COVID-19 OUR EXPERTS YOUR RESOURCE
Contents
Introduction 4
Chapter 1: Researching the Disease 6
Chapter 2: Managing or Treating the Disease 24
Chapter 3: Addressing the Consequences of the Disease 58
Chapter 4: Addressing Socio-economic Questions 80
Chapter 5: Information and Communication 108
GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE – 3 Introduction
As Group of Eight (Go8) many different elements of the Chief Executive I am COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic issues. exceptionally proud to be able to provide you On April 27 The Group of Eight (Go8) delivered to the Australian Federal with “COVID-19: Our Government the only evidence-based experts – Your resource”. comprehensive advice on options This document contains for our nation’s leaders to use to a list of experts under move toward Australia’s COVID-19 five headings – names exit and recovery phase. The report, “Roadmap to Recovery” is available provided to us by our eight at https://go8.edu.au/research/ world-leading research- roadmap-to-recovery. intensive universities. Its almost 200 pages provided two strategies that could be undertaken as These Go8 researchers have the we all await the arrival of successful knowledge and expertise to assist treatments and a safeguard vaccine – all levels of Government, business, Elimination or a Controlled Adaptation industry, social advocacy teams and Strategy. It also included some 60 media (to name but a few sectors) recommendations. with their understanding of the
Its production was an intense project, using more than 100 Go8 experts and researchers who gave of their time willingly 24/7 for some three weeks, through weekends and even Easter
4 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Much of the evidence-based It also showed just what brilliance information and recommendations existed on the subject here, in in that report are being used by the Australia. We are indeed home Federal Government and by our to an amazing nation of research jurisdictions. specialists. Each and every one of them unassuming, and determined Its production was an intense to work as a cohesive team on behalf project, using more than 100 Go8 of the Australian community. experts and researchers who gave of their time willingly 24/7 for some We may be at war, as our Federal three weeks, through weekends and Treasurer has said, with a faceless even Easter. To them, to us, the Go8 and flagless enemy, but we have the providing the Government with the good fortune to have those named best possible advice in the world (and many more of a similar calibre) mattered. It was, as we all called it, here to help us recover. a report for the nation. Please take the time to feel proud These research areas used are set of Australia’s Go8 researchers – out below: we certainly are.
Vicki Thomson Go8 Chief Executive
GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE – 5 Researching the disease within the Go8 includes an incredibly wide range of world- leading specialist experts working in areas such as molecular virology and pathogenesis to epidemiology and population health and then also to other particular areas such as vulnerable communities and immune systems. The effort of leading the world in researching a global pandemic weighs heavily on the researchers whom Australia has taken for granted, but now can see with clarity are critical to our community’s future health and wellbeing. Likewise a reliance on fundamental or basic research to Australia is highlighted, such as is needed to delve deeply into the genomic makeup or the protein biochemistry of the virus. Battling all aspects of COVID-19 is a “Team Australia” effort.
1 Researching the Disease
Dr Jason Agostino1 Expertise Research School of Population Health, As Lead of the Viral Pathogenesis Australian National University Research Laboratory (VPRL) at Expertise The University of Adelaide Associate Professor Beard has been Dr Agostino is a GP and epidemiologist continuously funded by the NHMRC who is a Medical Advisor to the for the past 18 years. His research National Aboriginal Community interests include the molecular Controlled Health Organisation virology and pathogenesis of the (NACCHO). He sits on the Aboriginal hepatitis B and C virus (HBV, HCV) and Torres Strait Islander COVID-19 and other related viruses such Advisory Group and the GP Peaks as Dengue, West Nile Virus and COVID-19 response Advisory Group. more recently Zika virus (ZIKV). In He assists in the co-ordination of particular his laboratory is interested the COVID-19 response and the in the innate immune response to generation of guidance for Aboriginal viral infection and the host antiviral and Torres Strait Islander peoples. response through the expression of interferon stimulated genes (ISGs) Associate Professor and has identified a number of ISGs Michael Beard2 that control, HCV, HIV, Dengue and Lead, Viral Pathogenesis Research ZIKV. He uses model systems such as Laboratory, School of Biological genetically modified mice and human Sciences, University of Adelaide organoid cultures to investigate
1 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/agostino-j?term=agostino 2 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/michael.beard
8 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE viral pathogenesis. He currently Associate Professor collaborates with SA Pathology Marco Casarotto4 (Dr Chuan Lim, Dr Geoff Higgins) John Curtin School of Medical and Associate Professor Bastien Research, Australian National University Llamas to study sequence diversity in COVID-19 patient samples. Expertise Associate Professor Casarotto Professor has expertise in structural biology, Anthony Blakely3 medical biochemistry, pharmacology Director, Population Interventions and pharmaceutical science. His work (PI) Unit, Centre for Epidemiology is on targeting ion channels found and Biostatistics, Melbourne School in coronavirus. of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Dr Anna-Lise Chaber5 Expertise One Health Lecturer, Animal & Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide Professor Blakely is an epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist. Expertise Whilst principally an epidemiologist, Dr Chaber is a field epidemiologist he uses and combines methods from veterinarian who specializes on multiple disciplines: biostatistics, zoonotic and emerging diseases. economics, econometrics, and Dr Chaber has conducted research computer and data science. on diseases transmission including MERS-CoV (Al Ain, UAE), and has expertise also in:
3 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/773939-tony-blakely 4 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/casarotto-mg 5 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/anne-lise.chaber
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yyEarly warning and risk assessment Professor 7 yyEpidemics & pandemics response Dominic Dwyer including surveillance Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Professor Tony Laboratory Services, Institute of 6 Clinical Pathology and Medical Cunningham AO Research, Westmead Hospital, Director, Centre for Virus Research, University of Sydney University of Sydney Expertise Expertise Professor Dwyer led the team of Professor Cunningham is an 10 scientists and pathologists at infectious diseases physician, clinical NSW Health Pathology’s ICPMR and virologist and scientist, internationally clinicians at the University of Sydney renowned for his research on the and Westmead Hospital on genome immunobiology of HIV and herpes sequencing of the coronavirus viruses, his work on vaccine and and growing the live virus from microbicide development, and as an real patients as opposed to using antivirals expert. synthetic materials. His team also has made key This helped to provide access to contributions to human immunology faster, reliable diagnostic testing for and neurobiology of Herpes infected patients. The “virus isolates” simplex virus (HSV), leading to the were passed to the World Health development and trialling by GSK Organisation and other scientists of a partly successful candidate around the world for research and HSV vaccine and recently, a highly vaccine development. effective vaccine for Herpes zoster.
6 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/tony-cunningham.html 7 https://www.pathology.health.nsw.gov.au/about-us/our-leadership-team/dominic-dwyer
10 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE With coronavirus spreading in Expertise Australia, his team at Westmead Dr Eden was awarded funding Hospital and other labs across Sydney from the CREID (NHMRC Centre of are working 24/7 on laboratory testing Research Excellence in Emerging of swab samples and conducting Infectious Diseases) and APPRISE contact tracing of infected patients to (Australian Partnership for control the spread of the disease. Preparedness Research on Infection He is a medical virologist and Disease Emergencies) in March 2020 infectious diseases physician with a for two COVID-19 projects: clinical and research interest in viral yy Deep sequencing to better understand diseases of public health importance. the dynamics of within-host viral He runs a clinical trials unit in diversity during prolonged, severe antiviral drugs and vaccines and has SARS-CoV-2 infection to answer the a particular interest in antiviral drug answer the question “What, if any, resistance. He has worked with the viral diversity accumulates during World Health Organisation on the SARS-CoV-2 infection?” SARS and avian flu outbreaks. yyDiagnosis of COVID-19 (evaluation An important part of his role of nucleic acid testing and viral is assisting state and national culture, in-house and commercial) governments in planning for pandemic with Jen Kok and David Smith to influenza and emerging infections. answer the question “Which nucleic acid test for SARS-CoV-2 is best?” Dr John-Sebastian Eden8 Potential interests and expertise Westmead Institute for Medical include bioinformatics and genomics, Research, University of Sydney viral genome sequencing and analysis.
8 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/js-eden.html
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Dr Nicholas Eyre9 Professor Lead, Molecular Virology Group Chris Goodnow10 (MVG), Biological Sciences, Executive Director, Garvan Institute University of Adelaide of Medical Research; Head of Expertise Immunogenomics laboratory; Director of the Cellular Genomics Since completion of his PhD in Futures Institute at UNSW Sydney, 2007, Dr Eyre has worked as a UNSW Sydney full-time, grant-funded Molecular Virologist, specialising in molecular Expertise virology, virus-host interactions, high Professor Goodnow established resolution imaging and antiviral drug the concept of multiple immune screening and mechanistic analysis tolerance checkpoints, a framework for pathogenic viruses including now widely used in cancer treatment hepatitis C virus (HCV), dengue with “checkpoint inhibitors” and virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV) and revealed the function of key genes hepatitis B virus (HBV). His research in these checkpoints. He pioneered interests include imaging-based genome-wide analysis and more analysis of the biogenesis and recently single cell DNA sequences traffic of viral replication organelles, controlling the immune system. host dependency factors involved in viral replication cycles and high- Relevant activities: throughput screening of candidate yyAccelerated development of antiviral drugs and host dependency human antibodies raised to SARS- factors. Associate Professor Beard CoV as a treatment and preventive and Dr Eyre work closely together on intervention for SARS-CoV-2 several collaborative projects. infection and COVID-19
9 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/nicholas.eyre 10 https://www.garvan.org.au/people/chrgoo
12 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE yySingle cell RNAseq analysis to of virus infections in the human host. predict severe respiratory distress Professor Gowans has extensive among those infected experience in the development of DNA yyDevelopment of tools to vaccines and other vaccine strategies characterise SARS-CoV-2 virus including adeno-associated virus (AAV) commonly used in gene therapy. The Professor Eric Gowans11 Gowans group developed novel DNA NHMRC Snr Research Fellow, Basil vaccines designed to elicit humoral Hetzel Institute, University of Adelaide and cell mediated immunity to HCV; these vaccines elicit neutralising Expertise antibody to the virus envelope proteins Professor Gowans has extensive and cell mediated immunity to several expertise in the diagnosis of RNA of the non-structural (NS) proteins. virus infections, including hepatitis D The efficacy of the vaccines will be virus (HDV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), examined shortly in a collaboration Zika virus, bovine diarrhoea virus and with Chinese colleagues, in a non- GB virus-B. He has been involved human primate model. in the design and development of The Gowans group also developed diagnostic assays to detect viraemia a novel vaccine for Zika virus and by RT-polymerase chain reaction has extensive experience with other (RT-PCR) and serological evidence vaccine strategies including adenovirus of infection by ELISA and other high vectors and more recently, AAV. The throughput assays. The development group’s studies with AAV showed of these assays including RT-PCR that a single dose with AAV-HCV for HDV, HCV, Zika virus and GBV-B NS5B elicited robust cell mediated is based on a broad understanding immunity in mice forming the basis of the molecular biology of these of a complementary approach to the viruses, the function of the different established DNA vaccines. viral proteins and the natural history
11 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/eric.gowans
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Professor Darren Gray12 Professor Heyworth participated in Research School of Population Health, the Go8 expert process to provide Australian National University advice to the Australian Government on ‘social (physical) distancing’. Expertise Professor Gray is an infectious Professor disease epidemiologist who is Eddie Holmes14 Deputy Director of the Research Professor, ARC Laureate Fellow, School of Population Health and School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Head of its Department of Global Science; School of Medical Sciences, Health. His current research Faculty of Medicine and Health; investigates the transmission Charles Perkins Centre; Marie Bashir and control of infectious diseases. Institute, University of Sydney
Professor Expertise Jane Heyworth13 Professor Holmes was part of the Professor, Population and Public consortium led by Professor Yong- Health, University of Western Australia Zhen Zhang, Fudan University, which released the world’s first genome Professor Heyworth is an sequence of the coronavirus on 10 environmental epidemiologist with January. The information was shared over thirty years’ experience in via GenBank as reported by Science environmental health research, policy and the release of the data helped and practice. Professor Heyworth’s researchers worldwide develop test specific research interests are in kits and a vaccine for the virus. environmental causes of chronic Their research “A new coronavirus illness and water quality and health. associated with human respiratory
12 https://rsph.anu.edu.au/people/academics/professor-darren-gray 13 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/jane-heyworth 14 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/edward-holmes.html
14 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE disease in China” was published in He is the Co-leader with Professor Nature on 3 February, confirming that Guan Yi, leading SARs researcher the virus was most closely related to at the University of Hong Kong a SARS-like infection previously found of InnoHK collaboration, “AI- in bats. metagenomic platform to identify emerging pathogens”, funded by HK His research consortium includes government. This aims to develop Shanghai Public Health Clinical a platform for global detection Center & School of Public Health, the of emerging pathogens and Central Hospital of Wuhan, Huazhong identification of the microbial basis University of Science and Technology, of severe respiratory infections. the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute He is also a Guest Professor at for Communicable Disease Control the Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Chinese Center for Control and Prevention (CDD), Disease Control, all of which are Beijing, and an Adjunct Professor key Chinese research institutions in at Fudan University, Shanghai. tackling the coronavirus outbreak. 15 Professor Holmes is known for his Professor Tim Inglis work on the evolution and emergence Head of Division and Associate of infectious diseases, particularly the Professor, Faculty of Health mechanisms by which RNA viruses and Medical Sciences, jump species to emerge in humans Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and other animals. He has studied University of Western Australia the emergence and spread of such Expertise pathogens as avian influenza virus, y dengue virus, HIV, hepatitis C virus, yMedical Microbiologist with a focus myxoma virus, RHDV and Yersinia on tropical diseases at PathWest pestis. Laboratory Medicine WA, dealing with COVID-19
15 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/tim-inglis
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Professor will allow novel mapping of the Tony Kelleher16 mechanisms underlying the Director, The Kirby Institute; establishment and maintenance Professor and Program Head, of the viral reservoirs which is the Immunovirology and Pathogenesis roadblock to curing this infection. Program, UNSW Sydney Relevant activities: Expertise yyContributing to an adaptive trial design for severe disease in the Professor Kelleher’s research NIH sponsored global International interests concentrate on comparing Network for Strategic Initiatives the interaction between virus and in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT) the immune system in treated and network17 untreated individuals with HIV- infection in an attempt to define yyEstablishing a COVID-19 protective immune responses with cohort across NSW hospitals the objective of applying these (e.g. Westmead, POW, Blacktown, observations to rational treatment RPA, St George, St Vincent’s, and vaccine design. Established an Childrens’ Hospital Network), exciting new area of research on including substudies of vulnerable transcriptional gene silencing of groups within cohort (e.g. HIV-1 by siRNAs. Has developed transplant, immunodeficient/ and patented new methodologies immunosuppressed/ elderly/ for describing T-reg cells and antigen comorbidities); enable real- specific cells which are providing new time virus identification and insights into immunopathogenesis viral load, develop tools for and vaccine design. These assays viral characterisation
16 https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-anthony-kelleher 17 http://insight.ccbr.umn.edu/
16 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Martyn Kirk18 Expertise Research School of Population Dr Kumar’s interests and expertise are Health, Australian National University how to design and develop decision Expertise support systems that enhance clinicians’ decision-making capacity. Professor Kirk worked for over twenty years in State, Territory and federal Associate Professor health departments in the areas of Bastien Llamas20 food, water and infectious diseases. ARC Future Fellow, Previously, he ran the Australian Field University of Adelaide Epidemiology Training Program – the Master of Philosophy in Applied Expertise Epidemiology (MAE) program – and Associate Professor Llamas is an the Australian network for foodborne ARC Future Fellow and a Group disease investigation – OzFoodNet. Leader at the Australian Centre for Professor Kirk has consulted for Ancient DNA. He completed his PhD the World Health Organization on in Molecular Biology in 2007 and gastrointestinal diseases and is a has since become a specialist in the member of the WHO advisory body – analysis of degraded and low quantity the Foodborne Disease Epidemiology nucleic acids. He has received Reference Group. uninterrupted ARC funding since 2010 and was awarded three prestigious 19 Dr Ashnil Kumar competitive research fellowships School of Biomedical Engineering, (Postdoctoral Fellowship of the University of Sydney Quebec Fund for Research on Nature
18 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/kirk-md 19 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/ashnil-kumar.html 20 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/bastien.llamas
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and Technologies, Marie Skłodowska- undertaking multi-million dollar Curie Individual Fellowship, ARC applied research and evaluation Future Fellowship). He uses his activities on behalf of government expertise in high-throughput DNA and non-government agencies. sequencing and bioinformatics to This research directly informs address outstanding questions health policy and clinical practice. in evolutionary biology related to microorganisms, animals, and Professor Greg Neely22 humans. He currently collaborates School of Life and Environmental with Associate Professor Michael Sciences, University of Sydney Beard to study sequence diversity Expertise in COVID-19 patient samples. Professor Neely is working on Professor Tracy Merlin21 using animal and cell-based Director Adelaide Health Technology systems to study COVID infection Assessment (AHTA), School of Public on campus, in collaboration with Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Professor Philip Hansbro, Director Sciences, University of Adelaide of the Centre for Inflammation at UTS, an internationally recognised Expertise research leader in the study of Professor Merlin has expertise respiratory diseases. in epidemiology and biostatistics, He has been running a lab since environmental and occupational 2011 using functional genomics health, policy and health services. approaches to find novel human Professor Merlin leads a large and disease genes and pathways. experienced team of researchers
21 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/tracy.merlin 22 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/greg-neely.html
18 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Excellence in Emerging Infectious Peter Noble23 Diseases (CREID) and Australian Associate Professor, Faculty of Partnership for Preparedness Science, School of Human Sciences, Research on Infection Disease University of Western Australia Emergencies (APPRISE) in March 2020 to his project “Serology of Expertise Australian healthcare workers yyAsthma and lung functioning caring for individuals exposed to or diagnosed with COVID-19” to study yyPresent research interests include the risk to healthcare workers when the mechanisms and early life using personal protective equipment origins of obstructive airway and the prevalence of asymptomatic disease including asthma and infection and transmission. COPD, and the neonatal disorders, tracheobronchomalcia and Professor bronchopulmonary dysplasia David Paterson25,26
24 Director, University of Queensland Dr Matthew O’Sullivan Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), Centre for Infectious Diseases and University of Queensland Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney Expertise Expertise Professor David Paterson is leading a team of Queensland researchers set Dr O’Sullivan was awarded funding to begin clinical trials of a potential from the NHMRC Centre of Research treatment for COVID-19.
