2015 Publications

Refereed Articles

• Tapp RJ, Svoboda J, Fredericks B, Jackson AJ, Taylor HR. Retinal Photography Screening Programs to Prevent Vision Loss from Diabetic Retinopathy in Rural and Urban Australia: A Review. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2015; 22:52-59
• Shattock AJ, Gambhir M, Taylor HR, Cowling CS, Kaldor JM, Wilson DP. Control of trachoma in Australia: a model based evaluation of current interventions. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015; 9:e0003474.
• Taylor HR, Henderson TRM, Le Mesurier RT. Cataract surgical blitzes: an Australian anachronism. Med J Aust 2015; 202:407-408
• Abouzeid M, Anjou MD, Taylor HR. Equity in vision in Australia is in sight. Med J Aust 2015; 203:21-23
• Solomon AW, Pavluck AL, Courtright P, Aboe A, Taylor HR et al. The Global Trachoma Mapping Project: Methodology of a 34-country population-based study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2015; 22: 214-225
• Tapp RJ, Boudville AI, Abouzeid M, Anjou MD, Taylor HR. Impact of diabetes on eye care service needs: the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2015; 43:540-543
• Vos T, Barber R, Bell B, Global Burden Disease Study 2013 collaborators. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet 2015; 386:743-800
• GBD 2013 DALYS and HALE Collaborators. Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition. Lancet 2015; 386:2145-2191
• Gambhir M, Grassly NC, Burton MJ, Solomon AW, Taylor HR, Mabey DC, Blake IM, Basanez MG. Estimating the future of a multi-pronged intervention strategy on ocular disease sequelae caused by trachoma: A medeling study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2015; 22:394-402
• Khairallah M, Kahloun R, Bourne R, Limburg H, Flaxman SR, Jonas JB, Keeffe J, Leasher J, Naidoo K, Resudovs K, Price H, White RA, Wong TY, Resnikoff S, Taylor HR for the Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract worldwide and in world regions, 1990 to 2010. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2015; 56:6762-6769
• Napper G, Fricke T, Anjou MD, Jackson AJ.  Breaking down barriers to eye care for indigenous people: a new scheme for delivery of eye care in Victoria. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2015; 98:430-434

Letters

• Molyneux D, Taylor HR. The discovery of ivermectin. Trends Parasitol 2015; 31:1
• Kamradt-Scott A, Harman S, Nunes J, Roemer-Mahler A, Wenham C, on behalf of 95 signatories. WHO must remain a strong global health leader post Ebola. Lancet 2015; 385:111

Reports

• Taylor HR, Boudville A, Anjou M, Abouzeid M. The Roadmap to Close the Gap for Vision: September 2015. Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne.
• The Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society. Australian Trachoma Surveillance Report 2014. The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052. 2015