Dr Sue Vlack
Clinical Public Health Academic
School of Public Health
+61 7 336 55437
Researcher biography
Susan is a lecturer at the School of Public Health. She is also a Public Health Physician whose recent clinical practice has been in Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection for Metro North Brisbane area. She has had experience as a Child Health program manager in Far North Queensland, and has an ongoing interest in immunisation practice and mprovement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health through health service research applicable to preventive care.
Book Chapters
Riley, Ian, Shannon, Cindy, Williams, Gail, Fagan, Ruth, Vlack, Susan and Foster, Rosemary (2004) A Needs Survey of Immunisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Queensland Queensland: Queensland Health Communicable Diseases Unit
Vlack, S., Shannon, C., Colditz, P. B. and Hooper, L. (2002). Baby Help, A Diagnostic Tool For Indigenous Parents And Health Workers. In Baby Help, A Diagnostic Tool For Indigenous Parents And Health Workers (pp. xx-xx) Queensland: Queensland Health, Indigenous Health Division, University of Queensland..
Vlack, S., Shannon, C., Colditz, P. and Hooper, L. (2002). Better Practice For Child Health Service Delivery To Queensland Indigenous Communities. In Better Practice For Child Health Service Delivery To Queensland Indigenous Communities (pp. 1-109) St Lucia, Brisbane: Queensland Health, Indigenous Health Division, The University of Queensland.
Journal Articles
Young, M K, Banu, S, McCall, B J, Vlack, S, Carroll, H, Bennett, S, Davison, R and Francis, D (2017) Potential exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus is unlikely to prevent future bat handling among adults in South East Queensland. Zoonoses and public health, 65 1: E237-E242. doi:10.1111/zph.12437
Vasant, Bhakti R., Stafford, Russell J., Jennison, Amy V., Bennett, Sonya M., Bell, Robert J., Doyle, Christine J., Young, Jeannette R., Vlack, Susan A., Titmus, Paul, El Saadi, Debra, Jarvinen, Kari A. J., Coward, Patricia, Barrett, Janine, Staples, Megan, Graham, Rikki M.A., Smith, Helen V. and Lambert, Stephen B. (2017) Mild illness during outbreak of Shiga toxin−producing Escherichia coli O157 infections associated with agricultural show, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23 10: 1686-1689. doi:10.3201/eid2310.161836
Ibiebele, Ibinabo, Coory, Michael, Smith, Gordon C., Boyle, Frances M., Vlack, Susan, Middleton, Philippa, Roe, Yvette and Flenady, Vicki (2016) Gestational age specific stillbirth risk among Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in Queensland, Australia: a population based study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16 159: 1-8. doi:10.1186/s12884-016-0943-7
Pillsbury, A., Cashman, P., Leeb, A., Regan, A., Westphal, D., Snelling, T., Blyth, C., Crawford, N., Wood, N., Macartney, K., AusVaxSafety surveillance team and Vlack, Susan (2015) Real-time safety surveillance of seasonal influenza vaccines in children, Australia, 2015. Eurosurveillance, 20 43: 6-10. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.43.30050
Ibiebele, I., Coory, M., Boyle, F. M., Humphrey, M., Vlack, S. and Flenady, V. (2014) Stillbirth rates among indigenous and non-indigenous women in Queensland, Australia: is the gap closing?. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 122 11: 1476-1483. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.13047
Chatterji, Madhumati, Baldwin, Anne M., Prakash, Rajendra, Vlack, Susan A. and Lambert, Stephen B. (2014) Public health response to a measles outbreak in a large correctional facility, Queensland, 2013. Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report, 38 4: e294-e297.
Conroy, Niall, Vlack, Susan, Williams, Julian M., Patten, John J., Horvath, Robert L. and Lambert, Stephen B. (2013) Using serology to assist with complicated post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies and Australian bat lyssavirus. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 7 2: e2066.1-e2066.5. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002066
Hoskins, Richard, Vohra, Renu, Vlack, Susan, Young, Megan, Selvey, Christine, Beard, Frank and Lyon, Michael (2011) Notes from the Field : Multiple Cases of Measles After Exposure During Air Travel --- Australia and New Zealand, January 2011. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review, 60 25: 851-851.
Dower, Jo, Donald, Maria, Begum, Nelufa, Vlack, Sue and Ozolins, Ieva (2011) Patterns and determinants of influenza and pneumococcal immunisation among adults with chronic disease living in Queensland, Australia. Vaccine, 29 16: 3031-3037. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.116
Vlack, Susan, Foster, Robert, Menzies, Rosemary, Williams, Gail, Shannon, Cindy and Riley, Ian (2007) Immunisation coverage of Queensland Indigenous two-year-old children by cluster sampling and by register. Australian And New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 31 1: 67-72. doi:10.1111/j.1467-842X.2007.tb00892.x
Vlack, S. A., Cox, L., Peleg, A., Canuto, C. G., Stewart, C., Conlon, A., Giffard, P. M., Huygens, F., Mollinger, A., Vohra, R., McCarthy, J. S. and Stephens, A. (2006) Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Queensland Indigenous community. Medical Journal Of Australia, 184 11: 556-559.
Hanna, Jeffrey N., Malcolm, Ruth L., Vlack, Susan A. and Andrews, Debora E. (1998) The vaccination status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children in far North Queensland. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 22 6: 664-668. doi:10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01466.x
McDermott, R., Hunter, E., Fagan, P. and Vlack, S. (1997) The social and educational outcome of a cohort of rural children in relation to the racial and socioeconomic groupings of their parents. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 33 2: 175-175. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1997.tb01027.x
Conference Papers
Stevenson, S. J., Wojcieszek, A. M., Boyle, F., Vlack, S., Ellwood, D., Gardener, G. and Flenady, V. (2016). My baby’s movements: Developing mobile phone software to increase maternal awareness of fetal movements. In: Abstracts of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ). Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Congress, Townsville, Australia, (17-18). 22‐25 May 2016. doi:10.1111/jpc.13194
Mills, K., Vlack, S., Flenady, V., Boyle, F., Hammill, J., Ibarra, G., Ibiebele, I., Kildea, S., Kilroy, K., Grant, T., Robertson, V., Roe, Y., Toombs, M., Watego, S., Wild, S. and Wojcieszek, A. (2015). "Understanding fetal language - what's bubba trying to tell us?" Development of a culturally appropriate fetal movements brochure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. In: Ethnic and cultural considerations. 19th Annual Meeting of The Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ), Crown Promenade Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, (72-72). 19 - 22 April 2015. doi:10.1111/jpc.12884
Abbott, R. A., Macdonald, D., Haswell-Elkins, M. R., Jenkins, D. G., Fell, K. J. and Vlack, S. A. (2005). Barriers to physical activity in young Indigenous Australian children. In: A. Cox, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Supplement. 2005 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sports, Melbourne, Australia, (183-183). 13-16 October, 2005.
Conference Item
Abbott, R. A., Haswell-Elkins, M. R., Jenkins, D. G., Fell, K. J., Vlack, S. A. and Macdonald, D. (2005). Prevalence of obesity and its relation to perceived activity levels in young Indigenous Australian children. In: A. Cox, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Supplement. 2005 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sports, Melbourne, (126-126). 13-16 October, 2005.