Professor EmeritusWarwick Britton

Professor Warwick Britton AO FAHMS is Bosch Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology at the University of Sydney, head of the Tuberculosis Research Program at the Centenary Institute, and Research Director for Sydney Local Health District. He has longstanding interests in the immunology of mycobacterial infections and the control of tuberculosis and leprosy, including the development of novel vaccines and drugs against TB. Previously he established the Mycobacterial Research Laboratory at Anandaban Leprosy Hospital, Kathmandu, to facilitate studies to improve the management of leprosy. Currently he is CIA on the NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control: from Discovery to Public Health Policy and Practice. This Centre includes research collaborations on the role of active case finding and community screening for tuberculosis in Vietnam, host susceptibility to tuberculosis infection, mycobacterial epidemiology and drug resistance, and the development of more effective tools to aid tuberculosis control.