Julie Bines

Professor Julie Bines is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, a Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Clinical Nutrition Consultant at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and leads the Enteric Diseases Group at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Julie has had a longstanding interest in Clinical Nutrition and understanding the mechanisms associated with intestinal rehabilitation following massive small bowel resection. Julie has led the development of the human neonatal rotavirus vaccine, RV3-BB vaccine, aimed at preventing rotavirus disease from birth in infants worldwide, including the clinical trials of RV3-BB vaccine in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Malawi. Julie is Director of the WHO Collaborative Centre for Child Health and the WHO Rotavirus Regional Reference Laboratory for the Western Pacific Region. Her current research activities include understanding barriers to the effectiveness of oral vaccines in high child mortality regions, Typhoid and Typhoid vaccines and wastewater surveillance in low- and middle-income countries for enteric diseases and Pandemic X. She was recipient of the 2021 Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research and the 2023 Roger Glass Award for Excellence in Rotavirus Research. In 2021 she was elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.