Jodie McVernon

Ensemble model for estimating continental-scale patterns of human movement: a case study of Australia

Karen McCulloch, Nick Golding, Jodie McVernon, Sarah Goodwin, Martin Tomko

Journal article  |  2021  |  Scientific Reports

Understanding human movement patterns at local, national and international scales is critical in a range of fields, including tran..

How should we conduct pandemic vaccination?

Jane Williams, Chris Degeling, Jodie McVernon, Angus Dawson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Vaccine

Vaccination plays an important role in pandemic planning and response. The possibility of developing an effective vaccine for a no..

Constructing an ethical framework for priority allocation of pandemic vaccines

J Fielding, SG Sullivan, F Beard, K Macartney, J Williams, A Dawson, GL Gilbert, P Massey, K Crooks, R Moss, JM McCaw, J McVernon

Journal article  |  2021  |  Vaccine

BACKGROUND: Allocation of scarce resources during a pandemic extends to the allocation of vaccines when they eventually become ava..

Priority allocation of pandemic influenza vaccines in Australia - Recommendations of 3 community juries

C Degeling, J Williams, SM Carter, R Moss, P Massey, GL Gilbert, P Shih, A Braunack-Mayer, K Crooks, D Brown, J McVernon

Journal article  |  2021  |  Vaccine

BACKGROUND: Pandemic planning has historically been oriented to respond to an influenza virus, with vaccination strategy being a k..

Coronavirus Disease Model to Inform Transmission -Reducing Measures and Health System Preparedness, Australia

Robert Moss, James Wood, Damien Brown, Freya M Shearer, Andrew J Black, Kathryn Glass, Allen C Cheng, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2020  |  Emerging Infectious Diseases

The ability of health systems to cope with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases is of major concern. In preparation, we used clini..

A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases

Rebecca H Chisholm, Bradley Crammond, Yue Wu, Asha C Bowen, Patricia T Campbell, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020  |  PeerJ

Households are known to be high-risk locations for the transmission of communicable diseases. Numerous modelling studies have demo..

Estimation of the force of infection and infectious period of skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data

Michael J Lydeamore, Patricia T Campbell, David J Price, Yue Wu, Adrian J Marcato, Will Cuningham, Jonathan R Carapetis, Ross M Andrews, Malcolm McDonald, Jodie McVernon, Steven YC Tong, James M McCaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS Computational Biology

Prevalence of impetigo (skin sores) remains high in remote Australian Aboriginal communities, Fiji, and other areas of socio-econo..

Early analysis of the Australian COVID-19 epidemic

David J Price, Freya M Shearer, Michael T Meehan, Emma McBryde, Robert Moss, Nick Golding, Eamon J Conway, Peter Dawson, Deborah Cromer, James Wood, Sam Abbott, Jodie McVernon, James M McCaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  eLife

As of 1 May 2020, there had been 6808 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. Of these, 98 had died from the disease. The epidem..

Antimicrobial stewardship in remote primary healthcare across northern Australia

Will Cuningham, Lorraine Anderson, Asha C Bowen, Kirsty Buising, Christine Connors, Kathryn Daveson, Joanna Martin, Stacey McNamara, Bhavini Patel, Rodney James, John Shanks, Kerr Wright, Trent Yarwood, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2020  |  PeerJ

Background: The high burden of infectious disease and associated antimicrobial use likely contribute to the emergence of antimicro..

A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases

Rebecca Chisholm, Bradley Crammond, Yue Wu, Asha Bowen, Patricia Campbell, Steven Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020

ABSTRACT Households are known to be high-risk locations for the transmission of communicable diseases. Numerous modelling studies ..