Investigators
- Professor Jonathan Carapetis
- Professor Asha Bowen
- Professor Paul Memmott
- Associate Professor Glenn Pearson
- Professor David Bloom
- Professor Anna Ralph
- Dr Mark Davies
- Dr Rosemary Wyber
- Dr Tim Barnett
- Associate Professor Nina Lansbury
- Dr Andrew Redmond
- Dr Rebecca Chisholm
- Pete Gething
- Associate Professor Andrea Beaton
- Associate Professor Kalinda Griffiths
- Aunty Vicki Wade
- Dr Jeffrey Cannon
- Professor Sandra Eades
- Professor Paul Torzillo
- Professor Alex Brown
External collaborators
- The University of Queensland
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Menzies School of Health Research
- Doherty Institute
- La Trobe University
- The University of Melbourne
- Cincinnatti Children's
- The University of Sydney
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
STARFISH
STopping Acute Rheumatic Fever Infections to Strengthen Health (STARFISH) brings together a diverse and multidisciplinary research team to investigate the most effective environmental health initiatives (EHIs) aimed at reducing Strep A infections and prevent Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF). STARFISH will produce evidence with embedded research translation to implement strategies that facilitate the prevention of ARF.
- Check4Strep: a co-designed community-based project to demonstrate where the Strep A is and how it’s being spread. This involves a series of community engagement days for target populations to have conversations about, and get tested for, Strep A.
- Exploring Healthy Living Practice 2 ‘Washing clothes and bedding’
- Mapping the growth of rural and remote community laundries in Australia and exploring barriers/enablers to household washing machine use
- Understanding Strep A and major skin pathogens on fabrics and in laundering
- Understanding the standards landscape for laundering in Australia
- Guidance about effective laundering in the remote Australian context
- 'Yarning about Washing' (Place-based yarns in the East Kimberley to hear what people think about washing practices)
- Improving primary care data use in communities to understand the effects of housing on health outcomes: Local clinics are key in managing housing-associated infectious diseases (HAIDs). This project is seeking to develop a tool to monitor HAIDs using routinely collected primary care (clinic) data so community-controlled health services can generate, interpret and use their own data.
- The Efficacy of Strep A self-swabbing (ESTA) Study aimed to undertake surveillance of those working in a medical research institute to determine the sensitivity of self-collected collected pharyngeal swabs for Strep A among asymptomatic carriers.
- Optimising targeted investigations of Strep A transmission and EHIs assessment: This project will develop an adaptable framework to identify the optimal design of Strep A and EHI studies, to easier identify elements of Strep A transmission pathways that can be targeted by EHIs to disrupt transmission.