Macfarlane Burnet Instiute for Medical Research and Public Health
The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health (the Burnet Institute) is named after one of Australia's best known virologists and immunologists, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, a remarkable individual who received many honors in his lifetime including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960.
Founded as a department of the Fairfield Infectious Disease Hospital in 1985, the year of Burnet's death, the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health (the Burnet Institute) is named after one of Australia's best known virologists and immunologists, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, a remarkable individual who received many honors in
his lifetime including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960.
Currently the Institute's work is focussed on a group of infections which are some of the major public health hazards of the 21st century: HIV/AIDS, hepatitis viruses (A, B, C and E), and measles
The Burnet Institute is distinguished by a multidisciplinary approach to the control of disease. In the laboratory, scientists work to understand how viruses replicate and how the host protects against virus infection, to design new antiviral drugs and vaccines. Epidemiologic research programs monitor the spread of viruses; clinical research evaluates new antivirals and vaccines in patients, and our social research programs aim to discover the behaviors which facilitate transmission of viral
infections. In addition, the Institute designs, implements and evaluates public health programs aimed a reducing the spread of communicable diseases.
The Institute's expertise in research and public health has been recognized by AusAID, through accreditation of the Burnet Institute as a non-government organization, and by the United Nations Combined Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) which has accorded the Burnet Institute collaborating status.
The Burnet Institute also has an important educational role, and provides training in research and in public health at the undergraduate and postgraduate level through its associations with the University of Melbourne, Monash University, RMIT,
LaTrobe University and University Udayana in Indonesia. nstitute has since gone on to become an independent entity and an internationally-recognized Institute of research excellence.
Macfarlane Burnet Instiute for Medical Research and Public Health
Commercial Road
Melbourne, VIC 3004
Ph: 03 9282 2100
Fax: 03 9282 2111
Web: http://www.burnet.edu.au
Email: [email protected]
ABN: 490 073 499 84 DGR: 900 117 668
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