A/Prof Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is Leader of the Antimicrobials Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is a general paediatrician, infectious diseases physician and clinical pharmacologist as well as Clinical Lead of Research in the Department of General Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. In addition, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Her research program focuses on optimising antimicrobial use and access in children and includes national and international clinical trials, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic studies, and cohort studies. Amanda is passionate about improving medication use in children and is therefore involved in several international guideline/expert groups (European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, WHO, Therapeutic Guidelines). She created and leads the Australasian KIDS DOSE consortium, a network of paediatric clinician researchers cross 17 hospital/research institutions in Australia and New Zealand, dedicated to improving equity in access to optimal antimicrobial use in children.