HOT NORTH promotes a number of activities that promote the improvement of health outcomes across the tropical north of Australia. The first three years of funding has provided for the establishment of 97 pilot/translation projects and funded individual fellowships, scholarships, and Indigenous Development and Training Awards for researchers and health professionals. The funded researchers have formed collaborations…
Dr Dagmar Steiger
Can mosquito excreta be used to enhance detection of Australian vector-borne diseases?
Testing for presence of arboviruses usually involves capturing wild mosquitoes and complicated laboratory analyses. These ...
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Dr Karla Canuto
Torres Strait Healthy Young Women’s Project
This project aims to facilitate the co-design of a healthy lifestyle program for young Aboriginal ...
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Dr Matt Grigg
Epidemiology and treatment of malaria in Sabah, Malaysia: longitudinal patterns of disease, acquisition risk factors, antimalarial drug resistance, and adjunctive therapy for acute kidney injury
Malaria elimination goals in Southeast Asia are under threat by the spread of drug resistant ...
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