Nic Geard

Risk mapping for COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia using mobility data

Cameron Zachreson, Lewis Mitchell, Michael J Lydeamore, Nicolas Rebuli, Martin Tomko, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of the Royal Society Interface

COVID-19 is highly transmissible and containing outbreaks requires a rapid and effective response. Because infection may be spread..

The acceptability and uptake of smartphone tracking for COVID-19 in Australia

Paul M Garrett, Joshua P White, Stephan Lewandowsky, Yoshihisa Kashima, Andrew Perfors, Daniel R Little, Nic Geard, Lewis Mitchell, Martin Tomko, Simon Dennis

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLoS One

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Governments are instituting mobile tracking technologies to perform rapid contact traci..

Modelling the household-level impact of a maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in a high-income setting

Patricia T Campbell, Nicholas Geard, Alexandra B Hogan

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infects almost all children by the age of 2 years, with the risk of hospitalisation ..

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..

PoLoBag: Polynomial Lasso Bagging for signed gene regulatory network inference from expression data.

Gourab Ghosh Roy, Nicholas Geard, Karin Verspoor, Shan He

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioinformatics

MOTIVATION: Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from expression data is a significant systems biology problem. A useful infe..

Proportional multistate lifetable modelling of preventive interventions: concepts, code and worked examples

Tony Blakely, Rob Moss, James Collins, Anja Mizdrak, Ankur Singh, Natalie Carvalho, Nick Wilson, Nicholas Geard, Abraham Flaxman

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

Burden of Disease studies-such as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study-quantify health loss in disability-adjusted life-years...

Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection

Rebecca H Chisholm, Nikki Sonenberg, Jake A Lacey, Malcolm I McDonald, Manisha Pandey, Mark R Davies, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) skin infections are caused by a diverse array of strain types and are highly prevalent in disadvantage..

Longitudinal Analysis of Group A Streptococcus emm Types and emm Clusters in a High-Prevalence Setting: Relationship between Past and Future Infections.

Patricia Therese Campbell, Steven YC Tong, Nicholas Geard, Mark R Davies, Kate A Worthing, Jake A Lacey, Pierre R Smeesters, Michael R Batzloff, Joseph Kado, Adam WJ Jenney, Jodie Mcvernon, Andrew C Steer

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Infectious Diseases

Group A Streptococcus is a pathogen of global importance, but despite the ubiquity of group A Streptococcus infections, the relati..

Assessing the risk of spread of COVID-19 to the Asia Pacific region

Freya Shearer, James Walker, Nefel Tellioglu, James McCaw, Jodie McVernon, Andrew Black, Nic Geard

Journal article  |  2020

During the early stages of an emerging disease outbreak, governments are required to make critical decisions on how to respond app..

Profiling Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission and the resulting disease burden in the five highest tuberculosis burden countries

Romain Ragonnet, James M Trauer, Nicholas Geard, Nick Scott, Emma S McBryde

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) control efforts are hampered by an imperfect understanding of TB epidemiology. The true age distribu..