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Associate ProfessorPhilip Britton

Conjoint Associate Professor

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • Conjoint Associate Professor
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Dr Britton's research focuses on severe infectious diseases in children, especially neurological infection and severe acute respiratory infections.

He coordinated the Australian Childhood Encephalitis study, a prospective cohort describing the causes and consequences of this severe syndrome in children.

 

His other research interests include: Tuberculosis, Travel associated infections and Tropical diseases, and Staphylococcus aureus infections.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Optimising the treatment of antibiotic resistant urinary tract infections in children: The FOSUTI Trial
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 May 2023 - 30 Apr 2029
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    Japanese Encephalitis in northern New South Wales: an exploratory research to understand the perceptions and map practices of service providers, program managers and stakeholders in the region
    Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases (Sydney ID)1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Britton P,
    • Rahman K
  • GRANT
    Meta-GP: Delivering a Clinical Metagenomics Platform for Australia
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)2 Jan 2021
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  • GRANT
    BEAT COVID
    Snow Medical Research Foundation Ltd1 Jan 2020
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  • GRANT
    Emerging infectious neurological diseases in Australia; from enhanced recognition to improved response
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Britton P
  • GRANT
    Neuroimmunology and neuroInflammation: from Biomarker and Pathogenesis to patient diagnosis and improvement of clinical outcome
    DVC Research1 Jan 2018
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  • GRANT
    Discovering the Infectious Causes of unknown Encephalitis cases using genomic approaches: the DICE study
    Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation1 Jan 2014
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  • GRANT
    Early identification of clinical, diagnostic and genetic risk factors for CP from early life human parechovirus (HPeV) infection, a potentially 'vaccine preventable cause of CP
    Cerebral Palsy Alliance
    People funded by this grant: