Pandemic influenza containment and the cultural and social context of Indigenous communities

A/Prof Peter Massey

qualifications: GCPH

contribution: original concept

position: Program manager health protection

Australia

Areas of interest and work: - Communicable diseases - Immunisation - Aboriginal health - Equity focus for health protection

Dr Adrian Miller

qualifications: MPH

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Senior lecturer

Australia

Senior Lecturer Anton Brienl Centre James Cook University Teaching Interest: Health, Policy and Planning; Indigenous Health Research Interest: Indigenous Male Health; Health Science Education

David Durrheim

qualifications: DrPH

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Service director, Health Protection

Australia

Communicable disease control International public health

Rick Speare

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor director ,Anton Breinl Centre

Australia

I am interested in infectious diseases and their control, particularly in resource poor settings.

Sherry Saggers

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor and project leader

Australia

Sherry Saggers, PhD, is Professor and Project Leader of the Social Contexts of Substance Use at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology. An anthropologist, she has researched and published on Indigenous health, substance use, well being and community development; the sociology of the children, families and young people; and on the evaluation of health and comunity programs across Australia.

Keith Eastwood

qualifications: MAE

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Biopreparedness epidemiologist

Australia

Biopreparedness epidemiologist with interests in communicable disease control, influenza, pandemic and disaster preparedness