Belinda Hengel

Roadmap to incorporating group A Streptococcus molecular point-of-care testing for remote Australia: a key activity to eliminate rheumatic heart disease

Dylan D Barth, Gelsa Cinanni, Jonathan R Carapetis, Rosemary Wyber, Louise Causer, Caroline Watts, Belinda Hengel, Susan Matthews, Anna P Ralph, Janessa Pickering, Jeffrey W Cannon, Lorraine Anderson, Vicki Wade, Rebecca J Guy, Asha C Bowen

Journal article  |  2022  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

INCREASING TRENDS OF INFECTIOUS SYPHILIS IN WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE IN AUSTRALIA

B Hengel, L Causer, A Bright, H McManus, S McGregor, B Donovan, J Ward, R Guy

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

FROM TRIAL TO PROGRAM: TTANGO2 SCALE-UP AND IMPLEMENTATION SUSTAINS STI POINT-OF-CARE TESTING IN REGIONAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL HEALTH SERVICES

L Causer, L Watchirs-Smith, A Saha, H Wand, K Smith, S Badman, B Hengel, K Andrewartha, J Richards, A Tangey, K Hawkett, C Carroll, S O'Connor, R Marshal-Lang, E Moore, M Shephard, R Guy

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

A decentralised point-of-care testing model to address inequities in the COVID-19 response

Belinda Hengel, Louise Causer, Susan Matthews, Kirsty Smith, Kelly Andrewartha, Steven Badman, Brooke Spaeth, Annie Tangey, Phillip Cunningham, Amit Saha, Emily Phillips, James Ward, Caroline Watts, Jonathan King, Tanya Applegate, Mark Shephard, Rebecca Guy

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The COVID-19 pandemic is growing rapidly, with over 37 million cases and more than 1 million deaths reported by mid-October, 2020,..

A New National STI and BBV Surveillance System for Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services

James Ward, Clare Bradley, Basil Donovan, Belinda Hengel, Salenna Elliott

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Population Data Science

IntroductionAboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) routinely collect sexually transmissible infection (STI) and ..

Establishment of a sentinel surveillance network for sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Aboriginal primary care services across Australia: the ATLAS project

Clare Bradley, Belinda Hengel, Katy Crawford, Salenna Elliott, Basil Donovan, Donna B Mak, Barbara Nattabi, David Johnson, Rebecca Guy, Christopher K Fairley, Handan Wand, James Ward

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: Sexually transmissible infection (STI) and blood-borne virus (BBV) diagnoses data are a core component of the Australi..

Population-level diagnosis and care cascade for chlamydia in Australia

Richard T Gray, Denton Callander, Jane S Hocking, Skye McGregor, Hamish McManus, Amalie Dyda, Clarissa Moreira, Sabine Braat, Belinda Hengel, James Ward, David P Wilson, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor, Rebecca J Guy

Journal article  |  2020  |  SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

OBJECTIVES: Key strategies to control chlamydia include testing, treatment, partner management and re-testing. We developed a diag..

Setting the record straight: sexually transmissible infections and sexual abuse in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

James S Ward, Belinda Hengel, Donna Ah Chee, Olga Havnen, John D Boffa

Journal article  |  2020  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

Strategies to improve control of sexually transmissible infections in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial

James Ward, Rebecca J Guy, Alice R Rumbold, Skye McGregor, Handan Wand, Hamish McManus, Amalie Dyda, Linda Garton, Belinda Hengel, Bronwyn J Silver, Debbie Taylor-Thomson, Janet Knox, Basil Donovan, Matthew Law, Lisa Maher, Christopher K Fairley, Steven Skov, Nathan Ryder, Elizabeth Moore, Jacqueline Mein, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Remote Australian Aboriginal communities have among the highest diagnosed rates of sexually transmissible infections (..

Molecular point-of-care testing for chlamydia and gonorrhoea in Indigenous Australians attending remote primary health services (TTANGO): a cluster-randomised, controlled, crossover trial

Rebecca J Guy, James Ward, Louise M Causer, Lisa Natoli, Steven G Badman, Annie Tangey, Belinda Hengel, Handan Wand, David Whiley, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Mark Shephard, Christopher K Fairley, Basil Donovan, David A Anderson, David G Regan, Lisa Maher, John M Kaldor

Journal article  |  2018  |  LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

BACKGROUND: Timely diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmissible infections will prevent morbidity and onward transmission. We..