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Colleen Lau
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Colleen Lau

Source: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/2260 Parent: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/29291

Professor

Colleen Lau

Email: : colleen.lau@uq.edu.au

Phone: : +61 7 334 64747

Positions

Affiliate of Queensland Digital Health Centre : Queensland Digital Health Centre : Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Professorial Research Fellow : UQ Centre for Clinical Research : Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Overview

Background

Prof Colleen Lau - MBBS (UWA), MPHTM (JCU), PhD (UQ), FRACGP, FACTM, FISTM.

Prof Colleen Lau is an NHMRC Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research. Her areas of expertise include emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, and clinical travel medicine. Her wide range of research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, spatial epidemiology and disease mapping, infectious disease surveillance and elimination, vaccinations, travel health, environmental health, and digital decision support tools. Professor Lau’s research projects focus on answering practical questions in clinical management of infectious diseases and operational questions on improving strategies to solve public health problems. She leads UQ's HERA program on Operational Research and Decision Support for Infectious Diseases (ODeSI).

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Availability

Professor Colleen Lau is: : Available for supervision : Media expert

Fields of research

Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Clinical sciences Environmental Sciences Epidemiology Health Sciences Infectious diseases Pacific Peoples health and wellbeing

Qualifications

Research interests

Operational research on lymphatic filariasis elimination. Spatial epidemiology. Disease hotspots. Integrated surveillance. Pacific Islands.

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Leptospirosis. Arboviruses. Zoonoses. Spatial epidemiology and disease mapping. Environmental drivers of disease transmission and outbreaks.

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Vaccinations. Malaria prophylaxis. Health and wellbeing of travellers.

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Works

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All (264) Journal Article (229) Other Outputs (7) Conference Publication (20) Book Chapter (8)

Featured

2024

Journal Article

Malaria cases in China acquired through international travel, 2013–2022

Zhu, Yan, Restrepo, Angela Cadavid, Wang, Hai-Bo, Mills, Deborah J., Liang, Rong-Rong, Liu, Zhi-Bin, Lau, Colleen L. and Furuya-Kanamori, Luis (2024). Malaria cases in China acquired through international travel, 2013–2022. Journal of Travel Medicine, 31 (8) taae056. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taae056

Malaria cases in China acquired through international travel, 2013–2022

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2024

Journal Article

Anti-filarial antibodies are sensitive indicators of lymphatic filariasis transmission and enable identification of high-risk populations and hotspots

Lawford, Harriet, Mayfield, Helen, Sam, Filipina Amosa-Lei, Viali, Satupaitea, Kamu, Tito, Cooley, Gretchen, Simon, Ashley, Martin, Diana and Lau, Colleen L. (2024). Anti-filarial antibodies are sensitive indicators of lymphatic filariasis transmission and enable identification of high-risk populations and hotspots. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 147 107194, 107194. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107194

Anti-filarial antibodies are sensitive indicators of lymphatic filariasis transmission and enable identification of high-risk populations and hotspots

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2024

Journal Article

Operational research to inform post-validation surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Tonga study protocol: history of lymphatic filariasis elimination, rational, objectives, and design

Lawford, Harriet, Tukia, Ofa, Takai, Joseph, Sheridan, Sarah and Lau, Colleen L. (2024). Operational research to inform post-validation surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Tonga study protocol: history of lymphatic filariasis elimination, rational, objectives, and design. PLoS One, 19 (8) e0307331, 1-12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307331

Operational research to inform post-validation surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Tonga study protocol: history of lymphatic filariasis elimination, rational, objectives, and design

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2024

Journal Article

Field laboratory comparison of STANDARD Q Filariasis Antigen Test (QFAT) with Bioline Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) for the detection of Lymphatic Filariasis in Samoa, 2023

Scott, Jessica L., Mayfield, Helen J., Sinclair, Jane E., Martin, Beatris Mario, Howlett, Maddison, Muttucumaru, Ramona, Won, Kimberly Y., Thomsen, Robert, Viali, Satupaitea, Tofaeono-Pifeleti, Rossana, Graves, Patricia M. and Lau, Colleen L. (2024). Field laboratory comparison of STANDARD Q Filariasis Antigen Test (QFAT) with Bioline Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) for the detection of Lymphatic Filariasis in Samoa, 2023. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18 (8) e0012386, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012386

