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Doctor Chris Morgan

Head of International Development Discipline

Background

Dr Chris Morgan is a physician working in international public health with special interests in health system strengthening, primary health care, international child health, maternal and newborn care, birth-dose vaccination against hepatitis B, and health-worker education and training.

Chris has worked at Burnet since 2001. Before that he worked in primary health care in Tibet, China (1997-2000), in community health and hospital paediatrics in Nepal (1993-7), having trained as a paediatrician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney (now Children’s Hospital Westmead) from 1984-1992. During that time he undertook additional work in indigenous child health, tropical paediatric specialisation, and developing a child health training program for primary care physicians.

Chris is also a doctoral research candidate with the University of Melbourne’s Department of Medicine, studying maternal and newborn health care services innovations through Burnet’s programs. Chris has coordinated the MPH subject Primary Health Care in Developing Countries from 2003–2013, and continues to support post-graduate education, including coordination of the Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene commencing in 2014.

Appointments

  • 2019: Member, World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Expert Panel for Verification of Hepatitis B Control
  • 2019: Member, World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on Immunization and Vaccine-preventable Diseases in the Western Pacific Region
  • 2014: Principal Investigator, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, Papua New Guinea
  • 2014 – 2018: Chair of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee.
  • 2011 – 2012: Chair of AusAID’s China-Australia Health and HIV/AIDS Facility (CAHHF) Technical Reference Panel
  • 2011 – 2014: Member of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee
  • 2010 – 2011: Pacific Product Coordinator, Health Policy and Health Finance Knowledge Hub, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
  • 2010 – 2013: Product leader - maternal and newborn care for Compass – the Women’s and Children’s Health Knowledge Hub, at Burnet Institute’s Centre for International Health.
  • 2008 – 2010: Technical Director, Improving Newborn Care and Birth-dose Vaccination at the Aid-post Level in PNG
  • 2007 – 2010 Technical Director, AusAID’s China Australia Health and HIV Facility
  • 2004 – 2009: Technical Director, Project Responding to Measles and other Vaccine Preventable Diseases in PNG
  • 2004 – 2009: Program Technical Director and then M&E Advisor on the AusAID Tibet Health Sector Support Program.
  • 2003: Fellow in the School of Population Health of the University of Melbourne, Victoria Australia
  • 2003: Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, Victoria, Australia
  • 2001 – 2004: Child Health and Immunisation Advisor and assistant Project Director (M&E) on the AusAID Women’s and Children’s Health Project in Papua New Guinea
  • 2001 – 2004: Consulted with WHO on various aspects of implementation of their Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) program.

Positions

  • 2017 – present: Co-head, Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Working Group, Burnet Institute
  • 2017 – present: Head of International Development, Burnet Institute
  • 2001 – present: Principal Fellow, Centre of International Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1997 – 2000: Team Leader, Tibet Primary Health Care and Water Supply Project, TAR, China
  • 1993 – 1997: Paediatrician and Community Medical Officer, United Mission Hospital, Tansen, Nepal
  • 1991 – 1992: Chief Resident/Assistant Chief Resident, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1985 – 1989: Paediatric Registrar/RMO, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1983 – 1984: RMO/Intern, Royal North Shore Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

Qualifications

  • 1991: Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • 1990: Diploma in Tropical Child Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom
  • 1983: MBBS, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Awards

  • 2017: Burnet Institute, Frank Fenner Award
  • 1990: Cicely Williams Medal for Tropical Paediatrics

Projects (13)

Current (7)

  • Accelerating access to postnatal care and chlorhexidine in PNG

  • Accelerating Immunisation and Health System Strengthening (AIHSS)

  • Collaborative Community Checklists for Immunisation (CCCI)

  • Evaluating a highly sensitive rapid malaria diagnostic in PNG

  • Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies

  • HHISP: Strengthening Papua New Guinea health systems

  • HMHB - Health Services for Postnatal and Infancy Care

Publications (42)

2020 (1)

2019 (4)

2018 (2)

2017 (2)

2016 (2)

2015 (1)

2014 (1)

2013 (4)

2012 (4)

2011 (6)

2010 (3)

2009 (2)

2008 (1)

2007 (3)

2006 (2)

2005 (1)

2004 (1)

2003 (2)

News Articles (33)

2020 (2)

2019 (1)

2018 (6)

2017 (2)

2016 (5)

2015 (7)

2014 (2)

2013 (1)

2012 (3)

2011 (4)

Contact Details

Telephone

+61392822110

Email

chris.morgan@burnet.edu.au

Working Group

Programs

Discipline

  • International Development

Research Themes