- Associate Professor Heidi Smith-Vaughan - Head of Child Health Laboratory Research and NHMRC Career Development Fellow
Primary project: Molecular public health in Australian Indigenous communities and developing countries in our region to improve ear and respiratory outcomes
- Dr Robyn Marsh - Frank Fenner Early Career Fellow
Primary project: Characterisation of bacteria and viruses associated with chronic suppurative lung disease in Indigenous children
- Jemima Beissbarth - Child Health Laboratory manager
Primary projects: Microbiology and molecular service, data management and CQI
- Dr Kim Hare - Senior research officer
Primary projects: Microbiology of bronchiectasis in Australian Indigenous children; Microbiology service, pneumococcal serotyping
- Dr Susan Pizzutto - NHMRC Early Career Fellow
Primary project: The immunologic mechanisms contributing to persistent lung inflammation and the pathogenesis of bronchiectasis in Northern Territory Indigenous children.
Primary project: Novel approaches for prevention of respiratory infections in Indigenous infants
- Jana Lai - PhD student
Primary project: Introducing pneumococcal vaccines to Vietnam
- Barbara MacHunter - Project manager
Primary project: MINOPOLI – microbes In the nasopharnx prior to lung infection
- Donna Woltring - Microbiologist
Primary project: Microbiology and molecular service
- Erin Price - Postdoctoral researcher
Primary project: Haemophilus genomics. Other projects include: bacterial evolution within the human host; Burkholderia pseudomallei infections in cystic fibrosis; genomics; transcriptomics; and bioinformatics