Karen McCulloch

Modelling jurisdictional disparities in the cascade of care for chronic hepatitis B in Australia: impact of treatment uptake on mortality.

Karen McCulloch, Nicole Romero, Nicole Allard, Jennifer H MacLachlan, Benjamin C Cowie

Journal article  |  2023  |  Aust N Z J Public Health

OBJECTIVE: Investigate the cascade of care for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and estimate impacts of increasing treatment uptake on at..

Contribution of socio-economic factors in the spread of antimicrobial resistant infections in Australian primary healthcare clinics

Teresa M Wozniak, Will Cuningham, Katie Ledingham, Karen McCulloch

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

OBJECTIVES: To effectively contain antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections, we must better understand the social determinates of ..

Geospatial modeling of pre-intervention nodule prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in Ethiopia as an aid to onchocerciasis elimination

Himal Shrestha, Karen McCulloch, Shannon M Hedtke, Warwick N Grant

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis is a neglected tropical filarial disease transmitted by the bites of blackflies, causing blindness and ..

The price tag of a potential cure for chronic hepatitis B infection: A cost threshold analysis for USA, China and Australia

Mehlika Toy, David Hutton, Karen McCulloch, Nicole Romero, Peter A Revill, M-Capucine Penicaud, Samuel So, Benjamin C Cowie

Journal article  |  2021  |  LIVER INTERNATIONAL

BACKGROUND & AIMS: We aim to capture the economic impact of a potential cure for chronic hepatitis B infection (CHB) in three coun..

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..

Modeling Progress Toward Elimination of Hepatitis B in Australia

Karen McCulloch, Nicole Romero, Jennifer MacLachlan, Nicole Allard, Benjamin Cowie

Journal article  |  2020  |  HEPATOLOGY

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a significant global health concern, and the most prevalent blood-borne virus in..

Enhancing the hepatitis B care cascade in Australia: A cost-effectiveness model

Yinzong Xiao, Jessica Howell, Caroline van Gemert, Alexander J Thompson, Christopher P Seaman, Karen McCulloch, Nick Scott, Margaret E Hellard

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS

If Australia is to successfully eliminate hepatitis B as a public health threat, it will need to enhance the chronic hepatitis B (..

Generalised probability mass function for the final epidemic size of an SIR model on a line of triangles network

Karen McCulloch, Mick G Roberts, Carlo R Laing

Journal article  |  2019  |  MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

We explore the feasibility of deriving generalised expressions for the probability mass function (PMF) of the final epidemic size ..

National Surveillance for Hepatitis B Indicators 2017

Nicole Romero, Karen McCulloch, Nicole Allard, Jennifer Maclachlan, Benjamin Cowie

Report  |  2019

O24 Updating estimates describing the burden of hepatitis B in Australia.

K McCulloch, N Romero, N Allard, K Carville, J MacLachlan, B Cowie

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Virus Eradication