New grants/funding

• Kerri Viney (CI): 2019 $23,967 AUD. “Spatiotemporal patterns of drug susceptible and drug resistant TB in Hunan Province, China” from the Australian Centre of China in the World seed funding scheme, Australian National University
• Kerri Viney (lead consultant at ANU): 2019 $39,435 (Australian National University component) – “A report on current risks to health security in the Indo-Pacific region” from the Indo-Pacific Centre of Health Security, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Media releases/interest

Meru Sheel has had media appearances in the Canberra Times and on live radio with 2CC Sunday Roast (7th April) and ABC radio national Life Matters with Hilary Harper (23rd April).

The recent Clinical Infectious Diseases paper on Shigella by Danielle Ingle and Martyn Kirk has received media interest, with Deb Williamson from UniMelb giving media interviews on The Project and ABC AM (23rd April) on the rise of cases of multi-drug resistant shigellosis.

Papers accepted/published

• Sheel M, Collins J, Kama M… Kirk M et al. Evaluation of the early warning, alert and response system after Cyclone Winston, Fiji, 2016. Bull World Health Organ. 2019;97(3):178–189C. doi:10.2471/BLT.18.211409
• Viney K, Amadal S, Marques EB, Siroka A, Lopes C, Vaz Nery S. Four in five tuberculosis patients experience catastrophic costs related to TB diagnosis and care in Timor-Leste. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. (in press)