2012 Scientific Report - Queensland Children's Medical Research ...

acterial bronchitis. The study is being conducted in partnership with the University of Sydney,
the University of Western Australia, Griffith University and Menzies School of Health Research.
FluMum: Influenza vaccine in pregnancy and the benefit to infants: FluMum is a national
cohort study that aims to determine whether the infants of mothers who received influenza
vaccine in pregnancy as less likely to get influenza infection in the first six months of life
compared to the infants of mothers who were not vaccinated. Nationally, the study aims to
recruit over 10,000 women from Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth over
a four year period. The study is being conducted in partnership with the Menzies School of
Health Research, the University of Sydney, Melbourne University, the University of Adelaide and
the University of Western Australia. The RiOAR team hosts the National Study Coordinator and
has played a major role in national data management.
IROC: Indigenous Respiratory Outreach Care: IROC is an initiative of Queensland Health’s
Statewide Respiratory Clinical Network and aims to deliver and evaluate specialist respiratory
clinical services to rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in
Queensland. Dr O’Grady and Linda Medlin have both played a major role in the implementation
of the service and Linda continues to serve on the IROC Governance Group
Figure 3: IROC Artwork. Artist: Indala (Mrs Linda Medlin)
AKAPRI: Aboriginal Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of Respiratory Illnesses. AKAPRI
aims to determine whether IROC is impacting on knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of
respiratory illnesses, with a particular emphasis on evaluating the service from within an
Indigenous framework using Indigenous methodologies. The study is comparing two rural and
remote communities in Queensland, one receiving IROC and one that has had no specialist
respiratory services.
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