Margaret Hellard

25.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
594 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Margaret Hellard is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Margaret Hellard has authored 594 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 405 papers in Epidemiology, 291 papers in Hepatology and 185 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Margaret Hellard's work include Hepatitis C virus research (279 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (197 papers) and Hepatitis B Virus Studies (182 papers). Margaret Hellard is often cited by papers focused on Hepatitis C virus research (279 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (197 papers) and Hepatitis B Virus Studies (182 papers). Margaret Hellard collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Margaret Hellard's co-authors include Megan S. C. Lim, Campbell Aitken, Jane S. Hocking, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoové, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Christopher K. Fairley, Jason Grebely, Gregory J. Dore and Judy Gold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Margaret Hellard

572 papers receiving 13.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees

2016 443 citations Stuart A. Kinner, Lisa Maher et al. profile →
Hepatitis C virus treatment for prevention among people who inject drugs: Modeling treatment scale-up in the age of direct-acting antivirals

2013 368 citations Margaret Hellard, Sharon Hutchinson et al. profile →
Effects of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection on Sexual Risk Behavior in Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2018 313 citations Michael W. Traeger, Sophia Schroeder et al. profile →
Hepatitis C

2019 279 citations Margaret Hellard et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Margaret Hellard	8.3k	5.9k	4.1k	2.7k	1.9k	594	13.9k
Lisa Maher	7.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.5×	3.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.4×	375	10.7k
Mark Tyndall	12.6k 1.5×	2.4k 0.4×	6.5k 1.6×	3.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.8×	263	16.2k
John Kaldor	13.7k 1.7×	5.0k 0.8×	8.6k 2.1×	3.7k 1.4×	3.0k 1.5×	712	28.0k
Peter Vickerman	11.4k 1.4×	5.6k 0.9×	5.5k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	394	14.6k
Kenrad E. Nelson	11.3k 1.4×	6.2k 1.0×	8.3k 2.0×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	372	18.6k
Kimberly Page	5.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.4×	3.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	213	8.5k
David D. Celentano	9.0k 1.1×	818 0.1×	8.6k 2.1×	5.6k 2.1×	3.9k 2.0×	370	15.7k
Willi McFarland	7.3k 0.9×	643 0.1×	8.4k 2.0×	3.5k 1.3×	3.9k 2.0×	429	12.4k
Don C. Des Jarlais	16.1k 1.9×	4.0k 0.7×	9.8k 2.4×	5.2k 2.0×	3.5k 1.8×	525	21.6k
Scott D. Holmberg	13.5k 1.6×	5.6k 0.9×	14.4k 3.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	200	26.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Narayanasamy, Shanti, Alisa Pedrana, Katherine B. Gibney, Lisa Gibbs, & Margaret Hellard. (2025). Preparing Australia for future pandemics: strengthening trust, social capital and resilience. The Medical Journal of Australia. 222(10). 488–492.

Griffin, S., Shelley Walker, Jacinta A. Holmes, et al.. (2025). "Quick, simple, and friendly": Understanding the acceptability and accessibility of a nurse and peer-led, mobile model of hepatitis C care adjacent to community corrections in Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy. 139. 104785–104785. 1 indexed citations

Scott, Nick, Jessica Howell, Margaret Hellard, et al.. (2024). Improving Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance Outcomes in Patients with Cirrhosis after Hepatitis C Cure: A Modelling Study. Cancers. 16(15). 2745–2745. 1 indexed citations

Maher, Lisa, Handan Wand, Robert Kemp, et al.. (2024). Utilising integrated bio-behavioural surveillance (IBBS) to investigate declining hepatitis C antibody prevalence among people who inject drugs in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey. International Journal of Drug Policy. 144(Pt 1). 104576–104576.

O’Keefe, Daniel, Bridget Draper, Kathleen E. Ryan, et al.. (2023). The eliminate hepatitis C (EC) experience study: baseline characteristics of a cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia. BMJ Open. 13(7). e071665–e071665. 2 indexed citations

Abeysuriya, Romesh, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Katherine Heath, et al.. (2023). Keeping kids in school: modelling school-based testing and quarantine strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1150810–1150810. 6 indexed citations

Agius, Paul A., Bernadette Ward, Matthew Hickman, et al.. (2023). The impacts of COVID‐19 measures on drug markets and drug use among a cohort of people who use methamphetamine in Victoria, Australia. Addiction. 118(8). 1557–1568. 6 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Anna L., Katherine Heath, Alisa Pedrana, et al.. (2023). I know what you did last summer: a cross-sectional study of personal COVID-19 risk reduction strategies used by Victorian adults, December 2021–January 2022. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 47(3). 100068–100068.

Draper, Bridget, Anna Palmer, Hla Htay, et al.. (2023). Cost‐effectiveness of a decentralized, community‐based “one‐stop‐shop” hepatitis C testing and treatment program in Yangon, Myanmar. JGH Open. 7(11). 755–764.

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Wallace, Jack, Yinzong Xiao, Jess Howell, et al.. (2022). Understanding how to live with hepatitis B: a qualitative investigation of peer advice for Chinese people living with hepatitis B in Australia. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 536–536. 3 indexed citations

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Traeger, Michael W., Dean Murphy, Kathleen E. Ryan, et al.. (2021). Latent Class Analysis of Sexual Behaviours and Attitudes to Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Gay and Bisexual Men Using PrEP. AIDS and Behavior. 26(6). 1808–1820. 9 indexed citations

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Traeger, Michael W., Alisa Pedrana, Daniela K van Santen, et al.. (2020). The impact of universal access to direct-acting antiviral therapy on the hepatitis C cascade of care among individuals attending primary and community health services. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0235445–e0235445. 9 indexed citations

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Draper, Bridget, Alisa Pedrana, Jessica Howell, et al.. (2020). Decentralized, Community-Based Hepatitis C Point-of-Care Testing and Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment for People Who Inject Drugs and the General Population in Myanmar: Protocol for a Feasibility Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(7). e16863–e16863. 12 indexed citations

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Saul, Allan, Nick Scott, Brendan S. Crabb, et al.. (2020). Impact of Victoria’s Stage 3 lockdown on COVID‐19 case numbers. The Medical Journal of Australia. 213(11). 494–494. 22 indexed citations

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Howell, Jessica, Alisa Pedrana, Sophia Schroeder, et al.. (2020). A global investment framework for the elimination of hepatitis B. Journal of Hepatology. 74(3). 535–549. 63 indexed citations

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Gemert, Caroline van, Rebecca Guy, Mark Stoové, et al.. (2019). Pathology Laboratory Surveillance in the Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Blood-Borne Viruses: Protocol for a Cohort Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 8(8). e13625–e13625. 1 indexed citations

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Wade, Amanda, Christine Röder, M. Davies, et al.. (2018). Aiming for elimination: Outcomes of a consultation pathway supporting regional general practitioners to prescribe direct‐acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 25(9). 1089–1098. 25 indexed citations

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Callander, Denton, Carol El‐Hayek, Jason Asselin, et al.. (2018). Monitoring the Control of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood-Borne Viruses: Protocol for the Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS). JMIR Research Protocols. 7(11). e11028–e11028. 41 indexed citations

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Richmond, Jacqueline A., Jeanne Ellard, Jack Wallace, et al.. (2018). Achieving a hepatitis C cure: a qualitative exploration of the experiences and meanings of achieving a hepatitis C cure using the direct acting antivirals in Australia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 8–8. 42 indexed citations

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Winter, Rebecca, Jesse T Young, Mark Stoové, et al.. (2016). Resumption of injecting drug use following release from prison in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 168. 104–111. 34 indexed citations

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