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        Strep A Translation

        The Strep A Translation team aim to understand the epidemiology of Strep A infections in Australia and the world. Alongside this, they explore the implementation of endgame recommendations, health economics and new horizons.

        The Strep A Translation team aim to understand the epidemiology of Strep A infections in Australia and the world.  The epidemiology of Strep A infections in Australia and globally remains a high priority across the END RHD program, and the work undertaken by this team intersect with the other four teams within the END RHD program.

        In addition, this team research and outputs are vital for implementation of the endgame recommendations, health economics findings and most importantly new horizons for international collaborations and partnerships; such as REACH - a technical support and policy translation initiative to amplify rheumatic heart disease control efforts locally, regionally and globally.

        REACH is a core partner of RHD Action, a coalition of global organisations working together to establish a scientific and technical support community available to all countries, advocate for policy change for better heart health, support and empower all people living with RHD and foster multi-sectoral partnerships to support and sustain the global movement.

        Invasive Strep A Disease

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        Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines & Infectious Diseases

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        Team

        Leaders

        Professor Jonathan Carapetis AM

        AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS

        Executive Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH

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        Associate Professor Glenn Pearson

        BA (Education) PhD Candidate

        Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership

        Members

        Rosemary Wyber

        MBChB MPH FRACGP PhD

        Senior Research Fellow, Strategic Advisor

        Bernadette Wong

        BSc(Hons)

        Research Assistant

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        Christine Everest

        AFAIM

        Program Manager END RHD

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        Ainslie Poore

        BSc

        Senior Project Coordinator

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        Keerthi Anpalagan

        B.Biomed (Hons)

        PhD Candidate and Research Assistant

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        Jeffrey Cannon
        Health Economist

        Health Economist

        Maddison Pearce
        Research Support Officer

        Research Support Officer

        Rachel Burgess
        Senior Research Officer

        Senior Research Officer

        Joe Kado
        Senior Research Fellow

        Senior Research Fellow

        Jess Daw
        Research Assistant

        Research Assistant

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        Strep A Translation projects

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        Reach: to stop rheumatic heart disease

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        Improving Health Outcomes in the Tropical North: A Multidisciplinary Collaboration (HOT NORTH)

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        Other projects
        All Strep A Translation projects

        Group A Streptococcal and Rheumatic Heart Disease videos

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        Strep A on 7 News

        Strep A on 7 News

        Our Director is Professor Jonathan Carapetis is guest reporter on Channel 7 News in the lead-up to Telethon 2014.

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        Laqueisha's Story

        Meet Laqueisha and Jonathan

        For more than two decades, paediatrician and researcher Professor Jonathan Carapetis has been working on rheumatic heart disease. Great strides have been made but there is still a long way to go to help kids like Laqueisha. Diagnosed with RHD at five years of age, Laqueisha has undergone eight hours of heart surgery and will endure painful injections every month until she's 18.

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        Prof Jonathan Carapetis

        Prof Jonathan Carapetis

        Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Director of the Telethon Kids Institute, is a finalist for the 2016 CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science.

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        February 2024

        Clinical practice guidelines: Their utility, dissemination and monitoring at Colonial War Memorial Hospital: A mixed methods study from Fiji

        Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) improve patient care by standardising medical practice. However, little is known about their applicability in low-resource settings. Since 2010, Fiji has introduced guidelines to increase the application of evidence-based practice.

        Published research Group A Streptococcal & Rheumatic Heart Disease Subsite: Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases
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        March 2023

        A pilot study to develop assessment tools for Group A Streptococcus surveillance studies

        Group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes pharyngitis (sore throat) and impetigo (skin sores) GAS pharyngitis triggers rheumatic fever (RF) with epidemiological evidence supporting that GAS impetigo may also trigger RF in Australian Aboriginal children. Understanding the concurrent burden of these superficial GAS infections is critical to RF prevention. This pilot study aimed to trial tools for concurrent surveillance of sore throats and skins sore for contemporary studies of RF pathogenesis including development of a sore throat checklist for Aboriginal families and pharynx photography.

        Published research Skin Infections Aboriginal Health Group A Streptococcal & Rheumatic Heart Disease Subsite: END RHD Invasive Streptococcus A Disease Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Strep A & ARF Therapeutics
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        November 2022

        Invasive Infections Caused by Lancefield Groups C/G and A Streptococcus, Western Australia, Australia, 2000–2018

        Epidemiologic data on invasive group C/G Streptococcus (iGCGS) infections are sparse internationally. Linked population-level hospital, pathology, and death data were used to describe the disease burden in Western Australia, Australia, during 2000-2018 compared with that of invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS, Streptococcus pyogenes) infections.

        Published research Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing Group A Streptococcal & Rheumatic Heart Disease Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Subsite: END RHD Invasive Streptococcus A Disease
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        January 2020

        Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease

        Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease is a concise, yet comprehensive, clinical resource highlighting must-know information on rheumatic heart disease and acute rheumatic fever from a global perspective

        Published research Rheumatic Heart Disease Group A Streptococcal & Rheumatic Heart Disease
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        Strep A Translation Projects and Activities

         

         

        Abstracts and Posters

        Honorary Team Members

        • Glenn Pearson
        • Hannah Moore
        • Belaynew Taye