CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Assoc Prof Manisha Pandey
Co-Chair
Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD
Prof Michael F. Good AO
Co-Chair
Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Prof Natkunam Ketheesan
University of New England, Armidale, NSW
Prof Bart Currie
Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT
Prof Kenneth Beagley
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD
Dr Victoria Ozberk
Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD
Dr Tim Barnett
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA
Dr David McMillan
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD
Assoc Prof Robert Norton
University of Queensland, Townsville, QLD
Dr Ailin Lepletier
Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD
Prof Thomas Proft
University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
Dr Alma Fulurija
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA
Emeritus Prof Sri Sriprakash
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD
Prof Martina Sanderson Smith
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW
Dr Allan Saul
Burnett Institute, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Mark Davies
The Doherty Institute, Melbourne, VIC
Prof Glen Ulett
Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Dr Theresa Lamagni
Co-Chair
UK Health Security Agency
England, UK
Dr Joshua Osowicki
Co-Chair
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Melbourne, VIC
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Prof Androulla Efstratiou
UK Health Security Agency, England, UK
Prof Jonathan Carapetis
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA
Jes Dietrich
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
Assoc Prof Ana Mocumbi
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Distinguished Prof Victor Nizet
University of California, California, USA
Dr Kelly Doran
University of Colorado, Colorado, USA
Assoc Prof Glenn Pearson
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA
Prof Anna Norrby-Teglund
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr Madeleine Cunningham
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma, USA
Assoc Prof Nikki Moreland
University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
Prof James Paton
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA
Dr Roberta Creti
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Prof Andrew Steer
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC
Prof Asha Bowen
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA
Dr Karen Kotloff
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Dr Prafulla Kerkar
KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Dr Greg Tyrrell
Alberta Precision Laboratories, Calgary, Canada

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