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.

Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:

Principal Supervisor

Location:

Darwin - Royal Darwin Hospital campus

Biography:

Professor Jane Davies is an infectious diseases physician, clinician-researcher, and hepatitis B and liver health innovator whose work has transformed care for First Nations peoples in Australia’s Northern Territory. She established and leads Hep B PAST (now Hep B PAST Plus), one of the first programs in Australia to successfully close the gap on a First Nations health outcome, delivering a culturally safe, community-centred model of care.

Her research has driven major improvements in hepatitis B and liver cancer outcomes, including a 71% increase in treatment uptake, a threefold improvement in survival following liver cancer diagnosis, and the Northern Territory becoming the only Australian jurisdiction to exceed national hepatitis B targets. Her work has directly informed national clinical guidelines and policy and is now endorsed for scale-up.

Professor Davies is Co-Director of Infectious Diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital and played a key leadership role in the Northern Territory’s COVID-19 response, advising the Chief Health Officer and Minister for Health. She has built long-standing partnerships with remote communities across the NT and leads collaborations across more than 18 organisations nationally.

Her work extends to building the Aboriginal health workforce and mentoring First Nations community researchers, demonstrating how equity-driven, community-led approaches can deliver sustained population-level impact. She has secured over $55 million in research funding and her work continues to inform policy and practice nationally and internationally.

