Associate Professor Leon Worth
(03) 9342 9360 | leon.worth@mh.org.au
- Position:
- Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician
- Theme(s):
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Discipline(s):
- Public Health, Clinical and health systems research
- Unit(s):
- VICNISS
Associate Professor Leon Worth is an infectious diseases physician and clinical researcher. His research interests include the monitoring and prevention of device-related bloodstream infections, novel interventions and bundle approaches for infection prevention, infection surveillance in aged-care, and emerging trends in infections due to multi-resistant organisms. He provides medical lead to infection prevention departments in two major teaching hospitals. He actively implements and validates healthcare infection surveillance strategies across Victorian hospitals, and as a national leader in infection prevention, he is engaged in establishing standardised frameworks for equitable reporting of key healthcare associated infections.