Katie Flanagan
MRC Laboratories, Tasmania
Biography
Associate Professor Katie Flanagan is a clinical Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania and leads the Infectious Diseases Service at Launceston General Hospital. She is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Immunology at Monash University in Melbourne. She obtained a degree in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University in 1988, and her MBBS from the University of London in 1992. She is a UK and Australia accredited Infectious Diseases Physician. She did a PhD in malaria immunology based at Oxford University (1997 - 2000). She was previously Head of Infant Immunology Research at the MRC Laboratories in The Gambia from 2005-11 where she conducted multiple immunological vaccine trials in neonates and infants. Her research aims to understand how the infant immune system develops in response to vaccines and infections encountered in early life, and the impact of aging on immune responses to vaccines, with a particular focus on sex differences in immunity and non-targeted effects of vaccines.