Professor Terry Nolan
contact details
Professor
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.