Dr. Patricia Graves is a specialist in epidemiology of malaria, filariasis and other vector-borne diseases, with extensive experience in applied research and consulting in the Pacific, Africa and Asia. From 2007 to 2011, she worked as epidemiologist for The Carter Center, Atlanta GA USA, conducting program implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation of integrated control programs for malaria, filariasis and other neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia and Nigeria. She has been an advisor to the Pacific Regional Filariasis Elimination program since 2000 especially on survey design and evaluation of control programs.

Dr. Graves has been a successful short-term consultant for the World Bank, WHO, AusAID and USAID for support to and evaluation of malaria and filariasis control programmes in many countries of the Asia-Pacific Region and Africa. She also has long-term project management and applied research experience in Samoa, America Samoa, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, The Gambia, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Dr. Graves has conducted laboratory and field research on genetic control of mosquitoes, malaria transmission and transmission blocking immunity, effectiveness of interventions such as insecticidal mosquito nets, rapid diagnostic tests, and the relationship between viruses and type 1 diabetes.

Interests

Research

• Elimination programmes for malaria and neglected tropical diseases; vector-borne disease epidemiology and control; systematic reviews and meta-analysis; improvement of control programs for vector-borne diseases; disease surveillance.

Experience

• 1995 to 2013 - Independent Consultant, EpiVec Consulting (Fort Collins CO , Atlanta GA and Cairns)
• 2007 to 2011 - Epidemiologist, The Carter Center (Atlanta GA USA)

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)
• Medical Microbiology (1108)
• Clinical Sciences (1103)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public Health (9204)
• Clinical Health (9201)

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Journal Articles

• Carlingford C, Melrose W, Mokoia G, Graves P, Ichimori K, Capuano C, Kim S, Aratchige P and Nosa M (2019) Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in Niue under PacELF, 1999-2016. Tropical Medicine and Health, 47.
• Douglass J, Dykes L, Kelly-Hope L, Gordon S, Leggat P, Aye N, Win S, Wai T, Win Y, Nwe T and Graves P (2019) Preventive chemotherapy reverses covert, lymphatic associated tissue change in young people with lymphatic filariasis in Myanmar. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 24 (4). pp. 463-476
• Joseph H, Sullivan S, Wood P, Melrose W, Taleo F and Graves P (2019) Investigation of mixture modelling algorithms as a tool for determining the statistical likelihood of serological exposure to Filariasis utilizing historical data from the Lymphatic Filariasis Surveillance Program in Vanuatu. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4 (1).
• Xu Z, Graves P, Lau C, Clements A, Geard N and Glass K (in press) GEOFIL: a spatially-explicit agent-based modelling framework for predicting the long-term transmission dynamics of lymphatic filariasis in American Samoa. Epidemics,
• Berg Soto A, Xu Z, Wood P, Sanuku N, Robinson L, King C, Tisch D, Susapu M and Graves P (2018) Combining different diagnostic studies of lymphatic filariasis for risk mapping in Papua New Guinea: a predictive model from microfilaraemia and antigenaemia prevalence surveys. Tropical Medicine and Health, 46.
• Dickson B, Graves P, Aye N, Nwe T, Wai T, Win S, Shwe M, Douglass J, Bradbury R and McBride W (2018) The prevalence of lymphatic filariasis infection and disease following six rounds of mass drug administration in Mandalay Region, Myanmar. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12 (11).
• Diefenbach-Elstob T, Graves P, Dowi R, Gula B, Plummer D, McBryde E, Pelowa D, Siba P, Pomat W and Warner J (2018) The epidemiology of tuberculosis in the rural Balimo region of Papua New Guinea. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 23 (9). pp. 1022-1032
• Sheel M, Sheridan S, Gass K, Won K, Fuimaono S, Kirk M, Gonzales A, Hedtke S, Graves P and Lau C (2018) Identifying residual transmission of lymphatic filariasis after mass drug administration: comparing school-based versus community-based surveillance - American Samoa, 2016. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12 (7). pp. 1-20
• Xu Z, Lau C, Zhou X, Fuimaono S, Soares Magalhães R and Graves P (2018) The extensive networks of frequent population mobility in the Samoan Islands and their implications for infectious disease transmission. Scientific Reports, 8.
• Allen T, Taleo F, Graves P, Wood P, Taleo G, Baker M, Bradley M and Ichimori K (2017) Impact of the Lymphatic Filariasis Control Program towards elimination of filariasis in Vanuatu, 1997-2006. Tropical Medicine and Health, 45 (8). pp. 1-11
• Coutts S, King J, Pa'au M, Fuimaono S, Roth J, King M, Lammie P, Lau C and Graves P (2017) Prevalence and risk factors associated with lymphatic filariasis in American Samoa after mass drug administration. Tropical Medicine and Health, 45. pp. 1-10

Book Chapters

• Williams Y, Tusting L, Hocini S, Graves P, Killeen G, Kleinschmidt I, Okumu F, Feachem R, Tatarsky A and Gosling R (2018) Expanding the vector control toolbox for malaria elimination: a systematic review of the evidence. In: Advances in Parasitology. Advances in Parasitology, 99. Elsevier, London, United Kingdom, pp. 345-379

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Completed

• Standardisation and commericalisation of a filarial antibody test for use in the global lymphatic filariasis elimination programme (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Detecting the unseen: covert tissue changes in lymphatic filariasis and implications for the future of morbidity management (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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