Rachel Sacks-Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 175017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Sacks-Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacks-Davis |
| SIGNATURE | SACKS-DAVIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Burnet Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0860-2762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Covid-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities: An agent-based modeling study
Introduction: A disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths occur in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), where better evidence is needed to target COVID-19 interventions to prevent mortality. This study used an agent-based model to assess the role of community prevalence, vaccination strategies, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on COVID-19 outcomes in RACFs in Victoria, Australia. Methods: The model simulated outbreaks in RACFs ov…
All-cause mortality before and after DAA availability among people living with HIV and HCV: An international comparison between 2010 and 2019
Keeping kids in school: Modelling school-based testing and quarantine strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia
Background: In 2021, the Australian Government Department of Health commissioned a consortium of modelling groups to generate evidence assisting the transition from a goal of no community COVID-19 transmission to 'living with COVID-19', with adverse health and social consequences limited by vaccination and other measures. Due to the extended school closures over 2020-21, maximizing face-to-face teaching was a major objective during this transitio…
Covid-19 epidemic modelling for policy decision support in Victoria, Australia 2020–2021
Model evidence offered the greatest value when decisions needed to be made pre-emptively, or for questions that could not be answered with empiric data and data analysis alone. Co-designing scenarios with policy-makers ensured relevance and increased policy translation
Hepatitis C incidence among patients attending primary care health services that specialise in the care of people who inject drugs, Victoria, Australia, 2009 to 2020
Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Hepatitis C elimination by 2030 through treatment and prevention: Think global, act in local networks
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination is now an achievable goal;1–3 the WHO is likely to set ambitious but achievable 2030 elimination targets later this year.4 In high-income countries, people who inject drugs (PWID) are the group at greatest risk of HCV infection,5–7 with HCV prevalence among PWID varying from 10% to 97% in different regions of the globe.7 ,8 In low income and middle income countries, HCV transmission can be due to iatrogenic tra…
The use of social networking platforms for sexual health promotion: Identifying key strategies for successful user engagement
Online social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have grown rapidly in popularity, with opportunities for interaction enhancing their health promotion potential. Such platforms are being used for sexual health promotion but with varying success in reaching and engaging users. We aimed to identify Facebook and Twitter profiles that were able to engage large numbers of users, and to identify strategies used to successfully attract an…
Hepatitis C transmission and treatment as prevention – The role of the injecting network
How “Hidden” Are Unobserved Networks Among People Who Inject Drugs
AffiliationsPeter Higgs is with the Melbourne Office of the National Drug Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Rachel Sacks-Davis is with the Doherty Institute, Melbourne. Campbell Aitken and Margaret Hellard are with the Centre for Population Health, the Burnet Institute, Melbourne
Does informing people who inject drugs of their hepatitis C status influence their injecting behaviour? Analysis of the Networks II study
Modelling a disease-relevant contact network of people who inject drugs
Behavioural interventions for preventing hepatitis C infection in people who inject drugs: A global systematic review
The Australian national binge drinking campaign: Campaign recognition among young people at a music festival who report risky drinking
Whilst a high proportion of the target group recognised the campaign, our analysis suggests that participants that reported frequent RSOD - and thus the most important group to target - had statistically significantly lower odds of recognising the campaign message
Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post
A low proportion of participants returned their chlamydia test, suggesting that this model is not ideal for reaching young people. Home-based chlamydia testing is most attractive to those who report engaging in sexual risk behaviours and are aware of the often asymptomatic nature and potential sequelae of chlamydia infection
Randomised controlled trial of paper, online and SMS diaries for collecting sexual behaviour information from young people
SMS is a convenient and timely method of collecting brief behavioural data, but online data collection was preferable to most participants and more likely to be complete. Data collected in retrospective sexual behaviour questionnaires were found to agree substantially with data collected through weekly self-reported diaries
Randomised controlled trial of paper, online and SMS diaries for collecting sexual behaviour information from young people
