Associate Professor Fiona Russell is a paediatrician with qualifications in public health and epidemiology. She completed her PhD evaluating alternative pneumococcal vaccination schedules in infants in Fiji. The findings informed the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedules in the latest WHO PCV position paper. She was awarded both the Chancellor and Dean’s Prize for PhD Excellence by The University of Melbourne. She has undertaken consultancies for WHO, UNICEF, and Australian Aid in the Asia-Pacific region, and Africa on the disease burden of vaccine preventable diseases, new vaccine introduction, and maternal and child health policies to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Associate Professor Fiona Russell is a paediatrician with qualifications in public health and epidemiology. She completed her PhD evaluating alternative pneumococcal vaccination schedules in infants in Fiji. The findings informed the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedules in the latest WHO PCV position paper. She was awarded both the Chancellor and Dean’s Prize for PhD Excellence by The University of Melbourne. She has undertaken consultancies for WHO, UNICEF, and Australian Aid in the Asia-Pacific region, and Africa on the disease burden of vaccine preventable diseases, new vaccine introduction, and maternal and child health policies to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.

Vaccines, Immunology