Research Topics
| M E HellardSummaryAffiliation: Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health Country: Australia Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
A systematic examination of the use of online social networking sites for sexual health promotionJudy Gold
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:583. 2011..The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which SNSs are currently being used for sexual health promotion and describe the breadth of these activities...- The Australian national binge drinking campaign: campaign recognition among young people at a music festival who report risky drinkingCaroline van Gemert
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:482. 2011.... - Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival--who will pee and post?Rachel Sacks-Davis
Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:376. 2010..Home-based chlamydia testing has been piloted in several countries to increase testing rates, but uptake has been low. We aimed to identify predictors of uptake of home-based chlamydia testing to inform future testing programs... - Incentive payments to general practitioners aimed at increasing opportunistic testing of young women for chlamydia: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trialJade E Bilardi
Sexual Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:70. 2010..The aim of this pilot study was to determine if offering general practitioners (GP) a small incentive payment per test would increase chlamydia testing in women aged 16 to 24 years, attending general practice... - What's in a message? Delivering sexual health promotion to young people in Australia via text messagingJudy Gold
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:792. 2010.... - Sex and sport: chlamydia screening in rural sporting clubsFabian Y S Kong
Centre for Population Health, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, 85 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
BMC Infect Dis 9:73. 2009.... - HIV in prison: what are the risks and what can be done?M E Hellard
Epidemiology and Social Research Program, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Sex Health 1:107-13. 2004..Public health policy must involve all sections of the community, including prison inmates, if we are to reduce transmission of HIV and other BBVs... - Tattooing in prisons--not such a pretty pictureMargaret E Hellard
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Am J Infect Control 35:477-80. 2007..It occurs in a setting where a high proportion of people are already infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other BBVs... - The prevalence and risk behaviours associated with the transmission of blood-borne viruses among ethnic-Vietnamese injecting drug usersMargaret E Hellard
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, GPO Box 2284, Melbourne, Victoria 3001
Aust N Z J Public Health 30:519-25. 2006..To measure the prevalence and determinants of blood-borne virus (BBV) transmission in ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users (IDUs)... - Hepatitis C treatment for injection drug users: a review of the available evidenceMargaret Hellard
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Clin Infect Dis 49:561-73. 2009..g., enrollment in drug treatment, the requirement of a period of abstinence from injection drug use, or the establishment of multidisciplinary treatment programs)... - Impact of text and email messaging on the sexual health of young people: a randomised controlled trialMegan S C Lim
Centre for Population Health, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:69-74. 2012..To carry out a randomised controlled trial on the effect of a new method of health promotion-email and mobile phone text messages (short messaging service (SMS))-on young people's sexual health... - Surveillance of STI risk behaviour among young people attending a music festival in Australia, 2005-08Megan S C Lim
Centre for Population Health, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 33:482-4. 2009..Surveillance of risk behaviours and testing among a variety of populations in different settings is required. We monitored self-reported sexual behaviour among music festival attendees... - Impact of an education campaign on management in pregnancy of women infected with a blood-borne virusMichelle L Giles
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Royal Women s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria
Med J Aust 184:389-92. 2006.... - Sex and sport: sexual risk behaviour in young people in rural and regional VictoriaFabian Y S Kong
Centre for Population Health, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Sex Health 7:205-11. 2010..To determine the prevalence of chlamydia and understand sexual risk behaviour in 16-29 year olds in rural Victoria through a chlamydia testing program undertaken at local sporting clubs... - An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in an urban swimming pool: why are such outbreaks difficult to detect?M E Hellard
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 24:272-5. 2000..To describe an outbreak of Cryptosporidium gastroenteritis in a swimming pool in Melbourne in early 1998 that was not detected through routine surveillance, and discuss difficulties in identifying such outbreaks... - The prevalence and the risk behaviours associated with the transmission of hepatitis C virus in Australian correctional facilitiesM E Hellard
Epidemiology and Social Research Program, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Epidemiol Infect 132:409-15. 2004..Injecting drugs whilst in prison during this incarceration was also a risk factor for HCV. Our results show prisoners who injected drugs outside of prison continue to inject in prison but in a less safe manner... - Buprenorphine injection in Melbourne, Australia--an updateCampbell K Aitken
