Jim Buttery is Head of Epidemiology Informatics research group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Head of Epidemiology and Signal Detection of SAEFVIC - the Victorian Immunisation Safety Service. He is the Chief Research Information Officer and an infectious diseases physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and the inaugural Professor of Child Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne based at the Melbourne Children’s Campus Centre for Health Analytics. He is also the co-director of the Global Vaccine Data Network. Jim leads a team of epidemiologists, data analysts and statisticians whose research revolves around innovative use of real-world data to answer important questions in infectious diseases epidemiology, vaccine safety and effectiveness.