ODeSI research projects

Neglected Tropical Diseases – lymphatic filariasis & others
Emerging Infectious Diseases – leptospirosis, arboviruses, & others
Travel medicine –malaria prophylaxis, vaccines, health & wellbeing of travellers
Other infectious diseases

Field surveys – electronic data collection & management, field laboratories
Spatial epidemiology & predictive risk mapping & modelling
Eco-epidemiology – environmental & sociodemographic drivers of disease transmission
Clinical epidemiology, including clinical trials in travel clinic settings
Surveillance
Systematic reviews & meta-analyses
Bayesian networks
Novel epidemiological methods – machine learning, social network analysis, interactive & dynamic data visualisation tools

Neglected tropical diseases

Project	Funder	ID-NET team member(s)
Building Decision Support Systems to Combat Emerging Infectious Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Precision Public Health Approach (2021-2025)	NHMRC Investigator Grants	Colleen Lau (CIA)
Australian Centre for the Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ACE-NTD)	NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence	Colleen Lau (AI) Angela Cadavid Restrepo Helen Mayfield
Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Pacific: integration of programs to increase their impact	NHMRC Partnership Grant	Colleen Lau (CI)
SaMELFS: Surveillance and Monitoring to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis and Scabies from Samoa	Task Force for Global Health	Colleen Lau (CIA) Helen Mayfield
Transmission Strengthening Survey in American Samoa	Task Force for Global Health	Colleen Lau (CIA) Angela Cadavid Restrepo
Follow up of Mf positive people
Integrated Surveillance of Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Samoa	ACE-NTD NHMRC Centres for Research Excellence	Angela Cadavid Restrepo Colleen Lau Helen Mayfield
PoolTestR

Project	Funder	ID-NET team member(s)
Building Decision Support Systems to Combat Emerging Infectious Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Precision Public Health Approach (2021-2025)	NHMRC Investigator Grants	Colleen Lau (CIA)
CRISPER: COVID-19 Real-time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response.	APPRISE – an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence	Colleen Lau (CIA) Amalie Dyda Lisa McHugh
SMART (Towards Systematic Maturation of Analytics and System Redesign to Transform Healthcare and Public Health Research). Decision Support Tools for COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout.	UQ Stimulus Grants	Colleen Lau Amalie Dyda
Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL)	NHMRC Special Initiative in Human Health & Environmental Change	Colleen Lau (CI)
Mathematical Models of Diseases with Complex Transmission Routes	ARC Project Grants	Colleen Lau (CI)
Defining the pathogens, transmission characteristics, risk factors and geospatial hotspots of acute febrile illnesses in the Dominican Republic.	US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention	Colleen Lau (CI)

Project	Funder	ID-NET team member(s)
CoRiCal: COVID Risk Calculator Risk-benefit analysis of COVID-19 vaccines	Immunisation Coalition	Colleen Lau Helen Mayfield
SMART (Towards Systematic Maturation of Analytics and System Redesign to Transform Healthcare and Public Health Research). Decision Support Tools for COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout.	UQ Stimulus Grants	Colleen Lau Amalie Dyda
Japanese Encephalitis Vaccination via the IntraDermal route	International Society of Travel Medicine	Luis Furuya-Kanamori Deborah Mills Colleen Lau
Boostability of One priming dose IM Rabies vaccine especially in Senior age groups	Sanofi Pasteur	Deborah Mills Luis Furuya-Kanamori Colleen Lau
Travellers Rabies Intra Dermal Later testing & boosting	Sanofi Pasteur	Deborah Mills Luis Furuya-Kanamori Colleen Lau
Effect of multiple rabies booster doses in antibody titre level and recommended interval between booster doses for people with ongoing occupational exposure	CRESTMA	Deborah Mills Luis Furuya-Kanamori Colleen Lau
Links2HealthierBub: population-based data linkage project investigating the uptake, safety and effectiveness of vaccines in pregnancy	NHMRC Project Grant	Lisa McHugh (CI)