Publications

Homaira N, Qian J, Scaria A, Stepien S, Macartney K, Liu B. Effectiveness of maternal influenza vaccination on influenza and acute respiratory infection in infants. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2025. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000005111 (Epub). [Full text]

Le H, Blyth CC, Schlegel C, Morgan JA, Mitrou F, Nguyen H, Foong R, Carlson S, Hughes C, Liu B, Moore HC. Socio-economic inequality underpins inequity in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private secondary schools: an Australian population-based study. Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific 2025;65:101761. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101761. [Full text]

Wong PK, O'Sullivan M, Deng L. Low influenza, pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccination coverage in Australian patients commencing a biologic or targeted synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug for inflammatory arthritis: a nationwide cross-sectional data linkage study.. Rheumatology International 2025;45:273. doi: 10.1007/s00296-025-06019-7. [Abstract]

Reekie J, Stepien S, Hendry A, Dalton L, Macartney K, Liu B. Provider setting for influenza and COVID-19 vaccination among Australian adults in 2023 and 2024. Vaccine 2025;68:127945. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127945 (Epub). [Abstract]

McRae JE, Huang YA, Baik MK, Wood N, Hassall J, Tsang T, Carr J, Clark JE, Crawford NW, Francis J, Marshall H, McMullan B, Carey E, Cheng AC, Blyth CC, Macartney K; FluCAN investigators, the PAEDS network. COVID-19 and influenza deaths in Australian children 2018-2023: a national case analysis. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2025:piaf099. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piaf099 (Epub). [Full text]

Christou-Ergos M, Sabahelzain MM, Steffens M, Kaufman J, Bolsewicz KT, Danchin M, Leask J. The drivers of influenza vaccination in adults: insights from a national Australian survey. Vaccine:X 2025;25:100683. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100683. [Full text]

Lu C, Barr IG, Lambert S, Mengersen K, Wang L, Yang W, Li Z, Vardoulakis S, Bambrick H, Hu W. Shifts in seasonal influenza patterns in Australia during and after COVID-19: a comprehensive analysis. Journal of Infection and Public Health 2025;18:102620. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2024.102620. [Full]

Steffens MS, Kaufman J, Bolsewicz KT, Vidmar S, Christou-Ergos M, Sabahelzain MM, Leask J, Boxall J, Beard F, Danchin M. Childhood influenza vaccination is not a priority for parents: a national, cross-sectional survey of barriers to childhood influenza vaccination in Australia. Vaccines 2025;13:540. doi: 10.3390/vaccines13050540. [Full text]

Sullivan SG, Khvorov A, Carolan L, Dowson L, Hadiprodjo AJ, Sánchez-Ovando S, Liu Y, Leung VK, Hodgson D, Blyth CC, Macnish M, Cheng AC, Haugenauer M, Clark J, Dougherty S, Macartney K, Koirala A, Khatami A, Jadhav A, Marshall H, Riley KE, Wark PA, Delahunty C, Subbarao K, Kucharski AJ, Fox A. Antibody responses against influenza A decline with successive years of annual influenza vaccination. NPJ Vaccines 2025;10:11. doi: 10.1038/s41541-024-01057-x. [Full text]

Shrestha AC, Field E, Thangarajah D, Andrews R, Ware RS, Lambert SB. Influenza epidemiology and vaccine effectiveness following funded influenza vaccine in Queensland, Australia, 2022. Influenza & Other Respiratory Viruses 2024;18:e70007. doi: 10.1111/irv.70007. [Full text]