Professor Peter Collignon AM is a professor of microbiology at the Australian National University.[1] Collignon has worked for the World Health Organization, studying the use of antibiotics in food animals, and the rise of drug resistant pathogens. Collignon is director of the Infectious Diseases Unit and Microbiology at the Canberra Hospital, and is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.[2]

Collignon has advocated on many public health issues, such as hospital acquired infections of drug resistant pathogens,[3] alarmist media reporting of swine flu outbreaks,[4] and the safety and efficacy of some drugs and vaccines.[5][6]

In June 2010, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to medicine, in the fields of clinical microbiology, infectious diseases and infection control.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Peter Collignon". ACT Health. Australian Capital Territory Government.
  2. ↑ "Peter Collignon". The Conversation.
  3. ↑ Westcott, Ben (25 January 2014). "Professor Peter Collignon says golden staph infections in ACT hospitals could be cut by half". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. ↑ Collignon P (2011). "Swine flu: lessons we need to learn from our global experience". Emerg Health Threats J. 4: 7169. doi:10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.7169. PMC 3168221. PMID 24149036.
  5. ↑ "Tamiflu". Catalyst. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Collignon P, Doshi P, Del Mar C, Jefferson T (2015). "Safety and efficacy of inactivated influenza vaccines in children". Clin Infect Dis. 60 (3): 489. doi:10.1093/cid/ciu835. PMID 25344541.
  7. ↑ "Professor Peter John Collignon". Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
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