Benjamin Cowie

Benjamin Cowie is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Epidemiologist based at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. He is the Director of the newly-designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis based at the Doherty Institute, and is acting Head of the Epidemiology Unit at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL). His clinical appointment is with the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and he also works in Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. He is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.

Ongoing research interests include the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases, particularly viral hepatitis. He serves on a range of state, national and international committees related to communicable disease control and the development of healthy public policy in relation to viral hepatitis, and is currently Vice President of the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM).