News - Menzies

MEDIA RELEASE | Leading Northern Territory program triples liver cancer survival rates for Aboriginal Territorians

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December 15, 2025 - 10:00am

AMSANT and Menzies say a Territory-designed hepatitis B program (Hep B PAST) is showing evidence of transforming liver cancer outcomes for Aboriginal people - with survival rates now three times higher than in the mid-2000s.
MEDIA RELEASE | Landmark study reveals hepatitis B risks for First Nations people in the NT

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July 14, 2025 - 09:00am

Menzies has led the largest-ever study of people living with a unique strain of chronic hepatitis B (C4 hepatitis B) – which predominately affects First Nations Australians in the NT – uncovering significant impacts on liver health.
MEDIA RELEASE | Nationally recognised hepatitis B tool now available in 11 languages

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May 19, 2025 - 15:30pm

The Hep B Story App, a leading hepatitis B health education resource by Menzies is now available in 11 Aboriginal languages, with the recent addition of Wubuy and Murrinh Patha.
Innovative Models of Care (IMOC) Program – Hep B PAST PLUS

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July 12, 2024 - 11:00am

Menzies will deliver the Hep B PAST PLUS under the Innovative Models of Care Program to provide a co-designed approach to reducing liver disease in First Nations populations in northern Australia.
MEDIA RELEASE | Funding ‘REACT’ion: Menzies PhD student receives NHMRC Scholarship

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December 14, 2023 - 12:32pm

A prestigious NHMRC scholarship has been recently awarded to Menzies PhD student, Dr Emma Smith, to tackle tuberculosis in the Top End.
MEDIA RELEASE | Hep B program highlights expertise as CDU Menzies School of Medicine seeks more student placements in the NT

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August 16, 2023 - 10:15am

The CDU Menzies School of Medicine continues its momentum to advocate for the Australian Government to allocate 40 new placements for medical students in the Northern Territory.
MEDIA RELEASE | Flu vaccine elicits robust immune responses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations

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October 05, 2021 - 08:30am

For the first time, researchers have found the influenza vaccine to be just as effective in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as it is non-Indigenous people.
COVID-19 vaccination video in Kunwinjku

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May 17, 2021 - 11:30am

Jeanette Burrunali from the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre recently asked Dr Jane Davies lots of questions about the vaccine, questions that people want to know the answers to.
Northern Territory: the little health system that could (beat COVID-19)

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November 16, 2020 - 12:50pm

The Northern Territory has done as well as any health system in the country at flattening the COVID-19 curve. Dr Nick Douglas and his colleagues discuss with MJA how this was achieved.
AAMRI’s budget priority: secure the future of Australia’s next generation of talent

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August 03, 2020 - 12:00pm

Australian medical research institutes are raising the alarm about the precarious position facing our earlier-career scientists.
Eliminating chronic hepatitis B in the NT

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July 21, 2020 - 14:40pm

Senior clinical research fellow, Dr Jane Davies, has dedicated the past eight years to eliminating the burden of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the NT. CHB, a virus that causes inflammation of the liver, is endemic in communities. Approximately 25 per cent of cases lead to liver cancer and liver failure.
Five medical research projects recognised in the Northern Territory

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May 21, 2020 - 10:36am

Five researchers based at Menzies have received recognition in the form of Investigator Grants from the NHMRC and the MRFF.
$400 million funding boost for health and medical research

Date

May 20, 2020 - 16:04pm

Including Menzies School of Health Research work towards the elimination of chronic hepatitis B in the Northern Territory.
Innovative data use an important step in eliminating hep B

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April 29, 2020 - 12:30pm

A team of researchers in the Northern Territory (NT) have designed and tested a new algorithm to determine hepatitis B status.
RDH set to trial cocktail of drugs

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April 23, 2020 - 13:32pm

Menzies researcher and Co-director of infectious diseases at Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals Dr Jane Davies said the two drugs have shown promising signs of working to fight the virus in test tubes.
Researcher profile | Thank you Dr Jane Davies

