By Professor Matthew Hickman

Journal articles

Martin NK; Hickman M; Hutchinson SJ; Goldberg DJ; Vickerman P, 2013, 'Combination interventions to prevent HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: Modeling the impact of antiviral treatment, needle and syringe programs, and opiate substitution therapy', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 57, pp. S39 - S45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cit296

Taylor A; Munro A; Allen E; Dunleavy K; Cameron S; Miller L; Hickman M, 2013, 'Low incidence of hepatitis C virus among prisoners in Scotland', Addiction, 108, pp. 1296 - 1304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12107

Vickerman P; Hickman M, 2013, 'Commentary on de Vos etal. (2013): Can ecological trends in HIV or HCV incidence be used to assess intervention impact?', Addiction, 108, pp. 1082 - 1083, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12206

Fisher H; Trotter CL; Audrey S; MacDonald-Wallis K; Hickman M, 2013, 'Inequalities in the uptake of human papillomavirus vaccination: A systematic review and meta-analysis', International Journal of Epidemiology, 42, pp. 896 - 908, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyt049

Christensen H; Hickman M; Edmunds WJ; Trotter CL, 2013, 'Introducing vaccination against serogroup B meningococcal disease: An economic and mathematical modelling study of potential impact', Vaccine, 31, pp. 2638 - 2646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.03.034

Macleod J; Hickman M; Jones HE; Copeland L; McKenzie J; De Angelis D; Kimber J; Robertson JR, 2013, 'Early life influences on the risk of injecting drug use: Case control study based on the Edinburgh addiction cohort', Addiction, 108, pp. 743 - 750, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12056

Melotti R; Lewis G; Hickman M; Heron J; Araya R; Macleod J, 2013, 'Early life socio-economic position and later alcohol use: Birth cohort study', Addiction, 108, pp. 516 - 525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12018

Palmateer NE; Hutchinson SJ; Innes H; Schnier C; Wu O; Goldberg DJ; Hickman M, 2013, 'Review and meta-analysis of the association between self-reported sharing of needles/syringes and hepatitis C virus prevalence and incidence among people who inject drugs in Europe', International Journal of Drug Policy, 24, pp. 85 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.08.006

Dietze P; Jenkinson R; Aitken C; Stoové M; Jolley D; Hickman M; Kerr T, 2013, 'The relationship between alcohol use and injecting drug use: Impacts on health, crime and wellbeing', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 128, pp. 111 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.08.013

Gage SH; Zammit S; Hickman M, 2013, 'Stronger evidence is needed before accepting that cannabis plays an important role in the aetiology of schizophrenia in the population', F1000 Medicine Reports, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M5-2

Dick DM; Aliev F; Latendresse SJ; Hickman M; Heron J; Macleod J; Joinson C; Maughan B; Lewis G; Kendler KS, 2013, 'Adolescent Alcohol Use is Predicted by Childhood Temperament Factors Before Age 5, with Mediation Through Personality and Peers', Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 37, pp. 2108 - 2117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.12206

Loaring J; Hickman M; Oliver I; Campbell R; Trotter C; Macleod J; Pye K; Crichton J; Horner P, 2013, 'Could a peer-led intervention increase uptake of chlamydia screening? A proof of principle pilot study', Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 39, pp. 21 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100151

Vickerman P; Martin NK; Hickman M, 2013, 'Could low dead-space syringes really reduce HIV transmission to low levels?', International Journal of Drug Policy, 24, pp. 8 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.10.006

Kendler KS; Gardner CO; Edwards A; Hickman M; Heron J; Macleod J; Lewis G; Dick DM, 2013, 'Dimensions of Parental Alcohol Use/Problems and Offspring Temperament, Externalizing Behaviors, and Alcohol Use/Problems', Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 37, pp. 2118 - 2127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.12196

Peterson JL; Hickman MJ; Strom KJ; Johnson DJ, 2013, 'Effect of Forensic Evidence on Criminal Justice Case Processing', Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58, pp. S78 - S90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12020

Martin NK; Vickerman P; Miners A; Hickman M, 2013, 'How cost-effective is hepatitis C virus treatment for people who inject drugs?', Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Australia, 28, pp. 590 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgh.12113

Mathers BM; Degenhardt L; Bucello C; Lemon J; Wiessing L; Hickman M, 2013, 'Mortality among people who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91, pp. 102 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.12.108282

