By Dr Mohana Priya Kunasekaran

Journal articles

Wiblin S; Kunasekaran M; MacIntyre R; Seale H, 2026, 'Behavioural Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccination and Antiviral Uptake in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using the COM-B Framework', Vaccines, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines14060495

MacIntyre CR; Notaras A; Bari N; Doolan C; Mahmoud MMA; Honeyman D; de Araujo Aquino AFV; Seppelt I; Nicholls M; Turville S; Aggarwal A; Kunasekaran M; Gresham R; Walker G; Sevendal A; Rawlinson W; Emmen IE; O'Connor SL; O'Connor DH; de Silva C, 2026, 'Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol and surface samples in high acuity hospital settings during community epidemic waves – implications for risk-based infection control', Respiratory Medicine, 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2026.108712

Akhtar Z; Notaras A; Tawfiq E; Kunasekaran M; MacIntyre CR; Rawlinson W; Walker GJ, 2026, 'Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus within a New South Wales-based multi-centre health district between 2018 and 2024 in Australia', Pathology, 58, pp. 97 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2025.06.011

Kalyar F; Maclntyre CR; Kunasekaran M; Poulos C; de Silva C; Skouteris H; Chughtai AA, 2026, 'Attitudes toward mobile apps for infectious disease surveillance: a cross-sectional study of trust, usability, and adoption in Australia', Health Information Management Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/18333583261452982

Zhang P; MacIntyre CR; Kunasekaran M; Chughtai AA; Bari N, 2026, 'Emergence of HPAI H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b in Australia’s Sub-Antarctic Territory: Implications for National Preparedness and Biosecurity', Global Biosecurity, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.343

Stone H; Kunasekaran M; Poulos C; Macintyre CR; Heslop D, 2026, 'Generating a Contact Matrix for Aged Care Settings in Australia: An Agent-Based Model Study', JASSS, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.18564/jasss.5993

Thant K; Tan T; Kunasekaran M; MacIntyre R, 2026, 'Age and Cardiovascular Risk Influence COVID-19 Booster Uptake Among Adults Residing in Australia: Insights From an Australian Survey of 5,177 Participants', Heart Lung and Circulation, 35, pp. s604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2026.07.960

Thant K; Kunasekaran M; Tan T; MacIntyre R, 2026, 'COVID-19 Vaccination Perceptions and Preventive Behaviours by Cardiovascular Risk in Adults Residing in Australia', Heart Lung and Circulation, 35, pp. s617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2026.07.982

Ansari S; Hosseinzadeh H; Dennis S; Sheng T; Kunasekaran M; Taher S; Zwar N, 2025, 'Patient and provider perspectives of a self-management program for COPD in the context of multimorbidity: a qualitative study', BMC Primary Care, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-025-03077-5

Tawfiq E; Chen R; Honeyman DA; Dawson R; Kunasekaran M; Notaras A; Gurdasani D; Skouteris H; Ayton D; MacIntyre CR, 2025, 'Long Covid Symptom Clusters, Correlates and Predictors in a Highly Vaccinated Australian Population in 2023', Health Expectations, 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.70273

Quigley AL; Kunasekaran M; Stone H; Honeyman D; Notaras A; Lim S; MacIntyre R, 2025, 'The impact of the cruise ship Coral Princess on COVID-19 transmission in regional Western Australia in 2022', Journal of Travel Medicine, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae044

Kunasekaran MP; Bari N; Quigley A; MacIntyre CR, 2025, 'Ebola Virus Disease Re-emerges After Three Years in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 16th Outbreak in 49 Years', Global Biosecurity, 8, pp. 1 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.349

Macintyre CR; Chughtai AA; Kunasekaran M; Tawfiq E; Greenhalgh T, 2025, 'The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings', BMJ, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078573

Gurdasani D; Trent M; Ziauddeen H; Mnatzaganian E; Turville S; Chen X; Kunasekaran MP; Chughtai AA; Moa A; Mceniery J; Greenhalgh T; Macintyre CR, 2024, 'Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children: evidence for and against causal relationships with SARS-CoV-2, HAdv and AAV2', BMJ Paediatrics Open, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-002410

