Current Projects:
- The Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
- The Non-Expert Acquisition and Remote Expert Review of Screening echocardiography images from Child health and AnteNatal clinics (NEARER SCAN) study - MRFF Cardiovascular health Grant
- Two Hearts Beat study – Doctoral research
- Social and Emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart disease: Beyond the physical scars
- Searching for a Technology-Driven Acute Rheumatic Fever Test' (START)
- STopping Acute Rheumatic Fever Infections to Strengthen Health (STARFISH)
- Early detection and treatment of rheumatic heart disease in high risk communities using community led approaches for active case finding, education and engagement in care.
Past Projects:
- SP Plus: An expanded model of secondary prevention for individuals with rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease and their families
- Pedriño Study
- On Track Watch (OTW): ‘A Grassroots Rheumatic Heart Disease Initiative in the Northern Territory’
- Evaluating the genetic contribution to RHD pathogenesis in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Identifying a unique inflammatory signature in ARF – a pilot study
- Improving delivery of secondary prophylaxis for RHD: a stepped-wedge, community-randomised trial
- RHD in pregnancy
- Analysis of mortality trends for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and rheumatic fever in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Echocardiographic screening for RHD by nurses in Fiji – testing of a training module
- The global burden of disease study 2010: RHD writing group
- gECHO study (RHD screening study)
- Reducing rheumatic fever and controlling RHD in Pacific Island Nations