Horyniak D; Higgs P; Jenkinson R; Degenhardt LJ; Stoove M; Kerr TH; Hickman M; Aitken CK; Dietze P; Higgs P, 2013, 'Establishing the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study (MIX): rationale, methods, and baseline and twelve-month follow-up results', Harm Reduction Journal, 10, pp. 1 - 14, http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/10/1/11

Gowing L; Hickman M; Degenhardt LJ, 2013, 'Mitigating the risk of HIV infection with opioid substitution treatment', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91, pp. 148 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.12.109553

Mathers BM; Degenhardt LJ; Bucello C; Lemon JA; Wiessing L; Hickman M, 2013, 'Mortality among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91, pp. 102 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.12.108282

Mills HL; Colijn C; Vickerman P; Leslie D; Hope V; Hickman M, 2012, 'Respondent driven sampling and community structure in a population of injecting drug users, Bristol, UK', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 126, pp. 324 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.05.036

Marsden J; Eastwood B; Jones H; Bradbury C; Hickman M; Knight J; Randhawa K; White M, 2012, 'Risk adjustment of heroin treatment outcomes for comparative performance assessment in England', Addiction, 107, pp. 2161 - 2172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03971.x

Vickerman P; Martin N; Turner K; Hickman M, 2012, 'Can needle and syringe programmes and opiate substitution therapy achieve substantial reductions in hepatitis C virus prevalence? Model projections for different epidemic settings', Addiction, 107, pp. 1984 - 1995, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03932.x

Hickman M; Degenhardt L; Farrell M; Hall W, 2012, 'Commentary on kelty & hulse (2012): Is the comparison of mortality between patients prescribed implanted or oral naltrexone an unbiased and unconfounded comparison?', Addiction, 107, pp. 1825 - 1826, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03966.x

Hickman M; De Angelis D, 2012, 'Commentary: Increase in diagnosed newly acquired hepatitis C in HIV-positive men who have sex with men across London and Brighton, 2002-2006: is this an outbreak? (Sexually Transmitted Infections (2008) 84, (115-116))', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 88, pp. 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2007-028779corr1

Macarthur G; Kipping R; White J; Chittleborough C; Lingam R; Pasch K; Gunnell D; Hickman M; Campbell R, 2012, 'Individual-, family-, and school-level interventions for preventing multiple risk behaviours in individuals aged 8 to 25 years', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD009927

Harris RJ; Hope VD; Morongiu A; Hickman M; Ncube F; De Angelis D, 2012, 'Spatial mapping of hepatitis C prevalence in recent injecting drug users in contact with services', Epidemiology and Infection, 140, pp. 1054 - 1063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268811001634

Vickerman P; Martin NK; Hickman M, 2012, 'Understanding the trends in HIV and hepatitis C prevalence amongst injecting drug users in different settings-Implications for intervention impact', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 123, pp. 122 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.10.032

Lees R; Kingston R; Williams TM; Henderson G; Lingford-Hughes A; Hickman M, 2012, 'Comparison of ethyl glucuronide in hair with self-reported alcohol consumption', Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47, pp. 267 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/ags010

Harris RJ; Ramsay M; Hope VD; Brant L; Hickman M; Foster GR; De Angelis D, 2012, 'Hepatitis C prevalence in England remains low and varies by ethnicity: An updated evidence synthesis', European Journal of Public Health, 22, pp. 187 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckr083

Kipping RR; Campbell RM; MacArthur GJ; Gunnell DJ; Hickman M, 2012, 'Editorial', Journal of Public Health, 34, pp. i1 - i2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdr122

Kipping RR; Campbell RM; MacArthur GJ; Gunnell DJ; Hickman M, 2012, 'Editorial', Journal of Public Health, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdr122

MacArthur GJ; Smith MC; Melotti R; Heron J; MacLeod J; Hickman M; Kipping RR; Campbell R; Lewis G, 2012, 'Patterns of alcohol use and multiple risk behaviour by gender during early and late adolescence: The ALSPAC cohort', Journal of Public Health, 34, pp. i20 - i30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fds006

Heron J; MacLeod J; Munafò MR; Melotti R; Lewis G; Tilling K; Hickman M, 2012, 'Patterns of alcohol use in early adolescence predict problem use at age 16', Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47, pp. 169 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agr156

