Freya Shearer

Development of an influenza pandemic decision support tool linking situational analytics to national response policy.

Freya M Shearer, Robert Moss, David J Price, Alexander E Zarebski, Peter G Ballard, Jodie McVernon, Joshua V Ross, James M McCaw

Journal article  |  2021  |  Epidemics: the journal of infectious disease dynamics

National influenza pandemic plans have evolved substantially over recent decades, as has the scientific research that underpins th..

Promoting Resilience While Mitigating Disease Transmission: An Australian COVID-19 Study

Freya M Shearer, Niamh Meagher, Katitza Marinkovic Chavez, Lauren Carpenter, Alana Pirrone, Phoebe Quinn, Eva Alisic, James M McCaw, Colin MacDougall, David J Price, Lisa Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2021

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..

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

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

Journal article  |  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..

A need to raise the bar - A systematic review of temporal trends in diagnostics for Japanese encephalitis virus infection, and perspectives for future research.

Tehmina Bharucha, Freya M Shearer, Manivanh Vongsouvath, Mayfong Mayxay, Xavier de Lamballerie, Paul N Newton, Nicole Zitzmann, Ernest Gould, Audrey Dubot-Pérès

Journal article  |  2020  |  Int J Infect Dis

OBJECTIVE: Japanese encephalitis virus infection (JE) remains a leading cause of neurological disease in Asia, mainly involving in..

Distancing measures in the face of COVID-19 in Australia Summary of national survey findings

Freya Shearer, Lisa Gibbs, Eva Alisic, Katitza Marinkovic, Niamh Meagher, Phoebe Quinn, Lauren Carpenter, Colin MacDougall, David Price

Report  |  2020

Modelling the impact of COVID-19 in Australia to inform transmission reducing measures and health system preparedness

R Moss, J Wood, D Brown, F Shearer, AJ Black, AC Cheng, JM McCaw, J McVernon

Journal article  |  2020

ABSTRACT Background The ability of global health systems to cope with increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases is of major concern. In..

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..

Levels of Human Immunodeficiency Virus DNA Are Determined Before ART Initiation and Linked to CD8 T-Cell Activation and Memory Expansion

Genevieve E Martin, Matthew Pace, Freya M Shearer, Eva Zilber, Jacob Hurst, Jodi Meyerowitz, John P Thornhill, Julianne Lwanga, Helen Brown, Nicola Robinson, Emily Hopkins, Natalia Olejniczak, Nneka Nwokolo, Julie Fox, Sarah Fidler, Christian B Willberg, John Frater

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in early compared with chronic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associat..