Amanda Rojek
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; Clinical Fellow
Amanda Rojek is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Pandemic Sciences Institute. She is an emergency medicine doctor with expertise in advancing clinical research during emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
Amanda’s work focuses on emerging and high-consequence infectious disease outbreaks. Her role is to design and rapidly implement meaningful clinical research when a new outbreak emerges. These include studies to better understand the natural history of a disease, through to treatment trials of experimental treatments. The aim is to improve patient outcomes. She is experienced in working in outbreak and outbreak-prone settings, including in resource-poor settings. Her work has included frontline clinical research based in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic in west Africa and in refugee camps. She has worked as a government advisor for the COVID-19 pandemic and as an advisor to the World Health Organization.
Amanda is currently an investigator for the PLATINUM treatment trial for mpox (https://platinumtrial.ox.ac.uk/) and works closely with international partners to develop the World Health Organisation’s SOLIDARITY trial for treatments for Ebola and Marburg Disease. She is a member of the International Severe Acute and Emerging Respiratory Infection consortium.
She is a Rhodes Scholar and she obtained an MSc in Global Health and and DPhil from the University of Oxford after obtaining her primary medical qualification at the University of Queensland. Amanda teaches on a number of postgraduate public health programs internationally.
Publications
Selected Publications:
- Development and feasibility of a smartphone, ECG and GPS based system for remotely monitoring exercise in cardiac rehabilitation. C Worringham, A Rojek, I Stewart. PloS one 6 (2), e14669. 2011
- Experimental treatment of Ebola virus disease with TKM-130803: a single-arm phase 2 clinical trial
J Dunning, F Sahr, A Rojek, F Gannon, G Carson, B Idriss, T Massaquoi, et al. PLoS medicine 13 (4), e1001997. 2016
- Experimental treatment of Ebola virus disease with brincidofovir
J Dunning, SB Kennedy, A Antierens, J Whitehead, I Ciglenecki, PloS one 11 (9), e0162199. 2016.
- Insights from clinical research completed during the west Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic
A Rojek, P Horby, J Dunning. Lancet Infectious Diseases 4, 5. 2017.
- Modernising epidemic science: enabling patient-centred research during epidemics
AM Rojek, PW Horby. BMC medicine 14 (1), 1-7. 2016.
- Heat strain during explosive ordnance disposal
IB Stewart, AM Rojek, AP Hunt. Military medicine 176 (8), 959-963. 2011.
- Management of adult cardiac arrest in the COVID-19 era. Interim guidelines from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
Medical Journal of Australia, 2020