Good news

Ross Andrews, Katie Glass, Rosemary Korda, Steph Davis and Pip Binns have been successful in their tender to the Commonwealth Department of Health to provide evaluations for vaccines seeking to be added to the National Immunisation Program.

Martyn Kirk was made a fellow of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Other conference presentations

Danielle Ingle presented at the Salmonella Biology and Pathogenesis (Gordon Research Conference) with a poster titled "Rapid emergence of highly-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar 4,[5],12:i:- in Australia". 

Luis Furuya-Kanamori presented at the 16^th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine with a poster titled “Acquisition Rate and the Effect of Dukoral on Multidrug Resistance Enterobacteriaceae among Australian Travellers”.

Amy Parry presented an oral presentation at the Global Health Security Conference, titled ‘Strengthening local and international epidemiology workforce during emergencies in low resource settings’.

Martyn Kirk presented on the genomic epidemiology of Campylobacter at a Symposium of the Genomics Network of Australia.

Awards

Luis was awarded an ANU Early Career Research travel grant for $3,000.

Outreach and Engagement

Danielle will be presenting at the upcoming Australian Society for Microbiology workshop in July on "Genomics in clinical and public health microbiology".

Media interest

Meru Sheel was featured in Women’s Agenda this month, with an article on her role as an infectious disease epidemiologist: https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/meet-dr-meru-sheel-leading-infectious-disease-epidemiologist/

Other news

Brett Lidbury has just returned to Australia from three months at Radboud UMC in the Netherlands, supported by an Erasmus mobility grant.

Papers accepted/published

• Ford L, Ingle D, Glass K, Veitch M, Williamson DA, Harlock M, Gregory J, Stafford R, French N, Bloomfield S, Grange Z, Conway ML, Kirk MD. Whole-genome sequencing of Salmonella Mississippi and Typhimurium Definitive Type 160, Australia and New Zealand. Emerg Infect Dis, (accepted June 2019)
• Ingle D, Gonçalves da Silva A, Valcanis M, Ballard S, Seemann T, Jennison A, Bastian I, Wise R, Kirk M, Howden B, Williamson D. 2019, Emergence and divergence of major lineages of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Australia. Microbial Genomics, DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000268
• Li M, Havelaar AH, Hoffmann S, Hald T, Kirk MD, Torgerson PR, Devleesschauwer B. Global disease burden of pathogens in animal source foods, 2010. PLoS One. 2019 Jun 6;14(6):e0216545. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216545. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31170162; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6553721.
• Maguire JE, Glasgow K, Glass K, Roczo-Farkas S, Bines JE, Sheppeard V, Macartney K, Quinn HE. Rotavirus epidemiology and RV1 vaccine effectiveness in Australia, 2010-2017. Pediatrics (in press, accepted June 2019).
• Williamson DA, Kirk MD, Sintchenko V, Howden BP. The importance of public health genomics for ensuring health security for Australia. Med J Aust. 2019 Apr;210(7):295-297.e1. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50063. Epub 2019 Mar 19. PubMed PMID: 30888069.

Xu C, Furuya-Kanamori L, Liu Y, Faerch K, Aadahl M, Seguin R, LaCroix A, Basterra-Gortari J, Dunstan DW, Owen N, Doi SAR. 2019. Sedentary behavior, physical activity and all-cause mortality: dose-response and intensity weighted time-use meta-analysis. J Am Med Dir Assoc, (accepted for publication)