March 24, 2022
APPRISED Issue 18 – March 2022
APPRISED – the newsletter of the APPRISE Centre of Research Excellence contains news about our response to infectious disease emergencies
APPRISE News
March 23, 2022
The Burden of the Beast
Countering conspiracies and misinformation within Indigenous communities in Australia
March 22, 2022
Japanese encephalitis virus can cause deadly brain swelling – but in less than 1% of cases
JEV is an infection that can be transmitted to people if they are bitten by a mosquito carrying the virus. It can’t be transmitted from person to person
March 18, 2022
How many Australians have had COVID-19?
Australia will soon have its first estimates of how many people contracted COVID-19 during the Omicron wave
March 7, 2022
Victorian biobank begins recruiting for COVID-19 vaccine studies
Call for people to donate blood samples in Victoria before and after their COVID-19 booster vaccination
March 1, 2022
COVID-19 clinical trials disproportionately run out of high-income countries research shows
A treatment that works in an intensive care unit in a high-income country is not necessarily going to work in low and middle income countries
February 8, 2022
The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. We crunched the numbers to see what really happened
Our analysis showed the app did not add much value to the conventional contact tracing system
January 25, 2022
1,100 Australian aged care homes are locked down due to COVID. What have we learnt from deaths in care?
Addressing the aged care staff crisis will require an effective campaign to attract workers by offering better conditions.
January 19, 2022
Burnet and Doherty scientists develop highly accurate point-of-care neutralising antibodies (NAb) test for COVID-19
The test provides a readout from a fingerprick of blood in less than 20 minutes and is the first of its type globally
November 24, 2021
COVID Conundrums Community Forum
On the 23rd of November, APPRISE co-hosted a forum with the BEAT COVID collaboration
