Background

Clarissa Moreira is a PhD Candidate in the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies team. Her research is investigating the determinants of stunting among infants in Papua New Guinea. Clarissa has a background in data management and epidemiology with a focus on malaria and other infectious diseases.

Positions

• 2014 - ongoing: Research Assistant, Burnet Institute
• 2011-2014: Senior Data Manager, WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), The University of Oxford, UK
• 2010-2011: Scientific Analyst, WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), Paris France
• 2006-2009: Research Assistant, The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne

Qualifications

• 2013: Masters of Epidemiology, London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine
• 2008: Bachelor of Arts, the University of Melbourne
• 2008: Bachelor of Science (Honours), The University of Melbourne

Awards

• 2016: ViiV Healthcare Runner up oral presentation Prize at mHIVE world AIDS Day Symposium

Projects (3)

Current (2)

• ACCESS: STI and BBV surveillance system
  ACCESS is a surveillance system that collates important information on a range of STIs and BBVs.
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
  A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in PNG.

Past (1)

• HIV/AIDS Passive Surveillance
  Carries out surveillance for HIV and AIDS in Victoria.

Publications (7)

2020 (2)

• Gaps in the HIV diagnosis and care cascade for migrants in Australia, 2013-2017: A cross-sectional study.
  Marukutira T, Gray RT, Douglass C, El-Hayek C, Moreira C, Asselin J, Donovan B, Vickers T, Spelman T, Crowe S, Guy R, Stoové M, Hellard M
  PLoS Med. 2020 Mar; 17(3):e1003044
• Population-level diagnosis and care cascade for chlamydia in Australia.
  Gray RT, Callander D, Hocking JS, McGregor S, McManus H, Dyda A, Moreira C, Braat S, Hengel B, Ward J, Wilson DP, Donovan B, Kaldor JM, Guy RJ
  Sex Transm Infect. 2020 Jan; Epub ahead of print

2019 (1)

• Two decades of surveillance data show late presentation among a diverse group of women diagnosed with HIV in Victoria, Australia.
  Moreira C, Boughey A, Ryan KE, Higgins N, Rotty J, West M, Hellard M, Stoové M, El-Hayek C
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2019 Oct; 43(5):413-418

2018 (1)

• Monitoring the Control of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood-Borne Viruses: Protocol for the Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS).
  Callander D, Moreira C, El-Hayek C, Asselin J, van Gemert C, Watchirs Smith L, Nguyen L, Dimech W, Boyle DI, Donovan B, Stoové M, Hellard M, Guy R
  JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Nov; 7(11):e11028

2015 (1)

• A systematic review of sub-microscopic Plasmodium vivax infection.
  Clarissa M Moreira, Mahmoud Abo-Shehada, Ric N Price, Chris J Drakeley
  Malar J. 2015 Sep; 14(1):360

2014 (1)

• Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter and Multidrug Resistance 1 Genes: Parasite Risk Factors that Affect Treatment Outcomes for P. falciparum Malaria after Artemether-Lumefantrine and Artesunate-Amodiaquine.
  Meera Venkatesan, Nahla B Gadalla, Kasia Stepniewska, Prabin Dahal, Christian Nsanzabana, Clarissa Moriera, Ric N Price, Andreas Martensson, Philip J Rosenthal, Grant Dorsey, Colin J Sutherland, Philippe Guerin, Timothy M E Davis, Didier Menard, Ishag Adam, George Ademowo, Cesar Arze, Frederick N Baliraine, Nicole Berens-Riha, Anders Bjorkman, Steffen Borrmann, Francesco Checchi, Meghna Desai Mehul Dhorda, Abdoulaye A Djimde, Badria B El-Sayed, Teferi Eshetu, Frederick Eyase, Catherine Falade, Jean-Francois Faucher, Gabrielle Froberg, Anastasia Grivoyannis, Sally Hamour, Sandrine Houze, Jacob Johnson, Erasmus Kamugisha, Simon Kariuki, Jean-Rene Kiechel, Fred Kironde, Poul-Erik Kofoed Jacques LeBras, Maja Malmberg, Leah Mwai, Billy Ngasala, Francois Nosten, Samuel L Nsobya, Alexis Nzila Mary Oguike, Sabina Dahlstrom Otienoburu, Bernhards Ogutu, Jean-Bosco Ouedraogo, Patrice Piola, Lars Rombo, Birgit Schramm, A Fabrice Some, Julie Thwing, Johan Ursing, Rina P M Wong, Ahmed Zeynudin, Issaka Zongo, Christopher V Plowe, Carol Hopkins Sibley
  Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Jul; Epub ahead of print

2013 (1)

• The effect of dosing regimens on the antimalarial efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine: a pooled analysis of individual patient data.
  WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) DP Study Group (Clarissa Moreira collaborating author)
  PLoS Med. 2013 Dec; 10(12):e1001564

News Articles (6)

2020 (1)

• HIV diagnosis and treatment for migrants lagging in Australia

2019 (1)

• Later HIV diagnoses for women

2018 (2)

• ACCESS a perfect ten
• Burnet at the heart of Midsumma

2017 (2)

• Burnet excels in NHMRC funding
• U=U addressing HIV stigma