Our work
RAPID aims to support point of care testing scale up research being conducted across a range of settings (including low- and middle-income countries, remote or high-income country urban settings), diseases, health service types (primary care, antenatal, drug and alcohol etc) and available resources.
Through an expression of interest process, RAPID provides Investigators and colleagues with additional health economics, modelling, social science and epidemiological research support to enhance existing point of care testing projects that directly address the scale up of point of care testing, or contribute to the broader aims of the research consortium.
Since its inception, RAPID has directly supported a range of point of care testing research projects, including:
Understanding the health system implications for delivering integrated POCT for infectious disease in primary care settings
Investigators
Lise Lafferty, Sophie Lewis, Kerryn Drysdale, Robert Monaghan, Angela Kelly-Hanku, Rebecca Guy, Carla Treloar.
Scale-up of point-of-care testing strategies to enhance hepatitis C treatment among people who inject drugs: Modelling, affordability and cost-effectiveness analysis
Investigators
Jason Grebely, Sophy Shih, Richard Gray, Virginia Wiseman et al.
Attitudes and barriers towards the acceptability of integrating finger-stick point-of-care testing to enhance treatment uptake in the prison setting: Perspectives of people in prison health personnel, correctional personnel and stakeholders (The PIVOT Study)
Investigators
Lise Lafferty, Carla Treloar, Andrew Lloyd, Jason Grebely et al.
The perspectives of clinic staff in integrating and scaling up point-of-care testing for hepatitis C infection in non-specialised settings: a qualitative study
Investigators
Alison Marshall, Carla Treloar et al.
Evaluation of operator training, quality assurance, and quality control program for point-of-care testing for HCV infection
Investigators
Corey Markus, Susan Matthews, Jason Grebely et al.
Evaluation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander COVID-19 POC testing program
Investigators
Belinda Hengel, Rebecca Guy, Louise Causer, Susan Matthews, James Ward et al.
Connecting decentralised testing technologies for program, clinician and public health impact – scoping, prioritising and systems evaluation
Investigators
Louise Causer, Rebecca Guy, Tanya Applegate et al.
Framework for scaling up point of care testing for infectious disease – a scoping review
Investigators
Tanya Applegate, Andrea Kindinger, Ye Zhang, Carla Treloar, Jason Grebely, Susan Matthews, Mark Shepard, et al.