Professor Terry Nolan

contact details

Terry NolanProfessor Terry Nolan
Melbourne School of Population Health
University of Melbourne
Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
The University of Melbourne

T +61 3 8344 9350
F +61 3 9347 6929
E t.nolan@unimelb.edu.au

biography

Professor Terry Nolan is Head of the Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group (VIRGo), a joint initiative of the University of Melbourne School of Population Health and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He is a paediatrician and clinical epidemiologist. He is a medical graduate of the University of WA, trained in paediatrics at RCH Melbourne and at Montréal Children's Hospital in Canada, and received a PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics from McGill University in Montréal in 1986. After returning from Canada, he established the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at RCH in 1989, and in 1999 was promoted to Professor and became Deputy Head of the University Department of Paediatrics. He was appointed Associate Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in 2000. In 2001, he was appointed Foundation Head of the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He established VIRGo in 2003 continuing the research prgram he had started in immunisation in 1991 at RCH within CEBU. He has 175 publications and has attracted over $32 million in research funding. He is Chair of the Commonwealth Government's Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), and is a member of the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Medicine.

research focus & interest

His research includes clinical trials of new vaccines, and epidemiologic studies of respiratory viruses and other vaccine-preventable infections.  Details are provided in the current research projects section on the VIRGo webpage.