Dr Javier Cortes Ramirez
Honorary Research Fellow
Child Health Research Centre
Journal Articles
Wang, Jialu, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Davies, Janet and Hu, Wenbiao (2026). Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Childhood and Adolescent Asthma Hospitalisations in Queensland, Australia: A 20-Year Ecological Study Across Climate Zones. Medical Journal of Australia, 224 (2) e70145, e70145-2. doi: 10.5694/mja2.70145
Haswell, Melissa R., Cortes-Ramirez, Javier and Woodward, Louise G. (2026). Health risks of oil and gas development. Nature Reviews Nephrology, 22 (3), 1-2. doi: 10.1038/s41581-026-01050-8
Singh, Vishal, Cramb, Susanna, Wang, Jialu, Hu, Wenbiao and Cortes‐Ramirez, Javier (2026). Spatiotemporal Approaches to Assess the Association of Environmental Risk Factors With Cardiovascular Diseases: A Scoping Review. GeoHealth, 10 (1) e2024GH001268, e2024GH001268. doi: 10.1029/2024gh001268
Steel, Amie, Lee, Wen Ray, Xu, Zhiwei, Carè, Jenny, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Thomson-Casey, Carrie and Vilcins, Dwan (2025). The influence of environmental exposures during the preconception period on offspring outcomes: a systematic review. Frontiers in Public Health, 13 1633266, 1-45. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1633266
Gutiérrez, Juan David, Wilches-Vega, Juan, Galvis-Serrano, Fabián, Parada-Jurado, Holver and Cortes-Ramírez, Javier (2025). Sea surface temperature modulates El Niño and La Niña driven leptospirosis patterns: evidence from causal machine learning in Colombia. PLoS Global Public Health, 5 (11) e0005238, e0005238. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0005238
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Wilches-Galvis, J. D., Parvez, Sarker, Galvis-Serrano, Nestor Fabian, Parada-Jurado, Holver Smith and Gutierrez, Juan David (2025). Spatiotemporal analysis of leptospirosis in Colombia from 2007 to 2021. An environmental health metrics approach. Critical Public Health, 35 (1) 2578588. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2025.2578588
Cortes‐Ramirez, Javier, Michael, Ruby N., Toms, Leisa‐Maree and Haswell, Melissa (2025). The public health impacts of mining in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 223 (10), 541-549. doi: 10.5694/mja2.70005
Dougall, Shay D., Gillespie, Josephine, Sav, Adem, Cortes Ramirez, Javier and Haswell, Melissa R. (2025). Performative planning? Evaluating coexistence and procedural justice in Queensland's gas–agriculture interface. Journal of Rural Studies, 119 103785. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103785
Dougall, Shay D., Gillespie, Josephine, Sav, Adem, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier and Haswell, Melissa R. (2025). Under the pump: are host farmers' workplace health and safety rights forgotten in Queensland's unconventional gas governance?. Energy Research and Social Science, 127 104250. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104250
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Singh, Vishal, Wang, Jialu and Michael, Ruby N. (2025). The Covid-19 hospitalization risk associated with air pollution in New York state counties after the 2023 Quebec wildfires. Journal of Public Health Research, 14 (3) 22799036251361430, 1-10. doi: 10.1177/22799036251361430
Wang, Jialu, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier and Hu, Wenbiao (2025). Geographic trends in asthma risk among children and adolescents across climate zones in Australia, 2004–2018. Advances in Climate Change Research, 16 (3), 613-622. doi: 10.1016/j.accre.2025.04.012
Michael, Ruby Naomi, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Omidvar, Negar, Horsfall, Katherine and Fernando, Ruwan Amila (2024). Soil density specification ranges to optimise plant water use and root growth for phytocapping and urban greening projects. Nature-Based Solutions, 6 100188, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100188
Wang, J., Cortes-Ramirez, J., Gan, T., Davies, J. M. and Hu, W. (2024). Effects of climate and environmental factors on childhood and adolescent asthma: a systematic review based on spatial and temporal analysis evidence. Science of the Total Environment, 951 175863, 175863. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175863
Cortes-Ramirez, J., Mengersen, K., Morawska, L., Sly, P., Jagals, P. and Wraith, D. (2024). The hospitalisation risk of chronic circulatory and respiratory diseases associated with coal mining in the general population in Queensland, Australia. Science of the Total Environment, 949 174989, 174989. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174989
Cortes-Ramirez, J., Wilches-Vega, J.D., Caicedo-Velasquez, B., Paris-Pineda, O.M. and Sly, P.D. (2024). Spatiotemporal hierarchical Bayesian analysis to identify factors associated with COVID-19 in suburban areas in Colombia. Heliyon, 10 (9) e30182, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30182
Chulliparambil, Vishal Rajendraprasad, Shearer, Heather, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Matthews, Tony and Michael, Ruby Naomi (2024). Identifying the potential for ecological rehabilitation of landfills in Queensland: A spatial analysis. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 31 (1), 64-82. doi: 10.1080/14486563.2024.2306342
