Good News

Congratulations to Tambri Housen on winning the Colleges of Science Award for Excellence in Supervision (Early Career Researcher)!

Congratulations to Laura Ford on winning the 15 minute student presentation prize at the RSPH student conference!

Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

Martyn Kirk, Katie Glass, Rhiannon Wallace and Liz Walker attended a two day face-to-face meeting for the CampySource project in Melbourne.  This was well attended and a highly productive meeting.  Liz’s talk on our food sampling data generated lots of discussion, and we are very excited by the preliminary genomic data that Rhiannon is helping to analyse.

Katie Glass presented on Lymphatic Filariasis at a Modelling workshop in Melbourne run by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, and attended a Data Analytics workshop at ANU that aims to link methodologists across ANU, UC, ACT Health and other organisations.

Danielle Ingle presented at the University of Melbourne 4^th Annual MDHS ECR Network Symposium on Concurrent outbreaks of highly resistant Shigella spp.  

MAE scholar Linda Garton presented at the Australian Public Health Conference on Hepatitis C epidemiology in the Northern Territory: using a novel method to estimate current prevalence based on surveillance data.

MAE scholar Sophie Phelan has had an abstract accepted for rapid fire oral presentation at the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections in Auckland in November on Characteristics of Females with Gonorrhoea in NSW, 2018 – A Case Series Investigation.

MAE scholar Tamara Riley has had an abstract on One Health Approach to Animal Health and Management in a Remote Aboriginal Community accepted for oral presentation at One Health Aotearoa Symposium in Wellington in December.

MAE scholar Stephen Harfield has had his abstract on Trends in Aboriginal adolescent hospitalisations in South Australia, 2006-2005 accepted for the SA Population Health Conference in December.

Grants & consultancies

Tambri Housen was awarded a $12,000 grant from the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security to run a workshop in collaboration with Amrish Baidjoe (R Epidemics Consortium and the European Field Epi Training Program – EPIET/EUPHEM) on Finding our way through the data forest; How advances in data analytics can strengthen operational responses and how the FETPs could lead in this joint effort at the upcoming 9th Southeast Asia and Western Pacific Bi-regional TEPHINET conference in Laos.

Engagement and Outreach

MAE scholar Sophie Phelan was in Ghizo Island, Solomon Islands where she implemented an epi prevalence study on scabies.

Publications

• Sharmin S, Glass K, Viennet E, Harley D. Geostatistical mapping of the seasonal spread of under-reported dengue cases in Bangladesh. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (in press, accepted October 2018).
• Ieng V, Tolosa MX, Tek B, Sar B, Sim K, Seng H, Thyl M, Dara C, Moniborin M, Stewart RJ, Bell LC, Theocharopoulos G, Chin S, Chau D, Iuliano AD, Moen A, Tsuyuoka R, Dueger EL, Sullivan SG, Ly S. National Burden of influenza-associated hospitalizations in Cambodia, 2015 and 2016. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal. 2018; 9(4). doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2018.9.5.011.
• Doan TN, Fox G. Meehan MT, Scott N, Ragonnet R, Viney K, Trauer JM, McBryde ES. Cost-Effectiveness of Three Months of Weekly Rifapentine and Isoniazid Compared with Other Standard Treatment Regimens for Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Decision Analysis Study. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2018. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky403.
• France, M., Bain, S., and Lidbury, B.A. “Australia and New Zealand”, in - The History of Alternative Test Methods in Toxicology (1st Ed). Editors: Michael Balls, Robert Combes, Andrew Worth (ISBN: 9780128136973). Academic Press. (Published: 19th October 2018);
• Lidbury, B. ME/CFS Interview published online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_4D-vz5T4