September report for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling
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New grants/funding
Kerri Viney has been appointed as a CI for a systematic review on tuberculosis and disability from the World Health Organization’s regional office for the Western Pacific. She has received funding of $48.8k AUD for this.
Awards
Rhiannon Wallace won two ECR travel grants to attend the Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Related Organisms conference in Belfast, UK September 8-11. These are the ANU ECR Travel Grant ($3,000) and the NCEPH ECR Travel Award ($2,000).
Outreach and Engagement
Meru Sheel presented at a ‘Science in the Pub’-type event during National Science Week on infectious disease epidemiology.
Media interest
Brett Lidbury had a story about his work with Alice Richardson on ME/CFS covered in The Age newspaper and other news outlets. The story can also be found on the RSPH website: https://rsph.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/researchers-cusp-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-diagnosis-discovery
Papers accepted/published
- Stone J, Glass K, Munn Z, Tugwell P, Doi SAR. An evaluation of existing methods for bias adjustment in meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (in press).
- Walker, L., Wallace, R.L., Graham, T., Saputra, T., Smith, J., Symes, S., Glass, K., Stylianopoulos, A., Polkinghorne, B., Kirk, M. Prevalence of Campylobacter coli & jejuni in retail chicken, beef, lamb and pork products in three Australian states. Journal of Food Protection (in press, accepted August 2019).
Cortes Rivera, M.; Mastronardi, C.; Silva-Aldana, C.T.; Arcos-Burgos, M.; Lidbury, B.A. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review. Diagnostics 2019, 9, 91.