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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 474 0999 extn 58567
Email
hod.wch@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Head of Department
Department
Department of Women's and Children's Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB BS(Hons)Queensland PhD Sydney DMedSc FRACP FAFPHM
Research summary
Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. Use of big data (disease and immunisation coverage registers). Vaccine trials.
Teaching
Supervised multiple students at honours', masters' and PhD level, advanced trainees in paediatrics and public health medicine. Summer student won Gil Barbezat prize for Summer Studentship 20/22.
Memberships
  • Strategic Advisory Group of Experts for the Immunisation, World Health Organisation (Geneva) 2019
  • Member, COVID-19 Vaccine Technical Advisory Group, NZ Ministry of Health
Clinical
  • Qualified in paediatric infectious diseases and public health medicine
  • Medical Advisor to Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC), Auckland

Research

Peter McIntyre, Head of Department, has been a Professor in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health of the University of Otago since 2018. From 2004 to 2017, he was Director of Australia’s National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance and a Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney.

His PhD was in the epidemiology and prevention of invasive Hib disease (University of Sydney 1995) and in 2021 he was awarded a Doctor of Medical Science by the University of Sydney for 66 papers on vaccine coverage, impact and effectiveness. His major research interests have been in invasive pneumococcal and meningococcal disease and pertussis and most recently waning immunity to measles for which he is leading a HRC clinical trial commencing in 2023. He is author of more than 450 publications, relating to a wide range of vaccines and vaccine-preventable disease topics.

Publications

Turner, N., Dwight, E., McIntyre, P., Young, A., Best, E., David, M., … Baker, M. (2024). Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it? The Briefing, (23 July). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/increasing-whooping-cough-cases-put-pepi-risk-what-can-be-done-about-it Journal - Research Other

Turner, N., Aminisani, N., Huang, S., O'Donnell, J., Trenholme, A., Broderick, D., … McIntyre, P. (2024). Comparison of the burden and temporal pattern of hospitalisations associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) before and after COVID-19 in New Zealand. Influenza & Other Respiratory Viruses, 18(7), e13346. doi: 10.1111/irv.13346 Journal - Research Article

van der Kooi, S., Beard, F., Dey, A., McIntyre, P., Imai, C., & Amin, J. (2024). Pertussis notifications decline in Australia during COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions, 2020-2021. Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 48. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2024.48.24 Journal - Research Article

Paynter, J., McIntyre, P., Wiki, J., Liu, B., Nghiem, N., Marek, L., & Hobbs, M. (2024). Immunisation coverage and the relative effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination against Omicron. Proceedings of the Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference: Protecting Communities: Empowering Health through Disease Control and Immunisation. 121. Retrieved from https://www.cdic2024.com/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Croker, Z., Quinn, H., Lambert, S., McLure, A., Dey, A., Pillsbury, A., McIntyre, P., … Beard, F. (2024). Estimating Australia's measles-susceptible population to inform strategies following global resurgence. Proceedings of the Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference: Protecting Communities: Empowering Health through Disease Control and Immunisation. 242. Retrieved from https://www.cdic2024.com/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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