PHTM - Public Health & Aeromedical Retrieval
Joseph Kamara
- Senior Lecturer Disaster Health and Humanitarian Assistance
- joseph.kamara@jcu.edu.au
Lars Henning
- Associate Professor
- lars.henning@jcu.edu.au
Amy Peden
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
- amy.peden@jcu.edu.au
Anita Wall
- Lecturer, Aeromedical Retrieval
- anita.wall@jcu.edu.au
Alan Clough
- Professor
- alan.clough@jcu.edu.au
Emmeline Campbell
- Associate Professor, Aeromedical Retrieval
- emmeline.finn@jcu.edu.au
Tammy Allen
- Senior Lecturer
- tammy.allen1@jcu.edu.au
Mary O'Loughlin
- Senior Lecturer, Public Health
- mary.oloughlin@jcu.edu.au
Richard Bradbury
- Associate Professor, Tropical Public Health and Medicine
- richard.bradbury@jcu.edu.au
Securing the frontline for health secure communities (Old ID 26522)
The aim is to build capacity to detect/respond to infectious disease outbreaks through frontline public health (human and animal) workforce which includes community members, volunteers, community health workers, environmental health workers, biosecurity and environmental officers and primary health care staff. This will be achieved through: Strengthened capability at community/primary care levels to anticipate outbreaks; Improved response at early stages of potential outbreaks; A quality timely and thorough response to outbreaks at the frontline level ; An operational learning and feedback process for continued improvement and currency of detection of and response to infectious diseases outbreaks.
Securing the frontline for health secure communities (Old ID 26522)
The aim is to build capacity to detect/respond to infectious disease outbreaks through frontline public health (human and animal) workforce which includes community members, volunteers, community health workers, environmental health workers, biosecurity and environmental officers and primary health care staff. This will be achieved through: Strengthened capability at community/primary care levels to anticipate outbreaks; Improved response at early stages of potential outbreaks; A quality timely and thorough response to outbreaks at the frontline level ; An operational learning and feedback process for continued improvement and currency of detection of and response to infectious diseases outbreaks.
International travel and medical events- an Australian travel insurance perspective in the Covid-19 era.
This PhD project will measure the impact of international travel on the medical wellbeing of Australians. No such data currently exists. By investigating the relationship between traveller features and communicable and non-communicable diseases, an indication of the true medical risks associated with such travel will be established. The measurements will reflect long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical literacy, travel preferences, and public attitudes. The results will inform future product design for insurers and assist travel medical providers to advise clients on their risk for medical incidents during travel. The findings will assist in setting the healthcare expectations for contemporary Australian international travellers.
Building capacity for periodontal disease management in the Kingdom of Tonga
This is Shorab Mohammed' PhD project. It started in April 2018. We got previously funding from the same donor. Shorab sits in PTHM and not in dentistry. PHTM is proposed to move to CMD under the current change proposal. At the moment, the PI is a PHTM PhD student. Shorab logged as JCU staff.
Parasitic Disease Wastewater Surveillance to Inform Public Health Action in Remote Northern Queensland
Intestinal parasites are chronic preventable infectious disease of poverty which disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in northern Australia. Public Health Surveillance for these diseases is time consuming costly, difficult and intrusive, requiring faecal and blood testing of community members. This project will validate and pilot the use of wastewater testing for the surveillance of important intestinal parasites, including strongyloidiasis, whipworm, giardiasis, and amoebic dysentery infecting people in north Queensland. The use of wastewater sampling will augment the capacity for public health surveillance by facilitating time and cost-efficient parasitic disease surveillance simultaneously in multiple communities.
Ending the neglect – setting the platform for strongyloidiasis elimination in Australia
Strongyloidiasis is caused by parasitic nematodes (roundworms) of the genus Strongyloides and is considered to be one of the most neglected of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). There are two main Strongyloides species that cause human infection; S. stercoralis and S. fuelleborni. In Australia, S. stercoralis is the infecting species that disproportionately affects remote Indigenous communities, with the prevalence ranging from 10-60%. The lifecycle and transmission is complex with both a parasitic cycle and a free-living cycle. This is further complicated by autoinfection and the possibility of zoonotic transmission– recent genetic evidence suggests the possibility of a dog reservoir. These factors coupled with less than ideal diagnostics and treatment options (Ivermectin and Albendazole) where there is evidence of treatment failures, the spectre of emerging resistance and their inability to prevent reinfection, all have implications for control and elimination efforts.
It is our central thesis that strongyloidiasis is a zoonotic neglected tropical disease of public health importance in Australia and that an integrated interdisciplinary “One Health” approach is required for its elimination.
Mosquito-borne disease and community engagement in high-income countries: scoping review
- 2019
- James Cook University
- Researchers:Tammy AllenSteph Topp
Barriers and enablers to conducting health promotion in private dental practice
- 2016
- James Cook University
- Researchers:Tammy Allen
Validating Indigenous status in a regional Queensland hospital emergency department dataset with patient‐linked data
- 2020
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Researchers:Mary O'LoughlinRobyn McDermott
Mucosal delivery of ESX-1–expressing BCG strains provides superior immunity against tuberculosis in murine type 2 diabetes
- 2020
- National Academy of Sciences
- Researchers:Harindra Sathkumara MudiyanselageMatt FieldCatherine RushLars HenningAndreas Kupz
Disparate effects of metformin on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in diabetic and nondiabetic mice
- 2020
- American Society for Microbiology
- Researchers:Harindra Sathkumara MudiyanselageSocorro Miranda-HernandezCatherine RushLars HenningAndreas Kupz
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Becton Dickinson Award
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01 Jan 2009
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01 Jan 2024
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01 Jan 2022
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01 Jan 2024
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01 Jan 2020
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01 Jan 2024
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01 Jan 2019
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01 Jan 2019
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Team Lead, Parasitic Diseases Reference Laboratory , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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01 Jan 2016
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01 Jan 2019
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01 Jan 2013
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01 Jan 2015
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01 Jan 2012
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01 Jan 2013
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01 Jan 2009
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01 Jan 2012
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01 Jan 2003
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01 Jan 2010