Preparedness
Every infectious disease emergency presents a new set of research questions for Australia.
We cannot know everything before an infectious disease emergency but we must prepare multiple capabilities and tools in advance. Preparing for emergencies ensures the best possible outcomes for the health of Australians.
Preparedness projects will include:
- protocols and ethics approvals to fast-track clinical trials of new treatments and/or vaccines
- protocols and ethics approvals to fast-track new diagnostic tests
- laboratory training and coordination to collect and store appropriate samples from individuals at risk of, or infected, with a new organism
- networks to accelerate coordination and data sharing with other researchers, clinicians, government and global partners
- a research workforce with the skills to provide information needed for an effective emergency response to infectious diseases.
Projects
- Community perspectives on distributing an initially limited supply of vaccines in the event of an influenza pandemic
- Influenza sero-surveillance at the animal-human interface: a feasibility study in high-risk groups
- Sampling, shipping and serology: a proof of concept study of influenza immunity
- Short PeRiod IncideNce sTudy of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SPRINT-SARI): research preparedness for pandemics
- Sentinel Travellers and Research Preparedness Platform for Emerging Infectious Disease (SETREP-ID)
- Improved detection and characterisation of flaviviruses and their antibodies in humans, animals and mosquitoes
- ASEAN-Australia Health Security Fellowship Program
- Development and evaluation of a carbon dioxide-free system for mosquito-borne disease surveillance
- Specimen collection protocols to accompany FF100 enhanced data collection studies
- Evaluating video-reflexive methods to improve infection prevention and use of personal protective equipment in Australian hospitals
- Developing Australasia’s serological capability for viral haemorrhagic fevers
- Adaptation of the First Few Hundred protocol for infectious disease events for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
- Privileging Aboriginal voices in infectious disease emergencies
- Human parechovirus 3 (HPeV3) recombinant strain diversity and severe disease association in Australian outbreaks
Publications
- Key features of a trauma-informed public health emergency approach: A rapid review
- A culturally responsive trauma-informed public health emergency framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in Australia, developed during COVID-19
- Real world impact of 13vPCV in preventing invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in Australian children: A national study
- Convergence of surveillance blind spots with antimicrobial resistance hotspots
- Metagenomic characterisation of additional and novel avian viruses from Australian wild ducks
- Genome sequence analysis of first Ross River virus isolate from Papua New Guinea indicates long-term, local evolution
- Phylogenetic and timescale analysis of Barmah Forest virus as inferred from genome sequence analysis
- Genome-scale phylogeny and evolutionary analysis of Ross River virus reveals periodic sweeps of lineage dominance in Western Australia, 1977-2014
- Engage, understand, listen and act: evaluation of Community Panels to privilege First Nations voices in pandemic planning and response in Australia
- Timing and temporal trends of influenza and pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy in three Australian jurisdictions: The Links2HealthierBubs population-based linked cohort study, 2012–2017
- Using systems thinking to better understand risks and protective factors for urban Indigenous peoples during COVID-19
- Priorities in Biobanking Research: A Report on the 2021 ISBER Round Table
- Rapid assessment of the risk of SARS-CoV-2 importation: case study and lessons learned
- Ethical health security in the age of antimicrobial resistance
- Development and implementation of a shared governance model in a mainstream health unit: a case study of embedding Aboriginal voices in organisational decision making
- Glucocorticoid dose in COVID-19: Lessons for clinical trials during a pandemic
- “One minute it’s an airborne virus, then it’s a droplet virus, and then it’s like nobody really knows…”: Experiences of pandemic PPE amongst Australian healthcare workers
- ATAGI 2021 annual statement on immunisation Last updated: 19 September 2021
- Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global clinical experts
- Decision-making for pandemics: an ethics framework
- Testing the efficacy and acceptability of video-reflexive methods in personal protective equipment training for medical interns: a mixed methods study
- Neonatal parechovirus infection: Possibility of in-utero transmission
- Development of an influenza pandemic decision support tool linking situational analytics to national response policy
- Antibiotic resistance in uropathogens across northern Australia 2007–20 and impact on treatment guidelines
- National predictors of influenza vaccine uptake in pregnancy: the FluMum prospective cohort study, Australia, 2012–2015
- Exploring the cause of diarrhoea and poor growth in 8–11-week-old pigs from an Australian pig herd using metagenomic sequencing
- Reprogrammed CRISPR-Cas13b suppresses SARS-CoV-2 replication and circumvents its mutational escape through mismatch tolerance
- Value of consultation in establishing a public health research network: lessons from APPRISE
- How should we conduct pandemic vaccination?
- Constructing an ethical framework for priority allocation of pandemic vaccines
- How do data bolster pandemic preparedness and response? How do we improve data and systems to be better prepared?
