Faculty

Infectious Diseases and Public Health Physician, Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia

Professor in Medicine, Northern Territory Medical Program

Bart Currie is an infectious diseases and public health physician at Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia and Professor in Medicine at the Northern Territory Medical Program. He leads the Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases team at Menzies School of Health Research. He was a member of the National COVID-19 Health and Research Advisory Committee (NCHRAC) and the Technical Reference Group for the Australian Government’s Regional Health Security Initiative. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the NHMRC Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network led by Sydney University and chaired the Expert Reference Panel of the NHMRC CRE Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) led by Melbourne University. He began the Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study 35 years ago and continues to study the epidemiology, virulence, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of melioidosis and its causative pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is uniquely placed as both an endemic environmental bacterium common in the Asia-Pacific region but also a US CDC designated Category 1 biothreat agent.