Response
During an infectious disease emergency, APPRISE will coordinate effective research to inform Australia’s response.
Example response activities:
- develop diagnostic tests for new and emerging infections
- ensure appropriate diagnostic tests can be used in remote locations
- begin clinical trials for new treatments and vaccines
- facilitate effective sharing and analysis of research data, working closely with Australian and jurisdictional governments
- collect and store samples from people affected by an infectious disease to understand clinical severity and treatment responses (biobanking)
- clearly communicate research findings to our diverse stakeholders.
APPRISE COVID-19 updates:
Projects
- Establishing a national biobank for COVID-19
- First Nations-led projects funded for COVID-19 research
- National and targeted sero-surveys of population immunity to SARS-COV2 to inform clinical and public health responses
- AuStralian COVID Trial (ASCOT)
- The interaction between influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in nursing homes
- REMAP-CAP for COVID 19
- First Nations Community Panels on COVID-19
- The ethics of Australia’s quarantine choices: Health security, COVID-19 and Christmas Island
- Understanding host response of severe viral pneumonitis
- Self-isolation and quarantine experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
- First Nations Disaster Management Plans for COVID-19
- Understanding stakeholder beliefs, attitudes and responses to COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC): a multimodal qualitative study
- CRISPER: COVID-19 Real-time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response
- NHMRC extends APPRISE funding for critical COVID-19 projects
- Frequently Asked Questions – ‘First Few X’ (FFX) project to enhance the public health response to COVID-19 in Australia
- ‘First Few X’ (FFX) research project to enhance the public health response to COVID-19 in Australia
- Fast-tracked new COVID-19 projects meet areas of urgent need
- 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)
- ASEAN-Australia Health Security Fellowship Program
- Evaluating video-reflexive methods to improve infection prevention and use of personal protective equipment in Australian hospitals
- Human parechovirus 3 (HPeV3) recombinant strain diversity and severe disease association in Australian outbreaks
Publications
- Leading with local solutions to keep Yarrabah safe: a grounded theory study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation’s response to COVID-19
- Australia needs a prioritised national research strategy for clinical trials in a pandemic: lessons learned from COVID-19
- The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on routine vaccinations in Victoria
- Reprogrammed CRISPR-Cas13b suppresses SARS-CoV-2 replication and circumvents its mutational escape through mismatch tolerance
- An increased ratio of SARS-CoV-2 positive to negative sense genomic and subgenomic RNAs within routine diagnostic upper respiratory tract swabs may be a marker of virion shedding [preprint]
- Temporal differences in culturable severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts in a patient with moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses
- COVID‐19 Real‐time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response (CRISPER)
- Multi-site assessment of rapid, point-of-care antigen testing for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a low-prevalence setting: A validation and implementation study
- Interleukin-6 receptor antagonists in critically ill patients with Covid-19
- Hospital outcomes after a COVID-19 diagnosis from January to May 2020 in New South Wales Australia
- Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic
- 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
- Where has all the influenza gone? The impact of COVID-19 on the circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses, Australia, March to September 2020
- Maintaining strong foundations and building resilience: planning Australia’s path through the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 public health measures and respiratory syncytial virus
- SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic RNAs in diagnostic samples are not an indicator of active replication
- Estimating temporal variation in transmission of COVID-19 and adherence to social distancing measures in Australia
- Coronavirus disease model to inform transmission reducing measures and health system preparedness, Australia
- Early analysis of the Australian COVID-19 epidemic
- Changes in public preferences for technologically enhanced surveillance following the COVID-19 pandemic: a discrete choice experiment
- Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in Sydney, Australia following the first epidemic wave in 2020
- Ending COVID-19: progress and gaps in research—highlights of the July 2020 GloPID-R COVID-19 Research Synergies Meetings
- Leveraging the advances in HIV for COVID-19
- COVID‐19 in a Sydney nursing home: a case study and lessons learnt
- Effect of hydrocortisone on mortality and organ support in patients with severe COVID-19. The REMAP-CAP COVID-19 corticosteroid domain randomized clinical trial
- 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
- Tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using genomics
- Building an ethics framework for COVID-19 resource allocation: The How and the Why
- An ethics framework for making resource allocation decisions within clinical care: Responding to COVID-19
- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Australian educational settings: a prospective cohort study
- Outcomes reported for Australian First Nation populations for the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic and lessons for future infectious disease emergencies: a systematic review
- RDA COVID-19 Working Group recommendations and guidelines on data sharing
- Prioritising access to pandemic influenza vaccine: a review of the ethics literature
- Webinar: Bioethics and COVID-19
- The challenges of establishing adequate capacity for SARS‐CoV‐2 testing
- Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS ‐CoV‐2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID ‐19 in Australia
- First Nations people leading the way in COVID-19 pandemic planning, response and management
- Rapid research report – The most promising therapeutics for COVID-19
- Trajectories of hospital infection control: Using non-representational theory to understand and improve infection prevention and control
- Key ethical concepts and their application to COVID-19 research
- Estimating the case detection rate and temporal variation in transmission of COVID-19 in Australia
- Modelling the impact of COVID-19 in Australia to inform transmission reducing measures and health system preparedness [pre-print]
- Early analysis of the Australian COVID-19 epidemic [preprint]
- Assessing the risk of spread of COVID-19 to the Asia Pacific region [preprint]
- SARS, MERS and COVID-19—new threats; old lessons
- Living with COVID-19: Planning policy for the next stage
- An ethics framework for making resource allocation decisions within clinical care: Responding to COVID-19
- Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19
- Breadth of concomitant immune responses underpinning viral clearance and patient recovery in a non-severe case of COVID-19
- Enablers of, and barriers to, optimal glove and mask use for routine care in the emergency department: an ethnographic study of Australian clinicians
- Presenteeism among health care workers with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection: A retrospective cohort study in Queensland, Australia
- 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
- 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
- Communicable disease surveillance ethics in the age of big data and new technology
- 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
- 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
- To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians’ understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules
- Parechovirus: an important emerging infection in young infants
- Stakeholder Consultation Report – Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies: NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence
- Is Australia prepared for the next pandemic?
- Developing research priorities for Australia’s response to infectious disease emergencies