Feery Oration
| Tuesday, June 10, 2025 |
| 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM |
| Halls CD Lower Section |
Overview
Orator: Prof. Helen Marshall AM
Details
The Feery Oration is proudly sponsored by CSL Seqirus.
In 2025 this will be the 17th Oration to be delivered in honour of Dr Brian Feery, a most distinguished scientist who has made a major contribution to and passion for immunisation and public health in Australia. Throughout his career Dr Feery worked tirelessly in vaccine research, which included at CSL in the areas of preventable diseases of children, influenza vaccine, the development of Q Fever vaccine and studies into smallpox vaccine. His other key appointments included: Senior Associate in the Melbourne University Department of Medicine; Member of the research committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners; and he was also the director of the WHO Influenza Reference Centre from 1974-1978. He championed the promotion of immunisation in Australia through education and the development of immunisation policy until his retirement in 1990.
Speaker
Prof Helen Marshall
Professor of Vaccinology
The University of Adelaide
Vaccinology - A road less travelled
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMAbstract
My career in vaccinology emerged from several serendipitous events. A focus on meningococcal disease and its prevention through immunisation led to Landmark studies with ground-breaking discoveries and public health benefits in Australia and internationally. Our determination that one vaccine could protect against two closely related bacteria that cause clinically different diseases, is the first opportunity to drive down gonorrhoea globally. The culmination of this work has led to leadership of a NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence in Neisseria Disease Control. The NEIS CRE aims to determine the most effective and cost-effective immunisation program to protect against meningococcal B disease and gonorrhoea with one vaccine. A priority for the NEIS CRE investigator team is to deliver the evidence for a national immunisation program for First Nations young people, to Close the Gap.
