Associate Professor Katherine Gibney is an infectious diseases physician, public health physician and medical epidemiologist. She is Deputy Director of the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS) at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and is a Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Melbourne. Katherine leads clinical research trials in invasive streptococcal infections and epidemiological research into infectious diseases of public health importance, including vaccine preventable diseases.
Katherine completed a PhD at Monash University examining the burden of selected infectious diseases in Australia and the national infectious diseases surveillance system.
