Tambri Housen attended an RECON (R epidemics consortium) in London run by the Imperial College (https://www.repidemicsconsortium.org/).  The meeting included representatives from WHO, CDC, EPIET/EUPHEM (the European field epidemiology training program), ECDC, MSF, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (among others). The meeting was to discuss outbreak analytics, the development of a new field ready tool for data collection and analytics, and the transition of field epi from Stata to R.

Kerri Viney has been awarded $1,058,200,000 VND (~$60,375 AUD ) from Friends for International TB Relief as a co-investigator on “Social support for tuberculosis patients in Viet Nam: Comparison of the acceptability of social health insurance and cash transfers among drug susceptible TB patients in three cities in Viet Nam”.

Brett Lidbury presented two posters at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia:

• Brett A. Lidbury, Gus Koerbin, Alice M. Richardson and Tony Badrick. Integration of ISO15189 and External Quality Assurance Data to Assist the Detection of Poor Laboratory Performance in New South Wales
• Aidan Zellner, Alice M. Richardson, Brett A. Lidbury and Tony Badrick. A comparison of outlier elimination and reference interval calculation methods with Ig type data

Papers

• Scott AB, Toribio J-A, Singh M, Groves P, Barnes B, Glass K, Moloney B, Black A, Hernandez-Jover M. Low pathogenic avian influenza exposure risk assessment in Australian commercial chicken farms. Frontiers Veterinary Science (in press, accepted March 2018).
• Barnes B, Glass K. Modelling low pathogenic avian influenza introduction into the commercial poultry industry. Math Biosciences (in press, accepted March 2018).
• Scott A, Toribio J-A, Singh M, Groves P, Barnes B, Glass K, Moloney B, Black A, Hernandez-Jover M. Evaluating the risk of low and high pathogenic avian influenza spread within and between Australian commercial chicken farms. Frontiers Veterinary Science (in press, accepted March 2018).
• Ford L, Carter GP, Wang Q, Seemann T, Sintchenko V, Glass K, Williamson DA, Howard P, Valcanis M, Sait M, Howden BP, Kirk MD. Incorporating whole genome sequencing into public health surveillance: Lessons from prospective sequencing of Salmonella Typhimurium in Australia Foodborne Pathogens and Disease (in press).
• Housen, T., Lenglet, A., Ariti, C., Ara, S., Dar, M., Hussain, A., Paul, A., Wagay, Z., Viney, K., Janes, S., Pintaldi, G. 2018. Validation of mental health screening instruments in the Kashmir Valley, India. Transcultural Psychiatry 10.1177/1363461518764487
• Malo J, Colbran C, Young M, Bhakti V, Jarvinen K, Viney K, Lambert SB. A human outbreak of Q fever likely due to parturient cat exposure at an animal refuge in southeast Queensland. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (in press).
• Alene KA, Clements ACA, McBryde ES, Jaramillo E, Lonnroth K, Saweno D, Viney K. Sequelae of multidrug resistant tuberculosis: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open 2018; 8: e019593. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019593
• Syed Mustafa Ali; Farah Naureen; Arif Noor; Irum Fatima; Kerri Viney; Muhammad Ishaq; Naveed Anjum; Aamna Rashid; Ghulam Rasool Haider; Muhammad Aamir Khan; Javariya Aamir. Loss-to-follow-up and delay to treatment initiation in Pakistan's National Tuberculosis Control Programme. BMC Public Health. 2018. 18:335. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5222-2