Research

Research is a key element at SEPHU and an important component of our work.

Our team is active in researching, writing and presenting papers, including at international conferences.

Recent publications include:

• Achieving COVID-19 vaccination equity in South Eastern Metropolitan Victoria, Australia: a population-based study – The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
• Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia – Nature Microbiology
• Mpox Management: A Holistic Local Response to a Global Threat – Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
• Mental health and wellbeing of health and aged care workers, May 2021-June 2022 – Medical Journal of Australia
• Statewide epidemiology investigations of COVID-19 in healthcare workers in 2020 Victoria, Australia – The Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific
• Mental health outcomes in Australian healthcare and aged-care workers during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Clinical illness with viable severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus presenting 72 days after infection in an immunocompromised patient – Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
• COVID-19 in Australia: our national response to the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection during the early biocontainment phase – Internal Medicine Journal
• Viral genomics to inform infection-control responses in occupational coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission – Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Second SARS-CoV-2 infections 12 months after initial infections in Australia, confirmed by genomic analysis – Medical Journal of Australia
• The Role of Local Public Health Units in Enhancing Outbreak Response in Residential Aged Care Facilities – Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
• To B or not to B: how the hepatitis B surveillance case definition can misdirect public health actions – Communicable Diseases Intelligence
• COVID-19 hospitalisations in a tertiary health service during the Omicron sub variant wave – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
• Identify, screen and treat via electronic pathway: a semiautomated approach to retriaging a liver clinic waitlist – Internal Medicine Journal