NATIONAL SPEAKER

A/Prof Benn Sartorius, is an international authority in global health, spatial-temporal modelling of priority infectious diseases and attributable determinants at various geographic scales to inform and optimise policy. He’s a principal research fellow in the Operational Research and Decision Support for Infectious Diseases (ODeSI) team at UQ, a NHMRC Leadership fellow (from 2025), affiliate professor at University of Washington, and honorary visiting research fellow at University of Oxford. Previously, he led the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) project at Oxford, with collaborators in over 50 countries. He has secured ~A$22.5M in grants to support his research, has over 350 publications, h-index of 87, and citations in over 170 policy documents. He has collaborated on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project since 2014, served on its Scientific Council since 2015, and is a member/task force co-chair of the WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics (RGHS).