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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
