Advisory Board

The Advisory Board monitors the governance, growth and financial sustainability of NCIRS and provides advice on strategic direction and organisational development.

Chair

• Cathryn Cox PSM, Chief Executive, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN)

Deputy chair

• Dr Paula Bray, Director of Research (SCHN), Kids Research, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network

Members

• Professor Ben Marais, Paediatrics & Child Health, The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School; Co-Director, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity; Westmead Institute for Medical Research
• Professor James Ward, Director, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
• Professor Martyn Kirk, NHMRC Career Development Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University
• Professor Allen Cheng, Director, Infection Prevention and healthcare Epidemiology Unit, The Alfred, Melbourne
• Professor Noni MacDonald, Professor of Paediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Dalhousie University Department of Paediatrics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Professor Ross Andrews, Professor of Applied Epidemiology, Queensland Health
• Dr Chris Morgan, Senior Technical Advisor (Immunization), Jhpiego Corporation
• Mr Nicholas Stoney, Assistant Secretary – Immunisation and Communicable Diseases Branch, Population Health Division, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
• Dr Jeremy McAnulty, Executive Director, Health Protection NSW, NSW Ministry of Health

NCIRS Executive Management

• Professor Kristine Macartney, Director, NCIRS; Professor, The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School; Staff Specialist, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
• Associate Professor Nicholas Wood, Associate Director – Clinical Research and Services, NCIRS; Senior Staff Specialist, Department of General Paediatrics, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead; Associate Professor, Academic Leader (Postgraduate studies), The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School
• Associate Professor Frank Beard, Associate Director – Coverage, Evaluation Surveillance and Social Science (Public Health Physician), NCIRS; Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney School of Public Health
• Dr Clayton Chiu, Associate Director – Immunisation Policy Support and Guideline Development (Public Health Physician), NCIRS; Lecturer, The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School
• Associate Professor Bette Liu, Associate Director – Population Health NCIRS; Associate Professor School of Population Health, UNSW
• Dr Helen Quinn, Manager – Vaccine Safety (Senior Research Fellow), NCIRS; Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School
• Dr Aditi Dey, Senior Research Fellow, NCIRS; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney School of Medicine
• Mr Michael Wong, Manager – Global Health and Strategic Projects, NCIRS
• Ms Emma Carey, Coordinating Nurse Manager, PAEDS
• Ms Karyn Phillips, Manager – Research Operations, NCIRS
• Ms Stoy Drinic, Manager – Research Grants and Contracts, NCIRS

Secretariat

• Ms Karyn Phillips, Manager - Research Operations, NCIRS
• Ms Bronwyn Ward, Senior Administrative Officer – Contract Management and Policy Support