Asha Bowen

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Timely home repairs are needed for good health in remote Aboriginal communities

Stephanie Enkel, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Hannah M.M. Thomas, The Kids Research Institute Australia, and Rachel Burgess, The Kids Research Institute Australia

Aboriginal people in remote Australia have no choice but to live in homes too small for their families and face long waits for plumbing and washing machine repairs.
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We can’t close schools every time there’s a COVID outbreak. Our traffic light system shows what to do instead

Fiona Russell, The University of Melbourne; Archana Koirala, University of Sydney; Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Margie Danchin, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Sharon Goldfeld, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

We need a layered strategy — depending on the amount of community transmission – to ensure the response isn’t the same every time with each snap lockdown: to close schools. Here’s how to do it.
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Coronavirus: is it safe for kids to go back to school? And what about the new mutant strain?

Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Archana Koirala, University of Sydney; Fiona Russell, The University of Melbourne; Kristine Macartney, University of Sydney, and Margie Danchin, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Based on closely following outbreaks in schools and early learning centres across Australia throughout 2020, we have enough evidence to show how students can return to school safely.
Rates of resistance to the bacteria commonly known as golden staph are at least double in remote Indigenous communities what they are in Australia’s major cities. Lucy Hughes Jones/AAP

Antibiotic resistance is an even greater challenge in remote Indigenous communities

Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia and Steven Tong, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health challenges of the modern day. It’s especially prevalent, and must be acted on, in Australia’s remote Indigenous communities.
The antibiotics commonly used to treat school sores, a skin infection affecting thousands of Aboriginal kids, are out of stock. Terry Trewin/AAP

Antibiotic shortages are putting Aboriginal kids at risk

Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia

Almost half of Aboriginal kids living remotely will have a school sore at any one time. But there aren’t enough of the right antibiotics to treat them.
Impetigo happens when itching causes the skin to break and let in disease-causing bacteria. from shutterstock.com

Why simple school sores often lead to heart and kidney disease in Indigenous children

Jackson Thomas, University of Canberra; Erin Walker, University of Canberra; Gregory Peterson, University of Tasmania; Nathan M D'Cunha, University of Canberra; Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia, and Julia K. Christenson, University of Canberra

While school sores – or impetigo – is a treatable condition, if left untreated it can lead to much more serious illness such as kidney and heart disease.

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