Travel Patterns, Traveller Behaviour And Their Relationship To The Importation Of Infectious Disease Into Australia
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$44,934.00
Summary
The island nature of Australia means that Australia’s quarantine policies and opportunities for disease control are unique. Australia is likely to encounter a disease first by importation, then by spread around the country. Such spread has implications for trade and tourism, as well as health. In this project I will collect data from people entering Australia, finding out about where they have been and who they have mixed with prior to arrival, and how best to control emerging infections.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that infects and kills the cells of your immune system. This infection eventually leads to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). An important aspect in preventing infection is to study how HIV enters immune cells and how infection spreads. Our lab is researching drugs to block the entry of HIV in immune cells, which can hopefully be used together with existing anti-HIV drugs to slow down the spread of the virus and the onset of AIDS.