Professor Raina MacIntyre is NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, and Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSW. She runs a highly strategic research program spanning epidemiology, vaccinology, mathematical modelling, public health and clinical trials in infectious diseases. She is an international leader in emerging infections, and is involved in research on face mask, vaccines, influenza, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases research studies that directly inform national and international policy and practice in communicable disease control. She has a particular interest in adult vaccination with a focus on the elderly. She has won numerous awards for her research including the Sir Henry Wellcome Medal from the US Association of Military Surgeons for her work on risk analysis of bioterrorism and the Frank Fenner Award for advanced research in infectious diseases. She also won the Public Health Association of Australia’s Immunisation Achievement Award in 2014. She has served on numerous expert committees nationally and internationally, including for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (US), Institute of Medicine in the US and the WHO. She was a finalist in the 2017, 2020 and 2021 Eureka Prizes and won the 2017 CAPHIA Research Team Prize. She has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is on editorial boards for Vaccine, BMJ Open and Epidemiology & Infection. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-raina-macintyre