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Peter Franklin is a researcher with interests in environmetnal impacts on human health. His research has been focussed on the impacts of air pollution, predominantly indoor air pollution, on the respiratory health of children and adults. He currently heads the indoor air pollution node of the Collaborative Research Centre for Asthma and Airways. He is also the Environmental Co-ordinator of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Children's Environmental Health at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. His research interests also involve measures of infant and pre-school lung function and how these tests can be utilised in environmental health research.
Current appointments
Research Assistant Professor
School of Population Health, University of Western Australia
Environmental Co-ordinator
World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Children’s Environmental Health
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Current appointments
Research Assistant Professor
School of Population Health, University of Western Australia
Environmental Co-ordinator
World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Children’s Environmental Health
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Previous positions
Jan 02 – Dec 05: UWA School of Paediatrics and Child Health, Research Fellow (NH&MRC Public Health Postdoctoral Training Fellowship)
Jun 98 – 2001: UWA Department of Paediatrics, Research Associate
Jun 98 – 2001: UWA Department of Paediatrics, Research Associate
Current projects
1. Use of unflued gas heaters and ongoing symptoms in seniors with asthma (CRC)
2. The impact of day-to-day variations in indoor air pollution on respiratory symptoms in asthmatic children (ARC)
3. Impact of environment on foetal and infant growth anddevelopment (ARC)
4. Impactof pre-natal exposure to air piollution on lung funtion in early life (NHMRC)
2. The impact of day-to-day variations in indoor air pollution on respiratory symptoms in asthmatic children (ARC)
3. Impact of environment on foetal and infant growth anddevelopment (ARC)
4. Impactof pre-natal exposure to air piollution on lung funtion in early life (NHMRC)
Research
Environmental health, Air pollution, Respiratory disease, Infant lung function
Keywords
- Occupational epidemiology
- Environmental epidemiology
- Respiratory health
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Projects 2001 2018
- 21 Finished
Supply of Specialist Technical Services - Coal Workers pneumoconiosis
Franklin, P., Musk, A. & Galton-Fenzi, B.
WA Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
TSANZ Maurice Blackburn Grant-In-Aid for Occupational Lung Disease - Longitudinal lung function changes in a contemporary cohort of Western Australian miners
Franklin, P., Sodhi-Berry, N., De Klerk, N., Musk, A., Brims, F., Peters, S., Harris, E. & Reid, A.
The Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Lung Cancer Risk and Screening Guidelines after Asbestos Exposure
De Klerk, N., Musk, A., Peters, S. & Franklin, P.
1/07/15 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
Maternal Blood Heavy Metal Levels and Pre-term Birth
Franklin, P. & Currie, A.
1/01/13 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
Research Output 1993 2018
Are children more vulnerable to mesothelioma than adults? A comparison of mesothelioma risk among children and adults exposed non-occupationally to blue asbestos at Wittenoom
Reid, A., Franklin, P., Berry, G., Peters, S., Sodhi-Berry, N., Brims, F., Musk, A. W. & De Klerk, N. H., 1 Dec 2018, In : Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 75, 12, p. 898-903 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Crocidolite Asbestos
Mesothelioma
Asbestos
Incidence
Proportional Hazards Models
Autoimmune antibodies and asbestos exposure: Evidence from Wittenoom, Western Australia
Reid, A., Franklin, P., de Klerk, N., Creaney, J., Brims, F., Musk, B. & Pfau, J., 1 Jul 2018, In : American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 61, 7, p. 615-620 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Crocidolite Asbestos
Western Australia
Asbestos
Antibodies
Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom
Reid, A., Merler, E., Peters, S., Jayasinghe, N., Bressan, V., Franklin, P., Brims, F., de Klerk, N. H. & Musk, A. W., 1 Jan 2018, In : Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 75, 1, p. 29-36 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Crocidolite Asbestos
Mesothelioma
Mortality
Asbestos
Health Manpower
Association between caesarean delivery and childhood asthma in India and Vietnam
Lavin, T., Franklin, P. & Preen, D. B., 1 Jan 2017, In : Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 31, 1, p. 47-54 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Vietnam
India
Asthma
Parturition
Caregivers
Comparison of outcomes following a cytological or histological diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma
Muruganandan, S., Alfonso, H., Franklin, P., Shilkin, K., Segal, A., Olsen, N., Reid, A., De Klerk, N., Musk, A. W. & Brims, F., 14 Mar 2017, In : British Journal of Cancer. 116, 6, p. 703-708 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Cell Biology
Survival
Histology
Western Australia
Malignant Mesothelioma