Michelle Giles

Professor Michelle Giles is an infectious diseases specialist and physician-scientist with unique expertise in infections in pregnancy. She has an appointment in the Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne and in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University. Her clinical infectious diseases practice is at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Alfred Health and Monash Health, Melbourne. Her clinical work focuses on infections in pregnancy and blood borne viruses, particularly HIV and hepatitis B. She also has extensive experience in adult immunisation focusing on maternal immunisation and immunisation in special risk groups.

Her current research program spans basic science with a focus on the non-specific effects of maternal immunisation in pregnancy. Professor Giles has been on the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce Pregnancy and Perinatal Care Panel since its inception, is Deputy Chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), Co-lead of the ATAGI COVID-19 Working Group, and has had a number of roles in an advisory capacity to the WHO including most recently being appointed to the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Group B Streptococcus Vaccine Development (TAG-GBS) and the WHO Monkeypox Clinical Guideline Development Group.