Meet our panel of medical specialists

Dr Joshua Szanyi is a medical doctor with additional qualifications in public health and epidemiology. He has worked in basic laboratory research, adult and paediatric clinical medicine, public health research and global health roles, and is currently an advanced trainee in public health medicine at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health’s Population Interventions Unit... read more »

Dr Minh Cuong Duong (MD, MMed, PhD), an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist, is a Lecturer at the School of Population Health, University of New South Wales. Minh teaches epidemiology and infectious disease control and is convenor of the courses, PHCM2001 Epidemiology and PHCM9784 Communicable Disease Control in Global Heath. His research aims to improve the prevention and control of infectious diseases with a special focus on low-resource settings. Minh has conducted the Australian Alumni Grands Fund (AAGF) projects to increase the prevention and control of malaria and COVID-19 in Vietnam... read more »

Professor Stephen Kent trained as an infectious diseases physician and viral immunologist in Melbourne and the USA. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellow. Stephen heads a lab studying immunity to HIV, Influenza, COVID-19 and other variable and difficult to vaccinate against viruses. Several vaccine concepts tested in his lab have shown sufficient promise to progress into human clinical trials. Stephen remains active in infectious diseases clinical medicine at the Alfred Hospital and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. He is proud to lead a team of gifted scientists studying viral immunity. .. read more »

Professor Tania Sorrell is Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Co-Director of the University of Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases and Director of the NSW Biocontainment Centre. She is one of the NSW and National leaders in research and clinical responses to COVID-19. Prof Sorrell chairs the COVID Expert Committee of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and has served on the national Genomics Health Futures Mission Expert Advisory Committee (2019-21), state and national advisory committees in Infectious Diseases (including COVID-19) and therapeutics and the Research and Human Ethics Committees of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia... read more »

Tony is an epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist. His research covers a range of topic areas, intersected with methodological advancements. Whilst principally an epidemiologist, he uses and combines methods from multiple disciplines: biostatistics, economics, econometrics, and computer and data science. He is Director of the Population Interventions (PI) Unit within the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Tony teaches short courses in advanced epidemiology and simulation modelling, in both Australia and New Zealand. He has co-authored a book on the history of mortality decline in New Zealand and published approximately 300 peer reviewed journal articles... read more »