Health Protection
Our group works collaboratively with partners to provide evidence for best practice in Health Protection for the investigation and management of public health risks, such as outbreaks of communicable disease and environmental hazards.
With a focus on providing evidence for best practice in Health Protection, our research includes analysis of Health Protection datasets; using data linkage to answers key public health questions; translation of microbial genomics for public health surveillance purposes; and surveillance and reporting of antimicrobial resistance.
Expertise
- Communicable disease epidemiology and surveillance
- Microbial genomics
- Public health surveillance methods
- Data linkage
- Environmental health
- Antimicrobial resistance surveillance and reporting
Projects
- An Evidence-Based Framework for Establishing Microbial Public Health Genomics in Australia
- PPHAGE: Precision Public Health in Australia through Integrated Pathogen Genomics
- Australian hepatitis B and hepatitis C duplicate notifications linkage project
- Liver cancer prevention: linking viral hepatitis diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes
- COVID-19 in Tasmania: using genomics to describe the epidemiology of cases
- Cohort study of COVID-19 outbreak amongst healthcare workers in North West Tasmania
- COVID-19 amongst healthcare workers in North West Tasmania Antibody and Cell Mediated Immunity study
- Climate change
Group Leader(s)
Affiliation
Public Health Program
Contact
Group members
- Associate Professor Michelle McPherson, staff
- Dr Silvana Bettiol, staff
Additional Information
Our Group teaches the Graduate Certificate in Health Protection, see:
https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/chm/courses/h5p-graduate-certificate-in-health-protection
We also offer short courses on Outbreak Management. These courses provide essential background to people working within local, state, national or international government, hospital staff, residential care staff, non-government agencies, and emergency response workers. Attendees learn the skills and knowledge required to respond to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health incidents.