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March 17, 2020 - 10:00am

Dr Jane Davies, was instrumental in establishing the Menzies collaborative hepatitis B research program in the Northern Territory. Dr Davies is also the co-Director of Infectious Diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH), and has been an integral part of...
Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre supports new phone App

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March 05, 2020 - 11:05am

Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin are making a new phone app about Hepatitis B in Kunwinjku language with help from the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre.
Coronavirus assistance to Pacific and Timor-Leste

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March 05, 2020 - 11:02am

Coronavirus [COVID-19] is now affecting 75 countries, with the total number of cases over 90,000 and the global death toll at more than 3000.
Coronavirus assistance to Pacific and Timor-Leste

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March 05, 2020 - 10:23am

Coronavirus [COVID-19] is now affecting 75 countries, with the total number of cases over 90,000 and the global death toll at more than 3000.
CAMERA2: Standard MRSA treatment does not outperform combination therapy

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February 24, 2020 - 11:35am

Standard treatment for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is not more efficacious than combination therapy, according to new research published in JAMA.
Trial shows using two drugs not better than one when treating MRSA blood infections

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February 12, 2020 - 14:34pm

Researchers attempting to improve the treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infections have discovered the combination of two antibiotics was no better than one, and led to more adverse effects.
Trial shows using two drugs not better than one when treating MRSA blood infections

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February 12, 2020 - 08:00am

Researchers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infections say combination of two antibiotics was no better than one.
Study supports minimal monitoring in Sofosbuvir-based therapy for HCV

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February 04, 2020 - 09:53am

Some patients receiving sofosbuvir-based therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) may not need standard monitoring with clinic visits and blood testing.
ASID Annual Scientific Meeting deemed a success for NT

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September 27, 2019 - 09:10am

The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) Annual Scientific Meeting 2019, held from 16–18 May, saw 450 attendees descend on the Darwin Convention Centre.
Hepatitis B DNA Helps Trace History and Movement of First Australians

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March 22, 2019 - 01:45am

The team found that hepatitis B virus isolated from these Aboriginal Australians is a unique strain called HBV/C4, which is not found anywhere else in the world.
Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements into Australia

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March 19, 2019 - 00:15am

Australian researchers have used current hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome sequences to deduce ancient human population movements into Australia, adding weight to the theory that the mainland Aboriginal population separated from other early humans at least 59 thousand years ago and possibly entered the country near the Tiwi Islands.
Dr Jane Davies - Higher Degrees by Research

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January 29, 2019 - 11:46am

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 and with communities in Tanzania, Malawi, England and the Northern Territory, Australia.
Chronic hepatitis B elimination partnership launched

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September 10, 2018 - 10:00am

A collaboration working to eliminate chronic hepatitis B (CHB) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Northern Territory (NT) is being launched by NT Health Minister the Hon Natasha Fyles.
Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities

Date

July 26, 2018 - 12:22pm

Menzies is doing its part to ensure more Indigenous Territorians have access to potentially life-saving information about hepatitis B this World Hepatitis Day.
Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities

Date

July 26, 2018 - 12:00pm

Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
Chronic hepatitis B to be eliminated from the Northern Territory

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May 08, 2018 - 09:00am

An important collaboration which will work to eliminate chronic hepatitis B (CHB) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Northern Territory (NT) has been established.
Medical Republic | Hep C subsidised treatment 2nd Anniversary

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March 20, 2018 - 15:39pm

It’s the second anniversary since the government subsidised the revolutionary treatments for hepatitis C, and tens of thousands of individuals were able to become free of the chronic disease.
ABC online | Elcho Island researchers bound for Alaska

Date

August 02, 2017 - 10:18am

Three community-based researchers from Elcho Island working with Menzies School of Health Research are bound for Alaska to present at an international viral hepatitis conference.

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