The Doherty Institute’s Cross-cutting Discipline Leaders role is to devise and lead the implementation of the Doherty Institute’s strategic plan across their areas of expertise.
Public Health
Professor Jodie McVernon
Professor McVernon is the Director of Doherty Epidemiology and a physician with subspecialty qualifications in public health and vaccinology.
Courtney Lane
Ms Lane is an infectious diseases epidemiologist with the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory at the Doherty Institute. Her work focuses on antimicrobial resistance and public health genomics.
Navin Karan
Navin Karan is a Senior Medical Scientist, and Training and Capacity Manager for the Victorian Infectious Diseases Laboratory (VIDRL). He has extensive experience working with developing nations, strengthening laboratory systems to improve diagnostic and public health services through provision of technical training and advise to regional agencies, partner organisations and country Ministries of Health.
Discovery Science
Professor Sammy Bedoui
Professor Bedoui has a medical degree from the Hannover Medical School in Germany and heads a laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Sammy’s research examines how dendritic cells and T cells interact during infections, with a particular interest in deciphering how specific innate signals shape these interactions.
Dr Amy Chung
Dr Chung is a laboratory head in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Her research focuses upon the application of cutting-edge experimental technologies to holistically examine functional antibodies against a range of infectious diseases including HIV, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Malaria and Influenza.
Indigenous Health
Dr Simon Graham
Simon is a National Health and Medical Research Council fellow in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Peter Doherty Institute.
Clinical and Health Systems Research
Professor Steven Tong Professor Tong is an infectious diseases physician with the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service. His research interests include skin pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Group A Streptococcus), hospital infections, Indigenous health, viral hepatitis and influenza.
Associate Professor Jason Trubiano
Associate Professor Trubiano is an Infectious Diseases Physician and NHMRC Early Career Researcher at the University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (Austin Health).
Professor Michelle Giles
Professor Giles is an infectious diseases physician and clinician scientist, with clinical appointments at Alfred Health, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Monash Health and Western Health.
Computational Sciences and Genomics
Professor Lachlan Coin
Professor Coin obtained his PhD in Bioinformatics from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge in 2005. He then took up a position as Research Council UK research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College where he investigated the role of genetic variation in complex disease.
Dr David Price
Dr Price received PhD in Statistics from the University of Adelaide in mid-2015. He is a statistician and mathematical modeller, with a research focus on the optimal design of experiments, in particular, those concerning infectious diseases.
Global Health
Associate Professor Sarah Dunstan
Associate Professor Dunstan is a Senior Research Fellow who research uses genomics to understand host-pathogen interactions of infectious diseases.
Professor Ben Howden
Professor Ben Howden is a medical microbiologist, infectious diseases physician and molecular biologist. He is Director of the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory (MDU PHL), Medical Director of the Doherty Centre for Applied Microbial Genomics and Head of the Howden Research Group.
Professor Peter Revill
Professor Revill is a Senior Medical Scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL). His work is focused on the molecular virology of hepatitis B virus (HBV), particularly the contribution of different HBV genotypes and variants to the striking differences in natural history, disease progression and treatment response observed globally.
Education and Professional Development
Professor Stephen Rogerson
Professor Rogerson researches malaria in the Department of Medicine and is also an infectious diseases clinician. His research has taken him to Papua New Guinea, Malawi and the UK. His principal interests are malaria in pregnancy and the pathogenesis and immunity of malaria in young children.
