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

• Professor Chris Cowell, 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 Terry Nolan, Head, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
• Professor Noni MacDonald, Professor of Paediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Dalhousie University Department of Paediatrics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Associate Professor Ross Andrews, Queensland Health
• Dr Chris Morgan, Senior Technical Advisor (Immunization), Jhpiego Corporation
• Ms Debra Petrys, Debra Petrys Consulting
• Mr Nicholas Stoney, Assistant Secretary – Immunisation and Communicable Diseases Branch, Population Health Division, Australian Government Department of Health
• Dr Richard Broome, Acting Director, Health Protection NSW, NSW Ministry of Health

NCIRS senior staff

• Professor Kristine Macartney, Director, NCIRS; Staff Specialist, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
• Dr Clayton Chiu, Public Health Physician, NCIRS; Lecturer, The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School
• Dr Frank Beard, Public Health Physician, NCIRS; Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney School of Public Health
• Associate Professor Nicholas Wood, Senior Staff Specialist, NCIRS and Department of General Paediatrics, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
• Dr Aditi Dey, Senior Research Fellow, NCIRS; Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney School of Medicine
• Dr Helen Quinn, Senior Research Fellow, NCIRS; Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, The University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School
• Michael Wong, Head of Global, NCIRS

Secretariat

• Ms Karyn Phillips, Head, Business and Research Operations, NCIRS