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Contact Details

Email
hod.wch@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Head of Department
Department
Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’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

Saha, S., Millier, M., Samaranayaka, A., Edmonds, L., Best, E., Ussher, J., Anglemyer, A., Lee, J., Tatley, M., … McIntyre, P. (2025). Immunogenicity and safety of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine delivered by the aerosol, intradermal and intramuscular routes in previously vaccinated young adults: A randomized controlled trial protocol. PLoS ONE, 20(3), e0318893. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318893 Journal - Research Other

Paynter, J., McIntyre, P., Wiki, J., Nghiem, N., Liu, B., Marek, L., & Hobbs, M. (2025). Using nationwide data to examine the relative effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination against Omicron amongst a population with low prior rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A cohort study. Vaccine: X, 24, 100624. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100624 Journal - Research Article

Huang, Q. S., Wood, T., Aminisani, N., Kvalsvig, A., Baker, M. G., Nghiem, N., … Jelley, L., … Geoghegan, J. L., … Dowell, T., … McIntyre, P., … on behalf of the SHIVERS investigation team. (2025). Comparison of the incidence and risk factors of COVID-19 and influenza associated acute respiratory illnesses: Results of the SHIVERS-II, III, IV prospective community cohort study. Journal of Infectious Diseases. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf097 Journal - Research Article

Dey, A., Jackson, J., Wang, H., Lambert, S. B., McIntyre, P., Macartney, K., & Beard, F. (2025). Australia's rotavirus immunisation program: Impact on acute gastroenteritis and intussusception hospitalisations over 13 years. Vaccine, 52, 126789. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126789 Journal - Research Article

Beard, F., Hendry, A. J., Gidding, H. F., Dey, A., Macartney, K., Leask, J., & McIntyre, P. (2025). Impact of Australia's No Jab, No Pay policy on vaccination uptake: A before-after study in two national birth cohorts. Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific, 54, 101259. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101259 Journal - Research Article

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