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
- 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
- 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
- Early analysis of the Australian COVID-19 epidemic
- Assessing the risk of spread of COVID-19 to the Asia Pacific region
- 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