Melbourne School of Population Health

Jodie McVernon received her Medical degree from Monash University and trained in Paediatrics in Melbourne. She moved to Oxford in 1999 where she was involved in Paediatric clinical vaccine trials and later national surveillance of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b infections, numbers of which were increasing among immunised children. This work gave rise to her PhD thesis in Epidemiology and Mathematical Modelling conducted between Oxford and the Health Protection Agency, London. She returned to Melbourne in 2004, and commenced a NHMRC post-doctoral training fellowship in the Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group of the Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, in early 2005. She is a member of the Network of Infectious Disease Modellers of Australia, established through a NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Population Health Research. Her main interests are determinants of respiratory pathogen transmission and evaluation of the long-term effects of immunisation programs that influence infection spread.

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