & Fitzgerald, G. (2019). Emergency department models of care in Queensland: a multisite cross-sectional study. Australian Health Review, 43(4), 363–370. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121558
- Fitzgerald, G., Toloo Sheikhzadeh Yazd, S., Baniahmadi, S., Crompton, D. & Tong, S. (2019). Long-term consequences of flooding: a case study of the 2011 Queensland floods. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 34(1), 35–40. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126067
- Toloo, S., Hu, W., Fitzgerald, G., Aitken, P. & Tong, S. (2015). Projecting excess emergency department visits and associated costs in Brisbane, Australia, under population growth and climate change scenarios. Scientific Reports, 5, 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86502
- Toloo, S., Yu, V., Aitken, P., FitzGerald, G. & Tong, S. (2014). The impact of heatwaves on emergency department visits in Brisbane, Australia: a time series study. Critical Care, 18(2), 1–19. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/70058
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Assessor, Examiner or Supervisor Role
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Examiner of PhD thesis.
- Type
- Assessor, Examiner or Supervisor Role
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Assessor of a PhD thesis for Final Seminar.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Member of Editorial Board
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- As a teaching qualification in higher education, the HEA Fellowship demonstrates a personal and institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Service Integration and Preventing Potentially Preventable Hospital Presentations. $50,000. Department Of Health, Queensland Government.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- The Potential Impact of Expanded Scope of Care by Paramedics on Emergency Healthcare Demand: A Literature Review. $12,507. Department of Health and Human Services - Tasmania.
- Type
- Membership of Review Panels on Prestigious Grant Applications
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Peer reviewer for Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation (QEMRF) in 2016.
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- External Assessor for a NHMRC Partnership Project grant application
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Since 2012, reviewer of research articles for the following journals (2018 SCImago quartile ranking):Academic Emergency Medicine (Q1); BMJ Open (Q1); BMC Public Health (Q1); Emergency Medicine Australasia (Q1); Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal (Q1); Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (Q2); Public Health (Q2); Australian Health Review (Q2); BMC Emergency Medicine (Q2).Environmental Health Perspectives (Q1); Pediatrics (Q1); Global Environmental Change (Q1); Environmental Research (Q1); Climate Research (Q1); International Journal of Biometeorology (Q2); International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Q2).
Supervision
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I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
You can browse existing student topics offered by QUT or propose your own topic.
Current supervisions
- Preparing Saudi paramedics for effective disaster management: a study of the current state and future needs
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Adem Sav - Patient Safety Culture in Saudi Hospitals: A Comparative Mixed Methods Study of Staff Perceptions and Organisational Practices in Saudi Hospitals in the Holy Cities of Makkah and Madinah
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Darren Wraith, Ms Paula Bowman - Equity across the cancer care continuum for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants living in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jo Durham
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- The Relationship between Temperature and Infectious Gastrointestinal Diseases in Queensland, Australia (2020)
- The Factors That Influence Private Health Insurance Holders' Choice between Public and Private Emergency Departments at the Time of Emergency (2017)
- Growing Demand for Emergency Department Services: Associated Factors and Perspective of Patients (2015)