23 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/peter-noble 24 https://www.sydney.edu.au/research/opportunities/supervisors/1595 25 http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1829 26 https://clinical-research.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/260/david-paterson
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His research focuses on the molecular Mr Ross and clinical epidemiology of infections Roberts-Thomson with antibiotic resistant organisms, PhD Scholar, University of Adelaide with the intent of translation of knowledge into optimal prevention Expertise and treatment of these infections. Mr Roberts-Thomson focuses on Professor Paterson is Director at The optimisation of surgical timing in University of Queensland Centre for rheumatic mitral valve disease. Clinical Research and a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at Associate Professor the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Linda Selvey29 Hospital. He is Australia’s most cited Associate Professor, School of Public Infectious Diseases Physician and is Health, University of Queensland the country’s highest cited researcher in the field of Microbiology. Associate Professor Selvey is a health physician and her main research area Related media: is infectious disease. Her research yyCentre for Clinical Research Article: interests are diverse including: Researchers set to begin clinical climate change; Clostridium difficile, trials on coronavirus cure27 a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea in vulnerable people; sexual y y3AW Interview: Scientists working health; blood borne viruses and on promising treatments for antimicrobial resistance. coronavirus28
27 https://clinical-research.centre.uq.edu.au/article/2020/03/researchers-set-begin-clinical-trials-coronavirus-cure 28 https://www.3aw.com.au/we-need-funding-to-get-moving-scientists-working-on-promising-treatments-for- coronavirus/ 29 https://public-health.uq.edu.au/profile/1608/linda-selvey
20 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Expertise 30 Sanjaya Senanayake Dr Short is head of the influenza ANU Medical School, virus pathogenesis laboratory at the Australian National University University of Queensland, Australia. Expertise Prior to current focus on COVID-19, Associate Professor Senanayake is Dr Short’s research focused on an Infectious Diseases Physician and pathogenesis of influenza virus, Director of Hospital in the Home at how influenza virus damages the Canberra Hospital. He is a Lecturer lung during infection, why asthmatics at the Australian National University are susceptible to severe influenza Medical School and is also a Conjoint infections, and how influenza virus can Lecturer at the School of Public trigger the development of asthma. Health and Community Medicine, Related media: University of New South Wales. yyYou Tube Video: UQ’s Dr Kirsty Short wants you to know the facts about Dr Kirsty Short COVID-1931 Australian Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry and yyVimeo: Professor Ian Frazer AC Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of and virologist Dr Kirsty Short Science, University of Queensland answer your top 10 questions about COVID-1932
30 https://medicalschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/associate-professor-sanjaya-senanayake 31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-bNLfEd6i0 32 https://vimeo.com/398435349
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Professor Vitali Expertise 33 Sintchenko yyPathogen genomics and Director, Centre for Infectious biomarkers for diagnosis/ Diseases and Microbiology (CIDM) prognosis; studies of infection Public Health; Faculty Member, to understand the natural history The Westmead Institute for Medical of COVID-19 including in different Research & Marie Bashir Institute; populations eg young, pregnant, Professor, Sydney Medical School, elderly, immunosuppressed; University of Sydney development of antibody tests Expertise on serum; development of high throughput screening to test new yyPublic health microbiologist drug compounds for activity in and informatician who conducts the laboratory. research on biosurveillance of communicable diseases. His team Professor is developing epidemiological tools Stephen Turner to accurately predict the behaviour Professor Microbiology, Monash and modes of transmission of Biomedicine Discovery Institute, microbial pathogens and identify Monash University the source of disease outbreaks. Expertise Professor Tania Sorrell Professor Turner is a virologist/ Professor of Clinical Infectious immunologist with expertise in Diseases; Director of Marie Bashir immune function, vaccine design Institute for Infectious Diseases and and respiratory viruses. His expertise Biosecurity; Director of Centre for covers virus-specific killer T cell Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, differentiation, function and the Westmead Institute for Medical establishment of immunological Research, University of Sydney memory. He is currently co-ordinating
33 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/vitali-sintchenko.html
22 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE a new research collaboration (eight yyProfessor Tony Korman37, Adjunct researchers, remainder named below) Clinical Professor, Medicine Monash with infectious disease clinicians Health, Centre for Inflammatory at Monash Medical Centre and the Disease, Monash Health Alfred hospital to assess the immune yyDr Benjamin Rogers38, Adjunct parameters of COVID-19 infection. Clinical Professor, Medicine Monash Collaborators include: Health, Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Monash Health yyProfessor Nicole La Gruta34, Professor, ARC Future Fellow, yyDr Samar Ojaimi39, Adjunct Lecturer, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Paediatrics Monash Health Monash Biomedicine Discovery yyDr Jim Buttery (Childrens’ Hospital), Institute Professor (Research)40, Monash yyProfessor Jamie Rossjohn35, Centre for Health Research and Professor & Australian Laureate, Implementation Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Dr James Walker Institute PhD Student, University of Adelaide 36 yyProfessor Tony Purcell , Professor Expertise (Research), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash Stochastic Epidemiology Biomedicine Discovery Institute
34 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/nicole-la-gruta 35 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jamie-rossjohn-faa-fahms-flsw-fmedsci 36 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/anthony-purcell 37 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/tony-korman 38 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/benjamin-rogers 39 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/samar-ojaimi 40 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jim-buttery
GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE – 23 Managing or treating the disease as we develop a vaccine and drug treatments for COVID-19 has required the best of the best minds to consider how to keep the Australian community safer than others around the world, and maintain a continued high standard of safety, care, and response that the Federal Government and National Cabinet accept as the best way forward. The Go8 is proud of Australia’s national safety regulations and requirements being used against COVID-19, aided through a sharper understanding of the virus, its effects and how it spreads. They have been achieved – in no small part – because of the dedicated commitment of our experts listed in this chapter. Battling all aspects of COVID-19 is a “Team Australia” effort. Managing or 2 Treating the Disease
Professor Emily Banks1 Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Professor of Epidemiology and Public Unit at the University of Oxford and Health, Australian National University joint Principal Investigator of the Million Women Study. Professor Banks’ awards Expertise include: the UK Woman of Achievement Professor Emily Banks is a public in Science and Technology (2000); health physician and epidemiologist the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Awards with interest and expertise for career achievement (2010), in large scale cohort studies, media engagement (2011 and 2016) pharmacoepidemiology, women’s and research translation (2011); the health, Aboriginal Health and healthy National Breast Cancer Foundation ageing. She currently leads the Patron’s Award for services to breast Epidemiology for Policy and Practice cancer research (2014), the Medical group at the National Centre for Journal of Australia/MDA National Epidemiology and Population Health. Prize for Excellence in Medical She is a Fellow of the Australian Research (2015), AFR/Westpac 100 Academy of Health and Medical Women of Influence (2016); the ACT Sciences, Senior Advisor to the Sax Heart Foundation’s Women with Heart Institute, Deputy Chair of the NHMRC (2017); and Australian Citation for Alcohol Working Group, Deputy Chair University Teaching (2017). The main of the Heart Foundation Research emphasis of her work has been in using Committee and a Visiting Professor cohort study methodology to identify at Oxford University. She chaired the potentially modifiable factors affecting Advisory Committee on the Safety of individual and population health in Medicines from 2010–2016. She was different settings and in quantifying based in the UK from 1995–2003, their effects, to inform improvements where she was Deputy Director of the in health and health care.
1 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/banks-e
26 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Professor Bi’s main research areas Margo Barr2 cover infectious disease epidemiology, Centre for Primary Health Care climate change and population health, and Equity, UNSW Sydney public health risk communication and emergency public health events Expertise response. He has established a track Associate Professor Barr is an record and publications in the field of epidemiologist with interest and communicable diseases, particularly expertise in large scale cohort those which are climate sensitive studies, behaviour risk factor and such as food bore diseases, mosquito disease surveillance, primary health borne diseases and rodent borne care and welfare, and survey and data diseases. linkage methodology. She currently 4 leads the Central and South Eastern Dr Andrew Black Sydney Primary and Community Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Health Cohort/Linkage Resource School of Mathematical Sciences, (CES-P&CH) within the Centre for University of Adelaide Primary Health Care and Equity. Expertise
Professor Peng Bi3 Dr Black has expertise in stochastic Professor, School of Public Health, epidemiology applied to problems in University of Adelaide biology. He is developing inference methods to assist pandemic Expertise preparedness and has undertaken Dr Peng Bi is a Professor of Public research into quantifying the 1918 Health at the University of Adelaide. influenza pandemic.
2 https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-margo-barr 3 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/peng.bi 4 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/andrew.black
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Dr Andrew Black5,6 Professor Director, Westmead Living Lab, Patrick Brennan7 Office of the Vice-Chancellor Professor of Medical Imaging, and Principal, University of Sydney School of Health Sciences, Expertise University of Sydney Dr Black has expertise in building Expertise partnerships between the health Professor Brennan is the most sector, universities, community, published medical radiation scientist government and industry to co- in the world with 450 published design and test solutions for papers focussing on optimising challenges in health and wellbeing. disease detection. He is CEO of He works on The Living Lab, an DetectED-X, a University of Sydney innovative project being developed Start Up, which focuses on intelligent by the University of Sydney as one of educational solutions. the Digital Health CRC’s participants with partners in the precinct and His team has developed a free online the wider community, which aims to radiology training and research improve the patient journey through platform available to diagnosing the health system, while also keeping clinicians globally that could improve people well and out of hospital. At radiological detection of disease by the centre of this work is increasing 34 per cent and can contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of improve diagnoses of COVID-19. healthcare, including through the Their innovation COVID-19 CHEST greater personalisation of care. (Chest diagnosis: a High level
5 https://www.digitalhealthcrc.com/better-together-living-lab-aims-to-boost-health-outcomes-in-western-sydney/ 6 https://intersect.org.au/person/dr-andrew-black/ 7 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/schools/sydney-school-of-health-sciences/academic-staff/ patrick-brennan.html
28 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Education STrategy) provides a in Australasia and Europe and has powerful, personalised free online already started development on radiology training and research COVID-19 CHEST. GE Healthcare platform available to diagnosing has access to thousands of cases clinicians globally, 24/7. The through their network in Wuhan, proposed model is based on the China, which they have agreed to highly successful international release to this project. BREAST platform, created by the current team in 2010 at Professor Jim Buttery8 the University of Sydney and Professor (Research), implemented across four continents. Monash Centre for Health In 2019, the Australian Government Research and Implementation, commissioned the team to provide Monash University a similar solution for diagnosing Expertise dust disease. An AI companion is introduced to the platform to support Professor Buttery’s main research decision-making with difficult cases. areas are vaccine safety, infectious This project will be delivered through diseases epidemiology, and clinical a consortium involving DetectED-X, child health informatics. He serves the University of Sydney, clinical as a member of the Strategic Priority experts and the leading medical Group of the WHO Global Vaccine imaging companies, GE Healthcare Safety Initiative, for the Australian & Volpara, who will ensure global Medical Services Advisory Committee adoption of COVID-19 CHEST. and the Advisory Committee DetectED-X has delivered similar on Vaccines of the Therapeutics platforms to screening programs Goods Administration.
8 https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/researchers/jim-buttery
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Professor Professor Hak-Kim Chan9 Allen Cheng10 Leader of Advanced Drug Delivery Professor at the School of Public Group, School of Pharmacy, Health and Preventive Medicine University of Sydney at Monash University and is the Director of Infection Prevention Expertise and Healthcare Epidemiology and Professor Chan is a world leader in Professor in Infectious Diseases respiratory drug delivery, particularly Epidemiology, Monash University pulmonary drug delivery via aerosols. Expertise He has developed a leading research program on aerosol drug delivery, Professor Cheng is an infectious ranging from in vitro, powder diseases physician and is responsible production by novel processes, for the prevention of healthcare particle engineering and aerosol associated infection at Alfred Health. formulation, to scintigraphic imaging He is a Professor at the School of lung deposition and clinical of Public Health and Preventive outcome. He played a pivotal role in Medicine at Monash University and the development of Aridol™ (inhaled is the Director of Infection Prevention mannitol for diagnosis of asthma), and Healthcare Epidemiology and which was approved by the FDA Professor in Infectious Diseases in the United States, 14 European Epidemiology. Union countries, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia Professor Cheng’s key interests are and New Zealand. in influenza, antibiotic resistance,
9 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/kim-chan.html 10 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/allen-cheng
30 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE clinical infectious diseases and yymember, Victorian Clinical hospital-acquired infections. He is Advisory Group involved in influenza surveillance His research programs relevant in Australian hospitals as well as to COVID 19 are: clinical trials in infectious diseases and sits on several state and national yyAPPRISE Centre of Research government advisory committees Excellence, which focuses on for immunisation, surveillance and informing Australia’s response to drug regulation. infectious disease emergencies (Chief Investigator) He is modelling how COVID-19 may behave in Australia and how we can yyNHMRC Centre of Research protect ourselves as well as patients. Excellence in Emerging Professor Cheng is providing advice Infectious Diseases (CREID CRE) to government via the following (Chief Investigator) mechanisms: yyRandomised, Embedded, Multi- yyinvited expert, Australian Health factorial, Adaptive Platform Trial for Protection Principal Committee Community-Acquired Pneumonia (AHPPC) (REMAP CAP) as Chief Investigator, testing treatments in ICU patients yyinvited expert, Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) yyFluCAN (The Influenza Complications Alert Network) in yyinvited expert infection Prevention sentinel surveillance for COVID Expert Advisory Group yySPRINT SARI – ICU-based yymember, Victorian Health Service surveillance for COVID Pandemic Leadership Group
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Associate Professor as the first author) and written one Kapil Chousalkar11 book chapter on avian coronavirus. Lead, Avian Disease Laboratory, He is a registered poultry veterinarian Animal & Veterinary Sciences, in South Australia and provides University of Adelaide regular advice to his clients in the poultry industry on avian coronavirus Expertise vaccination, interpretation of flock Associate Professor Chousalkar antibody titter and flock immunity. completed his Ph.D. and post-doctoral Associate Professor Chousalkar has fellowship on avian coronavirus (also investigated several IBV outbreaks in known as Infectious Bronchitis Virus poultry and backyard chickens and – IBV) where he studied the cellular implemented prevention (biosecurity) pathology of avian coronavirus. He protocols for controlling avian also developed a cost-effective rapid coronavirus outbreaks. diagnostic test for the detection of Relevant Publications avian coronavirus from environmental (Infectious Bronchitis virus samples. During his post-doctoral (Coronaviridae family)): fellowship, he investigated the yyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0- efficacy of avian coronavirus vaccines 12-800879-9.00052-4 (live attenuated) against homologous and heterologous strains. He won yyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. two research grants from the vaccine.2009.01.012 Poultry industry for his work on yyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ avian coronavirus. His work on avian ps/86.1.50 coronavirus vaccine has significantly changed the vaccination practices in yyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1071/EA08167 the Australian poultry industry. He has yyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps.2010- published 11 research articles (ten 00685
11 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/kapil.chousalkar
32 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Expertise 12 Wojciech Chrzanwoski Dr Coatsworth is a consultant Vice President of Asian Federation physician in infectious disease for Pharmaceutical Sciences, medicine at the Canberra Hospital University of Sydney with extensive experience in Expertise humanitarian and disaster relief. He also serves as a Commonwealth Associate Professor Chrzanwoski Deputy Chief Medical Officer13. has expertise in nanomedicine, safety of nanomaterials, and efficient drug Professor delivery. His laboratory develops a Peter Collignon frontier cell- and exosome-based ANU Medical School, approach targeted at lung diseases. Australian National University In the area of drug delivery, his work is cantered on delivery systems Expertise that are capable of modulating drug Professor Collignon is active in uptake. The laboratory also applies many research and public health a multifaceted system approach to advocacy issues dealing with different examine material characteristic at infections and their risks. Particular nanoscale to gain a fundamental interests are antibiotic resistance understanding of cellular responses (especially in Staph), hospital and modulation. acquired infections (especially blood stream and intravascular Dr Nicholas Coatsworth catheter infections) and resistance ANU Medical School, that develops through the use Australian National University of antibiotics in animals. He is
12 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/wojciech-chrzanowski.html 13 https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/government- response-to-the-covid-19-outbreak/our-medical-experts#dr-nick-coatsworth
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extensively involved in Infection using a novel pin electrode design. Control projects looking at procedures The technology could be integrated and current practices in medicine into air ducts or as stand-alone and how these may be improved room treatment unit technology. to decrease the risks for patients No chemicals, gases or dielectric acquiring infections. materials are needed for our design and the energy used is low. 14 Professor PJ Cullen His team is planning to work with School of Chemical and Biomolecular Chinese partners to test the efficacy Engineering, University of Sydney of the design on the inactivation of Expertise the virus as both airborne particles and on material surfaces. The Professor Cullen has developed optimum control parameters are plasma technology that has the likely to depend on the plasma potential to inactivate COVID-19 in air activation conditions including flows or on surfaces. discharge frequency, duty cycle Ensuring virus free air is a critical and discharge voltage. component of prevention for He is a highly cited researcher and infectious outbreaks, especially in a leading expert in the research populated spaces such as schools, and development of cold plasma childcare facilities and hospitals. High technologies and high-powered lasers voltage plasma technology has the for plasma biological application. potential to inactivate COVID-19 in air flows or on surfaces. Professor Professor Cullen is also the CEO Cullen’s team have developed a of PlasmaLeap Technologies plasma technology which can activate and Technology director for large volumes of atmospheric air Innopharmalabs.
