Penelope Yael Rikki Kirsty Strauss Perry Battersby-Coulter Hird PS YP RBC KH BA, MPH, PhD BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BA (Psych), MYMH, MPH (Health Econ Eval), MHM BPsych (Hons) Research Fellow in Youth Suicide Prevention Program Head, Mental ...

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Patients using insulin pump therapy had a better long-term glycemic control relative to the matched injection therapy cohort ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

Population-level studies of severe pertussis extending beyond infancy are sparse, and none in the context of antenatal vaccination. We compared hospitalized pertussis cases from birth to 15 years of age before and after introduction of antenatal immunization. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Infants with Tuberous sclerosis complex demonstrated reduced interhemispheric alpha phase coherence compared to controls at 12 months of age ...

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• 2019
• December 2019

This study demonstrates the importance of considering the effectiveness of secondary school bullying prevention interventions and real-world implementation support ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

Premature onset of type 2 diabetes and excess mortality are critical issues internationally, particularly in Indigenous populations. There is an urgent need for developmentally appropriate and culturally safe models of care. We describe the methods for the codesign, implementation and evaluation of enhanced models of care with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living with type 2 diabetes across Northern Australia.  ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

These findings demonstrate the immediate value of whole-school interventions to reduce bullying behaviour and associated harms among students ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

Streptococcus pyogenes is a leading cause of infection-related morbidity and mortality. A reinvigorated vaccine development effort calls for new clinically relevant human S pyogenes experimental infection models to support proof of concept evaluation of candidate vaccines. We describe the initial Controlled Human Infection for Vaccination Against S pyogenes (CHIVAS-M75) study, in which we aimed to identify a dose of emm75 S pyogenes that causes acute pharyngitis in at least 60% of volunteers when applied to the pharynx by swab. ...

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• 2021
• April 2021

Developed a specific Haemophilus influenzae quantitative PCR (qPCR) that also identifies fucose-negative and protein D-negative strains ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

The aims of the study were to investigate family and hospital staff views about the use of spring-infusor devices for administration of intravenous antibiotic medications, to examine if the device is acceptable and feasible and to map a process for implementation. ...

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• 2022
• September 2022

This study assessed the potential bias present in a sample of actively consented students, and in the estimates of associations between variables obtained... ...

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• 2014
• March 2014

Peter Richmond PC MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP Head, Vaccine Trials Group Head, Vaccine Trials Group Professor Peter Richmond is Head of the Vaccine Trials Group which sits in the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases. Professor Richmond is a ...

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