Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: new approaches to measuring impact
Hosted by the LSHTM Vaccine Centre, hear from Professor Fiona Russell a visiting academic from The University of Melbourne who leads a number of research studies in the Pacific and has extensive experience working in the region. She will talk about her work on pneumococcal vaccines “Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: new approaches to measuring impact”.
Prof Fiona Russell is a paediatrician with an interest in translation. She is Director of the Child and Adolescent Health PhD Program, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne; and Group Leader for the Asia-Pacific Health research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Her research provides evidence for policy and clinical practice to improve child health outcomes in low-income countries, especially related to infectious diseases. Her PhD focussed on reduced dose PCV schedules and she is now evaluating the impact of pneumococcal conjugate and rotavirus vaccines, and a single dose HPV vaccine schedule in various Asia-Pacific countries. She leads Bill & Melinda Gates funded studies using novel approaches to show evidence of impact and further understand pneumococcal transmission. She leads a clinical trial of Azithromycin in labour to prevent maternal and infant infections in Fiji. In 2019, she was awarded the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases Frank Fenner Award.
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