Principal Investigators

Joshua Davis

Professor Joshua S Davis, Infectious Diseases Physician and NHMRC Career Development Fellow

MBBS (Hons), DTM&H, FRACP, Grad Cert PopHealth, PhD

Professor Josh Davis is a clinician researcher, and divides his time between clinical work as an Infectious Diseases physician in Newcastle, and research work as a principal research fellow based at Menzies.

His main research interests are clinical trials in the management of severe infections and epidemiology of severe bacterial infections.

Josh is the president of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID).

Steven Tong

PhD, Charles Darwin University, 2010
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours, University of Melbourne, 1998
Fellow Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2006
Graduate Diploma Clinical Epidemiology, Newcastle University, 2010.

Associate Professor Steven Tong is an infectious diseases physician with the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service and Co-Head of the Translational and Clinical Research and Indigenous Health cross-cutting disciplines at the Doherty Institute. He spent 10 years in Darwin before moving to Melbourne to join the Doherty Institute in 2016. His research interests include skin pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Group A Streptococcus), hospital infections, Indigenous health, viral hepatitis and influenza. His passion is to apply cutting edge science to address clinically driven questions.