A/Prof Sheena Sullivan is an infectious diseases epidemiologist. She completed her PhD at UCLA in collaboration with the China Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing. From 2011-2023 she led the epidemiology team at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne. She is an Adjunct A/Prof with Monash University and the University of Adelaide, collaborating on Australia’s sentinel influenza surveillance. She also consults for the World Health Organization providing advice to member states on the estimation of influenza disease burden, vaccine effectiveness and vaccine impact.

She is a recognised expert on the conduct of observational studies to estimate vaccine effectiveness, especially the test-negative design, and has been invited to speak on the topic at local and international meetings. Her research extends to understanding the mechanisms underlying observations of reduced VE in some groups. She has led or collaborated on small and large sero-epidemiology cohorts to understand the consequences of repeated influenza vaccination, immune imprinting and vaccination in vulnerable groups. She has authored and co-authored over 200 publications in high impact journals such as Lancet Respiratory Medicine, NEJM and NPJ Vaccines and has grants totalling >$6million. She is a council member of the International Society for Respiratory Viruses, Associate Editor for its journal, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Epidemiology.