Scientific Advisory Committee
Chair
Professor Lyn Gilbert, Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Deputy Chair
A/Professor Heath Kelly, Head Epidemiology Unit, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Victoria
Committee
Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Director, Menzies School of Health Research, Northern Territory
A/Professor Mike Gold, Senior Lecturer, University Department of Paediatrics and the South Australian Immunisation Coordination Unit, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide
Dr Yasmine Gray, Director, Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra (from 2008)
Professor John Kaldor, Deputy Director and Professor of Epidemiology, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney
A/Professor John Litt, Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice, Flinders University, South Australia
A/Professor Jodie McVernon, NHMRC Postdoctoral Training Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, MCRI and School of Population Health
University of Melbourne, Victoria (from 2008)
Professor Terry Nolan, Head, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
Professor Peter Richmond, Vaccine Trials Group, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Subiaco, Western Australia (from 2007)
Professor Peter McIntyre, Director, NCIRS
Professor Robert Booy, Head Clinical Research, NCIRS
Professor Raina MacIntyre, Senior Principal Research Fellow, NCIRS
Ms Sue Campbell-Lloyd, Manager, Immunisation Unit, AIDS/Infectious Diseases Branch, NSW Health, Sydney
Ms Stephanie Newall, Consumer representative
Associate Professor Cheryl Jones, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales
Secretariat
Dr Leon Heron, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, NCIRS (from 2007)
Appointment to the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is made by the Advisory Board upon the advice of the Chair of the SAC and the NCIRS Director. A total of 12 persons comprise the SAC. This includes one position for the NCIRS Director. Members of the senior management of NCIRS are ex-officio attendees at SAC meetings.
The role of the SAC is to contribute to and endorse the long-term national research and surveillance strategy; to systematically monitor the performance of NCIRS scientific outcomes; to monitor the quality of the research and surveillance systems and processes used by NCIRS in its work; and to identify emerging matters that should be incorporated into the long-term strategy.