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 27:197-9. 2008..To investigate the prevalence and associations of buprenorphine injection among a field-recruited cohort of injecting drug users... - HIV diagnoses in Australia: diverging epidemics within a low-prevalence countryRebecca J Guy
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Med J Aust 187:437-40. 2007..To describe recent trends in the diagnosis of HIV infection in Australia... - A cross-sectional survey of young people attending a music festival: associations between drug use and musical preferenceMegan S C Lim
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 27:439-41. 2008..We aimed to determine prevalences of illicit drug use in this population and associations between preferences for different music genres and recent use of particular illicit drugs... - Methods used to maintain a high level of participant involvement in a clinical trialM E Hellard
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 55:348-51. 2001..To describe the strategies adopted to maintain high level participation throughout a community based clinical trial, and the reasons given by participants for why they participated in the study... - A randomized, blinded, controlled trial investigating the gastrointestinal health effects of drinking water qualityM E Hellard
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Environ Health Perspect 109:773-8. 2001..We found no evidence of waterborne disease in Melbourne. The application of this methodology to other water supplies will provide a better understanding of the relationship between human health and water quality... - SMS STI: a review of the uses of mobile phone text messaging in sexual healthMegan S C Lim
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Int J STD AIDS 19:287-90. 2008..As SMS is likely to become more and more commonly used for sexual health purposes, evaluation of its benefits and effectiveness is essential... - Characteristics of HIV diagnoses in Australia, 1993-2006Rebecca J Guy
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3181, Australia
Sex Health 5:91-6. 2008..To describe recent trends in the diagnosis of HIV infection in Australia... - Variable uptake of recommended interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Australia, 1982-2005Michelle L Giles
Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 189:151-4. 2008..To analyse the uptake of interventions known to reduce the risk of perinatal HIV transmission among Australian women with HIV infection (who knew their HIV status before delivery), and identify predictors of uptake... - The "work" of women when considering and using interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIVMichelle L Giles
The Alfred Hospital, Infectious Diseases Unit, Melbourne, Australia
AIDS Care 21:1230-7. 2009..Even in circumstances where access to and acceptance of interventions are high, women continue to engage in this work even after they have a made a decision about a particular intervention... - Australian general practitioner chlamydia testing rates among young peopleFabian Y S Kong
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 194:249-52. 2011..To describe the proportion of 16-29-year-olds tested for chlamydia by Australian general practitioners in a 12-month period... - Randomised controlled trial of paper, online and SMS diaries for collecting sexual behaviour information from young peopleMegan S C Lim
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:885-9. 2010..The correlation between behaviour reported in all three types of diaries and data collected in a retrospective questionnaire was also determined... - The changing age distribution of men who have sex with men diagnosed with HIV in VictoriaCarol El-Hayek
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 193:655-8. 2010..To describe recent trends among men who have sex with men (MSM) in age at diagnosis of HIV in Victoria... - Surveillance of drug use among young people attending a music festival in Australia, 2005-2008Megan S C Lim
Centre for Population Health, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 29:150-6. 2010..In order to monitor trends in illicit drug use among youth, surveillance of drug use behaviours among a variety of populations in different settings is required. We monitored drug use among music festival attendees... - HIV and pregnancy in AustraliaMichelle L Giles
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 44:197-204. 2004..The current review examines the best available scientific evidence and current guidelines for optimal management of HIV-infected women contemplating pregnancy in Australia... - Improving HIV surveillance in Victoria: the role of the "detuned" enzyme immunoassayRebecca J Guy
Epidemiology and Social Research Unit, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 38:495-9. 2005..Incident infections provide important information for targeting prevention strategies and the opportunity to interrupt ongoing viral transmission... - The evidence for a change in antenatal HIV screening policy in AustraliaMichelle L Giles
Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Med J Aust 185:217-20. 2006..A universal antenatal HIV screening program meets many of the Wilson and Jungner criteria for population-based screening programs. This should be considered in the current review of Australia's HIV testing policy... - A profile of HIV testing in Victoria, 1984 to 2004Megan S C Lim
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, GPO Box 2284, Melbourne, 3001
Commun Dis Intell 30:366-72. 2006..To provide a better understanding of the impact of testing on the HIV epidemiology, especially among MSM, linked HIV sentinel surveillance has been implemented in Victoria... - Sexual-risk behaviour, self-perceived risk and knowledge of sexually transmissible infections among young Australians attending a music festivalMegan S C Lim
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, 85 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
Sex Health 4:51-6. 2007..We conducted a survey of behaviour, knowledge and perceptions of STI risk among young people attending a longstanding annual music festival called the Big Day Out... - What are the barriers to offering HIV testing in an antenatal setting? A national study of obstetriciansMichelle L Giles
