Our members

Rebecca Doyle is a Nurse Researcher with the Queensland Specialist Immunisation Service at Children’s Heath Queensland (CHQ), an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a current member of the CHQ Human Research Ethics Committee and the CHQ Clinical Ethics Committee. She has a background in paediatric intensive care nursing and has been working in paediatric research for the past nine years, in various roles with universities and health services. Rebecca’s research interests include infectious diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, immunisation, health equity and ethical aspects of research with children. She has completed a Master of Medical Research with a thesis title of ‘Prohibiting deferred consent can lead to research bias in clinical trials within Paediatric Intensive Care Units’.

Chelsea has a background in paediatric nursing, with a specific interest and experience in maternal child health, refugee and migration health, and immunisation. She has a passion for promoting health at a population level and for developing integrated approaches to effectively deliver health services for populations with complex health and social needs.

Chelsea has held roles in various areas of public and primary health, with government institutions and United Nations agencies. She has coordinated and implemented health and development programs across the Western Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. 

She currently works at Burnet Institute as an Immunisation and Health System Strengthening Specialist. In this role, she supports ministries of health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific to enhance their immunisation policy development and program design, with a particular focus on zero-dose children and ensuring equitable health outcomes for diverse, hard-to-reach and vulnerable population groups.  

Previous to this, Chelsea worked as Global Clinical Nurse Coordinator at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), where she was responsible for improving clinical services and standards of care for refugees and migrants being resettled under the framework of IOM’s Global Health Assessment Program.

Dr Cattram Nguyen is a postdoctoral biostatistician (Senior Research Fellow) at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has joint appointments with the New Vaccines Group (led by Prof Kim Mulholland) and the Asia-Pacific Health Research Group (led by Prof Fiona Russell).

Cattram's research portfolio spans statistical methodology and applied research in global child health, with a focus on vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases in the Asia-Pacific region. I work predominantly on pneumococcal vaccine research, but I have also worked on HPV and rotavirus vaccine studies. Major projects include pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) trials in Vietnam, and PCV impact evaluations in Fiji, Mongolia, Laos, and PNG. 

Madeline is a Nurse Practitioner specialising in vaccine preventable diseases with over 35 years' experience in the health sector at a local, state, national and international level, with a strong focus on immunisation. She currently works as a Nurse Practitioner in the Queensland Adult Specialist Immunisation Service and is also a tutor/lecturer for nurse immuniser programs at the Australian College of Nursing and Australian Catholic University.

She has worked extensively with a variety of community groups including the CALD groups. As part of this work, she developed resources to assist vaccine service providers with catch up immunisation of refugee and humanitarian entrants. 

Madeline is a current member of the Advisory Committee for Vaccines, AusVaxSafety Advisory Group and Adverse Events Following Immunisation Clinical Assessment Network.