Field laboratory comparison of STANDARD Q Filariasis Antigen Test (QFAT) with Bioline Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) for the detection of Lymphatic Filariasis in Samoa, 2023

Featured

2024

Journal Article

Ongoing transmission of lymphatic filariasis in Samoa 4.5 years after one round of triple-drug mass drug administration

Mayfield, Helen J., Sartorius, Benn, Sheridan, Sarah, Howlett, Maddison, Mario Martin, Beatris, Thomsen, Robert, Tofaeono-Pifeleti, Rossana, Viali, Satupaitea, Graves, Patricia M. and Lau, Colleen L. (2024). Ongoing transmission of lymphatic filariasis in Samoa 4.5 years after one round of triple-drug mass drug administration. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18 (6) e0012236, e0012236. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012236

Ongoing transmission of lymphatic filariasis in Samoa 4.5 years after one round of triple-drug mass drug administration

Featured

2024

Journal Article

Novel chikungunya and dengue vaccines: travel medicine applications

Steffen, Robert, Hamer, Davidson H., Chen, Lin H., Caumes, Eric and Lau, Colleen L. (2024). Novel chikungunya and dengue vaccines: travel medicine applications. Journal of Travel Medicine, 31 (4) taae064. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taae064

Novel chikungunya and dengue vaccines: travel medicine applications

Featured

2023

Journal Article

Using regional sero-epidemiology SARS-CoV-2 Anti-S antibodies in the Dominican Republic to inform targeted public health response

Mario Martin, Beatris, Cadavid Restrepo, Angela, Mayfield, Helen, Then Paulino, Cecilia, De St Aubin, Micheal, Duke, William, Jarolim, Petr, Zielinski Gutiérrez, Emily, Skewes Ramm, Ronald, Dumas, Devan, Garnier, Salome, Etienne, Marie Caroline, Peña, Farah, Abdalla, Gabriela, Lopez, Beatriz, de la Cruz, Lucia, Henríquez, Bernarda, Baldwin, Margaret, Sartorius, Benn, Kucharski, Adam, Nilles, Eric James and Lau, Colleen L. (2023). Using regional sero-epidemiology SARS-CoV-2 Anti-S antibodies in the Dominican Republic to inform targeted public health response. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8 (11) 493, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed8110493

Using regional sero-epidemiology SARS-CoV-2 Anti-S antibodies in the Dominican Republic to inform targeted public health response

Featured

2023

Journal Article

The impact of COVID-19 on knowledge, beliefs, and practices of Ni-Vanuatu health workers regarding antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic resistance, 2018 and 2022: a mixed methods study

Foxlee, Nicola D., Taleo, Siti Aishah, Mathias, Agnes, Townell, Nicola, McIver, Lachlan and Lau, Colleen L. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 on knowledge, beliefs, and practices of Ni-Vanuatu health workers regarding antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic resistance, 2018 and 2022: a mixed methods study. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8 (10) 477, 1-19. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed8100477

The impact of COVID-19 on knowledge, beliefs, and practices of Ni-Vanuatu health workers regarding antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic resistance, 2018 and 2022: a mixed methods study

Featured

2023

Journal Article

Scabies prevalence after ivermectin-based mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis, Samoa 2018–2019

Willis, Gabriela A., Kearns, Therese, Mayfield, Helen J., Sheridan, Sarah, Thomsen, Robert, Naseri, Take, David, Michael C., Engelman, Daniel, Steer, Andrew C., Graves, Patricia M. and Lau, Colleen L. (2023). Scabies prevalence after ivermectin-based mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis, Samoa 2018–2019. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17 (8) e0011549, 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011549

Scabies prevalence after ivermectin-based mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis, Samoa 2018–2019

Featured

2023

Journal Article

A decision support tool for risk–benefit analysis of Japanese encephalitis vaccine in travellers