Department of Medicine Monash University, and Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
AIDS 21:1601-6. 2007..To investigate factors that influence the antenatal screening practice of obstetricians and identify barriers to the implementation of universal antenatal HIV screening... - Recruitment and follow-up of injecting drug users in the setting of early hepatitis C treatment: insights from the ATAHC studyOanh K Nguyen
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Int J Drug Policy 18:447-51. 2007.... - A new surveillance system for monitoring HIV infection in Victoria, AustraliaRebecca Guy
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
Sex Health 4:195-9. 2007..To establish a new mechanism for monitoring patterns of HIV infection, in the context of a sustained increase in HIV diagnosis among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Victoria... - Establishing a linked sentinel surveillance system for blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections: methods, system attributes and early findingsJane L Goller
Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
Sex Health 7:425-33. 2010..To describe the attributes and key findings from implementation of a new blood-borne virus (BBV) and sexually transmissible infection (STI) sentinel surveillance system based on routine testing at clinical sites in Victoria, Australia... - Limits to relying on expert information: the Delphi technique in a study of ethnic Vietnamese injection drug users in Melbourne, AustraliaOanh K Nguyen
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Soc Work Public Health 24:371-9. 2009.... - A randomised controlled trial using mobile advertising to promote safer sex and sun safety to young peopleJ Gold
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
Health Educ Res 26:782-94. 2011..Challenges experienced with project implementation and evaluation should be considered as new technological approaches to health promotion continue to be expanded... - Dietary intake and domestic food preparation and handling as risk factors for gastroenteritis: a case-control studyT Z Mitakakis
Comparative Research Centre Water Quality and Treatment, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Epidemiol Infect 132:601-6. 2004..44-2.05, P< or = 001). Although food-handling and storage practices are considered important, we were unable to detect an association in this study... - Cost of community gastroenteritisMargaret E Hellard
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 18:322-8. 2003..In the present study, we estimated the rate of endemic gastroenteritis, the number of visits to the local doctor, use of medication, and the cost of gastroenteritis in Australia... - The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research instituteMegan S C Lim
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, GPO Box 2284, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia
BMJ 331:1498-500. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The loss of workplace teaspoons was rapid, showing that their availability, and hence office culture in general, is constantly threatened... - Incidence and characteristics of endemic Norwalk-like virus-associated gastroenteritisJohn A Marshall
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Med Virol 69:568-78. 2003..NLV G1 seasonality was significantly different from that of NLV G2. Seven major NLV clusters were identified by phylogenetic analysis... - Escherichia coli and community-acquired gastroenteritis, Melbourne, AustraliaRoy M Robins-Browne
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1797-805. 2004..Apart from the surface protein, intimin, no virulence determinant or phenotype was uniformly present in atypical EPEC strains. This study shows that atypical EPEC are an important cause of gastroenteritis in Melbourne... - Pathogens causing community gastroenteritis in AustraliaMartha I Sinclair
Cooperative Research Center for Water Quality and Treatment, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:1685-90. 2005..We aimed to identify the pathogens responsible for community gastroenteritis and to examine the associated symptoms... - An audit of obstetricians' management of women potentially infected with blood-borne virusesMichelle L Giles
Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Royal Women s Hospital, 132 Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
Med J Aust 180:328-32. 2004..To assess obstetricians' current antenatal screening practices for blood-borne viruses (hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV) and how they manage pregnant women infected with a blood-borne virus... - Sustained increase in infectious syphilis notifications in VictoriaRebecca J Guy
Med J Aust 183:218. 2005 - Cambodian-born individuals diagnosed with HIV in Victoria: epidemiological findings and health service implicationsDarshini R Ayton
Sex Health 4:209. 2007 - Food safety in family homes in Melbourne, AustraliaTeresa Z Mitakakis
Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne 3004, Australia
J Food Prot 67:818-22. 2004..2%, and chicken was thawed using unsafe means by 76.3% of respondents. People preparing food in the home need to be reminded of the increased risk of disease that can arise from poor food handling practices... - A community-based study of respiratory episodes in Melbourne, AustraliaKarin Leder
Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004
Aust N Z J Public Health 27:399-404. 2003..To provide recent data regarding the epidemiology of community-based respiratory infections in Australia... - Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence in heterosexual men in Melbourne: a community-based studyAmanda J Wade
Sex Health 4:137-8. 2007..5%, 95% CI 2.76-21.27). There was a high prevalence of C. trachomatis in our study participants, highlighting the importance of including men in chlamydia response programs...