Berry MT; Khan SR; Schlub TE; Notaras A; Kunasekaran M; Grulich AE; MacIntyre CR; Davenport MP; Khoury DS, 2024, 'Predicting vaccine effectiveness for mpox', Nature Communications, 15, pp. 3856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48180-w

Shrestha A; Chen R; Kunasekaran M; Honeyman D; Notaras A; Sutton B; Quigley A; MacIntyre CR, 2024, 'The risk of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults diagnosed with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Ageing Research Reviews, 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2024.102448

Greenhalgh T; MacIntyre CR; Baker MG; Bhattacharjee S; Chughtai AA; Fisman D; Kunasekaran M; Kvalsvig A; Lupton D; Oliver M; Tawfiq E; Ungrin M; Vipond J, 2024, 'Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 37, pp. e00124 - e00123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

Chen R; Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Lim S; Chughtai AA; Kpozehouen EB; Chen X; Quigley A; Macintyre CR, 2024, 'Respiratory illness of unknown cause as an early signal of the COVID-19 pandemic', Global Biosecurity, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.253

Chen R; Kezhekkekara SG; Kunasekaran MP; MacIntyre CR, 2023, 'Universal masking during COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Ageing Research Reviews, 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2023.102138

Chen X; Kunasekaran MP; Hutchinson D; Stone H; Zhang T; Aagerup J; Moa A; MacIntyre CR, 2023, 'Enhanced EPIRISK tool for rapid epidemic risk analysis', Public Health, 224, pp. 159 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.08.032

Hutchinson D; Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Moa A; MacIntyre CR, 2023, 'Could it be monkeypox? Use of an AI-based epidemic early warning system to monitor rash and fever illness', Public Health, 220, pp. 142 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.05.010

MacIntyre CR; Chen X; Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Lim S; Stone H; Paik HY; Yao L; Heslop D; Wei W; Sarmiento I; Gurdasani D, 2023, 'Artificial intelligence in public health: the potential of epidemic early warning systems', Journal of International Medical Research, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231159335

Raphael M; Kelly-Hanku A; Heslop D; Hutchinson D; Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Macintyre R, 2023, 'Early pandemic use of face masks in Papua New Guinea under a mask mandate', Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2023.14.1.998

Hutchinson D; Kunasekaran M; Stone H; Chen X; Quigley A; Moa A; Macintyre CR, 2023, 'Healthcare Workers' SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Four Hospital Outbreaks during Delta Variant Prevalence in Sydney, Australia', Nursing Research and Practice, 2023, pp. 1806909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/1806909

Stone H; Heslop D; Lim S; Sarmiento I; Kunasekaran M; Raina MacIntyre C, 2023, 'Open-Source Intelligence for Detection of Radiological Events and Syndromes Following the Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Observational Study', Jmir Infodemiology, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/39895

Moa A; Kunasekaran M; Akhtar Z; Costantino V; MacIntyre CR; Zubair Akhtar AM, 2023, 'Systematic review of influenza vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza among older adults living in aged care facilities', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 19, pp. 2271304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2023.2271304

Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Hooshmand E; Trent M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Raina MacIntyre C, 2022, 'Effectiveness estimates for enhanced trivalent influenza vaccines in an aged care summer outbreak', Vaccine, 40, pp. 7170 - 7175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.018

Kunasekaran M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Factors associated with repeated influenza vaccine uptake among aged care staff in an Australian sample from 2017 to 2019', Vaccine, 40, pp. 7238 - 7246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.015

Kunasekaran MP; Mongha A; Chughtai AA; Poulos CJ; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Policy Analysis for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Aged Care', Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23, pp. 1741 - 1741.e18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2022.06.002

Lai YA; Chen X; Kunasekaran M; Rahman B; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Global epidemiology of vaccine-derived poliovirus 2016–2021: A descriptive analysis and retrospective case-control study', Eclinicalmedicine, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101508