Lau, Colleen L., Mills, Deborah J., Mayfield, Helen, Gyawali, Narayan, Johnson, Brian J., Lu, Hongen, Allel, Kasim, Britton, Philip N., Ling, Weiping, Moghaddam, Tina and Furuya-Kanamori, Luis (2023). A decision support tool for risk–benefit analysis of Japanese encephalitis vaccine in travellers. Journal of Travel Medicine, 30 (7) taad113. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taad113

A decision support tool for risk–benefit analysis of Japanese encephalitis vaccine in travellers

Featured

2023

Journal Article

Spatial predictive risk mapping of lymphatic filariasis residual hotspots in American Samoa using demographic and environmental factors

Cadavid Restrepo, Angela M., Martin, Beatris M., Fuimaono, Saipale, Clements, Archie C. A., Graves, Patricia M. and Lau, Colleen L. (2023). Spatial predictive risk mapping of lymphatic filariasis residual hotspots in American Samoa using demographic and environmental factors. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17 (7) e0010840, e0010840. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010840

Spatial predictive risk mapping of lymphatic filariasis residual hotspots in American Samoa using demographic and environmental factors

Featured

2023

Journal Article

Immunogenicity of a single fractional intradermal dose of Japanese encephalitis live attenuated chimeric vaccine

Furuya-Kanamori, Luis, Gyawali, Narayan, Mills, Deborah J., Mills, Christine, Hugo, Leon E, Devine, Gregor J. and Lau, Colleen L. (2023). Immunogenicity of a single fractional intradermal dose of Japanese encephalitis live attenuated chimeric vaccine. Journal of Travel Medicine, 30 (2) taac122, 1-8. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac122

Immunogenicity of a single fractional intradermal dose of Japanese encephalitis live attenuated chimeric vaccine

Featured

2022

Journal Article

SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, cumulative infections, and immunity to symptomatic infection – A multistage national household survey and modelling study, Dominican Republic, June–October 2021

Nilles, Eric J., Paulino, Cecilia Then, de St. Aubin, Michael, Restrepo, Angela Cadavid, Mayfield, Helen, Dumas, Devan, Finch, Emilie, Garnier, Salome, Etienne, Marie Caroline, Iselin, Louisa, Duke, William, Jarolim, Petr, Oasan, Timothy, Yu, Jingyou, Wan, Huahua, Peña, Farah, Iihoshi, Naomi, Abdalla, Gabriela, Lopez, Beatriz, Cruz, Lucia de la, Henríquez, Bernarda, Espinosa-Bode, Andres, Puello, Yosanly Cornelio, Durski, Kara, Baldwin, Margaret, Baez, Amado Alejandro, Merchant, Roland C., Barouch, Dan H., Skewes-Ramm, Ronald ... Lau, Colleen L. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, cumulative infections, and immunity to symptomatic infection – A multistage national household survey and modelling study, Dominican Republic, June–October 2021. Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 16 100390, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100390

SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, cumulative infections, and immunity to symptomatic infection – A multistage national household survey and modelling study, Dominican Republic, June–October 2021

Featured

2013

Journal Article

Dengue surveillance by proxy: travellers as sentinels for outbreaks in the Pacific Islands

Lau, C. L., Weinstein, P. and Slaney, D. (2013). Dengue surveillance by proxy: travellers as sentinels for outbreaks in the Pacific Islands. Epidemiology and Infection, 141 (11), 2328-2334. doi: 10.1017/S0950268813000058

Dengue surveillance by proxy: travellers as sentinels for outbreaks in the Pacific Islands

Featured

2012

Journal Article

Leptospirosis in American Samoa - estimating and mapping risk using environmental data

Lau, Colleen L., Clements, Archie C. A., Skelly, Chris, Dobson, Annette J., Smythe, Lee D. and Weinstein, Philip (2012). Leptospirosis in American Samoa - estimating and mapping risk using environmental data. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6 (5) e1669, e1669. 1-e1669. 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001669

Leptospirosis in American Samoa - estimating and mapping risk using environmental data

Featured

2012

Other Outputs

Environmental drivers of human Leptospirosis infection in American Samoa - emergence, risk analysis, and disease mapping

Lau, Colleen (2012). Environmental drivers of human Leptospirosis infection in American Samoa - emergence, risk analysis, and disease mapping. PhD Thesis, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland.

