Kelly Hosking

Dynamic public health leader with extensive experience at NT Health, excelling in strategic planning and stakeholder engagement. Successfully spearheaded the COVID-19 response, enhancing workforce capacity and community consultation. Proven track record in policy development and project management, fostering innovation and collaboration to drive impactful health initiatives.

Highly accomplished Registered Nurse working in the area of public health policy, practice and research. Broad experienced in Australia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Fiji, and the United Kingdom. Skilled in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, operations management, research design, advocacy and government relations, epidemiology, communication. A proven track record of leadership, policy development, education, and clinical expertise in sexual health, communicable disease prevention and emergency outbreak management. Currently serving as Director of Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses Strategy and Policy for NT Health, providing strategic advice across the Northern Territory and CHO-appointed Incident Manager for the Syphilis Outbreak incident management team and mpox preparedness. Holds an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research. Recognised for innovative research, cross-sector partnerships, and expertise in managing public health initiatives. Actively works towards implementing research into policy and practice and disseminating findings extensively, both locally and internationally, through participation in conferences, advocacy and educational initiatives.

• Chief Investigator Hep B PAST Plus, current
• Principle Investigator Reducing Sexual Health Incidence through Health Literacy study, current
• Chief Investigator COVAC study
• Associate Investigator on NHMRC $5 million partnership project - Hep B: PAST
• Chief Investigator on BaMBI (babies and mothers with hepatitis B NT), 2016-2017
• PhD Partner Investigator on Connect C (Burnet Institute), HVCPOCT (Kirby)

1. Hosking, K.Partnership and Paradigm Shift: Tools to Sustainably Eliminate Chronic Hepatitis B in the Northern Territory. Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, Charles Darwin University, 2024 ris.cdu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/118615545/Thesis_CDU_Hosking_K_A.pdf

2. Hosking K, Binks P, De Santis T, Merrdi Wilson P, Gurruwiwi G, Bukulatjpi S, et al. Evaluating a novel model of hepatitis B care, Hep B PAST, in the Northern Territory of Australia: results from a prospective, population-based study.The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. 2024;48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101116

3. Hosking K, De Santis T, Vintour-Cesar E, Merrdi Wilson P, Garambaka Gurruwiwi G, Wurrawilya S, et al. ‘The most culturally safe training I’ve ever had’: The co-design of a culturally safe managing hepatitis B training course with and for the Aboriginal health workforce of the Northern Territory of Australia. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023; 23(1):935. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09902-w

4. Hosking K, De Santis T, Vintour-Cesar E, Merrdi Wilson P, Bunn L, Garambaka Gurruwiwi G, et al. ‘Putting the power back into community’: a mixed methods evaluation a chronic hepatitis B training course for the Aboriginal health workforce of Australia’s Northern Territory. PLOS ONE 19(1). 2024 Jan 24. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288577

5. Hosking, K, Stewart, G Mobsby M,….Connors, C, Davies, J. Data linkage and computerized algorithmic coding to enhance individual clinical care for Aboriginal people living with chronic hepatitis B in the Northern Territory of Australia – is it feasible? PLOS ONE 28 April 2020 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0232207

6. Sullivan R, Bukulatjpi SM, Binks P, Hosking K et al. They feel shame sometimes, but that is why we need to talk to them…we need to tell them how important it is not to feel shame”: Hepatitis B related shame and improving hepatitis B care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Top End of the Northern Territory, according to the Aboriginal health workforce. Archives of Public Health 2024, 82:151

7. Sullivan RP, Davies J, Binks P, McKinnon M, Dhurrkay RG, Hosking K, Bukulatjpi SM, Locarnini S, Littlejohn M, Jackson K, Tong SYC, Davis JS. Preventing early childhood transmission of hepatitis B in remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Australia. Int J Equity Health. 2022 Dec 28;21(1):186. doi: 10.1186/s12939-022-01808-z

8. Davies J, Davis J, Hosking K, Binks P, Gargan C, Greenwood-Smith B, et al. Eliminating chronic hepatitis B in the northern territory of Australia through a holistic care package delivered in partnership with the community. J Hepatol. 2022;77:S239-40. doi: 10.1016/S0168-8278(22)00850-9

9. Sullivan R, Davies J, Binks P, McKinnon M, Dhurrkay R, Hosking K, et al. Hepatitis B transmission in early life in very remote Aboriginal communities in northern Australia. J Hepatol, 21(1):186. 2022 Jul. doi: 10.1016/S0168-8278(22)00978-3

10. Sullivan RP, Davies J, Binks P, Dhurrkay RG, Gurruwiwi GG, Bukulatjpi SM, McKinnon M, Hosking K, Littlejohn M, Jackson K, Locarnini S. Point of care and oral fluid hepatitis B testing in remote Indigenous communities of northern Australia. J Viral Hepat. 2020 Apr;27(4):407-414. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/aabs/10.1111/jvh.13243

11. Binks P, Venkatesan S, Everitt A, Gurruwiwi GG, Dhurrkay RG, Bukulatjpi SM, Ross C, Alley T, Hosking K, et al. An evaluation and refinement of the “Hep B Story” app, tailored to meet the community’s cultural needs. BMC Health Services Research. 2024 Jun 7;24(1):710.

12. Binks P, Ross C, Gurruwiwi GG, Wurrawilya S, Alley T, Vintour-Cesar E, Hosking K, et al. Adapting and translating the ‘Hep B Story’ app the right way: a transferable toolkit to develop health resources with, and for, Aboriginal people. Health Promoto J Aust. 2024. Preprint. doi: 10.1002/hpja.858

13. The Australian consensus recommendations for the management of hepatitis B infection 2022- GESA website

14. Sullivan R,…Hosking K, Point of care and oral fluid hepatitis B testing in remote Indigenous communities of northern Australia. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. Nov 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvh.13243

15. Richmond J and Hosking K. B Positive – all you wanted to know about hepatitis B: a guide for primary care providers. (Revision of) Chapter 12: Infection control and occupation health. Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM)

2024 - Ian Potter Foundation Research Translation

2021 – NT Nurse of the Year Finalist

2020 – CranaPlus: Team of the Year – COVID-19 Action and Information Group

2019 – NHRMC Scholarship

2019 – NT Health Research Symposium – People’s Choice Award

2017 – NT Health Quality Awards – West Arnhem Hepatitis B Serocoding Project

2016 – NT Health Quality Awards – Maningrida Health Centre, Aboriginal Workforce Award

• Professor Jane Davies, Co-Director Infectious Diseases - Royal Darwin Hospital, Principal Research Fellow - Menzies School of Health Research, Jane.Davies@menzies.edu.au, 0467303778
• Adjunct Professor Christine Connors, Chief Health Officer, Northern Territory Health, christine.connors@nt.gov.au, 0401116121