Sheena Sullivan

Uptake, barriers and correlates of influenza vaccination among people who inject drugs in Australia

Olivia Price, Paul Dietze, Sheena G Sullivan, Caroline Salom, Amy Peacock

Journal article  |  2021  |  DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

BACKGROUND: Comorbid chronic health conditions place people who inject drugs (PWID) at risk of severe health outcomes after influe..

Excess respiratory mortality and hospitalizations associated with influenza in Australia, 2007-2015.

Vivian KY Leung, Jessica Y Wong, Roseanne Barnes, Joel Kelso, George J Milne, Christopher C Blyth, Benjamin J Cowling, Hannah C Moore, Sheena G Sullivan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Epidemiol

BACKGROUND: Influenza is the most common vaccine-preventable disease in Australia, causing significant morbidity and mortality. We..

Changes in infection-related hospitalizations in children following pandemic restrictions: an interrupted time-series analysis of total population data.

Isobel MF Todd, Jessica E Miller, Stacey L Rowe, David P Burgner, Sheena G Sullivan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Epidemiol

BACKGROUND: Infectious diseases are a leading cause of hospitalization during childhood. The various mitigation strategies impleme..

Symptoms and laboratory manifestations of mild COVID-19 in a repatriated cruise ship cohort

CR Bailie, L Franklin, S Nicholson, F Mordant, C Alpren, T Stewart, C Barnes, A Fox, J Druce, K Subbarao, M Catton, A van Diemen, SG Sullivan

Journal article  |  2021  |  EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Much of our current understanding about novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) comes from hospitalised patients. However, the s..

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..

Decreased influenza activity during the COVID-19 pandemic-United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020

Sonja J Olsen, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Alicia P Budd, Lynnette Brammer, Sheena Sullivan, Rodrigo F Pineda, Cheryl Cohen, Alicia M Fry

Journal article  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

Where has all the influenza gone? The impact of COVID-19 on the circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses, Australia, March to September 2020

Sheena G Sullivan, Sandra Carlson, Allen C Cheng, Monique BN Chilver, Dominic E Dwyer, Melissa Irwin, Jen Kok, Kristine Macartney, Jennifer MacLachlan, Cara Minney-Smith, David Smith, Nigel Stocks, Janette Taylor, Ian G Barr

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROSURVEILLANCE

The coronavirus disease pandemic was declared in March 2020, as the southern hemisphere's winter approached. Australia expected co..

A randomised trial of two 2-dose influenza vaccination strategies for patients following autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Benjamin W Teh, Vivian KY Leung, Francesca L Mordant, Sheena G Sullivan, Trish Joyce, Simon J Harrison, Arseniy Khvorov, Ian G Barr, Kanta Subbarao, Monica A Slavin, Leon J Worth

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clin Infect Dis

BACKGROUND: Seroprotection and seroconversion rates are not well understood for 2-dose inactivated influenza vaccination (IIV) sch..

The Need for Robust Epidemiological Evidence During a Pandemic

Sheena G Sullivan

Journal article  |  2020  |  CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Decreased Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020

Sonja J Olsen, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Alicia P Budd, Lynnette Brammer, Sheena Sullivan, Rodrigo Fasce Pineda, Cheryl Cohen, Alicia M Fry

Journal article  |  2020  |  MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

After recognition of widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), b..