Publications

Hull B, Hendry A, Dey A, Brotherton J, Macartney K, Beard F. Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2022. Communicable Diseases Intelligence (2018) 2025;49. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2025.49.023. [Full text]

Patel C, Wang X, Giles M, Burns P, Nguyen T, Macartney K, Williams PC. The role of serological testing for vaccination with a focus on immunocompromised patients: a synthesis of current evidence. Vaccine 2025;63:127659. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127659. [Full text]

Bolsewicz KT, Steffens MS, Dalton L, Kaufman J, Christou-Ergos M, Sabahelzain M, Beard F, Danchin M, Leask J. Getting more kids vaccinated on time: strategies and broader policy considerations to address caregiver-identified barriers to childhood immunisation in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2025;49:100274. doi: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100274 . [Full text]

Croker Z, McLure A, Pillsbury A, Deng L, Quinn H. Reduction in self-reported adverse events in Australian adults after change to national immunisation schedule from polysaccharide to conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, 2016-2022. Vaccine 2025;61:127432. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127432 . [Full text]

Sonneveld N, Jackson J, Dey A, Lambert SB, Beard FH. Varicella-zoster-virus-related hospital episodes increasingly coded concurrently for varicella and zoster, Australia, 2002-2021. Health Information Management 2025:18333583251364580.
doi: 10.1177/18333583251364580 (Epub). [Abstract]

Koirala AH, Prasad SA, Britton PN, Wood NO, Richmond PC, McMullan BN, Crawford NW, Marshall HS, Francis LU, Wills ME, Leighton EM, Macartney K, Bolsewicz KR. Understanding motivation and experience in participating in a paediatric SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey, in Australia. Vaccine: X 2025;27:100716.
doi:10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100716 (Epub). [Full text]

Liu B, Scaria A, Stepien S, Macartney K. Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine boosters for reducing COVID-19 mortality among people aged 65 years or older, Australia, August 2023 - February 2024: a retrospective observational cohort study. Medical Journal of Australia 2025.
doi: 10.5694/mja2.70015 (Epub). [Full text]

Croker Z, McLure A, Pillsbury A, Deng L, Quinn H. Reduction in self-reported adverse events in Australian adults after change to national immunisation schedule from polysaccharide to conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, 2016-2022. Vaccine 2025;61:127432. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127432 (Epub). [Full text]

White E, Baik MK, Zahir SF, Blyth CC, Carr J, Crawford NW, Francis JR, Marshall HS, Carey E, Macartney K, McMullan B, Wood N, Britton PN, Clark JE; PAEDS network. Management and outcomes of children hospitalised with COVID-19 including incidental and nosocomial infections in Australia 2020-2023: a national surveillance study. Journal of Clinical Virology 2025;179:105824. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2025.105824 (Epub). [Abstract]

Proboste T, Lau CL, Clark N, Jagals P, Sly PD, Lambert SB, Devine G, Zuccon G, Soares Magalhães RJ. The epidemiology of hospitalisations from four key environmentally sensitive zoonotic diseases in Queensland, 2012-2019. Tropical Medicine & International Health 2025. doi: 10.1111/tmi.14139 (Epub). [Full text]