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Co-head, Bacterial Respiratory Infectious Disease Group (BRIDG)
Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have helped map the global impact of life saving vaccines to mark the 50-year anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).
World-first immunisations providing protection against deadly respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) could be just months away thanks to global research efforts spanning multiple decades.
New collaborative research involving almost 600,000 pregnant mothers has demonstrated a dramatic increase in uptake of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine after identifying just 22 per cent of WA women had the maternal vaccination between 2012 – 2017.
Influenza is major cause of paediatric hospitalisation. Influenza vaccine was offered to all children aged 6-59 months resident in Western Australia in 2008
To assess the immunogenicity and safety of a 2009 influenza A(H1N1) vaccine in children.
Cervical cancer mortality has been reduced in Australia because of effective screening programs, but there are still about 800 new cases...
Combined vaccines have an increasingly important role to play in delivering these antigens acceptably.
This study compared the potency and immunomodulatory effects of measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine given to infants alone or in combination with varicella...
HPV prevalence in Canberra high school students: significance for vaccination strategies and adolescent health.