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Degenhardt received her PhD in 2003. The topic was examining the comorbidity of mental disorders and drug use in the
Australia and the general population. She researches of diverse epidemiological studies. These studies include clinical population surveys, analysis of large-scale community. She also
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Degenhardt has over 250,000 citations, an H index of 159, as at May 2024, according to Google
Scholar. She has published more than 45 book chapters 530 peer-reviewed papers, three books, and over 10 papers published in The Lancet.
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Jahagirdar D et al., (2023) 'Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of
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