James McCaw

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..

Modelling within-host macrophage dynamics in influenza virus infection

Ke Li, James M McCaw, Pengxing Cao

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Theoretical Biology

Human respiratory disease associated with influenza virus infection is of significant public health concern. Macrophages, as part ..

Antibody Dynamics for Plasmodium vivax Malaria: A Mathematical Model.

Somya Mehra, James M McCaw, Mark B Flegg, Peter G Taylor, Jennifer A Flegg

Journal article  |  2021  |  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that, despite intensive control and mitigation initiatives, continues to pose an enormous publ..

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..

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..

Influencing public health policy with data-informed mathematical models of infectious diseases: Recent developments and new challenges

Amani Alahmadi, Sarah Belet, Andrew Black, Deborah Cromer, Jennifer A Flegg, Thomas House, Pavithra Jayasundara, Jonathan M Keith, James M McCaw, Robert Moss, Joshua Ross, Freya M Shearer, Thein Than Tun Sai, James Walker, Lisa White, Jason M Whyte, Ada WC Yan, Alexander E Zarebski

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epidemics: the journal of infectious disease dynamics

Modern data and computational resources, coupled with algorithmic and theoretical advances to exploit these, allow disease dynamic..

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

Report  |  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..

Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies

Robin N Thompson, T Deirdre Hollingsworth, Valerie Isham, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Ben Ashby, Tom Britton, Peter Challenor, Lauren HK Chappell, Hannah Clapham, Nik J Cunniffe, A Philip Dawid, Christl A Donnelly, Rosalind M Eggo, Sebastian Funk, Nigel Gilbert, Paul Glendinning, Julia R Gog, William S Hart, Hans Heesterbeek, Thomas House, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Combinations of intense non-pharmaceutical interventions (lockdowns) were introduced worldwide to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. ..

Identifying and combating the impacts of COVID-19 on malaria

Stephen J Rogerson, James G Beeson, Moses Laman, Jeanne Rini Poespoprodjo, Timothy William, Julie A Simpson, Ric N Price

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of infections, hundreds of thousands of deaths and major societal disru..

An Activation-Clearance Model for Plasmodium vivax Malaria

Somya Mehra, James M McCaw, Mark B Flegg, Peter G Taylor, Jennifer A Flegg

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Malaria is an infectious disease with an immense global health burden. Plasmodium vivax is the most geographically widespread spec..