|  Professor Raina MacIntyre
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
[ Professor MacIntyre has made a major contribution to control of infectious diseases threats in Australia, including bioterrorism and pandemic influenza. She won the 2007 Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States for work on bioterrorism, an honour rarely bestowed on civilians or non-US citizens. She runs a strategic, multidisciplinary research in the control and prevention of infectious diseases through vaccines, therapeutics, screening, prophylaxis and non-pharmaceutical measures. The threat of emerging infections, pandemic influenza, bioterrorism and other major infectious incursions which will have a societal impact are a focus of her research. She is involved in pivotal trials of the efficacy of face masks in preventing respiratory infections in the community and in health workers. She is currently running a trial in Beijing on the use of face masks in hospital health workers. Other research includes special risk populations such as health care workers, front line responders and emergency workers, immunosuppressed, refugees. Disease areas include influenza and respiratory viruses, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, TB, hepatitis A and other vaccine-preventable infections. Methodologies include clinical trials, observational epidemiology, mathematical modelling and social research. Current research includes vaccine trials (HPV, pneumococcal, influenza) in special risk groups, trials of face masks and studies of international travel (in Thailand) and emerging infections. Her research program is facilitated with an ongoing appointment as senior principal research fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases; and through appointments on several key national expert committees which inform policy and practice; In 2009 she was also on the US Institute of Medicine's Committee on Respiratory protection for Health Care Workers against Novel H1N1 Influenza A. <a href="../page/resinterestsshowperson?OpenDocument&StaffID=3260310"><br>More... </a><br><br></font>] | |