Governance
APPRISE Governance Structure
Current key members of APPRISE
Executive
Professor Sharon Lewin AO
Professor Tania Sorrell
Professor Jodie McVernon
Professor Ross Andrews
Expert Reference Group
The primary purpose of the Expert Reference Group (ERG) is to give advice and feedback on the APPRISE research program. Members of the ERG are all experts in fields related to APPRISE and assist us in an unpaid capacity.
Professor Bart Currie (Chair), Menzies School of Health Research
Ms Sharon Appleyard, Office of Health Protection, Australian Department of Health
Lieutenant Colonel Alyson Auliff, Senior Scientific Officer/Administrative Commanding Officer, Australian Defence Force Malaria and Infectious Disease Institute
Associate Professor Penny Burns, GP roundtable
Dr Dawn Casey, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
Ms Jennifer Herz, Biointelect
Professor Ben Howden, Public Health Laboratory Network
Dr Vanessa Johnston, Communicable Diseases Network Australia
Dr Janene Kingston, Animal Disease Response Section, Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
Dr Henry Ko, Community representative
Dr Gary Lum AM, Office of Health Protection, Australian Department of Health
Emeritus Professor John Mackenzie, Curtin University
Dr Maria Pinero de Plaza, Community representative
Dr Mark Veitch, Australian Health Protection Principal Committee
Professor Roianne West, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM)
Dr Stephanie Williams, Health Policy Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
APPRISE Secretariat
Dr Miranda Smith, Project officer
Ms Priyanka Pillai, Health Informatics Specialist
Dr Julie Milland, Communications officer
Broad research areas
Clinical research and infection prevention
Professor Steve Webb (co-lead, clinical)
Professor Allen Cheng (co-lead, clinical)
Professor Lyn Gilbert (co-lead, infection prevention)
Professor Tania Sorell
Professor David Paterson
Professor Kristine Macartney
Professor Nigel Stocks
Public health
Professor Jodie McVernon (co-lead)
Professor Ross Andrews (co-lead)
Professor John Kaldor
Professor Soren Alexandersen
Professor David Smith
Professor David Irving
Associate Professor Stephen Lambert
Professor Kristine Macartney
Laboratory research
Professor Sharon Lewin (co-lead)
Professor David Smith (co-lead)
Professor Soren Alexandersen
Professor David Anderson
Professor Michael Catton
Professor Benjamin Howden
Key populations
Professor Ross Andrews (co-lead)
Professor John Kaldor (co-lead)
Professor Adrian Miller
Associate Professor Peter Massey
Cross-cutting themes
Ethics
Professor Angus Dawson (lead)
Professor Lyn Gilbert
Data
Professor Jodie McVernon (lead)
Education and training
Professor Tania Sorrell (lead)
Partnerships, collaboration and translation
Professor Sharon Lewin (lead)
Other advisory and working groups
Education and training advisory group
Professor Tania Sorrell (chair), APPRISE Education and Training lead
Dr Gillian Scott, APPRISE Education and Training Officer
Dr Phil Britton – Marie Bashir Institute, University of Sydney and National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)
Kristy Crooks – Hunter New England Population Health
Associate Professor Allison Imrie – University of Western Australia and the Centre of Research Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID)
Professor Martyn Kirk – Australian National University and the Centre for Research Excellence, Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response (ISER)
Associate Professor Dianne Stephens – Menzies School of Health Research and HOT NORTH
Professor Nigel Stocks – University of Adelaide
Associate Professor Steven Tong – The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and HOT NORTH
Dr Jane Williams, Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney
Dr Mary Wyer – APPRISE Infection Prevention and Control Researcher, Westmead Institute for Medical Research