Professor Robert Booy

We welcomed Professor Robert Booy as our guest speaker on Wednesday 13th April.

Professor Booy is Head of the Clinical Research team at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. His is in Paediatrics, Infectious diseases and Epidemiology. Before returning to Australia in 2005 he was Professor of Child Health with the University of London. Robert’s research interests extend from understanding susceptibility to, and severity of, serious diseases (eg meningitis, septicaemia, influenza and encephalitis), to the clinical public-health, social and economic burden of these diseases, as well as means by which to control serious infections through vaccines, drugs and non-pharmaceutical measures.