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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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].
  10. 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.
Click here to view more Jane Davies publications in PubMed.
  1. MEDIA RELEASE | Nationally recognised hepatitis B tool now available in 11 languages
  2. MEDIA RELEASE | Funding ‘REACT’ion: Menzies PhD student receives NHMRC Scholarship
  3. MEDIA RELEASE | Hep B program highlights expertise as CDU Menzies School of Medicine seeks more student placements in the NT
  4. MEDIA RELEASE | Flu vaccine elicits robust immune responses in Aboriginal and  Torres Strait Islander populations
  5. COVID-19 vaccination video in Kunwinjku
  6. Northern Territory: the little health system that could (beat COVID-19)
  7. AAMRI’s budget priority: secure the future of Australia’s next generation of talent
  8. Eliminating chronic hepatitis B in the NT
  9. Five medical research projects recognised in the Northern Territory
  10. $400 million funding boost for health and medical research
  11. Innovative data use an important step in eliminating hep B
  12. RDH set to trial cocktail of drugs
  13. Researcher profile | Thank you Dr Jane Davies
  14. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre supports new phone App
  15. Coronavirus assistance to Pacific and Timor-Leste
  16. Coronavirus assistance to Pacific and Timor-Leste
  17. CAMERA2: Standard MRSA treatment does not outperform combination therapy
  18. Trial shows using two drugs not better than one when treating MRSA blood infections
  19. Trial shows using two drugs not better than one when treating MRSA blood infections
  20. Study supports minimal monitoring in Sofosbuvir-based therapy for HCV
  21. ASID Annual Scientific Meeting deemed a success for NT
  22. Hepatitis B DNA Helps Trace History and Movement of First Australians
  23. Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements into Australia
  24. Dr Jane Davies - Higher Degrees by Research
  25. Chronic hepatitis B elimination partnership launched
  26. Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
  27. Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
  28. Chronic hepatitis B to be eliminated from the Northern Territory
  29. Medical Republic | Hep C subsidised treatment 2nd Anniversary
  30. ABC online | Elcho Island researchers bound for Alaska