Capacity building
National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship
Project leaders(s): Associate Professor Kirsty Buising, Professor Karin Thursky, Dr Rodney James
Collaborator(s): Port Moresby General Hospital
Antimicrobial use surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship capacity building.
Identifying antibody responses that protect pregnant women from malaria
Rogerson group
Project leader(s): Professor Stephen Rogerson
Collaborator(s): Institute of Medical Research (Goroka)
Funding: National Health and Medicine Research Council,
We are using blood plasma and DNA collected from pregnant women in PNG to identify antibody responses and antibody gene mutations that are associated with protection from malaria in pregnant women.