Trachoma Surveillance Report

The National Trachoma surveillance and Reporting Unit (NTSRU) is responsible for trachoma data collation, analysis and reporting related to the ongoing evaluation of trachoma control strategies in Australia. It operates under contract with the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, and its primary focus is the three Australian jurisdictions (Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia) that have been funded to undertake trachoma control activities by the Australian Government in accordance with the GET 2020 initiative and, through the Improving Eye and Ear Health Services for Indigenous Australians for Better Education and Employment Outcomes measure. Since the end of 2010, the NTSRU has been based at The Kirby Institute (formally known as the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research) at the University of New South Wales. It was previously based at The Centre for Eye Research Australia, which produced the 2006 to 2008 Annual Reports and the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, which produced the 2009 Annual Report.

Australian Trachoma Surveillance Reports

Australian Trachoma Surveillance Reports 2006-2009

Surveillance Materials

Guidelines for the public health management of trachoma in Australia
Data collection forms
WHO trachoma grading card

Contacts

Trachoma Surveillance Officer
Carleigh Cowling
The Kirby Institute (formerly the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research),
CFI Building, Corner Boundary & West Streets, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Tel: +61 2 9385 0865 Fax: +61 2 9385 0920
ccowling@kirby.unsw.edu.au

Jurisdictional Contacts

Northern Territory
Cate Coffey
Trachoma Coordinator
Centre Disease Control
Department of Health, Northern Territory Government
Ph: +61 2 8 8951 6902
cate.coffey@nt.gov.au

Lesley Nuttal
Trachoma Coordinator
Centre for Disease Control-Health Protection
Department of Health-Northern Territory Government
Ph: +61 2 8 892 27815
lesley.nuttall@nt.gov.au


South Australia
Lucy Angley
Principal Project Manager /Aboriginal Health
Country Health SA
Ph: +61 8 8226 7615
lucy.angley@health.sa.gov.au


Western Australia
Kate Gatti
Area Director: Population Health
WA Country Health Service
Ph: +61 2 8 9323 6602
Kate.Gatti@health.wa.gov.au


National Trachoma Surveillance Reference Group

Chair
Alison Killen
Assistant Secretary
Better Health Outcomes Branch
Office for Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Health
Department of Health and Ageing
Ph: +61 2 6289 5651
Alison.killen@health.gov.au

Further Reading

Taylor HR (2008) Trachoma: a blinding scourge from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century.Melbourne: Centre for Eye Research Australia.

World Health Organisation

http://www.who.int/blindness/causes/priority/en/index2.html

http://www.who.int/blindness/causes/trachoma/en/index.html

International Trachoma Initiative

http://www.trachoma.org/