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Gatton, Michelle, Wilches-Vega, Juan D., Mayfield, Helen J., Wang, Ning, Paris-Pineda, Olga M. and Sly, Peter D. (2023). Mapping the risk of respiratory infections using suburban district areas in a large city in Colombia. BMC Public Health, 23 (1) 1400, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16179-5
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Wilches-Vega, Juan D., Michael, Ruby N., Singh, Vishal and Paris-Pineda, Olga M. (2023). Estimating spatial disease rates using health statistics without geographic identifiers. GeoJournal, 88 (4), 4573-4583. doi: 10.1007/s10708-022-10822-1
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Singh, Vishal, Wang, Jialu and Michael, Ruby Naomi (2023). Analysis of the spatiotemporal trends of Covid-19 hospitalizations and air pollution levels in New York after the 2023 Quebec wildfires. SSRN Electronic Journal, 1-13. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4634662
Singh, Vishal, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Toms, Leisa-Maree, Sooriyagoda, Thilakshika and Karatela, Shamshad (2022). Effects of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers on Hormonal and Reproductive Health in E-Waste-Exposed Population: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (13) 7820, 7820. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19137820
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Wraith, Darren, Sly, Peter D. and Jagals, Paul (2022). Mapping the morbidity risk associated with coal mining in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (3) 1206, 1206. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031206
Proboste, Tatiana, James, Ameh, Charette-Castonguay, Adam, Chakma, Shovon, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Donner, Erica, Sly, Peter and Magalhães, Ricardo J. Soares (2022). Research and innovation opportunities to improve epidemiological knowledge and control of environmentally driven zoonoses. Annals of Global Health, 88 (1) 93, 1-10. doi: 10.5334/aogh.3770
Cortés-Ramírez, Javier, París-Pineda, Olga M. and Wilches-Vega, Juan D. (2021). Método de cálculo de tasas de infección respiratoria aguda por secciones urbanas a partir de estadísticas por prestadores de salud en Cúcuta, Norte de Santander. Orinoquia, 25 (2), 25-28. doi: 10.22579/20112629.742
Cortes-Ramirez, J, Michael, R N, Knibbs, L D, Bambrick, H J, Haswell, M R and Wraith, D (2021). The association of wildfire air pollution with COVID-19 incidence in New South Wales, Australia. The Science of the Total Environment, 809 151158, 151158. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151158
Cortes-Ramirez, J., Vilcins, D., Jagals, P. and Soares Magalhaes, R. J. (2021). Environmental and sociodemographic risk factors associated with environmentally transmitted zoonoses hospitalisations in Queensland, Australia. One Health, 12 100206, 100206. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100206
Vilcins, Dwan, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Currie, Danielle and Preston, Paige (2021). Early environmental exposures and life-long risk of chronic non-respiratory disease. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 40, 33-38. doi: 10.1016/j.prrv.2021.05.004
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Wilches-Vega, Juan D., Paris-Pineda, Olga M., Rod, J.E., Ayurzana, Lkhagvadulam and Sly, Peter D. (2021). Environmental risk factors associated with respiratory diseases in children with socioeconomic disadvantage. Heliyon, 7 (4) e06820, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06820
Rod, J. E., Oviedo-Trespalacios, Oscar and Cortes-Ramirez, Javier (2020). A brief-review of the risk factors for covid-19 severity. Revista de Saude Publica, 54 60, 1-11. doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054002481
Prist, Paula Ribeiro, Levin, Noam, Metzger, Jean Paul, de Mello, Kaline, de Paula Costa, Micheli Duarte, Castagnino, Romi, Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Lin, Da-Li, Butt, Nathalie, Lloyd, Thomas J., López-Cubillos, Sofía, Mayfield, Helen J., Negret, Pablo José, Oliveira-Bevan, Isabella, Reside, April E., Rhodes, Jonathan R., Simmons, B. Alexander, Suárez-Castro, A. Felipe and Kark, Salit (2019). Collaboration across boundaries in the Amazon. Science, 366 (6466), 699.1-700. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz7489
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Sly, Peter D., Ng, Jack and Jagals, Paul (2019). Using human epidemiological analyses to support the assessment of the impacts of coal mining on health. Reviews on Environmental Health, 34 (4), 391-401. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2019-0033
Cortes-Ramirez, Javier, Naish, Suchithra, Sly, Peter D. and Jagals, Paul (2018). Mortality and morbidity in populations in the vicinity of coal mining: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 18 (1) 721, 721. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5505-7
Thesis
Cortes Ramirez, Javier (2019). Incorporating epidemiological studies into Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment of coal mining. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.959