Lisa Fitzgerald

A qualitative study on the acceptability and preference of three types of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets in Solomon Islands: implications for malaria elimination (2009)

Atkinson, Jo-An, Bobogare, Albino, Fitzgerald, Lisa, Boaz, Leonard, Appleyard, Bridget, Toaliu, Hilson, ...

Abstract Background In March 2008, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu governments raised the goal of their National Malaria Programmes from control to elimination. Vector control measures, such as...

Putative Gene Promoter Sequences in the Chlorella Viruses (2008)

Fitzgerald, Lisa, Boucher, Philip, Yanai-Balser, Giane, Suhre, Karsten, Graves, Michael, Van Etten, James L.

Three short (7 to 9 nucleotides) highly conserved nucleotide sequences were identified in the putative promoter regions (150 bp upstream and 50 bp downstream of the ATG translation start site) of...

Localising young people’s health: implications for public health policy and practice (2007)

Fitzgerald, Lisa

This paper describes a qualitative research project, ‘Localising Health: Space, class and gender and the lives of young people’. This qualitative, ethnographic study was undertaken with 25 young...

Phycodnaviruses: A peek at genetic diversity (2006)

Dunigan, David, Fitzgerald, Lisa, Van Etten, James L.

The family Phycodnaviridae encompasses a diverse collection of large icosahedral, dsDNA viruses infecting algae. These viruses have genomes ranging from 160 to 560 kb. The family consists of six...

A COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF CHLORELLA NC64A VIRUS NY-2A AND CHLORELLA Pbi VIRUS MT325 FROM THE FAMILY PHYCODNAVIRIDAE (2006)

Fitzgerald, Lisa

The family Phycodnaviridae consists of a morphologically similar but genetically diverse group of large dsDNA viruses which infect both fresh and marine water eukaryotic algae. Two viruses, the 370...

'When you come to it you feel like a dork asking a guy to put a condom on': is sex education addressing young people's understandings of risk? (2006)

Abel, Gillian, Fitzgerald, Lisa

Traditionally, school-based sex education has provided information-based programmes, with the assumption that young people make rational decisions with regard to the use of condoms. However, these...

Young People as Researchers: Finding out what we need to Know (2006)

Hessell, Megan, Alderslade, Lea, Fitzgerald, Lisa

A qualitatively driven, community-based participatory approach is being used by our research team, to develop and pilot a participatory research methodology that will enable the views and voices of...

A taste for novelty in invading house sparrows, Passer domesticus (2005)

Martin, Lynn B., Fitzgerald, Lisa

One of the central questions in invasion biology involves why some introductions succeed and others fail. Although several correlates of invasion success have been identified, patterns alone cannot...