Hickman M; Vickerman P; Degenhardt L, 2012, 'Commentary on Mehta etal. (2012): Natural history of injecting drug use', Addiction, 107, pp. 359 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03741.x

Andersson MI; Low N; Irish CJ; Carrington D; Hickman M; Myers R; Teo CG; Ijaz S, 2012, 'Molecular epidemiology of a large community-based outbreak of hepatitis B in Bristol, UK', Journal of Clinical Virology, 53, pp. 125 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2011.10.012

Martin NK; Vickerman P; Miners A; Foster GR; Hutchinson SJ; Goldberg DJ; Hickman M, 2012, 'Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C virus antiviral treatment for injection drug user populations', Hepatology, 55, pp. 49 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hep.24656

Andersson MI; Low N; Irish CJ; Verlander NQ; Carrington D; Horner P; Stuart JM; Hickman M, 2012, 'Investigation of a large community-based outbreak of hepatitis B infection in the United Kingdom', Epidemiology and Infection, 140, pp. 47 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268811000148

Higgs P, 2012, 'A cross-sectional study of emergency department visits by people who inject drugs', Emergency Medicine Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-201170

Macleod J; Hickman M; Jones HE; Copeland L; Mckenzie J; Robertson JR; De Angelis D; Kimber J, 2012, 'Early life influences on the risk of injecting drug use: Case control study based on the Edinburgh Addiction Cohort', Addiction, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12056

Higgs P, 2012, 'Modeling the utility of antiviral treatment for primary prevention of hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs in Victoria, Australia', Medical Journal of Australia, 196, pp. 638 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja11.10981

MacArthur GJ; Minozzi S; Martin N; Vickerman P; Deren S; Bruneau J; Degenhardt LJ; Hickman M, 2012, 'Opiate substitution treatment and HIV transmission in people who inject drugs: systematic review and meta-analysis', BMJ, 345, pp. e5945 - e5945, http://www.bmj.com/highwire/filestream/605967/field_highwire_article_pdf/0/bmj.e5945

Copeland L; Robertson JR; Mckenzie JS; Kimber J; Macleod J; Hickman M; De Angelis DSA, 2012, 'Premature mortality in Scottish injecting drug users: A life-history approach', Scottish Medical Journal, 57, pp. 38 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/smj.2011.011289

Vickerman P; Grebely J; Dore GJ; Sacks-davis R; Page K; Thomas DL; Osburn WO; Cox AL; Aitken CL; Hickman M; Hellard M; Maher L, 2012, 'The more you look, the more you find: Effects of hepatitis C virus testing interval on reinfection incidence and clearance and implications for future vaccine study design', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 205, pp. 1342 - 1350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jis213

Heron J; Hickman M; Macleod J; Munafò MR, 2011, 'Characterizing patterns of smoking initiation in adolescence: Comparison of methods for dealing with missing data', Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 13, pp. 1266 - 1275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntr161

Turner KME; Hutchinson S; Vickerman P; Hope V; Craine N; Palmateer N; May M; Taylor A; de Angelis D; Cameron S; Parry J; Lyons M; Goldberg D; Allen E; Hickman M, 2011, 'The impact of needle and syringe provision and opiate substitution therapy on the incidence of hepatitis C virus in injecting drug users: Pooling of UK evidence', Addiction, 106, pp. 1978 - 1988, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03515.x

Schuckit MA; Smith TL; Heron J; Hickman M; Macleod J; Lewis G; Davis JM; Hibbeln JR; Brown S; Zuccolo L; Miller LL; Davey-Smith G, 2011, 'Testing a level of response to alcohol-based model of heavy drinking and alcohol problems in 1,905 17-year-olds', Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 35, pp. 1897 - 1904, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01536.x

Roberts J; Annett H; Hickman M, 2011, 'A systematic review of interventions to increase the uptake of opiate substitution therapy in injecting drug users', Journal of Public Health, 33, pp. 378 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdq088

Hickman M; Vickerman P; Robertson R; MacLeod J; Strang J, 2011, 'Promoting recovery and preventing drug-related mortality: Competing risks?', Journal of Public Health, 33, pp. 332 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdr055

Martin NK; Pitcher AB; Vickerman P; Vassall A; Hickman M, 2011, 'Optimal control of hepatitis C antiviral treatment programme delivery for prevention amongst a population of injecting drug users', Plos One, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022309

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