My research background is in paediatric infectious diseases, in which I have a clinical appointment at the Childrens Hospital, Westmead and in the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases, which was the subject of my PhD in the School of Public Health on invasive Hib disease. As Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, my knowledge and experience covers a wide range of topics with special prominence to pertussis and pneumococcal disease and use of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register for vaccine effectiveness and data linkage studies My research background is in paediatric infectious diseases, in which I have a clinical appointment at the Childrens Hospital, Westmead and in the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases, which was the subject of my PhD in the School of Public Health on invasive Hib disease. As Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, my knowledge and experience covers a wide range of topics with special prominence to pertussis and pneumococcal disease and use of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register for vaccine effectiveness and data linkage studies

Pediatrics