- Education and training in infection prevention and control: Exploring support for national standards
- Priority allocation of pandemic influenza vaccines in Australia – Recommendations of 3 community juries
- A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases
- Hospital Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS): Dual strategies to reduce antibiotic resistance (ABR) in hospitals
- Medical interns’ reflections on their training in use of personal protective equipment
- Geospatial epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in a tropical setting: an enabling digital surveillance platform
- Attributable length of stay, mortality risk and costs of bacterial healthcare-associated infections in Australia: a retrospective case-cohort study
- Championing women working in health across regional and rural Australia – a new dual-mentorship model
- Infection dynamics of swine influenza virus in a Danish pig herd reveals recurrent infections with different variants of the H1N2 swine influenza A virus subtype
- Metagenomic characterisation of avian parvoviruses and picornaviruses from Australian wild ducks
- Prioritising access to pandemic influenza vaccine: a review of the ethics literature
- Trajectories of hospital infection control: Using non-representational theory to understand and improve infection prevention and control
- Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis
- Hospital infection control: old problem – evolving challenges
- One Health and zoonotic uncertainty in Singapore and Australia: Examining different regimes of precaution in outbreak decision-making
- Detection of a reassortant H9N2 Avian Influenza virus with intercontinental gene segments in a resident Australian Chestnut Teal
- Defining, controlling and analysing Indigenous data: commitment to historical consistency or commitment to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
- Enablers of, and barriers to, optimal glove and mask use for routine care in the emergency department: an ethnographic study of Australian clinicians
- Causes and clinical features of childhood encephalitis: A multicenter, prospective cohort study
- Why research ethics should add retrospective review
- An emerging human parechovirus type 5 causing sepsis-like illness in infants in Australia
- Influenza vaccination coverage in a population-based cohort of Australian-born Aboriginal and non-Indigenous older adults
- Presenteeism among health care workers with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection: A retrospective cohort study in Queensland, Australia
- Parechovirus A infections in healthy Australian children during the first 2-years of life: a community-based longitudinal birth cohort study
- Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2011–2015
- Ethics of public health surveillance: new guidelines
- Respiratory illness in a piggery associated with the first identified outbreak of swine influenza in Australia: Assessing the risk to human health and zoonotic potential
- Advancing Planetary Health in Australia: focus on emerging infections and antimicrobial resistance
- High burden of infectious disease and antibiotic use in early life in Australian Aboriginal communities
- Towards effective outbreak detection: a qualitative study to identify factors affecting nurses’ early warning surveillance practice in Solomon Islands
- Priority needs for conducting pandemic-relevant clinical research with children in Europe: A consensus study with pediatric clinician-researchers
- Evolutionary analysis of human parechovirus type 3 and clinical outcomes of infection during the 2017-18 Australian epidemic
- Influenza and pertussis vaccination of women during pregnancy in Victoria, 2015–2017
- Communicable disease surveillance ethics in the age of big data and new technology
- Optimal timing of influenza vaccine during pregnancy: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
- Letter to the Editor in response to the article by Borg et al
- Perspectives of Australian policy-makers on the potential benefits and risks of technologically enhanced communicable disease surveillance – a modified Delphi survey
- Public preferences for One Health approaches to emerging infectious diseases: A discrete choice experiment
- Detection and characterisation of canine astrovirus, canine parvovirus and canine papillomavirus in puppies using next generation sequencing
- Clinician perceptions of respiratory infection risk; a rationale for research into mask use in routine practice
- Influenza epidemiology, vaccine coverage and vaccine effectiveness in children admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2017: Results from the PAEDS-FluCAN Collaboration
- Improving emergency preparedness and response in the Asia–Pacific
- The impact of influenza infection on young children, their family and the health care system
- Role of viral and bacterial pathogens in causing pneumonia among Western Australian children: a case-control study protocol
- Divergent human origin influenza viruses detected in Australian swine populations
- Recruiting general practice patients for large clinical trials: lessons from the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) study
- Book: Video-reflexive ethnography in health research and healthcare improvement
- Managing the risk of Hendra virus spillover in Australia using ecological approaches: A report on three community juries
- Clinical research networks and assessing pandemic severity
- Presentation: A mixed methods study of the risk-taking behaviour of clinical staff towards routine use of protective masks for infectious diseases
- Presentation: Talking with patients: Improving clinician-patient communication around healthcare-associated infections using video-reflexive methods
- Presentation: Keeping our hospitals safe from exotic infections
- Planning for and responding to pandemic influenza emergencies: it’s time to listen to, prioritize and privilege Aboriginal perspectives
- Characterising seasonal influenza epidemiology using primary care surveillance data
- Presentation: APPRISE – Case study of a Centre of Research Excellence with consultation requirement
- To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians’ understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules
- Metagenomics detection and characterisation of viruses in faecal samples from Australian wild birds
- Parechovirus: an important emerging infection in young infants
- Bending the pandemic curve: Improving decision-making with clinical research
- Plenary presentation: Pandemics cross borders: How to tackle them from a global perspective
- Stakeholder Consultation Report – Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies: NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence
- Webinar – Managing uncertainty in clinical trials: the role of adaptive trial designs
- Presentation – Opportunities for the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Centre for Research Excellence
- Short courses in infectious diseases, emergency response and related areas
- Postgraduate education and training related to infectious diseases
- Is Australia prepared for the next pandemic?
- Developing research priorities for Australia’s response to infectious disease emergencies