Resources

This practice guide and appendixes provide medical practitioners with guidance on identifying and assessing workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica dust, and carrying out health assessments and surveillance.

This administrative report outlines how the National Dust Disease Taskforce developed national guidance for doctors assessing workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica dust.

This document outlines how the National Communicable Disease Surveillance Dashboard works using the new Microsoft Power BI user interface.

This document contains the surveillance case definition for invasive meningococcal disease, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

This document contains the surveillance case definition for mumps, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides recommendations from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport Inquiry into biotoxin-related illnesses in Australia.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides advice to state and territory health departments about reducing exposure to lead and other metals from plumbing products.

This Communicable Diseases Genomics Network (CDGN), Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) and Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) document contains a sampling strategy for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance.

This document contains the work plan and terms of reference for the Public Health Laboratory Network for the period 2019 to 2023.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) highlights the health risks from lead exposure. It gives advice on how to minimise any potential exposures to lead leached out of plumbing fittings.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) assists environmental health practitioners and public health agencies to better understand and prepare for communicating environmental health risks to the general public.

This framework from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) supports the National Health Emergency Response (NatHealth) arrangements during environmental health issues, such as emerging environmental contaminants or environmental health emergencies.

This strategy aligns future funded research activities with the priorities of the bloodborne virus (BBV) and sexually transmissible infection (STI) research agenda, and supports measurable progress towards goals and targets of the 5 national BBV and STI strategies.

This final report from the National Dust Disease Taskforce includes 7 recommendations to support a range of actions to improve worker health and safety from dust diseases.

This document contains the surveillance case definition for Japanese encephalitis virus infection, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

This document outlines the evidence base underpinning the debilitating symptom complexes attributed to ticks (DSCATT) clinical pathway.

In response to the 2019–20 bushfire, this guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provided a summary of the known health effects of bushfire smoke exposure.

The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE).

This document supports clinicians to make diagnoses and referrals for patients presenting with chronic symptoms attributed to an unknown illness.

The plan outlines the indicators used to track the progress of the national bloodborne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmissible infections (STI) strategies.

Public Health Laboratory Network Statement on point-of-care serology testing for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19).

The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for invasive pneumococcal disease.

This guide aims to help environmental health practitioners plan for and respond to disasters and emergencies.

The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for salmonella.

The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for varicella zoster virus.