ACV members

Chair

Associate Professor Nicholas Wood is a paediatrician and immunisation specialist. He has expertise in clinical vaccine safety and vaccine trials, and post-market vaccine safety surveillance. He is the Associate Director of Clinical Services and Research at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), Professor of Clinical Vaccinology at the University of Sydney, and Chair of the NSW Ministry of Health vaccine adverse event expert panel committee. Associate Professor Wood also leads Australia's national active safety surveillance system – AusVaxSafety, the NSW Immunisation Specialist Service (NSWISS), and heads the clinical immunisation adverse events (AEFI) following immunisation service at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He is also the Chair of the national AEFI Clinical Assessment Network. Associate Professor Wood provides expertise in the fields of infectious diseases, vaccine program implementation, the provision of immunisation treatment, and paediatrics.

Members

Dr Satyamurthy Anuradha is a public health physician with special interest in communicable disease control and immunisation. She has experience in leading the immunisation programs in Queensland, including addressing issues related to adverse events following immunisation, vaccine hesitancy and the School Immunisation Program. Dr Anuradha provides expertise in virology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, immunisation and public health. Associate Professor Hazel Clothier is an infectious disease epidemiologist and vaccinology global health researcher working in the fields of public health, vaccine safety surveillance and communicable disease outbreak and response. Associate Professor Clothier is lead epidemiologist and program manager for post-licensure vaccinology at the Centre for Health Analytics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Victoria, Australia and senior epidemiologist with the Global Vaccine Data Network. Associate Professor Clothier provides expertise in the fields of public health, epidemiology and biostatistics.

Professor Bette Liu is a medical epidemiologist and leads the Population Health group at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). She is also a Professor in the School of Population Health at UNSW and a Clinical Professor in the Sydney University School of Public Health. She has served on the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and currently sits on the World Health Organisation Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 vaccine composition. Professor Liu provides expertise in the fields of epidemiology and biostatistics.

Associate Professor Ines Rio is a specialist general practitioner and medical advisor. She is the Chief Medical Officer of Monash University, a GP at North Richmond Community Health, and a GP obstetrician and Head of GP Liaison at The Royal Women’s Hospital. Associate Professor Rio has extensive experience in board and high-level committee work. She is currently a member of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), National Women's Health Advisory Council, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s Primary Care Committee, and the Department of Health’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities Health Advisory Group. Associate Professor Rio provides expertise in the fields of public health, vaccine program implementation, and the provision of immunisation treatment.

Professor Rhonda Stuart is an Infectious Diseases physician. Her current role is Program Director for Public Health and Infection Prevention at Monash Health. As an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Monash University, Professor Stuart contributes to medical education and research in infectious diseases, epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship. She is a member of the Healthcare Special Interest Group (HICSIG), Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID), and ASID representative on the VICNISS Advisory Committee. Professor Stuart provides expertise in the fields of infectious diseases in adults or children, epidemiology, biostatistics, and vaccine program implementation.

Professor Joseph Torresi is an infectious diseases physician, virologist and an international leader in hepatitis, travel medicine and vaccinations and multi-centre collaborative research. He has over 20 years of experience as a molecular virologist with expertise in vaccine research and clinical trials, hepatitis B and C virology, dengue, influenza and SARS CoV2 vaccine development. Professor Torresi is a current board member of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Foundation, a member of the Healthscope National Medical Council and a Fellow of the International Society of Travel Medicine, the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He currently heads the Hepatitis and Virology Vaccine Research laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute, the University of Melbourne. Professor Torresi provides expertise in immunology, virology and vaccine program implementation.

Associate Professor Janine Trevillyan is an infectious diseases physician, clinical virologist, and academic. She has an international reputation for the research and management of the long-term complications of viral infections, particularly HIV. Associate Professor Trevillyan is the Head of Clinical Virology and HIV services, and Deputy Director of Infectious Diseases at Austin Health, Melbourne. She is also an honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity. Associate Professor Trevillyan’s clinical research focuses on understanding and preventing the long-term complications of viral infections, particularly the effects of HIV, along with the side effects and effectiveness of emerging vaccines. Associate Professor Trevillyan provides expertise in the fields of virology, infectious diseases, public health, and vaccine program implementation.

Ms Diane Walsh is an experienced health consumer and community representative at a local and national level. She is a member of the Consumer Health Forum and her current consumer health roles include the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. She is a past consumer member of National Medicines Policy Committee, and the NPS MedicinesWise Consumer Advisory Group. Ms Walsh provides expertise in the field of consumer health issues.

Associate Professor Phoebe Williams is a Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases physician working as a Staff Specialist at Sydney Children's Hospital. Her research focuses on antimicrobial resistance in neonates and children, both in Australia and globally. She works in the policy support team for the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) and serves on the Global Research Agenda for AMR and Paediatric Drug Optimisation Committees for the World Health Organisation (WHO). Associate Professor Williams provides expertise in the fields of infectious diseases in adults or children, the provision of immunisation treatment by an individual and Paediatrics.