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):
- Translational and Clinical Research, Epidemiology, Indigenous Health, Public Health
- 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 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. She acts as a disease and country expert for the Global Burden of Disease Study.