14 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/patrick-cullen.html
34 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Affiliate Professorial Research Fellow Kirsty Douglas15 Institute for Molecular Bioscience, ANU Medical School, University of Queensland Australian National University Expertise Expertise Professor Ian Frazer is a clinician Professor Douglas is Professor scientist, trained as a clinical of General Practice at the ANU immunologist. As a professor Medical School and Director of the at the University of Queensland, Academic Unit of General Practice he leads a research group working at ACT Health. In addition, she is at TRI in Brisbane, Australia on the currently President of the Australasian immunobiology of epithelial cancers. Association of Academic Primary He is recognised as co-inventor of Care. Her areas of expertise include: the technology enabling the HPV vaccines, currently used worldwide yyPrimary Health Care to help prevent cervical cancer. He yyPublic Health and Health Services heads a biotechnology company, Jingang Medicine (Aus) Pty Ltd, yyAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander working on new vaccine technologies, Health and is a board member of several yyHealth and Community Services companies and not for profit organisations. He was the inaugural yyFamily Care president of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences 16 Professor Ian Frazer AC and chairs the Australian Medical Faculty of Medicine, Affiliate Research Advisory Board of the Professor Diamantina Institute, Medical Research Future Fund.
15 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/douglas-ka?term=kirst+douglas 16 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/228
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Recent media on COVID-19: Professor 22,23 yyHow can we protect ourselves?17 Marie Gerdtz UQ News (YouTube video) Head of Department, Nursing, 24 March 2020 University of Melbourne yyRenowned immunologist Professor Expertise Ian Frazer says coronavirus must Professor Gerdtz’s clinical expertise ‘run its course’18 A Current Affair is in emergency nursing where she 9News March 2020 worked as a Registered Nurse and yyCOVID-19: Know the facts19 clinical educator for 15 years. In her Ep. 2 UQ News (YouTube video) academic role she has experience 6 April 2020 working closely with health services in the development and implementation yyCOVID-19: Know the facts20 of curricula in specialty and advanced Ep. 3 UQ News (YouTube video) nursing practice to meet evolving 6 April 2020 workforce and population needs. Her yyCOVID-19: The latest from research work focuses on emergency science – Professor Ian Frazer?21 access, resource allocation, Academy of Science 5 May 2020 and clinical risk management.
17 http://www.uq.edu.au/news/video/how-can-we-protect-ourselves 18 https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/coronavirus-professor-ian-frazer-immunologist-says--covid19- vaccine-a-while-away/7d2f6550-b683-4326-b612-483997d0f277 19 https://www.uq.edu.au/news/video/know-facts-episode-2 20 http://www.uq.edu.au/news/video/covid-19-know-facts-ep3 21 https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/covid-19-facts#c19frazer3 22 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/3542-marie-gerdtz 23 https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
36 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Implementation of this work is yyassessment of viral loads in animal enhanced by the strong collaborative models of infection, with emphasis partnerships she has established on evaluation of T cell responses to within the health care industry and vaccination and infection with government. yydevelopment of vaccines, antigens,
24 serology and T cell assays to detect Dr Branka Grubor-Bauk responses to infection and/or vaccin- Virology Research Group, Adelaide ation in humans and animal models Medical School, University of Adelaide Expertise Dr Miranda Harris25 Research School of Population Health, Dr Grubor-Bauk has experience in Australian National University developing novel vaccines against RNA viruses, namely hepatitis C Expertise and Zika virus and assessing their immunogenicity and protection in Dr Miranda Harris is a medical doctor animal models. In the process of and an advanced trainee of the setting up a COVID-19 serology Australasian Faculty of Public Health assays for research purposes, to Medicine (AFPHM). She will be working assess antibody responses to SARS- as a public health medicine registrar CoV-2 (IgG1, IgG3, IgGM and IgGA) on the PFAS Health Study and The in clinical samples. E-cigarette Public Health Assessment study. Previous roles have included Expertise includes in: working in communicable disease yyassessment of immune responses control and environmental health in the to vaccines and viral infections in ACT Health Directorate and in medicine small animal models and clinical and medical device regulation at the PBMC samples Therapeutic Goods Administration.
24 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/branka.grubor 25 https://rsph.anu.edu.au/people/academics/dr-miranda-harris-0
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Associate Professor University’s Business School. The Farhid Hemmatzadeh26 company designed a reusable mask, Associate Professor in Virology, which features a washable skin and School of Animal and Veterinary botanical filters, passed preliminary Science, University of Adelaide P2 and KN95 testing and blocks over 97 per cent of fine particle Expertise matter often included in air quality Dr Hemmatzadeh’s research is in reports. They are now looking for the field of molecular epidemiology manufacturers which have filter media and test development for viral that scores well in terms of bacteria, diseases in wide range of animals. virus, and particulate matter filtration. He has focused on avian Influenza, Newcastle Disease, Bovine Viral Associate Professor Disease, Border Disease, Bovine Jun Huang28 leucosis and the Herpesviral infection School of Chemical and Biomolecular in cattle, horses, and sheep. Engineering, University of Sydney Expertise Isaac Honor27 Graduate, University of Sydney Professor Jun Huang has developed Business School, University of Sydney a catalytic filter that can be used in combating coronavirus. Expertise Professor Huang aims to copy the Issac Honor co-founded the company structures of nuclear acids and AusAir in 2017 through the University develop a similarly structured sensor of Sydney’s flagship Genesis Startup to improve interaction with the nuclear Program while studying at the acids of the virus, which will strongly
26 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/farhid.hemmatzadeh 27 https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/02/18/sydney-graduates-launch-air-pollution-face- mask.html 28 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/jun-huang.html
38 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE enhance the identification and Scientia Professor sensitivity for coronavirus. John Kaldor30 His team has also developed a Professor and Program Head, catalytic filter to accumulate and kill Public Health Interventions Research coronavirus immediately. The filter Group, UNSW Sydney can be used in ventilators or air- Expertise purifiers in the office, apartments, hotel, hospital, and airport; it can Professor Kaldor is an expert in also be used in a reusable face mask. disease control strategies for viral pathogens, including HIV, hepatitis Professor and human papillomavirus, including 29 monitoring infectious disease spread in Jonathan Iredell the community and key subpopulations Director, Centre for Infectious and in identifying risk factors for Diseases and Microbiology, transmission and implementing Westmead, University of Sydney intervention strategies. Expertise His work has guided policy in disease Professor Iredell is an infectious control, particularly in relation to the diseases physician and clinical prevention of HIV infection and other microbiologist specialising in critical sexually transmitted infections, viral infections and transmission of antibiotic hepatitis and neglected tropical diseases. resistance. His work aims to identify Professor Kaldor has served on which patients admitted to ICUs are numerous policy and advisory at highest risk, deliver this information committees in Australia and early, and develop rapid diagnostic internationally and has had close tests to assist intensive care specialists working relationships with public in making treatment decisions. health programs in a number of
29 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/jonathan-iredell.html 30 https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/people/scientia-professor-john-kaldor
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countries of the Asia-Pacific region, Expertise particularly Cambodia, Indonesia, Associate Professor Kayser works in the Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Solomon development of vaccines and biologics. Islands. His relevant activities include: He has collaborated with Novartis on yyMonitoring spread in the community antibody development, some of which and in key populations are now on the market, having worked with the company on monoclonal yy Researching risk factors for antibodies from 2006 to 2012. He has COVID-19 infection in Health and also worked on the development of Aged Care Workers various vaccines (in collaboration with yyCase series and case-control study Sanofi-Pasteur since 2007). of risk factors for COVID-19 among He also develops novel methods and health care workers; uses advanced computational tools so yyRapid serological assessment of research aligns with development of new virus exposure in key groups at risk technology, products or applications. of COVID-19 Associate Professor Kayser can develop new antibodies, vaccine, test kits and yyRelevant media: Coronavirus also understand viral protein structure research must focus on more in order to develop better antivirals. than just a vaccine31
Associate Professor Associate Professor 33 32 Jinman Kim Veysel Kayser Director of Visual TeleHealth Lab, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney University of Sydney
31 https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coronavirus-research-must-focus-on-more-than-just-a-vaccine- 20200223-p543hz.html 32 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/veysel-kayser.html 33 https://arctcibe.org/chief-researchers/associate-professor-jinman-kim/
40 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Expertise Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, Visiting Fellow, Associate Professor Kim has expertise National Centre for Immunisation in healthcare imaging. He leads the Research and Surveillance, healthcare imaging part of InnoHK University of Sydney project, AI-assisted scalable data analytics for healthcare translation. Expertise Professor Leask was awarded 34 Charlee Jayne Law funding from the NHMRC Centre Research School of Population Health, of Research Excellence in Emerging Australian National University Infectious Diseases (CREID) and Australian Partnership for Expertise Preparedness Research on Infection Charlee Law is an epidemiologist with Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) in an environmental health/public health March 2020 to study community background in local and international awareness, perceptions and settings, including local and state behaviour about COVID-19, its governments, public health units prevention and management, and and the World Health Organization. risk communication with Kerrie Her work has focused on enteric and Wiley, Claire Hooker and Adam Dunn. zoonotic diseases, Aboriginal and Professor Leask is a public health Torres Strait Islander health, Pacific researcher focusing on vaccination Islander health, program evaluation and infectious disease risk and public health responses in communication. She is an advisor resource-limited environments. to the World Health Organization and was named overall and global Professor Julie Leask35 category winner in the 2019 AFR Professor, Sydney Nursing School, 100 Women of Influence. Faculty of Medicine and Health,
34 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/law-cx?term=charlee+law 35 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/julie-leask.html
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Professor Karin Leder36 Professor Leder is providing advice Head of the Infectious Diseases via the following mechanisms: Epidemiology Unit, Board of the yyInvited to help with Cochrane International Society of Travel reviews (with Julian Elliott) Medicine, Monash University School of Epidemiology and Preventive yyLinking with international sentinel Medicine, Centre to Impact surveillance Antimicrobial Resistance, yyAdvising re local clinical guideline Monash University Expertise Associate Professor Kamalini Lokuge OAM37 Professor Leder has expertise in Research School of Population Health, travel medicine and epidemiology Australian National University infectious disease. International travellers and immigrants play a Expertise key role in importing infections into An expert in public health responses Australia. Surveillance to understand to humanitarian crises, Dr Lokuge changing trends in imported diseases leads the Humanitarian Health is very important, as has been Research Initiative at the Research highlighted recently by the 2009 School of Population Health, ANU. influenza pandemic. Travellers and Her appointment follows previous immigrants face a variety of health positions as a doctor and medical risks, and research is also required epidemiologist for international health to better understand risk factors for organisations including Médecins various infections, effective screening Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors practices, and appropriate preventive Without Borders), the World Health measures that should be taken.
36 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/karin-leder 37 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/lokuge-km
42 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Organisation, and the International for his work on childhood and multi Committee of the Red Cross. She drug-resistant (MDR)-tuberculosis (TB). was awarded a Medal of the Order His expertise is in genomics for of Australia for her work in 2010. diagnosis and monitoring; defining Dr Lokuge has provided medical care and testing optimal infection control and epidemiological services over practices; ongoing capacity building the last two decades in a range of (training course/material) for rapid humanitarian emergencies, including and effective response; use of social Guinea, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, media for epidemic surveillance, Darfur, Uganda, Nigeria, Myanmar, public communication and tracking South Sudan, Zambia, Congo the “public mood”; and new surfaces. Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea and Professor Indonesia, giving her a unique Helen Marshall39 perspective on implementation Medical Director, VIRTU and research priorities in such settings. Associate Professor Vaccinology, University of Adelaide Professor Ben Marais38 Westmead Children’s Hospital; Expertise Deputy Director, Marie Bashir Institute, Professor Marshall is a clinician University of Sydney researcher and Medical Director of Expertise the Vaccinology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, Women’s and Professor Marais is a paediatrician Children’s hospital. She leads a team and paediatric infectious diseases of 20 clinical/scientist researchers and specialist with an interest in global is an NHMRC Fellow in Vaccinology, health. He is internationally renowned in urgent infectious disease priorities.
38 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/ben-marais.html 39 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/helen.marshall
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Specific expertise is in/ draws on: adolescents in South Australia) assessing carriage of Neisseria yyClinical trials of new vaccines meningitidis. Carriage continues (Phase 1–4) in all age groups, in the Northern Territory in all primarily paediatric vaccine trials, 14–19 years old. Professor drawing on 18 years’ experience Marshall can include testing for in clinical trial research including SARS-CoV-2 in oropharyngeal vaccine and infectious diseases swabs in those with a respiratory studies of new investigational illness and those without40 vaccines and licensed vaccines for new indications yyClinical trial and cohort study design. Development of protocols yySafety and immunogenicity study for population studies of infectious of the H1N1 influenza pandemic diseases and clinical trials of virus vaccine in children in 2009, to investigational and licensed enable licensing of the vaccine by vaccines. Professor Marshall regulatory authorities in Australia can undertake serology studies and overseas. Professor Marshall to assess immune response can contribute to trialling of a to SARS-CoV-2 in health care SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in any age workers, adults and children, group, especially children and/ or currently being discussed protocol development for clinical vaccine trials yyEpidemiology of infectious diseases including risk factors for yyCarriage studies including large severe disease. Professor Marshall population-based studies (all can provide expertise in infectious
40 Professor Marshall has a grant application in progress to be submitted to assess incidence at a population level and describe carriage of and symptoms associated with SARS-CoV-2 and risk factors for infection
44 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE disease epidemiology, risk factors Professor for disease severity, carriage and Marylouise McLaws41 herd immunity. She is part of a School of Public Health and paediatric network that will collect Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney details of all paediatric cases admitted to hospital Expertise yySocial epidemiology and social Professor McLaws is an expert in science in pandemic preparedness infection prevention and control, including priorities for vaccination surveillance, hospital infection, in a pandemic setting using outbreaks, and patient safety. qualitative and quantitative Professor McLaws is a member methodologies. Professor Marshall of the World Health Organization can undertake research in (WHO) Health Emergencies community response and attitudes Program Experts Advisory Panel to introduction of new vaccines for Infection Prevention and Control and public health strategies during Preparedness, Readiness and a pandemic. She previously Response to COVID-19. For several conducted research during the years she was a short mission World H1N1 pandemic to assess priority Health Organization Advisor to groups for access to vaccine China and Malaysia for surveillance yyAssessment of vaccine development. She collaborated with submissions for inclusion Beijing to review the response to the of vaccines on the National Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Immunisation Program (SARS) outbreak and healthcare (Commonwealth Government) worker safety for the Hong Kong SARS designated hospital.
41 https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-marylouise-mclaws
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Professor policy through engagement with Jodie McVernon42 the Australian Government Office Professor and Director Of Doherty of Health Protection, the Australian Epidemiology, University of Melbourne Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and World Health Expertise Organization. Professor Jodie McVernon is a physician with subspecialty Professor Anton qualifications in public health and Middelberg FTSE43 vaccinology. She has extensive Deputy Vice Chancellor and expertise in clinical vaccine Vice President (Research), trials, epidemiologic studies and University of Adelaide mathematical modelling of infectious Expertise diseases, gained at the University of Oxford, Health Protection Agency Professor Middelberg is an London and The University of internationally recognised research Melbourne. She leads a nationally and thought leader in chemical distributed National Health and and biomolecular engineering. Medical Research Council (NHMRC) His research is fundamental but Centre of Research Excellence directed toward significant problems in Infectious Diseases Modelling including in the health and advanced (www.prism.edu.au). Her unit’s biomanufacturing sectors. Professor work on influenza and pertussis has Middelberg has researched, patented been translated into national and and licensed new technologies in international infectious diseases the fields of rapid vaccine scale-up,
42 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/26586-jodie-mcvernon 43 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/anton.middelberg
46 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE soft-condensed matter and bio- of Education in Nursing and Midwifery nanotechnology. He received his at Monash University. She has held ARC Federation Fellowship and then key leadership roles in emergency the State of Queensland Premier’s nursing for the last decade, and was Fellowship to enable his research on appointed as Executive Director of virus self-assembly to be directed the College of Emergency Nursing toward biomanufacturing challenges Australasia (CENA), the peak associated with rapid viral vaccine professional body for Australian manufacture and scale-up. emergency nurses, in 2017. she works closely with other leaders in Professor Middelberg is an emergency care, guiding policy and Associate Editor of the leading strategic direction for emergency journal Vaccine and is the sole nursing and care in Australia. editor with global responsibility for all manuscripts submitted in Associate Professor Morphet the field of vaccine manufacture. leads two programs of research; the first focused on health workforce Associate Professor and education, and the second Julia Morphet44 focused on patient experience in the Director of Education for Nursing emergency department, in particular, and Midwifery, Monash University patient flow models. She chairs the CENA Research Committee and holds Expertise an honorary research appointment Associate Professor Morphet is an at Monash Health Emergency Associate Professor and the Director Departments.