Environmental drivers of human Leptospirosis infection in American Samoa - emergence, risk analysis, and disease mapping

Featured

2010

Journal Article

Climate change, flooding, urbanisation and leptospirosis: Fuelling the fire?

Lau, Colleen L., Smythe, Lee D., Craig, Scott B. and Weinstein, Philip (2010). Climate change, flooding, urbanisation and leptospirosis: Fuelling the fire?. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104 (10), 631-638. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2010.07.002

Climate change, flooding, urbanisation and leptospirosis: Fuelling the fire?

Featured

2010

Journal Article

Leptospirosis: An emerging disease in travellers

Lau, Colleen, Smythe, Lee and Weinstein, Philip (2010). Leptospirosis: An emerging disease in travellers. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8 (1), 33-39. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.12.002

Leptospirosis: An emerging disease in travellers

2026

Journal Article

Estimating risk of long COVID using a Bayesian network-based decision support tool

Sinclair, Jane E., Mayfield, Helen J., Lu, Hongen, Brown, Samuel J., Moghaddam, Tina, Waller, Michael, Bonner, Carissa, Williams, Olivia, Litt, John C.B., Short, Kirsty R. and Lau, Colleen L. (2026). Estimating risk of long COVID using a Bayesian network-based decision support tool. Vaccine, 72 128127, 128127. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.128127

Estimating risk of long COVID using a Bayesian network-based decision support tool

2026

Journal Article

Leptospirosis in the Caribbean Region between 2000 and 2022: A scoping review of morbidity and mortality

Mario Martin, Beatris, Zhang, Zhonghan, Vernal, Sebastian, Jian, Holly, Nilles, Eric J., Furuya-Kanamori, Luis, Sartorius, Benn and Lau, Colleen L. (2026). Leptospirosis in the Caribbean Region between 2000 and 2022: A scoping review of morbidity and mortality. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 20 (1) e0013595, e0013595. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013595

Leptospirosis in the Caribbean Region between 2000 and 2022: A scoping review of morbidity and mortality

Funding

Current funding

Identifying environmental and behavioural drivers of dengue dynamics in climate-vulnerable communities in Vietnam (HEAL Innovation Fund administered by the University of Canberra)

University of Canberra

Open grant - 2025 - 2027

The impact of climate on vector-borne zoonoses in Australia: changing transmission pathways and increased spill-over risks (NHMRC TCR grant led by QIMR)

Queensland Institute of Medical Research

Open grant - 2024 - 2028

Regional Immunisation Strengthening and Engagement 2 (RISE 2) (DFAT grant externally led by USYD)

University of Sydney

Open grant - 2024 - 2027

An Observational Study of the Epidemiology, Burden of Disease and Genomics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Older Adults of Queensland, Australia (RSV BoD) - led by Metro North Health

Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Open grant - 2023 - 2028

A user-friendly digital prediction tool for dengue prevention

Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award

Open grant - 2022 - 2027

Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) - National Research Network on Human Health and Environmental Change (NHMRC Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change grant administered by ANU)

Australian National University

Open grant - 2021 - 2026

Control of neglected tropical diseases in the Pacific: integration of programs to increase their impact (NHMRC Partnership Project administered by UNSW)

University of New South Wales

Open grant - 2021 - 2026

Building Decision Support Systems to Combat Emerging Infectious Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Precision Public Health Approach

NHMRC Investigator Grants

Open grant

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Past funding

Operational Research to Inform Post-Validation Surveillance of Lymphatic Filariasis in Tonga

Task Force for Global Health

Open grant - 2023 - 2025

Targeted surveillance studies linked to Surveillance and Monitoring to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis and Scabies from Samoa (SaMELFS)

Task Force for Global Health

Open grant - 2022 - 2023

Geospatial mapping of Neglected Tropical Diseases (via Australian Centre for the Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ACE-NTD) administered by University of New South Wales)

University of New South Wales

Open grant - 2022 - 2024

Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Risk-Benefit Analysis Tool (International Society of Travel Medicine grant administered by Dr Deb The Travel Doctor)

