Associate Professor Jane Davies
Principal Research Fellow
Qualifications:
PhD, Charles Darwin University, 2016; Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Clinical Practice, University of Chester, 2009; Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2007; Member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), 2006; MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, 2002.
Location:
Darwin - Royal Darwin Hospital campus
Biography:
Dr Davies is a clinical researcher with over ten years’ experience in the area of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Dr Davies has an extensive clinical background in these areas including working in communities in Tanzania, Malawi, England.
Northern Territory, Australia. Dr Davies was awarded her PhD in 2016 which centred on Hepatitis B in the Northern Territory (NT) with a particular focus on Indigenous Australians.
She was instrumental in establishing and is now co-leader of the collaborative hepatitis B research program based at Menzies. Her research incorporates clinical and molecular epidemiology as well as health education for Indigenous communities. She also works clinically as an Infectious Diseases and General Medicine specialist physician at Royal Darwin Hospital.
Research Themes
- Hep B PAST partnership
- PROLIFICA - NT
- BAMBI
- Galiwin’ku sero-survey – Establishing the size of the problem in Galiwin’ku – “Know your Hep B Status”
- A novel Hepatitis B virus genotype in Indigenous Australians: impact on vaccine efficacy and clinical outcomes – a data linkage study
- The Changing Epidemiology of Hepatitis B in the Northern Territory
- Hepatitis B in the Top End of the Northern Territory: health literacy among those affected and innovative ways to improve it
- Looking into influenza T cell immunity - LIFT
- CAMERA2 Combination Antibiotic Therapy for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus infection.
- CHARM - Characterising Hepatitis B in northern Australia through molecular epidemiology
- Littlejohn, M., Davies, J., Yuen, L., Edwards, R., Sozzi, T., Jackson, K., et al. (2014). Molecular Virology of Hepatitis B virus Sub-Genotype C4 in Northern Australian Indigenous Population. Journal of Medical Virology, 4(86), 695-706.
- Davies, J., Majumdar, S.S., Forbes, R., Smith, P., Currie, B., & Baird, R. (2013). Hookworm in the Northern Territory: down but not out. Medical Journal of Australia,198(5), 278-281.
- Davies, J., Littlejohn, M., Locarnini, S., Whiting, S., Hajkowicz, K., Cowie, B., et al. T (2013). The molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis B in the Indigenous people of northern Australia. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 28,1234-1241.
- Davies, J, Tong SYC, Hajkowicz K, Bowden S, Locarnini S, & Davis JS. (2013). Hepatitis D is rare or non-existent in hepatitis B virus infected Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 37(2),188-189.
- Henman, K., Gordon, C., Gardiner, T., Thorn, J., Spain, B., Davies, J., & Baird, R.(2012). Surgical Site Infections Following Caesarean Section at Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory. Healthcare Infection, 17, 47-51.
- Davies, J.*, Gordon, C.*, Tong, S., Baird, R. & Davis, J. (2012). Impact of Results of a Rapid Staphylococcus aureus Diagnostic Test on Prescribing of Antibiotics for Patients with Clustered Gram-Positive Cocci in Blood cultures. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 50(6), 2056-2058.
- Davies, J., Jabbar, Z., Gagan, F., & Baird, R.W. (2012). Blood Borne Viruses in the haemodialysis dependent population attending Top End Northern Territory facilities 2000-2009. Nephrology, 17, 501-507.
- Van der Maaten, G.C., Davies ,J., Nyirenda, M., Chitani, A., Allain, T.J., Beeching, N.J., Beadsworth, M.B.J., & van Oosterhout, J.J. (2011). HIV post exposure prophylaxis programmes in the developed and developing world: can we learn from each other? International Journal of STD & AIDS, 22(12), 751-752.
- Moore, E., Beadsworth, M.B.J., Chaponda, M., Mhango, B., Faragher, B., Njala, J., Hofland, H.W.C, Davies, J., et al. (2010). Favourable one-year ART outcomes in adult Malawians with Hepatitis B and C co-infection. Journal of Infection, 61(2),155-63. [Epub 2010 May 12].
- Davies, J., van Oosterhout, J.J., Nyirenda, M., Bowden, J., Moore, E., Hart, I.J., et al. (2010). Reliability of rapid testing for hepatitis B in a region of high HIV endemicity. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104(2), 162-164.