  1. Davies, J., Li, S. Q., Tong, S. Y., Baird, R. W., Beaman, M., Higgins, G., Cowie, B. C., Condon, J. R., & Davis, J. S. (2017). Establishing contemporary trends in hepatitis B sero-epidemiology in an Indigenous population. PLOS ONE, 12(9), e0184082. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184082 
  2. Davies, J., Smith, E. L., Littlejohn, M., Edwards, R., Sozzi, V., Jackson, K., McGuire, K., Binks, P., Cowie, B., Locarnini, S., Davis, J. S., & Tong, S. Y. C. (2019). Towards genotype-specific care for chronic hepatitis B: The first 6 years of follow up from the CHARM cohort study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 6(11), ofz469. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz469 
  3. Hla, T. K., Bukulatjpi, S., Binks, P., Gurruwiwi, G. G., Dhurrkay, R. G., & Davies, J. (2020). A one stop liver shop approach improves the cascade of care for Aboriginal people: Results of a novel care delivery model. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01180-w 
  4. Hosking, K., Stewart, G., Mobsby, M., Skov, S., Zhao, Y., Su, J., Tong, S., Nihill, P., Davis, J., Connors, C., & Davies, J. (2020). Data linkage and computerized algorithmic coding to enhance individual clinical care for Aboriginal people living with chronic hepatitis B in the Northern Territory of Australia: Is it feasible? PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0232207. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232207 
  5. Hosking, K., Binks, P., de Santis, T., … Davis, J. S., Connors, C., & Davies, J., on behalf of the Hep B PAST Partnership. (2024). Evaluating a novel model of hepatitis B care, Hep B PAST, in the Northern Territory of Australia: Results from a prospective, population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, 48, 101116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101116
  6. Hosking, K., de Santis, T., Vintour-Cesar, E., Wilson, P. M., Bunn, L., Gurruwiwi, G. G., Wurrawilya, S., Bukulatjpi, S. M., Nelson, S., Ross, C., Binks, P., Schroder, P., Davis, J. S., Taylor, S., Connors, C., & Davies, J. (2023). “The most culturally safe training I’ve ever had”: The co-design of a culturally safe managing hepatitis B training course with and for the Aboriginal health workforce of the Northern Territory of Australia. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), 935. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2830413/v1
  7. Howell, J., Seaman, C., Wallace, J., Xiao, Y., Scott, N., Davies, J., de Santis, T., Adda, D., El-Sayed, M., Feld, J., Gane, E., Lacombe, K., Lesi, O., Mohamed, R., Silva, M., Tu, T., Revill, P., & Hellard, M. (2023). Pathway to global elimination of hepatitis B: HBV cure is just the first step. Hepatology, 78(3), 976–990. https://doi.org/10.1097/HEP.0000000000000430 
  8. Martin, G. E., Hosking, K., Banz, K., Gargan, C., Stewart, G., Greenwood-Smith, B., Ramsey, P., Tate-Baker, J., Connors, C., Binks, P., McKinnon, M., Manchikanti, P., Gurruwiwi, G. G., … Fuller, K., Tong, S. Y. C., Boettiger, D., Cowie, B., Davis, J. S., Bukulatjpi, S. M., & Davies, J. (2025). Disease progression and treatment need in sub-genotype C4 hepatitis B infection: A retrospective cohort study in the Northern Territory, Australia. BMC Infectious Diseases, 25(1), 881. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-11213-w
  9. Tong, S. Y. C., Lye, D. C., Yahav, D., Sud, A., Robinson, J. O., Nelson, J., Archuleta, S., Roberts, M. A., Cass, A., Paterson, D., … Davies, J., … O’Sullivan, M. V. N., & Davis, J. S. (2020). Effect of vancomycin or daptomycin with vs without an antistaphylococcal β-lactam on mortality, bacteremia, relapse, or treatment failure in patients with MRSA bacteremia: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 323(6). https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.0103
  10. Zhang, W., Kedzierski, L., Chua, B., Mayo, M., Lonzi, C., Rigas, V., Middleton, B., McQuilten, H., Rowntree, L., Allen, L., … Nguyen, T. H. O., Davies, J., & Kedzierska, K. (2023). Robust and prototypical immune responses toward COVID-19 vaccine in First Nations peoples are impacted by comorbidities. Nature Immunology, 24(6), 966–978. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01508-y 
Click here to view more Jane Davies publications in PubMed.
  1. MEDIA RELEASE | Leading Northern Territory program triples liver cancer survival rates for Aboriginal Territorians
  2. MEDIA RELEASE | Landmark study reveals hepatitis B risks for First Nations people in the NT
  3. MEDIA RELEASE | Nationally recognised hepatitis B tool now available in 11 languages
  4. Innovative Models of Care (IMOC) Program – Hep B PAST PLUS
  5. MEDIA RELEASE | Funding ‘REACT’ion: Menzies PhD student receives NHMRC Scholarship
  6. MEDIA RELEASE | Hep B program highlights expertise as CDU Menzies School of Medicine seeks more student placements in the NT
  7. MEDIA RELEASE | Flu vaccine elicits robust immune responses in Aboriginal and  Torres Strait Islander populations
  8. COVID-19 vaccination video in Kunwinjku
  9. Northern Territory: the little health system that could (beat COVID-19)
  10. AAMRI’s budget priority: secure the future of Australia’s next generation of talent
  11. Eliminating chronic hepatitis B in the NT
  12. Five medical research projects recognised in the Northern Territory
  13. $400 million funding boost for health and medical research
  14. Innovative data use an important step in eliminating hep B
  15. RDH set to trial cocktail of drugs
  16. Researcher profile | Thank you Dr Jane Davies
  17. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre supports new phone App
  18. Coronavirus assistance to Pacific and Timor-Leste
  19. Coronavirus assistance to Pacific and Timor-Leste
  20. CAMERA2: Standard MRSA treatment does not outperform combination therapy
  21. Trial shows using two drugs not better than one when treating MRSA blood infections
  22. Trial shows using two drugs not better than one when treating MRSA blood infections
  23. Study supports minimal monitoring in Sofosbuvir-based therapy for HCV
  24. ASID Annual Scientific Meeting deemed a success for NT
  25. Hepatitis B DNA Helps Trace History and Movement of First Australians
  26. Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements into Australia
  27. Dr Jane Davies - Higher Degrees by Research
  28. Chronic hepatitis B elimination partnership launched
  29. Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
  30. Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
  31. Chronic hepatitis B to be eliminated from the Northern Territory
  32. Medical Republic | Hep C subsidised treatment 2nd Anniversary
  33. ABC online | Elcho Island researchers bound for Alaska