Associate ProfessorPhoebe Williams

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow

Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Neonatal sepsis
  • Child health
  • Global health
  • Microbiology
  • Immunisation

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    The neonatal microbiome and antibiotic resistance: Utilising metagenomics to reduce infant morbidity and mortality across Australia and Southeast Asia
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Feb 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    2025 Sorrell-Gilbert Prize for Clinical or Public Health
    Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases (Sydney ID)1 Jan 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    FMH Large Grant Accelerator 2026
    Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Precision AMR genomics to guide infection control and noveltherapeutics
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Draper J,
    • Iredell J,
    • Lin R,
    • Williams P,
    • Blackwell GA
  • GRANT
    WGS of gram-negative invasive isolates from infants in NeoSEAP Consortium Studies
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation1 May 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Evaluating the infant microbiome to reduce the mortality burden of antibiotic- resistant neonatal infections
    Sydney Southeast Asia Centre1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Rewarding Research 2024
    Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Learning health systems approach to the diagnosis and management of lower respiratory tract infections in children
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Aug 2023 - 31 Jul 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Optimising the treatment of antibiotic resistant urinary tract infections in children: The FOSUTI Trial
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 May 2023 - 30 Apr 2029
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Improving the management of lower respiratory tract infections in children in Sri Lanka: An education program incorporating the evaluation of an algorithm to prompt judicious prescribing to reduce antimicrobial resistance, whilst understanding the burden o
    International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1 Apr 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P,
    • Dickson B
  • GRANT
    ACORN - A clinically-oriented antimicrobial resistance infection surveillance network
    Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases (Sydney ID)1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P,
    • Harrison M
  • GRANT
    The Platform Trial in COVID-19 Boosting: stage 2 (PICOBOO-2)
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P,
    • Richmond P,
    • Thornton R,
    • Marsh JA,
    • Dymock M
  • GRANT
    Delineating the risk factors and source of neonatal acquisition of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens in high burden countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Sydney Southeast Asia Centre1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dickson B,
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Delineating the risk factors and source of neonatal acquisition of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens in high burden countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases (Sydney ID)1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dickson B,
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    AHRA Women's Health Research and Translation Network - Phoebe Williams
    Monash University1 Jul 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Neonatal Sepsis: Australia and Beyond
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Feb 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P
  • GRANT
    Streamlining the treatment of urinary tract infections in children: A non-inferiority, pragmatic, adaptive trial to evaluate oral fosfomycin versus standard-of-care in children with multidrug-resistant infections
    Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases (Sydney ID)1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williams P