Research projects
- Developing an optimal strategy for the rheumatic fever endgame
- Understanding Group A Streptococcus (GAS) pharyngitis and skin infections as causes of rheumatic fever
- Impact and distribution of infectious disease in New Zealand
- Campylobacter epidemiology and impact
- Risk factors for Rheumatic Fever (case-control study)
- BLIS trial for rheumatic fever prevention (with Julian Crane)
- Evaluation of the Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme (with ESR)
- Coalition to Advance New Vaccines for Group A Streptococcus (CANVAS) (with Telethon Kids Institute and University of Auckland)
- Southern Hemisphere Influenza and Vaccine Effectiveness, Research and Surveillance (SHIVERS) (with ESR)
- Clioepidemiology of pandemic influenza: ongoing projects studying the experience of pandemic influenza in 1918.
- Health effects of household crowding (with Housing and Health Research Programme)
- Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response (ISER) (with University of NSW, Australia)
Student projects
- Imported infectious diseases (PhD student tbc)
- Towards Ecologically-Based Early Warning System for Arboviral Disease Transmission in New Zealand (Sherif Ammar)
- Assessing the Potential Public Health Impacts of the Intensification of Dairy Farming in New Zealand (Leah Grout)
- Evaluation of the NZ Needle and Syringe Exchange Programme (Hycenta Uwikunda)
- Optimising the organisation of the public health function in NZ (Symraina Pandey)
- Group A Streptococcal (GAS) infection and Rheumatic Fever (Jane Oliver)
- Epidemiology of Legionnaires Disease (Frances Graham)
- Burden of influenza (Trang Khieu)
- Effects of pre-hospital antibiotic treatment on meningococcal disease mortality (Amanda Kvalsvig)
- Enteric disease and environmental conditions (Aparna Lau)
- Risk factors for death in the 1918 influenza pandemic (Jennifer Summers)
- Improving pandemic response capacity (Julia Scott)
- Pertussis immunisation (Georgia Dean)
- Causes of helicobacter infection (Andrea MacDonald)
- Distribution of Group A Streptococcal (GAS) infection (Sarah Jeffries)
- Estimating mortality from influenza (Tara Kessaram)
