The Bacille-Calmette–Guerin (BCG) vaccination remains the primary strategy to prevent severe disseminated TB in young children, particularly in high TB-burden countries such as Ethiopia. Accurate knowledge of vaccination coverage in small geographical areas is critically important to developing targeted immunization campaigns. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the spatiotemporal distributions and ecological level determinants of BCG vaccination coverage in Ethiopia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• June 2022

Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), malaria and soil-transmitted helminthiasis continue to impose a significant global health burden and socio-economic impact. Globally, minority indigenous people are disproportionately affected by poverty and are shown to experience a disparate burden of disease and poorer health outcomes than the comparative majority population. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• July 2021

Leads Scientific Advisory Committee Professor Tobias Kollmann Chief Executive Officer  Head, Systems Vaccinology at Telethon Kids Institute and ...

• Born Strong

Understanding how emerging infectious diseases spread within and between countries is essential to contain future pandemics. Spread to new areas requires connectivity between one or more sources and a suitable local environment, but how these two factors interact at different stages of disease emergence remains largely unknown. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• May 2024

Long-standing health inequalities in Australian society that were exposed by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic were described as "fault lines" in a recent call to action by a consortium of philanthropic organizations. With asthma a major contributor to childhood disease burden, studies of its spatial epidemiology can provide valuable insights into the emergence of health inequalities early in life. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• February 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with significant social changes due to legislative and public health requirements, has changed the way in which people experience grief. We examined whether dysfunctional grief symptoms, disrupted meaning, risk factors, and functional impairment differed between people bereaved from COVID-19 and from other natural or violent causes in this same period. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• September 2022

Leads START Phage WA Discover. Prevent. Cure. Head, P4 Respiratory Health for Kids Stephen Stick Head, P4 Respiratory Health for Kids Paediatric ...

• Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre
• Projects
• Phage WA

Understanding the temporal dynamics of mosquito populations underlying vector-borne disease transmission is key to optimizing control strategies. Many questions remain surrounding the drivers of these dynamics and how they vary between species-questions rarely answerable from individual entomological studies (that typically focus on a single location or species). ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• April 2022

The significance of both indoor and outdoor sources of air pollution and effect modifiers such as green space and heating require further investigation ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• April 2017

This is the largest collection of normative T LCO data, and the first global reference values available for T LCO. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• September 2017