Katherine Gibney
Infectious Diseases
Doherty Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Katherine Gibney is an infectious diseases physician, public health physician and medical epidemiologist. She has a particular interest in infections in immigrants and returned travellers, vector-borne diseases and gastrointestinal infections, and Indigenous health. Katherine has an appointment in Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance, Victorian Department of Health. She completed a PhD at Monash University examining the burden of selected infectious diseases in Australia and the national infectious diseases surveillance system. She acts as a disease and country expert for the Global Burden of Disease Study.
Research Interest
Enteric infections