Kunasekaran MP; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Poulos CJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Influenza cases in nine aged care facilities in Sydney, Australia over a three-year surveillance period, 2018—2020', Vaccine, 40, pp. 4253 - 4261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.048

Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Rahman B; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Poulos CJ; Macintyre CR, 2022, 'Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rates in Aged Care-A Meta-Analysis', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac033

Hutchinson D; Kunasekaran M, 2022, 'Emergence of novel orthopox virus in Alaska, USA', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.143

Kalyar F; Chen X; Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Chughtai A; Maclntyre R; MacIntyre R, 2022, 'An unprecedented global resurgence of monkeypox', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/GBIO.170

Hutchinson D; Kunasekaren M; Chen X; Moa A; Kunasekaran M, 2022, 'Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak in South-Eastern Australia, 2022', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.159

Kenrick Gardiner ER; Notaras A; Kunasekaran MP; Quigley A, 2022, 'Legionnaires’ disease: A critical report of the pneumonia of unknown origin outbreak in Argentina', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.180

Honeyman D; Buisson E; Hutchinson D; Kunasekaran M; Aagerup J; Chen X; Moa A; Hyde Z, 2022, 'SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant: a systematic review of transmissibility and severity in children', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.169

Quigley A; Kunasekaran M; Hutchinson D; Gardiner E; Kannan A; Abraham. S, 2022, 'Tomato Flu/Fever-An analysis of the Hand Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak reported in India.', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.177

Kunasekaran M; Hutchinson D; Stone H; Chen X, 2022, 'Unknown skin disease among Senegalese fishermen', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.153

Kunasekaran M; Hutchinson D; Stone H; Chen X; Moa A, 2021, 'Is the Delta Plus Variant (B.1.617.2/AY1) more serious than the Delta Variant?', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.139

Stone H; Lim S; Kunasekaran M, 2021, 'Greater Sydney SARS-CoV-2 Observations from the 16th of June to the 13th of July', Global Biosecurity, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.125/

Lesmanawati DAS; Adam DC; Hooshmand E; Moa A; Kunasekaran MP; MacIntyre CR, 2021, 'The global epidemiology of Hepatitis A outbreaks 2016-2018 and the utility of EpiWATCH as a rapid epidemic intelligence service', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.100

Hooshmand E; Moa A; Trent M; Kunasekaran M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2021, 'Epidemiology of 2017 influenza outbreaks in nine Australian Aged care facilities', Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 15, pp. 278 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12811

Lina SMM; Kunasekaran MP; Moa A, 2021, 'Brucellosis Outbreak in China, 2019', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.108

Stone H; Lim S; Kunasekaran M; Nunes-Vaz R, 2021, 'Greater Sydney SARS-CoV-2 Observations from the 16th of June to the 13th of July', Global Biosecurity, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.125

Costantino V; Kunasekaran M; MacIntyre CR, 2021, 'Modelling of optimal vaccination strategies in response to a bioterrorism associated smallpox outbreak', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 17, pp. 738 - 746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1800324

Chughtai AA; Seale H; Rawlinson WD; Kunasekaran M; Raina Macintyre C, 2021, 'Selection and use of respiratory protection by healthcare workers to protect from infectious diseases in hospital settings', Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 64, pp. 368 - 377, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ANNWEH/WXAA020

Chughtai AA; Tan TC; Hitchen EM; Kunasekaran M; MacIntyre CR, 2020, 'Association of influenza infection and vaccination with cardiac biomarkers and left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with acute myocardial infarction', Ijc Heart and Vasculature, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2020.100648

MacIntyre CR; Chen X; Kunasekaran M; Kannan A; Nayak V; Bayaraa K; Sitnikova E; Nguyen PY; German T, 2020, 'Tailored intelligence to detect unusual epidemic activity following the explosion at Vector, Russia', Global Biosecurity, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.85

Costantino V; Trent MJ; Sullivan JS; Kunasekaran MP; Gray R; MacIntyre R, 2020, 'Serological immunity to smallpox in New South Wales, Australia', Viruses, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12050554

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