Aeron Hurt
Department of Viral Infectious Diseases
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Aeron Hurt is the Deputy Director (Acting) of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and heads the Antiviral Susceptibility Analysis Surveillance Unit and Research group. Aeron is a world leader in influenza antiviral research and regularly acts as an external Temporary Advisor to the WHO. He has completed a number of short-term consultancies for the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the WHO, and the Australian Government related to influenza surveillance, epidemiology and laboratory analysis. Aeron is on the Editorial board of the journals Antiviral Research, Virology Journal and Infection, Ecology and Epidemiology. Aeron completed a PhD in influenza virology at Monash University and holds an honorary Principal Fellow appointment with the University of Melbourne. Associate Professor Aeron Hurt is the Deputy Director (Acting) of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and heads the Antiviral Susceptibility Analysis Surveillance Unit and Research group. Aeron is a world leader in influenza antiviral research and regularly acts as an external Temporary Advisor to the WHO. He has completed a number of short-term consultancies for the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the WHO, and the Australian Government related to influenza surveillance, epidemiology and laboratory analysis. Aeron is on the Editorial board of the journals Antiviral Research, Virology Journal and Infection, Ecology and Epidemiology. Aeron completed a PhD in influenza virology at Monash University and holds an honorary Principal Fellow appointment with the University of Melbourne.
Research Interest
Research on Influenza works on aspects of understanding the replication and transmission of drug resistant influenza viruses, characterising novel drug resistance mutations, and the global movement and evolution of human and avian influenza viruses.
