Katie Flanagan DTM&H, MA, PhD, CCST, FRCP, FRACP

Dr. Katie Flanagan BA(Hons) MBBS DTM&H MA PhD CCST FRCP FRACP is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Immunology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Head of Infectious Diseases at Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania, Australia. She obtained a degree in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University in 1988, and her MBBS from the University of London in 1992. She is a UK and Australia-accredited Infectious Diseases Physician. Her PhD was in malaria immunology based at Oxford University (1997 - 2000). She was previously Head of Infant Immunology Research at the MRC Laboratories in The Gambia (2005-11) where she conducted multiple immunological studies in neonates and infants. Her research aims to understand how the infant immune system develops in response to vaccines and infections encountered in early life. She has a particular interest in innate immune development in infants, sex differences in early life immunity, and the heterologous effects of vaccines.