• Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney

Dr Nicholas Wood is a staff specialist general paediatrician and Professor of Clinical Vaccinology in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney. He is involved in the Immunisation Adverse Events Clinic and Refugee Clinic at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Dr Wood has held NHMRC Career Development Fellowships. He is interested in maternal and neonatal immunisation, as well as immunisation in lndigenous communities and developing countries

Dr Wood assists the design and conduct of maternal and newborn vaccine program at the Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) site. He has extensive experience in the recruitment of infants onto clinical trials and has conducted two successful neonatal vaccine trials. He is also experienced in the management of immunisation adverse events and this will be an asset to any study where safety of vaccines is one of the outcome measures.

Research interests: maternal and neonatal vaccination, refugee health immunisation adverse events

Themes: Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health; Infection and Immunological Conditions; Lifespan

Keywords: Child health; Infection and immunity; Vaccines and vaccinology

Clinical Specialty: Paediatrics

• –present Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Sydney

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