Professor Paul Griffin

Biography

An Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Professor Paul Griffin is the Director of Infectious Diseases at Mater Health Services and the Head of the Mater Clinical Unit for the University of Queensland School of Medicine. He has fellowships in Infectious Diseases from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, in Clinical Microbiology from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and from the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. Paul is an accomplished clinical trial investigator having fulfilled the role of Principal Investigator on over 150 clinical trials and investigator on over 200, particularly in Infectious Diseases including novel vaccines and 8 COVID-19 vaccines. Paul continues as a board member and scientific advisory board member of the Immunisation Coalition, with active interest in vaccine education and advocacy. Other appointments include as a director of AMA Queensland and as a Clinical Microbiologist he maintains an active interest in diagnostic microbiology with a focus on clinical applications of faecal microbiome metagenomic sequencing.

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