Dr Katherine Gibney
(03) 9035 3958 | [email protected]
- Position:
- NHMRC early career fellow
- Theme(s):
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, Enteric infections, Viral Infectious Diseases, Dengue, Emerging Infections
- Discipline(s):
- Epidemiology, Indigenous Health, Public Health, Translational and Clinical Research
- Unit(s):
- Doherty Directorate, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), Victorian Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS)
- Lab Group(s):
- McVernon Group, Tong Group
Dr Katherine Gibney is an infectious diseases physician, public health physician and medical epidemiologist. She has a particular interest in infections in immigrants and returned travellers, vector-borne diseases and gastrointestinal infections, and Indigenous health. Katherine works at the Austin Hospital and the Doherty Institute, and has an appointment in Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance, Victorian Department of Health. She completed a PhD at Monash University examining the burden of selected infectious diseases in Australia and the national infectious diseases surveillance system.