Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann is a medical practitioner and epidemiologist with expertise in acute respiratory infections, otitis media (OM), and Aboriginal health. Over the past 30 years, she has led multidisciplinary research teams in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and, since 1998, in Australia.
When she came to the Telethon Kids Institute, she initiated research in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area to address biological, environmental, and societal risk factors for OM, and has evaluated programs for prevention of OM in Aboriginal populations. She has investigated the epidemiology of respiratory tract infections through data linkage, and conducted carriage and invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance.
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