NATIONAL SPEAKER

Associate Professor Sarah Dunstan is an NHMRC Leadership and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow in The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, at The University of Melbourne. Sarah completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1998 then undertook postdoctoral training at Imperial College, London. In 2001, Sarah joined the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam. There she developed a large program of work on enteric fever, tuberculosis and malaria. In 2013, Sarah returned to the University of Melbourne, first to the Nossal Institute of Global Health, and then in 2015 to the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. Sarah uses human and pathogen genomics to understand infectious diseases that have a high burden in Asia and require better tools for their control.