Dr Deb The Travel Doctor Pty Ltd

Open grant - 2022 - 2024

Developing a proof-of-concept self-contact tracing app to support epidemiological investigations and outbreak response (Australia-Korea Joint Call for Joint Research Projects - ATSE Tech Bridge Grant)

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Open grant - 2022 - 2023

SMART Project - Towards Systematic Maturation of Analytics and System Redesign to Transform (SMART) Healthcare and Public Health Research

Queensland Health

Open grant - 2021 - 2023

JEVID - Japanese Encephalitis Vaccination via IntraDermal route

The International Society of Travel Medicine Research Grant

Open grant - 2021 - 2023

Surveillance and Monitoring to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis and Scabies from Samoa: SaMELFS Samoa 2019

Task Force for Global Health

Open grant - 2018 - 2024

The Australian Centre for the Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ACE-NTD) (Administered by University of New South Wales)

University of New South Wales

Open grant - 2016

Combating Infectious Diseases: Eco-Epidemiology, Disease Mapping, and Travel Medicine

NHMRC Early Career Fellowships

Open grant - 2015

Combating infectious disease emergence and outbreaks: Interactive and dynamic tools for public health risk assessment and decision-making

UQ Early Career Researcher

Open grant - 2013

Epidemiology of Leptospirosis in Fiji

World Health Organisation

Open grant - 2013 - 2018

Travel and tropical medicine research

Research Donation Generic

Open grant

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Supervision

Availability

Professor Colleen Lau is: : Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

##### Spatio-temporal epidemiology of vector-borne diseases in the Dominican Republic

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Helen Mayfield, Dr Angela Cadavid Restrepo, Associate Professor Benn Sartorius - Doctor Philosophy

##### Integrated serological surveillance of neglected tropical diseases and vaccine preventable diseases in Samoa

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Associate Professor Benn Sartorius - Doctor Philosophy

##### Machine learning in epidemiology research on African Swine Fever epidemic in the Philippines Outline

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Associate Professor Luis Furuya Kanamori, Associate Professor Yoni Nazarathy, Associate Professor Benn Sartorius - Doctor Philosophy

##### Epidemiology and clinical outcomes of gram-negative bloodstream infections in children

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Geoff Spurling, Mr Mark Chatfield, Associate Professor Adam Irwin - Doctor Philosophy

##### Assessing risk of importation of sexually transmitted infections into Australia by international travellers

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Associate Professor Judith Dean, Associate Professor Luis Furuya Kanamori - Doctor Philosophy

##### Integrated watershed management for public and ecosystem health in the Pacific Islands: overlapping drivers and strategies to prevent leptospirosis and improve coral reef health

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Helen Mayfield, Dr Amelia Wenger, Associate Professor Carissa Klein - Doctor Philosophy

##### Effectiveness of digital Dengue early warning system (E-DENGUE) for Dengue control in the Mekong Delta Region

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Associate Professor Dung Phung - Doctor Philosophy

##### Epidemiology and risk factors of overseas acquired infectious diseases in Australian travellers

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Associate Professor Benn Sartorius, Dr Alec Henderson, Associate Professor Luis Furuya Kanamori - Doctor Philosophy

##### Epidemiology and burden of rotavirus infections in Australia

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Associate Professor Luis Furuya Kanamori, Dr Behzad Kiani, Associate Professor Benn Sartorius - Doctor Philosophy

##### A big-data approach to the epidemiology of foodborne and enteric zoonoses in Queensland

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Dwan Vilcins, Professor Ricardo Soares Magalhaes - Doctor Philosophy

##### Enhancing infectious disease surveillance through the integration of routinely collected data

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Amalie Dyda

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Completed supervision

Doctor Philosophy

##### The long-term cardiovascular complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccines

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Helen Mayfield, Professor Nathan Palpant, Professor Kirsty Short - 2019

Doctor Philosophy

##### Spatiotemporal impact of an eight-year mass drug administration programme on soil transmitted helminth infections and anaemia in Burundi.

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Ricardo Soares Magalhaes - 2019

Doctor Philosophy

##### Spatial epidemiological approaches to quantify the role of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) in cognitive dysfunction in school-aged population

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Mark Nielsen, Professor Ricardo Soares Magalhaes

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