SMS is a convenient and timely method of collecting brief behavioural data, but online data collection was preferable to most participants and more likely to be complete. Data collected in retrospective sexual behaviour questionnaires were found to agree substantially with data collected through weekly self-reported diaries
Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post
A low proportion of participants returned their chlamydia test, suggesting that this model is not ideal for reaching young people. Home-based chlamydia testing is most attractive to those who report engaging in sexual risk behaviours and are aware of the often asymptomatic nature and potential sequelae of chlamydia infection
Randomised controlled trial of paper, online and SMS diaries for collecting sexual behaviour information from young people
SMS is a convenient and timely method of collecting brief behavioural data, but online data collection was preferable to most participants and more likely to be complete. Data collected in retrospective sexual behaviour questionnaires were found to agree substantially with data collected through weekly self-reported diaries
The Australian national binge drinking campaign: Campaign recognition among young people at a music festival who report risky drinking
Whilst a high proportion of the target group recognised the campaign, our analysis suggests that participants that reported frequent RSOD - and thus the most important group to target - had statistically significantly lower odds of recognising the campaign message
Behavioural interventions for preventing hepatitis C infection in people who inject drugs: A global systematic review
Modelling a disease-relevant contact network of people who inject drugs
Does informing people who inject drugs of their hepatitis C status influence their injecting behaviour? Analysis of the Networks II study
The use of social networking platforms for sexual health promotion: Identifying key strategies for successful user engagement
Online social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have grown rapidly in popularity, with opportunities for interaction enhancing their health promotion potential. Such platforms are being used for sexual health promotion but with varying success in reaching and engaging users. We aimed to identify Facebook and Twitter profiles that were able to engage large numbers of users, and to identify strategies used to successfully attract an…
Hepatitis C transmission and treatment as prevention – The role of the injecting network
How “Hidden” Are Unobserved Networks Among People Who Inject Drugs
AffiliationsPeter Higgs is with the Melbourne Office of the National Drug Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Rachel Sacks-Davis is with the Doherty Institute, Melbourne. Campbell Aitken and Margaret Hellard are with the Centre for Population Health, the Burnet Institute, Melbourne
Hepatitis C elimination by 2030 through treatment and prevention: Think global, act in local networks
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination is now an achievable goal;1–3 the WHO is likely to set ambitious but achievable 2030 elimination targets later this year.4 In high-income countries, people who inject drugs (PWID) are the group at greatest risk of HCV infection,5–7 with HCV prevalence among PWID varying from 10% to 97% in different regions of the globe.7 ,8 In low income and middle income countries, HCV transmission can be due to iatrogenic tra…
Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Hepatitis C incidence among patients attending primary care health services that specialise in the care of people who inject drugs, Victoria, Australia, 2009 to 2020
Keeping kids in school: Modelling school-based testing and quarantine strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia
Background: In 2021, the Australian Government Department of Health commissioned a consortium of modelling groups to generate evidence assisting the transition from a goal of no community COVID-19 transmission to 'living with COVID-19', with adverse health and social consequences limited by vaccination and other measures. Due to the extended school closures over 2020-21, maximizing face-to-face teaching was a major objective during this transitio…
Covid-19 epidemic modelling for policy decision support in Victoria, Australia 2020–2021
Model evidence offered the greatest value when decisions needed to be made pre-emptively, or for questions that could not be answered with empiric data and data analysis alone. Co-designing scenarios with policy-makers ensured relevance and increased policy translation
Covid-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities: An agent-based modeling study
Introduction: A disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths occur in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), where better evidence is needed to target COVID-19 interventions to prevent mortality. This study used an agent-based model to assess the role of community prevalence, vaccination strategies, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on COVID-19 outcomes in RACFs in Victoria, Australia. Methods: The model simulated outbreaks in RACFs ov…
All-cause mortality before and after DAA availability among people living with HIV and HCV: An international comparison between 2010 and 2019
Medicine (12 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Virology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Hepatitis C (5 works) · Hepatitis C virus research (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Biostatistics (4 works) · Immunology (4 works)