Rick Speare

Biographic Data

ID5569066
NAMERick Speare
GIVEN NAMESRick
FAMILY NAMESpeare
SIGNATURESPEARE R
AFFILIATIONSJames Cook University
ORCID0000-0002-9993-1213
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • Policy Implications for Controlling Communicable Diseases in Indigenous Communities

    Open AccessAdrian Miller, Michelle L Smith et al.ARTICLEaboriginal policy studies2018

    The objective of this paper is to document the knowledge and experiences of healthcare professionals and researchers in Australia about the barriers to controlling Strongyloides stercoralis in Australian Indigenous communities. Qualitative research methods were used to conduct in-depth semi-structured interviews, which were digitally recorded, transcribed, and participant-checked. Data were thematically analysed to identify significant themes. Fi…

  • Steps on a journey to TB control in Solomon Islands

    Open AccessPeter D Massey, Peter Massey et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2015

    BACKGROUND: In Solomon Islands many people with Tuberculosis (TB) have challenges in accessing services because of socio-cultural, geographic and health service reasons, resulting in delays in TB treatment and low detection rates. The purpose of this project was to (i) develop a local language audio-visual resource (DVD) about TB (ii) share this resource with people in remote villages and (iii) evaluate the process and outcomes. METHODS: The proj…

  • The use of focus groups to develop a culturally relevant quality of life tool for lymphatic filariasis in Bangladesh

    Open AccessLynne Zeldenryk, Marion Gray et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2013

    The use of focus groups strongly contributed to the operationalisation of the concept of QOL in Bangladesh for people living with LF. Use of literature review or expert opinion alone would have missed vital constructs

  • Mutual research capacity strengthening

    Open AccessM Redman-Maclaren, David MacLaren et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2012

    The flexible and responsive process we used to strengthen research capacity was identified as mutually beneficial. Using community-based participatory frameworks underpinned by decolonising methodologies is assisting to redress historical power imbalances and inequities and is helping to sustain the initial steps taken to establish a local research agenda at Atoifi Hospital. It is our experience that embedding mutuality throughout the research ca…

  • Cognitive testing of the WHOQOL-BREF Bangladesh tool in a northern rural Bangladeshi population with lymphatic filariasis

    Open AccessLynne Zeldenryk, Susan Gordon et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2012

  • "We can move forward"

    Open AccessM Redman-Maclaren, Michelle L Redman-MacLaren et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2010

    A search and collaborative review of public health literature for Solomon Islands at a health research capacity building workshop has uncovered and challenged historical inequity in the conduct and access to public health research. Emerging Solomon Islander researchers at a remote hospital are now working to set priorities and strengthen local research efforts. These efforts have highlighted the importance of collaboration and mentoring for Solom…

  • Self-reported anticipated compliance with physician advice to stay home during pandemic (H1N1) 2009

    Open AccessLawrence H Brown, Peter Aitken et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    Ninety-five percent of people report they would comply with a physicians' advice to stay home for seven days if they are diagnosed with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 or avian influenza, but only 71% can be expected to comply in the setting of seasonal influenza and fewer still can be expected to comply if they are diagnosed with a common cold. Sub-populations that might be worthwhile targets for public health messages aimed at increasing the rate of self-…

  • Spread of Chytridiomycosis Has Caused the Rapid Global Decline and Extinction of Frogs

    Open AccessLee F Skerratt, Lee Berger et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2007

  • The Decline of the Sharp-Snouted Day Frog (Taudactylus acutirostris)

    Open AccessLisa M Schloegel, Jean-Marc Hero et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2006

  • Beyond evidence

    Open AccessDavid N Dürrheim, Holly Ann Williams et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2003

    There is a growing appreciation that decisions on changing drug treatment policy should be based on robust evidence of drug effectiveness. No published information describing the process of decision making prior to malaria treatment policy changes or subsequent success in implementing treatment policy changes exists in South Africa. This retrospective study of the differential implementation of a policy change from chloroquine to sulphadoxine-pyr…

  • Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America

    Open AccessLee Berger, Rick Speare et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…1998

    Epidermal changes caused by a chytridiomycete fungus (Chytridiomycota; Chytridiales) were found in sick and dead adult anurans collected from montane rain forests in Queensland (Australia) and Panama during mass mortality events associated with significant population declines. We also have found this new disease associated with morbidity and mortality in wild and captive anurans from additional locations in Australia and Central America. This is …