44 https://www.monash.edu/medicine/nursing/about/staff/julia-morphet and https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
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Professor in the context of deep urban poverty, Christine Phillips45 working in settings including drug Professor, Social Foundations and alcohol medicine, elder care, of Medicine, College of Health and prison health. and Medicine, Australian National University Associate Professor Charani Ranasinghe46 Expertise John Curtin School Professor Phillips is a general of Medical Research, practitioner and health services Australian National University researcher with interest and Expertise expertise in the health and health care of marginalised persons and Associate Professor Ranasinghe has populations, quality in health care expertise in infectious disease, cellular and refugee and migrant health. immunology and medical virology. She leads the Social Foundations of She is part of the University of Medicine group at the ANU Medical Queensland (UQ) led Coalition for School, where she instituted a Epidemic Preparedness Innovations curriculum integrating the social (CEPI), with one of the CEPI selected sciences across all four years and of groups working on a coronavirus medical education. Professor Phillips vaccine. is Medical Director of Companion House Medical Service, the ACT’s Dr Gabriella Scandurra47 refugee health care service, and has Children’s Hospital, Westmead over twenty-five years of clinical Clinical School, University of Sydney experience working in primary care
45 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/phillips-cb 46 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ranasinghe-c?term=Charani+Ranasinghe 47 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/gabriella-scandurra.html
48 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Expertise emergency care are the basis of a highly successful and integrated Dr Scandurra was awarded funding program of teaching, practice, and from the NHMRC Centre of Research research. He is the immediate Excellence in Emerging Infectious Past President of the Australasian Diseases (CREID) and Australian College for Infection Prevention and Partnership for Preparedness a delegate member representative to Research on Infection Disease the World Health Organization Global Emergencies (APPRISE) in March Outbreak and Response Network. 2020 for the project “biosecurity and biocontainment of high-consequence infections: Principles & practice”. Professor Helen Skouteris49 Professor Monash Warwick Alliance Joint Professor of Healthcare Improvement Ramon Shaban48 and Implementation Science, Clinical Chair, Infection Prevention Monash University and Disease Control, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Expertise Biosecurity, University of Sydney As a Developmental Psychologist, Expertise Public Health and Implementation Science expert, Professor Skouteris As a credentialled expert infection works strategically with health, control practitioner and emergency community service and early nurse, Professor Shaban’s inter- childhood education organisations professional expertise in infectious across Australia to foster sector diseases, infection control and health and social care improvement
48 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/ramon-shaban.html 49 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/helen-skouteris and https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
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that translates to better outcomes for Expertise children, young people, and families, Professor Story’s main research especially for the most vulnerable interest is clinically and cost-effective and disadvantaged Australians. approaches to reduce perioperative She is the Director of the newly risk, complications, disability, funded NHMRC Centre of Research and mortality. Excellence in Health in Preconception and Pregnancy. Professor Story conducts two streams of research around Professor Skouteris focuses on perioperative care of high-risk establishing long term collaborative patients. research and education and training programs in healthcare improvement The first clinical stream includes and implementation science/health strategies to reduce complications, services research, such as healthy particularly in the postoperative eating and active living program and period. The second translational reduction of maternal obesity. stream examines acid-base disorders and the underlying Professor David Story50 pathophysiology. Foundation Chair of Anaesthesia, University of Melbourne; Deputy Associate Professor Director, Centre for Integrated Critical Benjamin Tang51 Care (CICC, Melbourne Medical School School of Health Sciences, Nepean and Associate Director, Melbourne Clinical School, Westmead Institute, Academic Centre for Health (MACH), University of Sydney University of Melbourne
50 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/3448-david-story 51 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/benjamin-tang.html
50 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Expertise The project, the High-risk Influenza Screen Test (HIST) is the world’s first Professor Tang has spent 10 years biomarker test to provide doctors with researching why some otherwise critically important information on a healthy people develop severe patient’s immune system responses complications when they get influenza. to flu virus. The test needs a small He was awarded funding from the drop of blood to read gene codes NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence produced by immune system cells in Emerging Infectious Diseases in response to the influenza virus, (CREID) and Australian Partnership alerting doctors to individuals who for Preparedness Research on are at risk of deterioration due to Infection Disease Emergencies pneumonia and who need urgent (APPRISE) in March 2020 for his medical treatment. It will play an project “Understanding host response important role in helping front-line of severe viral pneumonitis” to study doctors diagnose and treat high-risk whether there are indicators to predict individuals during flu epidemics COVID-19 progression to either mild or pandemics. or severe disease. Dr Benjamin Tang is a critical care They found one type of immune cell, physician. He is head of the Genomic called neutrophils, was one of the Research Group at Nepean Hospital. main causes of patients deteriorating His team won the Health Research after they get influenza. They have and Innovation prize in the 2017 NSW already successfully used an AI Heath Awards. and big data approach to develop an early warning system in patients with flu-like illness.
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Professor Expertise 52 Daniela Traini Professor Tscharke’s expertise is in Leader Respiratory Technology virology, immunology, immunogenetics Group, Woolcock Institute, and infectious disease. He is working University of Sydney on the development of a viable vaccine Expertise candidate for COVID-19. Professor Traini is an international Professor leader in pulmonary drug delivery. Tim Usherwood54 She studies the design of new and Professor General Practice, Westmead better drug inhalation formulations Clinical School, University of Sydney and devices. This includes how drug delivery systems, particles or Expertise droplets, engineered for lung delivery, Professor Usherwood is Professor perform and how these systems can of General Practice at the University be manipulated to target specific of Sydney; Head of the University’s pulmonary diseases. Westmead Clinical School; and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Professor George Institute for Global Health. 53 David Tscharke Professor Usherwood is also Chair of John Curtin School of Medical the General Practice and Primary Care Research, Australian National Committee of the Medicare Benefits University Schedule (MBS) Review, and Deputy Chair of Western Sydney Primary Health Network.
52 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/daniela-traini.html 53 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tscharke-dc?term=david+tscharke 54 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/tim-usherwood.html
52 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE He worked for 20 years as a general shock, and treatment of critically ill practitioner in community-controlled patients. He is a lead investigator Aboriginal health. of SPRINT-SARI (Short Period Incidence Study of Severe Acute His research focuses on the Respiratory Infection) and REMAP- development and evaluation of CAP (Randomised, Embedded, interventions to improve health Multifactorial, Adaptive, Platform Trial outcomes in primary care, with a of Community Acquired Pneumonia) particular focus on access to care He has particular interest in novel and chronic disease. and more efficient trial methods Professor including Platform Trials using Bayesian statistical methods and 55 Steven Webb cluster-crossover trials as well as Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive the interface between clinical trials Care Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital and healthcare policy. and a Professor of Critical Care Research in the School of Public Dr Webb has been running a large- Health and Preventive Medicine at scale clinical trial on effectiveness of Monash University, Monash University pneumonia treatments in Australian hospitals in response to viral Expertise infection, details below: Dr Webb’s expertise includes pandemic yyBending the Pandemic Curve: preparedness, pneumonia, the long- Improving Decision-Making term consequences of and recovery With Clinical Research after critical illness, resuscitation https://doi.org/10.1097/ and treatment of patients with septic CCM.000000000000291256
55 https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/about/staff/academic/webb 56 https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00003246-201803000-00014
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Adjunct Professor 2014 and is a joint specialty chief Tarun Weeramanthri57 editor of the new international journal, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Frontiers in Public Health Policy. and Medical Sciences, School 58 of Population and Global Health, Dr Kerrie Wiley University of Western Australia Research Fellow, Public Health, School of Public Health, Expertise University of Sydney Dr Weeramanthri has worked in Expertise health for 30 years, including most recently as Western Australia’s Chief Dr Wiley was awarded funding from Health Officer, focusing on public the NHMRC Centre of Research health research, policy and practice Excellence in Emerging Infectious in the prevention of common chronic Diseases (CREID) and Australian diseases and addressing Aboriginal Partnership for Preparedness health gaps. He is also experienced Research on Infection Disease in disaster coordination and response Emergencies (APPRISE) in in the Northern Territory and Western March 2020 to study community Australia and worked for the World awareness, perceptions and Health Organisation in 2015 to behaviour about COVID-19, its coordinate foreign medical teams in prevention and management, and Sierra Leone. He has been awarded risk communication with Julie Leask, the Sidney Sax Medal by the Public Claire Hooker and Adam Dunn. Health Association of Australia in
57 https://www.leadershipwa.org.au/spotlight-on-tarun-weeramanthri/ and https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/tarun-weeramanthri 58 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/kerrie-wiley.html
54 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor health importance. She is evaluating Deborah Williamson59 the role of rapid point of care PCR Professor/Director of Clinical and antibody tests and how they microbiology at Royal Melbourne could be used for a public health Hospital and Deputy Director of response in health care workers the Microbiology Diagnostics in the context of COVID. Unit at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne Associate Professor James Wood60 Expertise School of Public Health and yyEpidemiology/Modelling Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney and Infectious Disease Expertise Professor Williamson is a public health Involved in containment, Professor microbiologist involved in the delivery Wood focuses on the impact and of specialist public health laboratory cost-effectiveness of vaccines on services, and in the diagnosis and epidemiology, along with research surveillance of communicable related disease elimination and diseases. Her research interests parameter estimation (particularly include the molecular epidemiology for measles). He was previously and pathogenesis of infections caused quite involved in research in emerging by antimicrobial resistant pathogens, infections (particularly planning for and the translation of genomic influenza pandemics). technologies to questions of public
59 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/769110-deborah-williamson 60 https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-james-wood
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Professor Lin Ye61 Expertise Director, Centre for Advanced Materials Research expertise encompasses Technology, University of Sydney the molecular biology and Expertise immunopathology of viral infections. Currently conducting research to Professor Lin Ye works in composites develop a vaccination for COVID-19 science and smart materials. He is using molecular clamps technology. interested in tackling the coronavirus challenges from the engineering Prior to conducting research relating side – protection equipment to COVID-19 Professor Young’s (clothes and masks with directional studies focussed on dengue virus, permeability for air and liquid flow, a serious mosquito-borne disease self-cleaning, washable etc.) based in many tropical countries, and on his previous work. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a major cause of hospitalization of Professor Paul Young62 children with respiratory infections. Professor, Head of School, The primary goals of Professor School of Chemistry and Molecular Young’s research are the development Biosciences, Faculty of Science; of vaccine and anti-viral strategies Affiliate Professor, Australian for the control of infections as well Institute for Bioengineering and as a clearer understanding of the Nanotechnology; Affiliated Professor, pathogenesis of severe disease. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
61 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/lin-ye.html 62 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/241 and https://scmb.uq.edu.au/profile/195/paul-young
56 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE His projects involve the application Associate Professor of a range of techniques covering Ying Zhang66 several disciplines including Sydney School of Public Health, molecular biology, immunology, University of Sydney biotechnology, molecular cell biology, protein biochemistry Expertise and structural biology. Associate Professor Ying Zhang is Related media: a senior epidemiologist with over 15 years’ experience of conducting yyABC News Alert: UQ researchers’ research on climate and health. vaccine is ready for animal trials63 Interests include capacity building yyABC News YouTube Video: for public health emergency Australian researchers one step preparedness and responses to closer to coronavirus vaccine64 climate crisis, which may include responding to emerging and yySydney Morning Herald Article: re-emerging infectious diseases Coronavirus outbreak: How the due to changing environment. COVID-19 vaccine is being made65
63 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-22/paul-young/11991496 64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hFzcTW8SI 65 https://www.smh.com.au/national/coronavirus-outbreak-how-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-being-made- 20200220-p542rh.html 66 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/ying-zhang.html
GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE – 57 Addressing the consequences of the disease is almost too much to bear. Yet our Go8 experts tackle each and every aspect of it with deep commitment and caring every day, looking for ways to alleviate the longer term suffering that everyone from the Prime Minister down knows is happening, and will keep happening for far longer than we wish to consider – from childhood and adult trauma, to continuing disease susceptibility, to our border management and the forever changing policy environment across most if not all sectors in our community. Go8 experts are extremely focused on understanding and resolving not only what we are enduring today but also the short and long term consequences. Battling all aspects of COVID-19 is a “Team Australia” effort.
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Professor Professor Karen Adams2 Charles Abraham1 Director of the Indigenous Unit Professor of Psychology, in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University Expertise Expertise Professor Abraham is an applied social and health psychologist Professor Adams has a nursing specialising in translational health background and worked in areas of research. His research focuses aged care, communicable diseases on the design, evaluation and and managing Aboriginal health implementation of interventions to services. change behaviour patterns, especially those designed to improve public Associate Professor health and health care effectiveness. Eva Alisic3 He has led, and collaborated on, many Associate Professor, Child Trauma multidisciplinary, cross-institutional and Recovery, University of Melbourne and international research projects Expertise and his research has had both practice and policy impact. He has Associate Professor Alisic is an held scientific advisor positions with Associate Professor, Child Trauma the UK Department of Health, the UK and Recovery, and Associate Director National Institute for Health and Care at the Child Health and Wellbeing Excellence (NICE) and the UK House Program (School of Population and of Lords. Global Health) at The University of
1 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/830731-charles-abraham 2 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/karen-adams 3 https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
60 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Melbourne. Her focus is on improving Professor support for young people who have Alison Bashford5 been exposed to traumatic events, Research Professor in History and such as family violence, car crashes, Director of the New Earth Histories disaster, and war. Research Program, UNSW Sydney Dr Erik Baekkeskov4 Expertise Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Professor Bashford is an expert on University of Melbourne the history of Australian quarantine. Expertise Associate Professor Dr Baekkeskov is a political scientist Christopher Blyth6 with expertise in public policy, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health especially factors shaping public and Medical Sciences, Paediatrics, policy-making. He has expertise University of Western Australia in the area of epidemics and antimicrobial resistance and how Expertise the political response is shaped by Dr Blyth works in epidemiology, different factors. He is interested in diagnosis, management and the role of trusted sources to tackle prevention of childhood infection with policy problems in this space. He has particularly focus on influenza, upper studied the H1N1 swine flu from a and lower respiratory tract infection, policy response perspective as well pneumonia, respiratory co-infection, as China’s political response to its emerging viral pathogens and vaccine health crises. safety. He was a participant in the Go8 expert meeting to provide advice on ‘social (physical) distancing’.
4 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/768089-erik-baekkeskov 5 https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-alison-bashford 6 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/christopher-blyth
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Dr Wayne Boardman7 Professor Robert Booy8 Senior Lecturer, School of Professor of Child and Animal and Veterinary Science, Adolescent Health, Westmead, University of Adelaide University of Sydney Expertise Expertise Dr Boardman is an expert in Professor Booy is an expert in veterinary epidemiology and respiratory viruses. epi-/pandemics response and His research interests cover the surveillance. genetic basis of susceptibility to, He has worked as a zoo veterinarian, and severity of, infectious diseases including their endangered species especially influenza, RSV and invasive programs and has trained wildlife disease caused by encapsulated veterinarians in wildlife medicine. organisms; the clinical, public- Dr Boardman has worked in New health and social burden of these Zealand, China and African countries diseases; and means by which to and managed the Zoological Society prevent or control serious infections of London’s conservation programs. through vaccines, drugs and non- pharmaceutical measures in both He has been Senior Lecturer since children and adults. 2014 and became a diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine in Wildlife Population Ms Katrina Health and European Registered Boterhoven de Haan Veterinary Specialist in Zoological PhD Scholar, Medicine (Wildlife Population Health). University of Western Australia
7 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/wayne.boardman 8 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/robert-booy.html
62 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Expertise Professor 10 PhD student whose thesis is on post- Romola Bucks traumatic stress disorder therapies. Professor, Faculty of Science, School of Psychological Science, Professor Alex Broom9 University of Western Australia Professor of Sociology at the Expertise Department of Sociology and Social Policy, School of Social and Political Professor Bucks has expertise Sciences, University of Sydney in normal aging; degenerative conditions; and sleep psychology. Expertise Professor Bucks’ career spans Professor Broom is an international 30 years in clinical psychology and leader in sociology, utilising highly academic practice, during which she innovative qualitative methodologies has made a distinguished contribution and social theory to provide novel to understanding of factors that understandings of the social, cultural, contribute to healthy and abnormal political and economic underpinnings ageing. She is internationally of the key health challenges of the recognised for her work in healthy 21st Century. ageing and the diagnosis of cognitive Professor Broom is a leading expert decline/dementia, and for her on health care policy and social expertise in the cognitive and mental science node leader within Marie health consequences of a number Bashir Institute of Infectious Diseases. of key disorders of ageing, including Brings strong qualitative approaches obstructive sleep apnoea, type-2- to major health policy areas. diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
9 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/news-and-events/news/2019/09/30/leading-health-sociologist-joins-faculty.html 10 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/romola-bucks and https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
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Professor Expertise 11 Peter Cameron Dr Caraguel is an expert in veterinary Academic Director of the Alfred public health, epi-/pan-demic Emergency and Trauma Centre, response, prevention and Detection. Monash University Expertise Emeritus Professor Terry Carney14 Professor Cameron co-ordinates The University of Sydney Law School, Health services research, hospital University of Sydney readiness and preparedness. Expertise He has published extensively on pandemic preparedness to Professor Carney is an expert on coronaviruses (particularly relating legal and ethical preparedness for to SARS), for example: pandemic influenza. yyThe impending influenza pandemic: Professor Kim Cornish15 lessons from SARS for hospital Head of the Turner Institute, practice, Medical Journal of Monash University Australia, Vol. 185, Issue 412 Expertise Dr Charles Caraguel13 Professor Kim Cornish is a leading Senior Lecturer, School of neuroscience researcher at Animal and Veterinary Science, Monash University and a Sir John University of Adelaide Monash Distinguished Professor.
