Rosemary Wyber R MBChB MPH FRACGP PhD Senior Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow Dr Rosemary Wyber is a general practitioner and researcher focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cardiovascular health. Dr Wyber completed her medical ...

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Jonathan Carapetis AM JR AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Executive Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH 08 6319 1000 contact@telethonkids.org.au Institute Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH Professor ...

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Jonathan Carapetis AM JR AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Executive Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH 08 6319 1000 contact@telethonkids.org.au Institute Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH Professor ...

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Marianne John Rebecca Stephanie Asha Jonathan Mullane Jacky Pavlos Enkel Bowen Carapetis AM MM JJ RP SE AC JR BSc (OT) PhD, MSFS, BSc (Hons), MPH, MIPH BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Program Advisor, SToP Trial Community ...

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Glenn Jonathan Michael Pat Tim Tobias Pearson Carapetis AM Serralha Holt Barnett Kollmann G JR MS PG TB TK BA (Education) PhD Candidate AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA PhD PhD, M.D., SFUW Director of First Nations ...

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Tim Barnett TB PhD Head of the Strep A Pathogenesis & Diagnostics team, Deputy Director of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases 6319 1319 timothy.barnett@telethonkids.org.au Head of the Strep A Pathogenesis & Diagnostics team, ...

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Group A β-haemolytic Streptococcus (GAS), a Gram-positive bacterium, causes skin, mucosal and systemic infections. Repeated GAS infections can lead to autoimmune diseases acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have the highest rates of ARF and RHD in the world. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

It is critical that health service evaluation frameworks include Aboriginal people and their cultural worldviews from design to implementation. During a large participatory action research study, Elders, service leaders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers co-designed evaluation tools to test the efficacy of a previously co-designed engagement framework. Through a series of co-design workshops, tools were built using innovative collaborative processes that foregrounded Aboriginal worldviews. ...

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• 2021
• August 2021

These data support that children are not just 'little adults' in the AMR era, and analyses by age group are important to detect differences in antibiotic susceptibility ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

Benzathine penicillin G has been used as monthly deep intramuscular (IM) injections since the 1950s for secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Injection frequency and pain are major programmatic barriers for adherence, prompting calls for development of better long-acting penicillin preparations to prevent RHD. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

The WHF echocardiographic criteria enable reproducible categorisation of echocardiograms as definite RHD versus no or borderline RHD ...

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• 2019
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Indigenous patients are substantially underrepresented in care by services participating in the nationwide specialist palliative care ...

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• 2019
• May 2019