Dr. Sheena Sullivan

Biography

Sheena Sullivan is an infectious diseases epidemiologist who completed her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), focusing on the analysis of national data from a Chinese methadone maintenance treatment program. From 2011 to 2023, she led the epidemiology team at the Collaborating Centre Reference Research for Influenza in Melbourne. As an adjunct associate professor at Monash University and the University of Adelaide, she collaborates on Australia’s sentinel influenza surveillance. Dr. Sullivan also consults for the World Health Organization, providing advice to member states on the estimation of influenza disease burden and vaccine effectiveness. She is a recognized expert in conducting observational studies to estimate vaccine effectiveness, especially using the test-negative design, and has been invited to speak on these topics at both local and international meetings. Her research extends understanding mechanisms underlying reduced vaccine effectiveness in various groups and she has led and collaborated on both small and large sero-epidemiology cohorts. Dr. Sullivan has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in high-impact journals including Lancet Respiratory Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, and NPJ Vaccines, with grants totaling more than $6 million. She is a council member of the International Society for Respiratory Viruses and serves as an associate editor for both the journal Influenza and Respiratory Viruses and the International Journal of Epidemiology.

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