Kristine K. Macartney MD, FRACP

Kristine K. Macartney is a pediatrician, infectious disease specialist, and vaccinologist. She worked in the USA at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and was a founding member of the US Vaccine Education Center. Kristine's particular interests include translation of evidence into policy and practice, vaccine safety, and vaccine-preventable diseases research, particularly in viral diseases, including COVID-19, rotavirus, varicella-zoster virus, HPV, and influenza. She is the senior editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbook, has authored >200 peer-reviewed publications, and is a member of key peak advisory committees in Australia, including the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). She is an expert consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), a member of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), a member of WHO-SAGE subcommittees, and the founding chair of the Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance (ARIA). Kristine has a clinical appointment at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead as a Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and a conjoint academic appointment as a Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, at the University of Sydney.