11 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/peter-cameron 12 https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2006/185/4/impending-influenza-pandemic-lessons-sars-hospital-practice 13 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/charles.caraguel 14 https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/terry-carney.html 15 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/kim-cornish and https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
64 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Her research has identified key Expertise attentional signatures in childhood Professor Cross’ research has developmental disorders e.g. autism focused on improving child and that have now been translated using adolescent, and their parents’ and pioneering digital technologies into teachers’ health and wellbeing. She attention interventions. She has a has led more than 80 applied school particular focus on the opportunity and community-based research of the telehealth and digital projects investigating ways to technology disruption COVID-19 enhance pre-school children and is bringing in and how this can be school-age students’ wellbeing and used to our advantage. social and emotional development Professor and reduce anti-social behaviour. Donna Cross16 Faculty of Medicine, Ms Katrina Cummins Dentistry and Health Sciences, PhD Scholar, University of Adelaide University of Western Australia; Expertise Program Head, Education and Development Team and Director, Ms Cummins focuses in her PhD Early Childhood Development on The Nature of School Counselling and Learning Collaboration, Mental Health Services in Australia: Telethon Kids Institute A national school counselling model with professional standards and competencies to enhance student wellbeing and academic outcomes.
16 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/donna-cross https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
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Professor Mark Dadds17 Professor Professor of Clinical Psychology, Sandra Eades19 NHMRC Principal Research Associate Dean (Indigenous), Fellow, School of Psychology, Professor Centre for Epidemiology University of Sydney and Biostatistics, Melbourne School Expertise of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Professor Dadds is currently working with the media to disseminate helpful Expertise information for parents spending Professor Sandra Eades is a leading extended time in isolation with their Indigenous health researcher. Professor children, to reduce the risk of family Eades research has focused on problems. He directs the Child pediatric and perinatal epidemiology Behaviour Research Clinic in the Brain and the health of Aboriginal and Mind Centre, and specialises adolescents and young adults. in child and family mental health, She also leads research in primary especially parenting of children with care settings focused on testing behavioural and emotional problems. health care interventions to improve Professor Indigenous health. Patricia Dudgeon18 Professor Eades is a Fellow of the Professor, School of Indigenous Academy of Health and Medical Studies, University of Western Australia Sciences and currently serves as a member of NHMRC Council. She was Expertise Australia’s first Aboriginal medical Professor Patricia Dudgeon doctor to be awarded a PhD, which specialises in Indigenous mental investigated the causal pathways health and psychology; Indigenous and determinants of health among wellbeing and youth suicide. Aboriginal infants in the first year of life.
17 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/mark-dadds.html 18 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/patricia-dudgeon 19 https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/about/indigenous-development/sandra-eades
66 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Ms Nicole Ee20 Professor Sharon Friel21 PhD candidate and Westpac Professor of Health Equity and Future Leaders Scholar, Director of the Menzies Centre UNSW School of Psychology, for Health Governance, School UNSW Sydney of Regulation and Governance, Australian National University Expertise Expertise Nicole Ee’s research seeks to understand to the barriers and Professor Friel is a social public enablers to healthy ageing and social health expert and can provide expert participation in the context of life advice on the following: course factors, societal expectations, yySocial determinants of health, infrastructure and public policy. She which means the effect of draws upon her experience in high- multisectoral public policy on level evidence synthesis for global health and health inequities. health policy development and is Specifically she has expertise involved in community-based and in social protection measures, national research projects focussed income, and planning policy and on understanding and optimising the their effect on health inequities experience of older adults in society. In 2019 she was awarded a Westpac yyShe is also an expert in food Future Leaders Scholarship to systems and food security, being undertake interdisciplinary research able to guide actions relating to food investigating the relationships availability, affordability and access between social engagement, yyA third area of expertise is in wellbeing and cognitive health complex systems planning – older adulthood. whole of government responses
20 https://www.psy.unsw.edu.au/contacts-people/research-students/nicole-ee and https://scholars.westpacgroup.com.au/Scholars/Profile?Id=3359 21 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/friel-s
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Dr John Gardner22 Health Sciences. Her leadership Senior Research Fellow, has raised the profile and rigour of Sociology, Monash University primary care research in Australia and has been recognised via her Expertise election to the Australian Academy Dr Gardner is a general practitioner of Health and Medical Sciences. and sociologist with expertise on She has served two terms on the the social and ethical dimensions NHMRC Research Committee and of technology and innovation, and established a successful mental how hospitals can adapt. health research program which has developed new models of care and Professor Jane Gunn23 influenced policy and practice. Her Inaugural Chair, Primary Care current work focusses on developing Research at The University of clinical prediction tools and utilising Melbourne, and Deputy Dean, Faculty digital technologies to improve mental of Medicine, Dentistry and Health health care. Sciences, University of Melbourne Dr Susan Hazel24 Expertise Senior Lecturer, School of Professor Gunn is an academic Animal and Veterinary Science, general practitioner and inaugural University of Adelaide Chair of Primary Care Research at Expertise The University of Melbourne where she is also Deputy Dean of the Dr Hazel is an expert in veterinary Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and public health and ethics.
22 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/john-gardner 23 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/14752-jane-gunn 24 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/susan.hazel
68 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Ms Anna Hickling26 Ian Hickie AM25 School of Psychology, Co-Director, Health and Policy, University of Queensland Brain and Mind Centre, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Expertise University of Sydney Anna Hickling is a provisional Expertise psychologist and PhD candidate in the concurrent Master of Professor Hickie has been giving Clinical Psychology and Doctor of advice through various channels Philosophy program at The University about dealing with anxiety during of Queensland. She graduated the COVID-19 crisis and safeguarding with a Bachelor of Psychological mental health during quarantine. Science (Hons I) in 2015, focusing Professor Hickie is an internationally on patient monitoring systems. renowned researcher in clinical Anna’s PhD research investigates psychiatry, with particular reference health behaviours and mental health to medical aspects of common outcomes in young adults with mood disorders, depression and chronic health conditions such as bipolar disorder in young people, diabetes. She is a clinician-researcher early intervention, use of new and draws upon her experience and emerging technologies and working in community and forensic suicide prevention. mental health settings. Anna also gained interdisciplinary research skills as a participant in the 18-month UQ Global Change Scholars Program (2018–2019).
25 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/ian-hickie.html 26 https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/profile/328/anna
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Professor Expertise 27 Caroline Hunt Associate Professor Kamradt- Head of the Clinical Psychology Unit; Scott specialises in global health Co-Chair of the Mental Well-Being security and international relations. Working Group, Healthy Sydney; His research and teaching explores Chair, Australian Psychology how governments and multilateral Accreditation Council, organisations cooperate and interact University of Sydney when adverse health events such as Expertise disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics occur, as well as how Professor Hunt is an expert they respond to emerging health in the nature and treatment and security challenges. of anxiety disorders. 29 She can provide advice on how Professor Shitij Kapur people might be experiencing Dean, Faculty of Medicine, anxiety and worry, general Dentistry and Health Sciences and mental health issues arising from Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health), quarantine or self-isolation, and University of Melbourne ways they can be managed. Expertise Associate Professor Professor Kapur is a clinician- scientist with expertise in psychiatry, Adam Kamradt-Scott28 neuroscience and brain imaging. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Kapur’s main research University of Sydney interest is in understanding Schizophrenia and its treatment.
27 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/caroline-hunt.html 28 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/adam-kamradt-scott.html 29 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/783336-shitij-kapur
70 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE He has used brain imaging, animal Australian Health Protection Principal models and clinical studies which Committee and the National Health have led to a better understanding of and Medical Research Council, and antipsychotic action, its relationship a founding partner of the Australian to brain dopamine receptor blockade, Prevention Partnership Centre. He is the role of appropriate dosing of these also a member of the Expert Advisory drugs and has led to the development Group for the Australian Burden of of the ‘salience’ framework of Disease Study and of two World psychosis and the ‘early onset’ Health Organization Advisory Groups hypothesis if antipsychotic action. – International Health Regulations Roster of Experts and Nutritional Professor Paul Kelly30 Guidelines Advisory Group. ANU Medical School, He has worked in research, health Australian National University systems development, post-graduate Expertise teaching and as a health service executive including five years in the Professor Paul Kelly is a public role of Director of the Masters of health physician, epidemiologist Applied Epidemiology Program at and health service executive. He is the National Centre for Epidemiology Commonwealth Deputy Chief Medical & Population Health at ANU, and Officer, having previously been Chief nine years in the Northern Territory Health Officer for the Australian working as a Principle Research Capital Territory and Deputy Director Fellow with the Menzies School General of Population Health in the of Health Research, as well as with ACT Government Health Directorate. the Centre for Disease Control in the He is currently a member of the NT Department of Health.
30 https://medicalschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/professor-paul-kelly
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Dr Elise Klein OAM31 Education and Research on Ageing Senior Lecturer, (University of Sydney), Director of Crawford School of Public Policy, the Biogerontology Laboratory of Australian National University the ANZAC Research Institute and Senior Staff Specialist Physician Expertise in Geriatric Medicine at the Concord Dr Klein’s interests include the rise RG Hospital in Sydney of therapeutic cultures in policies, Expertise neoliberal subjectivities, economic rights, and decoloniality. Dr Klein has Professor Le Couteur’s research held various roles including working includes aging biology and on the UN Secretary General’s High- geriatric clinical and experimental Level Panel on Women’s Economic pharmacology and he has had Development and the Human Rights extensive experience on Federal Committee within the United Nations regulatory medicines committees. General Assembly. She was awarded He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Medal of the Order of Australia Gerontology Biological Sciences and (OAM) in 2019. a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Professor In 2016 he was awarded an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) David Le Couteur AO32 for distinguished service to medicine Professor of Geriatric Medicine as a clinical pharmacologist and at the University of Sydney, geriatrician, particularly through a Scientific Director of the Ageing range of advisory roles and academic and Alzheimers Institute (Concord research activities. Hospital), Director of the Centre for
31 https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/elise-klein 32 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/david-lecouteur.html
72 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Mu Li33 Sequencing, diagnosis-prognosis- Director of International Public Health treatment and vaccine development. at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney Professor Raina MacIntyre35 Expertise Head, Biosecurity Program, and Professor Li conducted an online Professor of Global Biosecurity, survey of more than 1800 pregnant Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney women from 22 provinces in China Expertise in the early phase of the coronavirus epidemic. She found that accessing Professor MacIntyre conducts antenatal care information and research in epidemiology, services from official hospital vaccinology, health and clinical accounts on the two major Chinese trials in infectious diseases. Has social media platforms was likely a particular interest in vulnerable to reduce the risk and support the and high risk populations, including women’s mental wellbeing. immunosuppressed, health workers, first responders, migrants and Associate Professor refugees, and adult vaccination Michelle McArthur34 with a focus on the frail elderly. School of Animal and Veterinary Research focus on the transmission Science, University of Adelaide dynamics and prevention of infectious diseases, particularly Expertise respiratory pathogens, underpinned Associate Professor McArthur by extensive field outbreak has expertise in virology, virus investigation experience.
33 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/mu-li.html 34 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/michelle.mcarthur 35 https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-raina-macintyre
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Activities relevant to COVID-19 Relevant publications: include: yyMacIntyre CR. On a knife’s edge of a yyExtensive research on the use COVID-19 pandemic: is containment of risk-analysis methods for still possible? Public Health Res analysing emerging infectious Pract. 2020 Mar 10;30(1). pii: diseases outbreaks such as Ebola 3012000. doi: and MERS-CoV which could be yyValentina Costantino, David James leveraged for analysing the current Heslop, Chandini Raina MacIntyre. COVID-19 crisis The effectiveness of full and partial yyLeads the NHMRC Centre for travel bans against COVID-19 Research Excellence in Epidemic spread in Australia for travellers Response36 which is international from China37. MedRXiv March 2020 and multi-sectoral, and addresses yyChughtai AA; Stelzer-Braid S; gaps in global systems for Rawlinson W; Pontivivo G; Wang epidemic response Q; Pan Y; Zhang D; Zhang Y; Li L; yyModelling – Real-time answers MacIntyre CR, 2019, ‘Contamination to the impact of key interventions by respiratory viruses on outer such as school closure, travel surface of medical masks used by bans, contact tracing, quarantine, hospital healthcare workers’38, BMC case isolation and vaccination on Infectious Diseases, vol. 19 epidemic trajectory yyRalf Itzwerth, Aye Moa, C. Raina MacIntyre. Australia’s influenza pandemic preparedness plans: an analysis39 J Public Health Pol (2017)
36 https://iser.med.unsw.edu.au/ 37 https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.09.20032045 38 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4109-x 39 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176589
74 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Relevant media: at the University of Melbourne, and a Founding Director of the National yyDesigning a low cost, re-usable Youth Mental Health Foundation face mask to prevent infection (headspace). He is a world-leading yyAre we ready for pandemics and researcher in the area of early antibiotic resistance?40 psychosis and youth mental health and has been directly involved yyBuilding knowledge of biosecurity in research and clinical care for and bioterrorism threats41 homeless people, refugees and yyFirst Responder42 asylum seekers.
Professor His work has played a critical role 43 in the development of safe, effective Patrick McGorry AO treatments for and innovative Executive Director of Orygen, research into the needs of young Professor of Youth Mental Health, people with mental ill-health. University of Melbourne Professor McGorry was a key Expertise architect of the headspace model Professor Patrick McGorry is the and has been successful in Executive Director of Orygen, advocating with colleagues for its Professor of Youth Mental Health national and international expansion.
40 https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pgLGMMqO5G?play=true 41 https://med.unsw.edu.au/news/building-knowledge-biosecurity-and-bioterrorism-threats 42 https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/news/first-responder 43 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/14906-patrick-mcgorry
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Professor Professor Negin is an expert in Sharon Naismith44 the public health aspects of mental NHMRC Dementia Leadership health and social isolation including Fellow, School of Psychology, the negative effects of a lack of University of Sydney social engagement.
Expertise Dr Torben Nielsen46 Professor Naismith can provide Senior Lecturer, School of expertise in coping with stress Animal and Veterinary Science, and emotion in the pandemic. University of Adelaide Professor Naismith holds the Expertise Leonard P Ullman Chair in Dr Nielsen has expertise in veterinary Psychology at Sydney. She also public health and ethics. heads the Healthy Brain Ageing Program at the Brain and Mind 47 Professor Jane Pirkis Centre, a one-of-a-kind early Professor of Mental Health, intervention research clinic University of Melbourne for dementia. Expertise Professor Professor Pirkis has undertaken 45 Joel Negin policy-relevant studies of suicide Professor and Head of School, and suicide prevention in Australia, Sydney School of Public Health, including profiling the epidemiology University of Sydney of suicide and suicidal behaviour Expertise among the general population and among at-risk groups.
44 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/sharon-naismith.html 45 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/joel-negin.html 46 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/torben.nielsen 47 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/637-jane-pirkis
76 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE She has a research interest in suicide Professor and the media. She has also undertaken Sir John Savill49 several evaluations of large-scale Executive Director of MACH, suicide prevention programs and University of Melbourne mental health care initiatives. Expertise Associate Professor Professor Savill is the Executive Simon Rosenbaum48 Director of the Melbourne Academic Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health (MACH), and School of Psychiatry, UNSW in that capacity leads one of Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney Australia’s largest academic health partnerships. Prior to this he was Expertise Vice Principal and Head of the Associate Professor Rosenbaum is College of Medicine and Veterinary interested in the relationship between Medicine at the University of physical activity and mental health Edinburgh. Alongside this role, and the role of sport and exercise in he was also Chief Scientist in improving outcomes for vulnerable the Scottish Government Health populations including refugees. His Directorates from 2008–2010 research focuses on how exercise can and Chief Executive at the Medical be used to help people recover from Research Council (MRC) from mental illness including posttraumatic 2010–2018 in which he was stress disorder, depression and central to national planning and anxiety. He is a highly cited researcher implementation of health strategy. who works with a variety of groups John brings unrivalled experience including emergency service workers, in linking academia to politics contemporary veterans and refugees and policy. in both Australia and overseas.
