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Raina McIntyre
Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSWRaina MacIntyre is the Professor of Global Biosecurity in the Kirby Institute at University of New South Wales and a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow. She leads a research program on the prevention and control of infectious diseases. During the years of the Covid crisis, Professor MacIntyre consolidated her standing as an informative, eloquent and lively public commentator on managing the virus in Australia.
Her continuing research falls under four areas: personal protective equipment, vaccinology, epidemic response and emerging infectious diseases, and bioterrorism prevention. Her research is underpinned by her clinical training, vaccine program experience and extensive field outbreak investigation and surveillance experience. She is currently on the WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC) and the WHO SAGE ad-hoc Working Group on Smallpox and Monkeypox.
She is the author of Dark Winter – an insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity, NewSouth Press 2022.