Ross Andrews PhD

Professor Andrews is an epidemiologist with major research interests in vaccine-preventable diseases and skin infections. He is the current Chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), Australia's peak ministerial immunisation advisory committee.

In a world first, he led a randomised controlled trial of pneumococcal vaccine in pregnancy, called PneuMum, which found evidence suggestive of an impact against ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants (Vaccine 2015) and now leads a multi-centre cohort study, called FluMum, which is assessing impact of influenza vaccination in pregnancy amongst 10,000 mother-infant pairs (BMJ Open 2014).