Congratulations to Andrea Parisi, who is the recipient of the 2017 Geoff Mercer Travel Endowment.  Andrea will use the Endowment to attend the “ID week” infectious disease conference in San Diego and present her work on multidrug resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella infections.   Following the conference, Andrea will visit the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, USA, to collaborate on a study estimating global incidence of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS).

The MAE team completed course-block over August and September.  Thanks to all involved in teaching, and to those that came to the Tales from the Field seminar.   It was great to hear about all the work that our MAE students have been involved in.

Cameron Moffatt provided some commentary for the New Daily on the safety of chicken sashimi:

http://thenewdaily.com.au/life/eat-drink/2017/09/08/chicken-sashimi-safe-eat/

Martyn Kirk and Katie Glass are involved in applications for funding from the first round of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) on the Antimicrobial Resistance Targeted Call for Research.   These grants opportunities have a very short application time, so we have been busy getting our applications together.  

Papers

• Hogan AB, Campbell PT, Blyth CC, Lim FJ, Fathima P, Davis S, Moore HC, Glass K. (2017) Potential impact of a maternal vaccine for RSV: a mathematical modelling study. Vaccine (in press).