ProfessorAlyssa Barry

Professor, Systems Epidemiology of Infection

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

  • Professor, Systems Epidemiology of Infection
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 522 73504 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Full time research

Alyssa Barry is Professor of Systems Epidemiology of Infection with Deakin
University's Institute for Physical and Mental Health and Clinical Translation
(IMPACT) and Head of the Translational Genomics Working Group, Burnet
Institute where some of her team is based.

Alyssa has been Chief Investigator on six NHMRC Project Grants (four as CIA)
and is a Technical Director of a DFAT IndoPacific Centre for Health Security
grant supporting the development of molecular surveillance capacity in Papua
New Guinea. She leads genomics research in two NIH-funded International
Centres for Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR) programs in Asia-Pacific
and West Africa. She is also a member of the Australian Centre of Research
Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME), the Asia Pacific Malaria
Elimination Network (APMEN) and the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network
(MalariaGEN).

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Professor, Systems Epidemiology of Infection
    Deakin University, School of Medicine

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Principal Research Fellow
    Burnet Institute, Life Sciences Discipline, Melbourne, Australia1 Jul 2019 - present
  • Co-Director
    Centre for Innovation in Infectious Disease and Immunology Research (CIIDIR), Geelong, Australia1 Jul 2022 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Med, Dentistry & Health Science)
    University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    University of Tasmania
  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (Learning and Teaching)
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia1 Jan 2024 - present

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Medical microbiology
  • Clinical sciences
  • Genetics
  • Microbiology

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Medicine

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation