Contact Details
- Position
- Professor and Head of Department
- Department
- Department of Paediatrics and Child 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 2022.
- Clinical
- Qualified in paediatric infectious diseases and public health medicine
- Medical Advisor to Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC), Auckland
Research
Peter McIntyre 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, a Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney and an infectious disease specialist at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney.
His PhD was in the epidemiology and prevention of invasive Hib disease (University of Sydney 1995), with subsequent work in pneumococcal and pertussis vaccines for which he has an international reputation. Most recently, he has been working closely with Student Health Services in Dunedin on a Health Research Council-funded clinical trial of delivering measles-mumps-rubella vaccine by nebulised aerosol in comparison to standard intramuscular administration, and with Dr Amber Young (Pharmacy) and Associate Professor Esther Willing (Kōhatu), the lead investigators on HRC-funded research to strengthen maternal immunisation, especially among Māori.