48 https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-simon-rosenbaum 49 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/826026-john-savill
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Dr Theresa Scott50 postgraduate training and continuing Lecturer in Clinical Geropsych, professional development programs. School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Professor University of Queensland Louise Sharpe51,52 Professor of Clinical Psychology, Expertise School of Psychology, Dr Scott is a psychologist whose University of Sydney research focuses on older adults Expertise and Geropsychology. She holds an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Professor Sharpe is internationally Development Fellowship and has known for her work in Health experience in research on functional Psychology and has worked clinically outcomes for persons with dementia with patients with a wide range in communities and residential of chronic physical problems, aged care. Theresa’s NHMRC-ARC specialising in pain. She researches Dementia Research Development the interface between clinical and Fellowship focuses on the complex health psychology, so focuses on the issues around dementia and driving. development of clinically significant Dr Scott’s research to date has focused psychological problems and unhelpful on ageing well programs, psychosocial health behaviours in people with a interventions that support people range of chronic health conditions, with dementia and their carers, including multi-morbidity. social and therapeutic horticulture Professor Sharpe is interested in to combat loneliness and depression examining people’s health-related for older people, clinical psychology anxieties in the context of COVID-19.
50 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/11436 51 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/louise-sharpe.html 52 https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
78 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Dr Joseph Smith last five years contributing to national PhD student, University of Adelaide guidelines, and policy and practice. Expertise Professor In his PhD, Dr Smith focuses Harvey Whiteford54 on cognitive psychology and Professor of Population epistemological crisis. Mental Health, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Professor James Ward53 University of Queensland Director, UQ Poche Centre, UQ Professor Whiteford studies the burden Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, of mental and substance use disorders University of Queensland in the population, and how to improve Expertise the health system to efficiently and equitably reduce that burden. Professor Ward has a long history working in Aboriginal communities, He leads the Policy and Epidemiology including in men’s health. He has Group at the Queensland Centre for held various roles in Aboriginal public Mental Health Research which has health policy for both government a research program in psychiatric and non-government organisations. epidemiology, burden of disease, mental health policy analysis and He has led national research projects the reform of mental health services. in sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses, including Professor Whiteford has worked as issues surrounding injecting drug a consultant to national governments, use. His work has influenced policy Commonwealth and State governments and practice significantly over the in Australia, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation.
53 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/25670 54 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/865
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Photo by William West / AFP / Getty Images Some of those questions are simply practical, others menacing, many could be endemic, too many need immediate or definitive resolution in the uncertain and fragile economic environment we find ourselves in for some time. A caring and financial safety net for those who are unavoidably impacted is part of who we are as Australians.
Ethics and ensuring continued adherence to our values of justice and fairness in changing and heightened circumstances are paramount considerations when dealing with domestic or family, business, educational, legal, human rights, migration, financial and many other aspects of the pandemic. Go8 experts in these areas, as in all areas related to COVID-19, are national and global leaders in their fields and this work is their primary focus. Battling all aspects of COVID-19 is a “Team Australia” effort. Addressing 4 Socio-economic Questions
Dr Kelly-Ann Allen1 Governance and Ethics Theme for the Senior Lecturer, Educational Charles Perkins Centre. Psychology & Incl Education, Monash University Professor 3 Expertise Lorana Bartels Criminology Program Leader, Dr Allen is an Educational Psych- ANU Centre for Social Research ologist with expertise in belonging and Methods, College of Arts and engagement. Nationally and inter- and Social Sciences, Australian nationally recognised for her research National University in the area of school belonging and Expertise for her translation of this expertise within educational contexts. Professor Bartels works in access to justice, correctional theory, offender Professor treatment and rehabilitation, courts Warwick Anderson2 and sentencing, criminal law and Professor of History, procedure, law and society and University of Sydney legal institutions. Expertise She has been involved in calls4 by Australian lawyers and prisoner Professor Anderson is an expert in the advocates for measures to reduce the history of medicine and public health, nation’s prison population — including with a special interest in Australasia, releasing some inmates early and the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the loosening conditions for bail — in United States. Leader of the Politics, the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
1 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/kelly-ann-allen 2 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/warwick-anderson.html 3 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bartels-l?term=bartels 4 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-20/calls-for-australian-prisoners-to-be-released-due-to- coronavirus/12074182
82 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor related aspects of the COVID-19 Sharon Bessell5 response, particularly as they pertain Director of Gender to child and poverty-related policy. Equity and Diversity, Australian National University Professor Nick Biddle6 Expertise Associate Director, ANU Professor Bessell’s research interests Centre for Social Research revolve around two broad areas. The and Methods, ANU College first is social policy, social justice of Arts and Social Sciences, and the human rights of children, Australian National University particularly children’s participation Expertise and citizenship, quality education, child labour, child protection, Professor Biddle has expertise in and support for children without migration, population trends and parental care. The second area policies, econometric and statistical of Sharon’s work is the gendered methods, aboriginal and torres and generational dimensions of strait islander policy, public policy, poverty. Sharon’s work has spanned education policy, urban and regional Australia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific economics, labour economics, and Southern Africa, working with studies of Aboriginal And Torres government, NGO’s and international Strait Islander society, applied agencies. Professor Bessell is able to economics, experimental economics, provide advice on the welfare policy- and economics of education.
5 https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/sharon-bessell 6 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/biddle-ng?term=biddle
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Professor He is one of Australia’s leading Public Policy Economists. He has Robert Breunig7 published in over 50 international Professor and Director, academic journals in economics Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, and public policy. He has made Australian National University significant policy impact through a Expertise number of his research projects: the relationship between child care and Professor Breunig’s research is women’s labour supply; the effect of motivated by important social policy immigration to Australia on the labour issues and debates, working regularly market prospects of Australians; with the Department of Treasury, the effect of switching to cash from the Department of Employment, food stamps in the U.S. food stamp the Department of Industry, the program and the inter-generational Department of Communication transmission of disadvantage. and the Arts, the Productivity
Commission, the Australian Bureau 8 of Statistics, the ACT Treasury Dr Katherine Carroll Department as well as many other Research Fellow, College of Arts agencies. He has been a consultant and Social Science, Australian to the private sector on marketing, National University mergers, bank competition and Expertise customer loyalty programs. Professor Breunig is able to provide advice Dr Carroll has helped pioneer the on the tax and social policy-related Video Reflexive Ethnography (VRE) aspects of the COVID-19 response, methodology in a variety of hospitals particularly as it relates to long-term in Australia and the USA. She has economic recovery. worked in collaborative research
7 https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/robert-breunig 8 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/carroll-ke
84 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE partnerships with health professionals and compensation systems and in the high-technology, ethically their impact on the work, social and charged spaces of the neonatal health outcomes of injured and ill intensive care unit, adult intensive people. He has advised multiple state care, surgery, surgical pathology, and commonwealth government and the emergency department. She departments and private sector has published extensively on the VRE organisations on workplace health, methodology, including a co-authored insurance and injury compensation. book, Visualising Health Care Practice Improvement (2013, Radcliffe) and Professor guest-edited a special issue on Rae Cooper AO10 using video methods in health care Professor of Gender, research (2009 International Journal Work and Employment Relations, of Multiple Research Approaches, University of Sydney vol3, Issue 3). Expertise 9 Professor Alex Collie Professor Cooper has expertise in Director, Insurance Work and Health business and business recovery, Research Group, School of Public gender and future of work. She brings Health and Preventive Medicine an important gender lens on business and an Australian Research Council recovery policy and employment Future Fellow, Monash University policy, training and development. Expertise In 2019 she was made an officer of the Order of Australia for her Professor Collie is an applied public contributions to ‘higher education health and social policy researcher, and to workplace policy and practice’. focusing on work disability benefit
9 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/alex-collie 10 https://www.sydney.edu.au/business/about/our-people/academic-staff/rae-cooper.html
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Dr Kyllie Cripps11 Professor Senior Lecturer, UNSW Megan Davis12 Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous; Expertise Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney Dr Cripps works in Indigenous family Expertise violence, Indigenous sexual assault, Professor Davis works in Aboriginal Indigenous child abuse, Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders women’s issues, Indigenous health constitutional, international, and and Indigenous related policy. human rights Law; and politics Dr Cripps is interested in the and community services. safety and wellbeing of Indigenous Professor Davis’ current research families and communities and her focuses on constitutional design, research focuses on how this can democratic theory and Indigenous be achieved when family violence peoples, she has been the leading and child abuse is taking place in constitutional lawyer working on the home. Through her research, Indigenous constitutional reform she has been particularly concerned since 2011. Her Australian and with the experiences of Indigenous international policy experience women and children, and through includes being appointed by the her research aims to elevate their PM to the Referendum Council, experiences and stories to engender designing the deliberative support (familial, community and constitutional dialogue process institutional) that can effectively the Council undertook (2015); being empower individuals, families and appointed to the PM’s Expert Panel communities to self-determine their on the Recognition of Aboriginal futures free from violence.
11 https://www.law.unsw.edu.au/staff/kyllie-cripps 12 https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-megan-jane-davis
86 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Professor Dawson is part of the the Constitution (2011). Professor NHMRC funded Centre for Research Davis currently serves as a United Excellence ‘Australian Partnership Nations expert with the UN Human for Preparedness Research on Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism Infectious Disease Emergencies’ on the rights of Indigenous peoples. (APPRISE). They are researching She is former UN Fellow of the UN the relevant ethical issues relating Office of the High Commissioner to global infectious disease risks, for Human Rights in Geneva. including prioritising vaccines and how to conduct research during Professor emergencies. Angus Dawson13 Professor of Bioethics and Dr Christopher Director, Sydney Health Ethics, Degeling14 School of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney Expertise Expertise Professor Dawson studies the ethics of restrictive measures Dr Degeling has expertise in ethics in a global context. What are and politics of human interactions the relevant ethical issues? with animals, and the social and How should we balance different cultural dimensions of public health. considerations? What are the His inter-disciplinary research draws implications for future policy together insights from Science and and legal reform? Technology Studies (STS) and social and normative theories.
13 https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/angus-dawson.html 14 https://www.sydney.edu.au/environment-institute/person/dr-christopher-degeling/
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Associate Professor Cabinet, Social Services, Education, Ben Edwards15 the New South Wales Departments Associate Professor, Child and Youth of Premier and Cabinet, Families Development and Longitudinal Studies and Community Services as well ANU College of Arts and Social as the Benevolent Society and the Sciences, Australian National University Smith Family. Expertise Professor Associate Professor Edwards Nicholas Evans16 has expertise in developmental Distinguished Professor, psychology and ageing, psychological Department of Linguistics, methodology, design and analysis, School of Culture, History & family and household studies, early Language; ARC Laureate Fellow; childhood education and social policy. Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, He is focused on policy relevant Australian National University research on child and youth development and advising and Expertise supporting longitudinal studies. He Professor Evans’ central focus is is an expert in longitudinal studies of the diversity of human language child and youth development, linkage and what this can tell us about the of administrative data to surveys and nature of language, culture, deep longitudinal studies of disadvantaged history, and the possibilities of the groups such as refugees. human mind. He has carried out Associate Professor Edwards has fieldwork on several languages of undertaken consultancies for the Australia and Papua New Guinea, OECD, the Australian Government publishing grammars of Kayardild Departments of Prime Minister and (1995) and Bininj Gun-wok (2003),
15 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/edwards-b?term=ben+edwards 16 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/evans-nrd?term=nicholas+evans
88 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE and dictionaries of Kayardild (1992) oral or written or both. Since some and Dalabon (2004), and has spent translation services exist (e.g. in the around seven years living in remote Northern Territory), CoEDL could communities, learning and recording assist in checking for each language their languages, and relating this to what was going on a language by broader issues including Native Title, language basis. vernacular literacy, and indigenous art and music. Two larger research Professor Jane Fisher17 projects are an ARC Laureate Project Professor of Global Health, Director on ‘The Wellsprings of Linguistic of Global and Women’s Health and Diversity’, which integrates typological Head, Division of Social Sciences and variationist studies across a in Public Health and Preventive number of small-scale multilingual Medicine, Monash University speech communities in indigenous Expertise Australia, PNG and the Pacific, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Professor Fisher is an academic Dynamics of Language. Clinical and Health Psychologist The ARC Centre of Excellence for with longstanding interests in the the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL), social determinants of health, and CoEDL, in working on a range of healthcare participation. She has Indigenous and minority languages, completed major epidemiological has the capability to assist in getting studies in clinical and community translated/interpreted versions of settings in Australia, Vietnam and COVID-19 related information out Nepal, nationally funded intervention to a wider audience. This could help trials. She is an expert technical demonstrate why it is important adviser to WHO, UNICEF and the for information to flow out through United Nations. many lesser-spoken languages,
17 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jane-fisher
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Professor Kevin Fox18 Professor Professor and Director of Centre for John Freebairn AO19,20 Applied Economic Research (CAER), Ritchie Chair of Economics, UNSW Sydney University of Melbourne Expertise Expertise Professor Fox has served in many Professor Freebairn is an expert policy and advisory roles including in business recovery, applied as Advisor to the Australian Treasury microeconomics and policy analysis. (appointed in 2016,) Chair of the He was honoured in 2018 as an 16th Series CPI Review Advisory Officer of the Order of Australia for Group in 2009–2010, and member his service to education in the field of the Expert Working Group of of applied economics and his rich the Australian Council of Learned contribution to public policy over Academies on productivity 2012– the course of his career. 2014 that reported to the Prime Over the course of his career, Minister’s Science, Engineering and Professor Freebairn has been deeply Innovation Council. He is Fellow of the involved in taxation reform, having Society for Economic Measurement, served as an advisor to former a Member of the NBER-affiliated U.S. treasury secretary Ken Henry’s tax Conference in Research on Income review. He has also been actively and Wealth. He is also a member of involved in progressing how the Australian Bureau of Statistics economics is taught – contributing to Methodology Advisory Committee curriculum development and heading and the Productivity Measurement up the department at the University Reference Group. of Melbourne multiple times.
18 https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/kevinfox 19 https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/our-people/staff/economics/john-freebairn 20 https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/professor-john-freebairn-awarded-ao-for-achievements-in-economics
90 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Ross Garnaut AC21 Economic Society, Distinguished Professorial Fellow Economics, Fellow of the Australian Agricultural University of Melbourne and Resources Economic Society, Fellow of the Australia Academy Expertise of Social Sciences and Honorary Professor Garnaut is an economist Professor of the Chinese Academy whose career has been built around of Social Sciences. the analysis of and practice of policy connected to development, economic Professor policy and international relations in Matthew Gray22 Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Director ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods ANU Professor Garnaut is the author College of Arts and Social Sciences, of numerous publications in Australian National University scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and Expertise economic development, particularly Professor Gray works in public in relation to East Asia and the policy, labour economics, studies Southwest Pacific. Recent books of Aboriginal and Torres Strait include The Great Crash of 2008 Islander society, social policy, (with David Llewellyn-Smith, 2009); and applied economics. Dog Days: Australia After the Boom (2013); Forty Years of Reform He has published research on a and Development in China (2018) wide range of social and economic and Superpower: Australia’s low policy issues including those related carbon opportunity (2019). He is to Indigenous Australians. He has
21 https://www.rossgarnaut.com.au/; https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/ 22 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/gray-mc
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expertise in work and family issues, Over the course of his career, his labour economics, social capital and research has influenced the design social inclusion, measuring wellbeing, and operation of hospital, community the economic consequences of and institutional aged care in divorce, child support, and social Australia. He has contributed to the and economic policy development. evolution of telehealth in Queensland He has undertaken extensive work and Australia. He has been a major on economic policy issues involving contributor to the development of Indigenous Australians, including assessment systems internationally health status, labour market outcomes, through the interRAI research poverty and the CDEP scheme. collaborative, particularly with the hospital sector. Professor Len Gray23 Director UQ Centre for Health Professor Keith Hill24 Services Research (CHSR), Director of the Monash Rehabilitation Faculty of Medicine, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) University of Queensland Research Centre, Monash University Expertise Expertise Professor Gray is co-chair of the Professor Hill is a physiotherapist Medical Research Future Fund and senior researcher, with expertise (MRFF) Aged Care Mission. His in falls prevention, exercise for older research interests focus on aged people, ageing and rehabilitation. care policy, models of aged care Current projects include use of service delivery, assessment and care sensor technology to reduce falls planning systems, and in recent years, in hospitals, evaluation of a program e-health and telemedicine strategies. to support caregivers of older people
23 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1121 24 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/keith-hill
92 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE discharged from hospital, and Associate Professor physical activity to improve health Andrew Jackson26 outcomes for older people, including UNSW Business School, Indigenous Australians. School of Accounting, UNSW Sydney Professor Expertise Richard Holden25 Professor of Economics at UNSW Associate Professor Jackson’s Business School, co-director of research examines how accounting the New Economic Policy Initiative, information is used by capital UNSW Sydney market participants, including issues on earnings co-movements, Expertise corporate disclosure, stock return Professor Holden has written on volatility, the timeliness of earnings topics including network capital, and asset pricing models. This political districting, incentives research has the potential to in organisations, and mechanism improve the understanding of the design. He is a strong communicator, sources of earnings and the degree appearing regularly as a media to which firm’s earnings are related commentator and influencer, and has to industry peers, and aims to lead published opinion pieces in outlets to improvements in decision making including The Australian Financial by users of financial statements, Review, The Australian, The New York such as improving the ability Times, and The New Republic. He to forecast future earnings and also writes a weekly column called value assets. Vital Signs for The Conversation.
