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Contact Details

Email
peter.mcintyre@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (Dunedin)
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.

Publications

McIntyre, P., van den Biggelaar, A. H. J., Beard, F., Nowlan, M., Regan, A. K., Pearce, R., … Richmond, P. (2026). An expert perspective on a new recombinant pertussis-only vaccine and its potential clinical and programmatic advantages in Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Vaccines, 14(9), 736. doi: 10.3390/vaccines14090736 Journal - Research Other

Croker, Z., McLure, A., Lambert, S., Quinn, H., Pillsbury, A., Macartney, K., McIntyre, P., & Beard, F. (2026). Estimating current susceptibility to measles in Australia following sustained measles elimination. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2026.100577 Journal - Research Article

McIntyre, P., Ingram, J., & Turner, N. (2026). COVID, flu and RSV: Who should be thinking about vaccination in NZ this winter? The Conversation. doi: 10.64628/AA.s6tkdxtfu Journal - Research Other

Yeo, H. Y., Hung, T. M., Nghiem, N., Albrecht, S., Turner, N., & McIntyre, P. (2026). The economic value of non-pharmaceutical interventions for influenza and COVID-19: A systematic review. Applied Health Economics & Health Policy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s40258-026-01039-1 Journal - Research Article

Hobbs, M., Marek, L., Wiki, J., Paynter, J., Nghiem, N., Liu, B., & McIntyre, P. (2026). Examining spatial variation and inequity in COVID-19 immunisation coverage in Aotearoa New Zealand: a nationwide geospatial study. Vaccine, 74, 128165. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.128165 Journal - Research Article

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