Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR)


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Associate Professor Alison Reid

Alison Reid

Phone: +61 8 9346 7258
Email: alison.reid@meddent.uwa.edu.au

Associate Professor Alison Reid completed her PhD in 2008, which examined the health outcomes of women exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom. Alison began her research career at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in London, after completing an MSc in Medical Demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her area of research was geographical health inequalities. She participated in a European Union working group assessing health inequalities across the European Union and also collaborated with Epidemiologists and Medical Sociologists from Imperial College, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College, London examining social pathways to a disability free old age. Alison worked closely with the Chief Medical Statistician for England and Wales on several projects.

Alison returned to Australia in 2001 and worked on an Aboriginal Birth Cohort study at the Menzies School of Research, Darwin. She returned to Perth in 2002 and worked with the Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology Group (ORE) in the School of Population Health, UWA, examining asbestos-related diseases. She joined Lin Fritschi and the Epidemiology Group in 2009.

Qualifications

1992RGN - Guys Hospital, London, UK
1996BSc (Hons) - Anthropology, University College, London, UK
1997MSc - Medical Demography, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
2009PhD - University of Western Australia, Australia
Thesis Title: "The health outcomes of women exposed to blue asbestos"

Major Grants Awarded

  • National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Australian Research Council

Research Interests

  • The health outcomes of migrant workers in Australia.
  • Migrant workers' exposure to physical and psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
  • The health of women exposed to asbestos.
  • The impact of exposure to asbestos on psychosocial health.

Top 10 Publications

  1. Reid A, de Klerk NH, Musk AW. 2011. Does asbestos exposure cause ovarian cancer? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention Accepted
  2. Reid A. 2010. Migrant Workers (Editorial). Ethnicity & Health 15(5):436-437 [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  3. Reid A, Heyworth J, de Klerk NH, Musk AW. 2009. Gestational trophoblastic disease and asbestos exposure: An hypothesis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 18(11):2895-2898. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  4. Reid A, Berry G, de Klerk N, Hansen J, Heyworth J, Ambrosini G, Fritschi L, Olsen N, Merler E, Musk AW. 2007. Age and sex differences in malignant mesothelioma after residential exposure to blue asbestos (crocidolite). Chest 131(2):376-382. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  5. Gray L, Harding S, Reid A. 2007. Evidence of divergence with duration of residence in cardiovascular disease mortality in migrants to Australia. The European Journal of Public Health 17(6):550-554. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  6. Reid A, De Klerk NH, Ambrosini GL, Berry G, Musk AW. 2006. The risk of lung cancer with increasing time since ceasing exposure to asbestos and quitting smoking. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 63(8):509-512. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  7. Reid A, De Klerk NH, Ambrosini GL, Olsen N, Pang SC, Musk AW. 2005. The additional risk of malignant mesothelioma in former workers and residents of Wittenoom with benign pleural disease or asbestosis. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 62(10):665-669. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  8. Reid A, Ambrosini GL, de Klerk NH, Fritschi L, Musk AW. 2004. Aerodigestive and gastrointestinal tract cancers and exposure to crocidolite (blue asbestos): incidence and mortality among former crocidolite workers. International Journal of Cancer 111(5):757-761. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  9. Mackenbach JP, Bos V, Andersen O, Cardano M, Costa G, Harding S, Reid A, Hemström O, Valkonen T, Kunst AE. 2003. Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries. International Journal of Epidemiology 32(5):830-837. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  10. Reid A, Harding S. 2000. An Examination of persisting disadvantage and mortality in the regions using the Longitudinal Study. Health Statistics Quarterly 6:7-13.