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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Vaccines

Gary Grohmann A B and Robert Booy B C
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A Environmental Pathogens P/L, 13 Cobby Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

B Immunisation Coalition, Notting Hill, Melbourne, Vic., Australia. Email: pathogens@bigpond.com

C Children’s Hospital at Westmead School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. Email: robert.booy@health.nsw.gov.au




Gary Grohmann BSc(Hons) PhD FASM (right) is a consultant virologist and a Director of Environmental Pathogens P/L, as well as a Board Member, and member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, of the Immunisation Coalition. He is an Adjunct Professor in Infectious Diseases and Immunology at The University of Sydney. He was Head of Immunobiology at the Therapeutic Goods Administration for 17 years and then a consultant to the World Health Organization on influenza and COVID‐19 matters for 7 years.



Robert Booy MBBS, MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPCH (left) is a Senior Professorial Fellow, Children’s Hospital at Westmead School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney. He has over 300 publications and has supervised 30 doctoral students. Robert has a long-term interest in the control and prevention of serious infectious diseases. He was a Board Member of the Immunisation Coalition for 12 years and still serves on its Scientific Advisory Committee as Chair.

Microbiology Australia https://doi.org/10.1071/MA24048
Published: 7 November 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the ASM. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Biographies

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Gary Grohmann BSc(Hons) PhD FASM (right) is a consultant virologist and a Director of Environmental Pathogens P/L, as well as a Board Member, and member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, of the Immunisation Coalition. He is an Adjunct Professor in Infectious Diseases and Immunology at The University of Sydney. He was Head of Immunobiology at the Therapeutic Goods Administration for 17 years and then a consultant to the World Health Organization on influenza and COVID‐19 matters for 7 years.

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Robert Booy MBBS, MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPCH (left) is a Senior Professorial Fellow, Children’s Hospital at Westmead School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney. He has over 300 publications and has supervised 30 doctoral students. Robert has a long-term interest in the control and prevention of serious infectious diseases. He was a Board Member of the Immunisation Coalition for 12 years and still serves on its Scientific Advisory Committee as Chair.

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