Forefront Lecture

UNSW Hepatitis C Vaccine Preparedness Studies

Dr. Lisa Maher

Head, Kirby Institute for Infection & Immunity, UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Sydney, Australia
Professor, Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

Where: Hurlburt Auditorium, St. Paul’s Hospital

When: Wednesday March 18, 2015, 12:00PM – 1:00PM

This talk is open to the public
The Forefront Lectures are accredited for 1.0 Mainpro-M1 credit (College of Family Physicians of Canada)

Dr. Lisa Maher is a Program Head at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, and a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. She has international experience in research, program development and service delivery with people who inject drugs, sex workers, men who have sex with men and marginalised youth and her current research focuses on the prevention of infectious disease in vulnerable populations. In 2015 Dr Maher was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to medicine in the field of epidemiology, particularly through academic research into illicit drug use.