25 https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/richardholden 26 https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/andrewjackson
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Professor Expertise 27,28 Jolanda Jetten Ms Jiang is a final year PhD ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of candidate in the UQ Business Social Psychology, FASSA School of School. Her research focuses on Psychology, University of Queensland small business resilience in the Expertise face of extreme weather events. Her thesis examines how small Professor Jetten’s research focuses businesses develop capabilities on social identity, group processes to build their resilience and the and intergroup relations. factors that influence their capability Her specific interests include: development. Her PhD focuses Prejudice, oppression, stigmatised on Cyclone Debbie in Northern and marginalised group membership, Queensland. Yawei’s honours coping with discrimination, group thesis explored the motivations membership and mental health, and barriers to collaboration in normative influence, conformity the tourism industry after Cyclone and deviance in groups. Marcia. She is currently undertaking a placement in Brisbane with EarthCheck to audit templates Ms Yawei Jiang29 and global best practices related to School of Business, tourism risk and resilience programs. University of Queensland
27 https://psychology.uq.edu.au/profile/2317/jolanda-jetten 28 http://www.socialidentitynetwork.com/members/jolanda-jetten/ 29 https://business.uq.edu.au/profile/2099/yawei-jiang
94 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor shareholders have similar opinions Mariano Kulish30 to institutional shareholders. School of Economics, University of Sydney Professor John Mangan32 Expertise Director, Australian Institute for Professor Kulish brings expertise in Business and Economics (AIBE), macroeconomic policy and especially Faculty of Business, Economics global economic policy31 (with focus and Law, University of Queensland on Asia Pacific). Expertise Professor Kulish (with Professor With extensive academic, consultancy, James Morley, University of Sydney) editorial and ‘expert opinion’ brings strong econometric and quant experience, Professor Mangan is approaches to issues around fiscal a skilled economic modeller, and policy and global macroeconomic a leading researcher in the areas of: frameworks and have regularly worked with the Commonwealth Government. yyLabor and Social Economics yyEconomic impact analysis Mr Yulin Li yyEconomics of professional sports PhD Scholar, University of Adelaide yyHuman resource management Expertise yyWorkplace health and safety Mr Li is a first year PhD scholar, yyApplied micro-economics focusing on whether general
30 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/mariano-kulish.html 31 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/futurefix/global-perspectives-on-economic-policy.html 32 https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/80
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Dr Francis Markham33 Expertise Research Fellow, Centre for Professor Martin is an expert in Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, educational psychology. College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Professor Martin is a Registered Psychologist (Psychology Board Expertise of Australia), recognised for Dr Markham focuses on economic psychological and educational geography, Aboriginal and Torres research in achievement motivation Strait Islander policy, studies of and for the quantitative methods Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander he brings to the study of applied society, policy and administration. phenomena. Although the bulk of his research focuses on motivation, He researches demographic impacts engagement, and achievement, he is of external factors (such as COVID-19 also published in important cognate or Poker machines) on economic areas such as Aboriginal/Indigenous and cultural impacts on Indigenous education, ADHD, gifted and talented, peoples. Dr Markham has published academic resilience and academic key advice on the impact on public buoyancy, adaptability, goal setting, health measures on income from art pedagogy, and teacher-student 34 in remote Indigenous communities . relationships. His research also bridges other disciplines Scientia Professor through assessing motivation Andrew Martin35 and engagement in sport, music, Professor of Educational and work. Psychology, UNSW Sydney
33 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/markham-f 34 https://theconversation.com/the-other-indigenous-coronavirus-crisis-disappearing-income-from-art-134127 35 https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/our-people/andrew-martin
96 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Dr Chris McCaw36,37 Professor Lisa McDaid38 Lecturer, University of Melbourne Professor (Social Science & Health), Institute for Social Science Research, Expertise University of Queensland Dr McCaw is a Lecturer in Education Expertise at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. His research explores Professor McDaid’s research aims the nature of teaching and teacher to improve health and wellbeing, professionalism, the purposes particularly among the most of education, post-secularism in disadvantaged in our society. education, and questions of self, She is interested in how best to identity and agency. He teaches engage communities at high risk courses in philosophy and sociology of poor health and wellbeing in of education, curriculum and health improvement research pedagogy within Master of Teaching and in developing new methods and Education breadth programs. of co-production for intervention He has a background working in development. Her work is exploring secondary schools, specialising how to affect change and improve in inquiry learning in the sciences, health at the community level humanities and philosophy. via assets and strengths-based approaches.
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Dr Siobhan Expertise 39,40 McDonnell Professor Warwick McKibbin has two Lecturer, Crawford School of Public broad areas of applied research which Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, are currently contributing to advising Australian National University governments and central banks Expertise around the world. Global Economic Models Dr McDonnell is a legal anthropologist who engages in applied work in The G-Cubed suite of models is used Indigenous Australia and the Pacific for a variety of macroeconomic/trade/ around climate change, land rights climate/energy policy applications. and gender. Dr McDonnell has G-Cubed has also been used for contributed both research and policy modelling past pandemics and outcomes in the following areas: land the current COVID-19 pandemic. reform, gender and natural resource The models can be used to assess management, climate change, disaster the consequences of different management, legal pluralism and the macroeconomic and health operation of customary institutions. interventions as well understanding unintended consequences of policies. Professor The Australian Treasury has used Warwick McKibbin AO41 G-Cubed models in house since Director of the Centre for Applied 1993. Many foreign governments, Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA). the International Monetary Fund, the He is also Director of Policy World Bank, and central banks have Engagement, and ANU Node Leader, used these models for policy analysis The ARC Centre of Excellence in over the past 3 decades. Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), Australian National University
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98 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Policy design yyhttps://www.afr.com/policy/ economy/hecs-style-loans-backed- Professor Warwick McKibbin has for-coronavirus-20200320-p54c7s developed many policy proposals to deal with issues related to climate policy/monetary policy/trade Professor 42 policy/fiscal policy/energy policy/ Renee Fry-McKibbin pandemics. To address the current Centre for Applied Macroeconomic crisis, he has proposed using income Modelling, Australian National contingent loans for households and University small businesses. He was invited to Expertise the Prime Minister’s office to discuss these ideas in March 2020. Professor Fry-McKibbin’s recent work models the effects of Chinese Recent publications on the COVID-19 industrialization and commodity response can be found at: price shocks on Australia and looks yy https://www.abc.net.au/news/ at the interaction between foreign programs/the-business/2020-03-11/ and domestic economic adjustment extended-interview-with-warwick- mechanisms. Her models could mckibben/12047666 be adapted and combined with her work on financial market crises to y yhttps://www.brookings.edu/blog/ include the effects of COVID-19 up-front/2020/03/06/what-are-the- on Chinese resource demand, possible-economic-effects-of-covid- commodity prices, and global equity 19-on-the-world-economy-warwick- markets. The subsequent impact on mckibbins-scenarios/ crucial variables such as Australian yyhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020- GDP growth, foreign output growth, 03-05/coronavirus-COVID-19- unemployment, mining investment, economic-cost-modelling-and- inflation, and the exchange rate can worry-over-panic/12010556 then be assessed. She is also a co-
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investigator on a grant examining the to 2018. Her research focuses on complex factors explaining Australia’s Indigenous policy and governance, historical resilience to a recession. with a particular focus on identity, Understanding these factors and social networks and education. combining them with lessons learned from current events will be crucial Professor in policy responses to COVID-19. James Morley45 School of Economics, 43,44 Dr Nikki Moodie University of Sydney Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne Expertise Expertise Professor Morley brings expertise in macroeconomic policy and especially Dr Nikki Moodie (Gomeroi) is a global economic policy46 (with Senior Lecturer in Indigenous particular focus on Asia Pacific). Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University Professor Morley (with Professor of Melbourne, Australia. Dr Moodie Mariano Kulish, University of Sydney) received her PhD in Sociology from brings strong econometric and quant the Australian National University, approaches to issues around fiscal and held the University of Melbourne’s policy and global macroeconomic inaugural Research Fellowship in frameworks and have regularly worked Indigenous Research from 2016 with the Commonwealth Government.
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100 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Scientia Professor Ben Phillips47 John Piggott AO48 Associate Professor, ANU Director of the ARC Centre of College of Arts and Social Sciences, Excellence in Population Ageing Australian National University Research (CEPAR); Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney Expertise Expertise Associate Professor Ben Phillips works in applied economics, Professor Piggott is an expert in statistics and demography. retirement and pension economics, and finance. He has nearly 20 years of experience in economic and public policy Professor Piggott’s Australian and analysis work in Australia, and international policy experience has expertise in the development includes membership of both the of microsimulation models for Henry Tax Review Panel (2008– the purpose of analysing tax and 2009) and the Australian Ministerial transfer systems. He also has broad Superannuation Advisory Committee experience in economic modelling, (2007–2011); appointed co-chair of economics statistics and public the G20 Population Ageing Task Force policy in Australia. He also has a (2018); appointed as member of the strong interest in matters relating to US National Academy of Medicine’s housing affordability, superannuation (NAM) International Commission and income inequality. on Creating a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity (2019).
47 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/phillips-bg?term=ben+phillips 48 https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/johnpiggott
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Ms Maeve Powell49 marginalisation, and she is particularly Research Associate and PhD Scholar, interested in how young people imagine College of Asia and the Pacific and forge their futures. She also and College of Science, Australian contributes to qualitative methodological National University advancement, especially in relation to visual and creative methods. She Expertise has published her work in several Ms Powell focuses on trans-Indigenous high-ranked journals and holds an scholarship at the intersection of ARC-DECRA fellowship (2017–2020). Indigenous studies and critical geography. She is interested in spatial Professor decolonisation, urban Indigenous Peter Robertson52 belonging, digital story mapping Dean and Head of Business School, and Indigenous education. University of Western Australia Expertise Dr Signe Ravn50,51 Senior Lecturer In Sociology, Professor Robertson has a dedicated University of Melbourne research interest in economics. His work focuses on the changing nature Expertise of the world economy with the rise Dr Signe Ravn is a Senior Lecturer in of China, possible rise of India, and Sociology in the School of Social and implications for trade, wages, political Political Sciences at the University conflict and economic growth. Currently, of Melbourne, Australia. Her he focuses on economic policy and the research focuses on young people state of the world economy while also and disadvantage, with a focus studying the role of population growth on risk, gender and processes of through history in causing poverty.
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102 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Brendan the Department of Defence. He Sargeant53 has broad Commonwealth Public Professor of Practice in Defence and Sector experience in very senior Strategic Studies, Coral Bell School management and policy roles in of Asia Pacific Studies, Australian Defence, Centrelink and Finance. National University From September 2013 to October 2017, he was the Associate Secretary Expertise of Defence. Prior to that appointment Professor Sargeant can advise he was the Deputy Secretary on crisis management, as well as Strategy. As Associate Secretary, undertake, or manage, the design and he was responsible for oversight implementation of major governance of the implementation of the First and administrative systems reform. Principles Review, a major reform of He has specific subject area Defence organisation and enterprise experience and expertise in relation governance, planning, performance to Defence planning. and risk management. He was principal author of the 2013 Defence He is the Independent Chair of White Paper. the Audit and Risk Committees of the Department of Foreign Affairs Dr Ashley Schram54,55 and Trade and the Department of Fellow, College of Asia and the Pacific, Finance; an independent Member Australian National University of the Project Control Board for the Department of Human Services Expertise ICT and Business Transformation Dr Schram is a Braithwaite Fellow in Program; and a member of the the School of Regulation and Global Reform 2022 Oversight Board for Governance (RegNet) at the Australian
53 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/sargeant-bj?term=brendan+sarge 54 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/schram-a 55 https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/
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National University and Deputy Director Australia, Chile and Singapore”. He of the Menzies Centre for Health has extensive experience from his Governance. From 2017–2019 Ashley time at the Ministry of Education led a programme of research on policy of Chile Research Centre where he evaluation in an NHMRC Centre of was in charge of the management Research Excellence in the Social and development of the researches, Determinants of Health Equity. Her studies, evaluations and statistics research investigates the regulation, that serve as basis to the creation governance, policy, and politics of the and application of policies and social determinants of health inequities. programs of the Ministry. Focal areas include food systems, trade and investment liberalisation, Professor Marc Stears57 noncommunicable diseases, and Director of Sydney Policy Lab, sustainable development. University of Sydney
Mr Roberto Schurch56 Expertise School of Education, Professor Stears specialises in University of Queensland democratic theory and the history of ideologies and social movements. Expertise Professor Stears is engaged in work Mr Schurch is a PhD candidate at on supporting community resilience UQ. His thesis is on “Comparative and has recently developed principles research of the OECD-PIAAC for policy making58 in relation to “Survey of Adult Skills” influence COVID-19. on Lifelong Learning policies in
56 https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/profile/948/roberto 57 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/marc-stears.html 58 https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/sydney-policy-lab/principles-for-a-policy- response-to-covid-19.pdf
104 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Scientia Professor Professor Carla Treloar59 Jim Watterston60,61 Director of the Centre for Social Dean, Melbourne Graduate Research in Health and the Social School of Education, Enterprise Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Professor, Education Systems, University of Melbourne Expertise Expertise Professor Treloar is an expert in social fallout; socioeconomic Professor Watterston brings acceptance and consequences of more than 35 years of successful public health actions, particularly in experience across a diverse range the field of hepatitis C virus (HCV) of educational roles and sectors. and injecting drug use. In addition to appointments to many educationally related Boards, Professor Treloar is a primarily Professor Watterston has previously qualitative researcher and is grounded served for six years as the National in the disciplines of health and social President for the Australian psychology, public health and health Council for Education Leaders policy. Her multidisciplinary research and is recognised as an influential spans health and social psychology, advocate for the education sector. public health and health policy, where His contribution to education has she has expertise in applying social, been acknowledged both nationally legal and political contexts to health and internationally with awards from interventions. She has expertise in several professional bodies and ensuring public health strategies are educational institutions. appropriately targeted to high risk populations to effect mass behaviour change on a population level.
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Professor Professor Peter Whiteford62 Simon Wilkie63 Crawford School of Public Policy, Dean, Faculty of Business and Australian National University Economics; Head of Monash Business School, Monash University Expertise Expertise Professor Whiteford has published extensively on various aspects of the Professor Wilkie is an expert in Australian and international systems business and business recovery with of income support. In July 2008, significant experience in business he was appointed by the Australian disruption, recovery and innovation. government to the Reference He is former Chief Economist Group for the Harmer Review of the of Microsoft. Australian pension system. He was an invited keynote speaker at the Dr Mandy Yap64 Melbourne Institute-Australia’s Future Research Fellow, College of Arts Tax and Transfer Policy Conference and Social Science, Australian held in June 2009 as part of the National University Henry Review of Australia’s Future Expertise Tax System, and he participated in the Australian Government Tax Forum Dr Yap works in population trends held in Canberra in October 2011. and policies, economic development Professor Whiteford can provide and growth, Aboriginal and Torres advice on the welfare policy-related Strait Islander policy, studies aspects of the COVID-19 response. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
62 https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/peter-whiteford 63 https://lens.monash.edu/@simon-wilkie-monash https://www.monash.edu/business/about-us/leadership-team/professor-simon-wilkie 64 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/yap-ml
106 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Islander society, urban and regional economics and public policy. Her research interests are indicators of wellbeing and quality of life, participatory methodologies, mixed- methods, gender and development and Indigenous wellbeing.
GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE – 107 How information is used and communication managed, how people can be helped to understand the crisis while maintaining a sense of order in an unrecognisable world, are vital to addressing the pandemic. More accurate predictions of the virus’ impact based on modelled data add certainty and inform our strategies. Government policies and restrictions are more effectively conveyed, tailored to different audiences. New technologies support a shift in how we work and our social environments while monitoring and controlling the spread of infection. Studying social media data can help anticipate and address opportunistic threats to our way of life and our sovereignty. These are all areas and others where Go8 experts are informing and driving advances in how we adapt to our new circumstances. Battling all aspects of COVID-19 is a “Team Australia” effort. Information and 5 Communication
Professor Rob Ackland1 be released. Ackland’s work with Professor, School of Sociology, Defence Science Technology Group College of Arts and Social Sciences, on information diffusion relating to Australian National University COVID-19 is also relevant. Expertise Published key advice: Professor Ackland works in network yyAckland, R. and K. Gwynn (2020), science, web science, social network “Truth and the dynamics of news analysis, index number theory and diffusion on Twitter,” chapter international comparisons of income in R. Greifreneder, M. Jaffe, E. and poverty. Newman and N. Schwarz (eds.) The Psychology of Fake News: In addition to misinformation and Sharing, Accepting and Correcting inauthentic behaviour, Rob Ackland Misinformation with colleague Mahin Raissi is interested in using computational yyAckland, R., Jensen, M. & O’Neil, approaches and social media data M. (2020). Submission No. 8 to the to examine how COVID-19 may be Senate Select Committee on Foreign 2 leading to “spillover effects” in terms Interference through Social Media of perceived threats and issues of yyRizoiu, M. A., Graham, T., Zhang, concern, including spillovers into R., Zhang, Y., Ackland, R. and L. Xie racism. A project with Yoshi Kashima (2018), “#DebateNight: The Role at University of Melbourne, with and Influence of Socialbots on Raissi entails a Facebook research Twitter During the 1st 2016 U.S. application on this topic. Ackland Presidential Debate”, In International is also planning to investigate with AAAI Conference on Web and Social colleagues a large-scale dataset Media (ICWSM ’18), pages 1–10, of COVID-19 Tweets about to arXiv eprint 1802.09808
1 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj 2 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Foreign_Interference_through_Social_ Media/ForeignInterference/Submissions
110 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Expertise 3 Sara Bice Professor Bunker was awarded Crawford School of Public Policy, funding from the NHMRC Centre Australian National University of Research Excellence in Emerging Expertise Infectious Diseases (CREID) and Australian Partnership for Associate Professor Sara Bice is Preparedness Research on Infection the Director of the Institute for Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Infrastructure in Society (I2S) which in March 2020 to study “Infectious draws in more than 17 industry Diseases and “Infodemics” – The partners including Lendlease, Role of Social Media in Individual 2 Transurban, IAP as well as the and Collective Meaning Making” Victorian, NSW and Queensland state with Christian Ehnis. infrastructure authorities, to develop a programmatic, sector-wide approach Professor Bunker is a leading scholar to inform community engagement, in organisational collaboration and address cumulative impacts of major change management in complex projects, model poorly defined social organisational and environmental risks and shape public policy around settings. She is a Chief Investigator social impact management. She can on an EU Horizon 2020 project provide expert advice on COVID-19 RISE_SMA Social Media Analytics for community engagement planning. Society and Crisis Communication, and a Norwegian Research Council Professor SAMRISK Work Program project looking at Sharing Incident and Deborah Bunker4 Threat Information During Crises. Professor of Business Information Systems, Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
3 https://energy.anu.edu.au/about-us/participants/sara-bice 4 https://www.sydney.edu.au/business/about/our-people/academic-staff/deborah-bunker.html
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Dr Vladimir yyYouth lost to homicides: disparities Canudas-Romo5 in survival in Latin America and the 6 Demographer, College of Arts Caribbean and Social Sciences, Australian yyCause of death decomposition of National University cohort survival comparisons7 Expertise yy Cause-specific life-years lost in people with mental disorders: a nationwide, Dr Canudas-Romo is an expert register-based cohort study8 in mortality modelling, longevity measures (life expectancy evaluation) yyMexico’s epidemic of violence and its and mathematical demography. public health significance on average length of life9 Dr Canudas-Romo has several studies analysing the effect that 10 violence (a sudden increase of Dr Jenny Davis this cause of death) has had in College of Arts and Social Sciences, the survival and the wellbeing of Australian National University populations. Other studies seek Expertise to show how to assess the impact of different causes of death to Broad and overlapping trajectories aggregate measures of survival in social psychology and technology (e.g. life expectancy). He has studies. Dr Davis focuses on role- published key advice: taking, status, stigma, and identity, along with technological affordances and the politics of digital design.
5 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/canudas-romo-v 6 DOI: 10.1136/ bmjgh-2018-001275 7 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz276 8 DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30429-7 9 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2015-207015 10 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/davis-jl
112 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Her research focuses on how digital Dr Christian Ehnis12 technologies integrate into everyday Sydney Business School, social life. COVID-19 and the physical University of Sydney separation required to curb the virus’ spread has meant that interactions Expertise quickly and dramatically shifted to Dr Ehnis was awarded funding from online platforms. She can speak the NHMRC Centre of Research to the social dynamics of digitally Excellence in Emerging Infectious mediated communication, the Diseases (CREID) and Australian social psychology of interpersonal Partnership for Preparedness Research interactions in light of the shift online, on Infection Disease Emergencies and broader societal issues about (APPRISE) in March 2020 to study access and inequality. “Infectious Diseases and “Infodemics” – The Role of Social Media in Individual Associate Professor and Collective Meaning Making” with Ullrich Ecker11 Deborah Bunker. Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, School Professor Nick Enfield13 of Psychological Science, Professor of Linguistics, Director University of Western Australia of Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Expertise Centre, University of Sydney Associate Professor Ecker Expertise has expertise in the effects of misinformation on reasoning and Professor Enfield was awarded decision making, and informed funding from the NHMRC Centre communication strategies of Research Excellence in Emerging
11 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/ullrich-ecker 12 https://www.sydney.edu.au/business/about/our-people/academic-staff/christian-ehnis.html 13 https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/nick-enfield.html
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Infectious Diseases (CREID) Westmead Clinical School, Westmead and Australian Partnership for Institute for Medical Research, Preparedness Research on Infection University of Sydney Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) in Expertise March 2020 to study the role of bad information and flawed cognition in Professor Gilbert was awarded the spread of COVID-19; the project funding from the NHMRC Centre of aims to discover “what kinds of (dis) Research Excellence in Emerging information spread on English and Infectious Diseases (CREID) Mandarin language online outlets re: and Australian Partnership for COVID-19, and are there differences? Preparedness Research on Infection Is it possible to ‘inoculate’ people Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) in against bad information?” March 2020 for the project “COVID-19 infection prevention and control” Dr Nic Geard14 with Chris Degeling to investigate the School of Computing and Information optimal communication strategies Systems, University of Melbourne for different occupational groups and members of the public regarding Expertise appropriate infection prevention and Dr Geard is an expert in the control responses. development and application of Until recently she was Director of computational models of infectious the Centre for Infectious Diseases disease transmission and control. & Microbiology Laboratory Services and Director of Infection Prevention 15 Professor Lyn Gilbert and Control for Western Sydney Local Clinical Professor, Medicine Health District, at Westmead Hospital. (Immunology & Infectious Diseases),
14 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/432264-nic-geard 15 https://www.apprise.org.au/person/professor-lyn-gilbert/
114 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Associate Professor Professor Kathryn Glass16 Quentin Grafton17,18 Research School of Population Health, Professor, Co-Chair of ANU Water Australian National University Initiative; Chairholder, UNESCO; Chair in Water Economics and Expertise Transboundary Water Governance; Associate Professor Glass is a Director, Centre for Water Economics, research expert in Biostatistics and Environment and Policy; Convener, Epidemiology, and Research Leader of Geneva Actions on Human Water the Infectious disease epidemiology Security, ANU College of Asia and the and modelling Group at the ANU. Her Pacific, Australian National University research interests include: Expertise yy Mathematical modelling of infectious Professor Grafton’s work focuses diseases to inform public health on applied environmental/resource policy economics and public policy yyEffects of vaccination on disease problems. Relevant published work: outbreaks yyArticle that COVID-19 modelling yyModelling intervention strategies suggests going early and going for emerging infectious diseases hard is needed19 yySource attribution for pathogens causing gastroenteritis
16 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/glass-ka 17 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/grafton-rqq 18 https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/roadmap/contributors/ 19 https://theconversation.com/modelling-suggests-going-early-and-going-hard-will-save-lives-and-help-the- economy-135025
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Associate Professor power, networks, markets and elites Carolyn Hendriks20 in participatory modes of governing. Crawford School of Public Policy, Carolyn’s recent publications consider Australian National University pathways for strengthening public deliberation and citizen engagement in Expertise mainstream spaces of representative democracy, such as legislative commit- Associate Professor Hendriks is an tees and constituency service. She can internationally recognised expert on provide expert advice on COVID-19 community engagement in public community engagement planning. policy. She has over three decades of experience working with communities, NGOs and governments to design Ms Bernadette 21 and improve community engagement Hyland-Wood processes. She has built capacity School of Political Science within community organisations, and International Studies, government and parliamentary University of Queensland institutions to engage with their Expertise constituents in ways that are inclusive, deliberative and meaningful. Bernadette Hyland-Wood is a UQ Global Carolyn’s current work on community- Change Scholar and PhD candidate led problem-solving initiatives in in public policy and governance. Her regional and rural Australia holds PhD research is on leadership and important lessons for how to organisational culture within federally empower everyday people and their funded scientific data programs. communities in repair and transition. As a professional data scientist, Bernadette pioneered United States She has led numerous empirical (US) federal data sharing programs projects in Australia, Germany and the for the US Environmental Protection Netherlands on the role of interests, Agency and Government Publishing
20 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/hendriks-cm?term=carolyn+hendr 21 https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/profile/340/bernadette
116 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Office and was a technical advisor to the Cambodia-Vietnam border. Her US Health and Human Services and current work in this region examines the United Nations (UN) Food and how communities and civil society Agriculture Organization. As chair are responding to dramatic processes of the international World Wide Web of nature-society transformation or Consortium’s Government Linked “rupture”. She has worked with civil Data working group (2011–13), she society and government in Australia served as editor of international data and the Asia-Pacific, and currently standards, and has authored peer lead the Resources, Environment reviewed articles and chapters on and Development Program at ANU’s open government data. Bernadette Crawford School of Public Policy. was the founder of three software and hardware startups in Australia and the Professor US, including Tucana Technologies Inc James McCaw23 acquired by Northrop Grumman (2005). Professor in Mathematical Biology, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Sango Mahanty22 Expertise Crawford School of Public Policy, Professor McCaw is a mathematical Australian National University biologist and infectious diseases Expertise epidemiologist with a PhD in theoretical physics from the Associate Professor Mahanty is University of Melbourne. He holds a human geographer studying the a split appointment between the politics of social and environmental Department of Mathematics and change. Her recent ARC Future Statistics (Mathematical and Fellowship explored these related Computational Biology) and Modelling themes in a region of rapid social and Simulation Unit, Centre for and environmental change along
22 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/mahanty-s 23 https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/4554-james-mccaw
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dr Milazzo has extensive experience Melbourne School of Population and knowledge in communicable and Global Health. His interests span disease control and prevention. from modelling host-pathogen-drug From 1998 to 2007 she held several dynamics, with a focus on influenza positions in the Communicable and malaria, to developing public Disease Control Branch (CDCB), SA health control strategies for emerging Health including as a Public Health and re-emerging infectious diseases. Officer in the Disease Surveillance Investigation Section. She has Dr Adriana Milazzo24 continued her experience working Senior Lecturer Public Health, in infectious disease control and University of Adelaide prevention and is the casual pool for CDCB in her role as a Public Health Expertise Officer. She joined the University Dr Milazzo’s expertise is in: of Adelaide in 2007 to coordinate a national sentinel surveillance system yyOutbreak investigation (case for influenza like-illness (ASPREN). interviews, contact tracing) Current research interests include: yyInfectious disease surveillance yyTemperature-time relationship yyData management and analysis between heatwaves and yyEpidemiological research methods notifications for infectious disease (cohort and case control studies) (specifically Salmonella and Campylobacter notifications) yyEpidemiological analytical studies – time series, multivariable logistic yyInvasive Meningococcal Disease – regression identification and management of close-contacts of cases and social yyProficiency in the use of STATA networking analysis (statistical package) yySocial networking patterns
24 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/adriana.milazzo
118 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Professor Expertise 25 George Milne Dr Milne’s expertise is in human Professor, Faculty of Engineering geography and anthropology. She and Mathematical Sciences, Computer studies natural resource struggles Science and Software Engineering, and environmental intervention, University of Western Australia particularly when it comes to Expertise community-based conservation; resource rights initiatives; and market Professor Milne has been modelling mechanisms for conservation. COVID-19 using an established, highly Most of her research is focused on detailed, individual-based model Cambodia, where she has been active since January. He has been providing as a conservationist, ethnographer, results on the effectiveness of a range and advocate since 2002. of social distancing measures to the Department of Health WA. Dr Lewis Mitchell29 A paper presenting these results Senior Lecturer in Applied was uploaded to the medRxiv Mathematics, School of Mathematical preprint platform26. Sciences, University of Adelaide Expertise Dr Sarah Milne27,28 Crawford School of Public Policy, Dr Mitchell has expertise in applied Australian National University mathematics.
25 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/george-milne 26 See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.20.20040055v1.article-info and https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.20.20040055v1.article-metrics 27 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/milne-sa 28 https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/sarah-milne 29 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/lewis.mitchell
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Dr Mitchell works on monitoring Professor epidemics using social media data Philippa Pattison AO31 and how information moves over Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), social networks using mathematical University of Sydney models, coupled with data science techniques. His research interests Expertise are in computational social science, Professor Pattison is an expert human dynamics, online social on the structure and dynamics of networks, as well as data assimilation. social contact for human disease transmission models. Professor Lyle Palmer30 Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, She is a quantitative psychologist School of Public Health, Faculty by background, whose primary focus of Health and Medical Sciences, of research is the development and University of Adelaide application of mathematical and statistical models for social networks Expertise and network processes. Her work Professor Palmer works on how has broad application and has most information moves over social recently focussed on the transmission networks using mathematical of infectious diseases and the recovery models, coupled with data science of communities following the 2009 techniques. Research interests are in Victorian bushfires. computational social science, human 32 dynamics, online social networks, Dr Collin Payne as well as data assimilation. Lecturer, School of Demography, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
30 https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/lyle.palmer 31 https://www.sydney.edu.au/about-us/governance-and-structure/portfolios/education-portfolio/academic- staff/philippa-pattison.html 32 https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/payne-c?term=Collin+payne
120 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE Expertise Expertise Dr Payne has expertise in mortality, Dr Phillips focuses on digital education. population trends and policies, His work focuses on the knowledge applied statistics, stochastic analysis expert teachers develop when and modelling and epidemiology. integrating educational technologies into their practice. He also researches His substantive research centres on the ways in which expert teachers the intersections between population make active decisions about their ageing and population health, with a classroom technology integration. focus on understanding the dynamics of chronic health conditions, frailty, 34 and multimorbidity over time Professor David Preen and across generations. He also Chair, Public Health, School of researches the implications of the Population and Global Health, co-existence of chronic conditions University of Western Australia and infectious diseases (primarily Expertise HIV/AIDS) for both individual health outcomes and health systems. His Professor Preen has been involved methodological research centres with conducting health services on causal multistate models and research using population-based linked demographic microsimulation. data for over 15 years to study areas including: cancer service delivery; pharmaco-epidemiology; chronic Dr Michael Phillips33 disease management; morbidity Senior Lecturer, Maths Science & of marginalised populations; and Technology, Monash University methodological advances using medical record linkage.
33 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/michael-phillips 34 https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/david-preen
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Professor of COVID-19 transmission, accounting Mikhail Prokopenko35 for its reproductive number, the length Director Complex Systems Research of incubation and generation periods, Group, School of Civil Engineering, age-dependent attack rates, and the University of Sydney growth rate of cumulative incidence during a sustained and unmitigated Expertise local transmission. Professor Prokopenko has a strong His team’s project is built on their international reputation in the areas research focusing on nationwide of complex self-organising systems agent-based modelling and software and machine learning. He has simulation of epidemics and modelled the spread of COVID-19 in pandemics, which is funded by the Australia, suggesting that in order ARC’s Discovery Project scheme. The to control the disease (rather than team with input from the Marie Bashir letting the disease control us), at least Institute for Infectious Diseases and 80 per cent of the population need to Biosecurity, has been collaborating comply with strict social distancing with IBM Australia, Los Alamos measures for at least 18–19 weeks. National Laboratory (USA), and CSIRO. If 90 per cent of people comply, then the duration of suppression period Professor Ian Reid36 can be shorter, at 13–14 weeks. Head, School of Computer Science, His project “Modelling transmission and the senior researcher at the and control of the COVID-19 Australian Institute for Machine pandemic in Australia”, develops Learning, University of Adelaide an agent-based model for a fine- Expertise grained computational simulation of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Professor Reid is a world-leader in in Australia. This model is calibrated machine learning. He can deploy to reproduce several characteristics Machine Learning capabilities in
35 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/mikhail-prokopenko.html 36 https://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~ianr/
122 – GO8 COVID-19: OUR EXPERTS – YOUR RESOURCE support of data-informed analysis immunisation rates, disease based on historical data sets including prevalence, prescribing practices, the 2009 swine flu pandemic as well pathology testing and their as emerging real-time data sets. associations with risk factors and sociodemographic characteristics Professor Nigel Stocks37 in general practice. Professor Stocks Professor and Head of General and his Discipline have extensive Practice and Director of the Australian experience in recruiting for and Sentinel Practices Research Network conducting large and small clinical (ASPREN), University of Adelaide trials in general practice (e.g. ASPREE, WISDOM) and undertaking qualitative Expertise research. We will be conducting Professor Stocks and his ASPREN surveillance of COVID-19, examining team38 have provided National its community epidemiology and Primary Care surveillance data for undertaking clinical trials of influenza and other infectious disease POCT testing. to the Commonwealth Department of Health since 2006. Data is used Professor Jean Yang40 to report Influenza or Influenza-Like Faculty of Science, Illness (ILI) per 1000 consultations University of Sydney and to calculate influenza vaccine Expertise effectiveness that is used by the DOH and WHO to inform the choice Professor Yang works in statistical of next year’s vaccine. bioinformatics. He co-leads an InnoHK project, AI-assisted scalable data His Discipline has used electronic analytics for healthcare translation, medical record data from involving multi-scale predictive models. MedicineInsight39 to report
37 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/nigel.stocks 38 https://aspren.dmac.adelaide.edu.au/ 39 MedicineInsight has data from over 650 practices and 3.5 million patients (https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-insight) 40 https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/jean-yang.html
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