Collaborators
Biggs group
Project leader(s): Professor Beverley-Ann Biggs
Collaborator(s): Research and Training Centre for Community Development, Hanoi
Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council
The Biggs group collaborators with Research and Training Centre for Community Development on the Learning Clubs project.
Capacity building
National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship
Project leaders(s): Associate Professor Kirsty Buising, Professor Karin Thursky, Dr Rodney James
Collaborator(s): Vietnam Ministry of Health
Antimicrobial use surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship capacity building.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis
WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis
Project leader(s): Associate Professor Benjamin Cowie
Collaborator(s): World Health Organisation, WHO Western Pacific Region, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis provides:
- Diagnostic testing surveillance
- Advocacy
- Education
- Workshops
- Training
- Policy advice
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Needs and situational assessments
- Laboratory analysis
Understanding influenza epidemiology
Fox-Marsh group
Project Leader(s): Dr Annette Fox-Marsh
Collaborator(s): Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi Medical University
Funding: National Institutes of Health, National Health and Medical Research Council
This project looks to understand influenza epidemiology and how past immunity alters response to infection and immunity.
Partner twinning programme with Pasteur Institute Nha Trang
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Project leader(s): Dr Julian Druce
Collaborator(s): Pasteur Institute Nha Trang
The VIDRL-Nha Trang Pasteu Institue (NTPI) relationship stemmed from an AUSAID funded project around Avian Influenza in 2009. The relationship with support, mentoring and capacity building has remained since then.
Incentives for early declaration and effective prevention of avian influenza in the Mekong
McVernon group and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Project leader(s): Professor Jodie McVernon
Collaborator(s): Nossal Institute for Global Health; NIPH Cambodia; Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute; Pasteur Institute (Vietnam); Health Strategy and Policy Institute (Vietnam); Hanoi University of Public Health (Vietnam)
Funding: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
This collaboration with the Nossal Institute seeks to apply insights from human health systems development to the strengthening of veterinary health systems in Greater Mekong Subregion countries, to enhance early reporting of animal infections and reduce the risks of zoonotic disease.
The interaction between the host and pathogen genetics in susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis
Dunstan group
Project leader(s): Dr Sarah Dunstan
Collaborator(s): Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Genome Institute of Singapore; National University of Singapore
People infected with the bacteria causing tuberculosis (TB) have different clinical fates. Some people remain well with dormant infections, some get lung disease and survive, others die. We are investigating the interplay between the human host and the bacteria causing disease by identifying genetic variants in both. This will enable us to determine what is important in the defence against this disease. Knowledge of the different TB disease processes is critical for future rational design of new TB vaccines and treatments.