Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant malaria pose major public health challenges, threatening health security across the Asia-Pacific region.
This project involves the development and implementation of a package of cost-effective interventions for the cure of multi-drug resistant malaria. It also involves implementing new approaches to tuberculosis case detection and prevention, particularly multi-drug resistant strains. The team will support and upskill local researchers to address both diseases.
Through developing and testing health systems strengthening strategies, the project will:
- Improve service delivery for the prevention and treatment of infection
- Implement a new approach to multidrug resistant tuberculosis case detection and prevention
- Monitor the emergence and spread of multidrug resistant organisms at sentinel sites through molecular surveillance
- Support and upskill local researchers to address both diseases
- Implement community-based prevention programmes to address multidrug resistance tuberculosis and malaria among children under five years old.
Co-investigators
- Professor Stephen Graham - University of Melbourne
- Associate Professor Anna Ralph - Menzies School of Health Research
- Dr Jeanne Poespoprodjo - Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Dr Philipp DuCros - Burnet Institute
- Professor Nicholas Anstey - Menzies School of Health Research
- Dr Christopher Morgan - Burnet Institute
- Dr Suman Majumdar - Burnet Institute
- Dr Rintis Noviyanti – Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology, Indonesia
Associate Investigators
- Dr Sarah Auburn- Menzies School of Health Research
- Dr Geoff Chan - Burnet Institute
- Associate Professor Christopher Coulter - Queensland Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory
- Angela Devine – University of Oxford, UK
- Associate Professor Freya Fowkes - University of Melbourne, Monash University
- Dr Enny Kenangalem - Papuan Community Health and Development Foundation, Indonesia
- Dr Trisasi Lestari - Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
- Professor Koen Peeters - Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
- Dr Leanne Robinson – Burnet Institute
