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The practice of using race or ethnicity in medicine to explain differences between individuals is being called into question because it may contribute to biased medical care and research that perpetuates health disparities and structural racism.

Lung function measures in a health, unsedated 1- and 2-year-old children in a South African birth cohort study

This sub-project will be using ORIGINS data to explore the risk and protective factors of obesity from birth to early childhood.

Benzathine penicillin G (BPG) is used as first-line treatment for most forms of syphilis and as secondary prophylaxis against rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Perceptions that poor quality of BPG is linked to reported adverse effects and therapeutic failure may impact syphilis and RHD control programs. Clinical networks and web-based advertising were used to obtain vials of BPG from a wide range of countries.

This article discusses the rising prevalence of pertussis disease in countries which have switched to acellular vaccines.

This paper reports the results from the safety surveillance of influenza vaccines in children in Australia, in 2015.

Parents interpreted pivotal vaccine-related events in the community as requiring them to take personal responsibility for vaccine decisions

The current prophylactic treatment to prevent rheumatic heart disease requires four-weekly intramuscular injection of a suspension of the poorly soluble benzathine salt form of penicillin G (BPG) often for more than 10 years. In seeking to reduce the frequency of administration to improve adherence, biodegradable polymer matrices have been investigated.

Learn more about the background and motivations of END RHD CRE Research Fellow Simone Reynolds.

Tom Snelling BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research 08 6319 1817 tom.snelling@thekids.org.au Head,