Professor William Rawlinson

Director of Serology and Virology Division (SAViD), Director Organ and Tissue Donor screening laboratory, Director NSW State Reference Laboratory for HIV, Chair Biosecurity Quality Assurance Program (QAP) RCPAQAP, Deputy Chair Serology Quality Assurance Program (QAP) RCPAQAP, Chair WHO National Verification Committee for Measles and Rubella, Chair NSWMOH COVID19 Expert Reference Panel.

William Rawlinson is a clinician scientist researching viral pathogenesis, particularly respiratory viral infections, congenital infections, and enteroviruses in type 1 diabetes mellitus. He established, and oversees, serology and virology clinical research programs, statewide transplant donor screening, and national quality programs for serology and biosecurity. He is conjoint professor at UNSW with over 500 publications and over 20,000 citations from his publications in basic research, diagnostic and clinical virology.

He is Director of NSW’s largest public testing laboratory for COVID-19. He contributes at least weekly to discourse in the television, radio and print media, has produced numerous webinars in partnership with NSW Health, and is founding member of national health organisations working on the COVID19 response – including the Public Health Laboratory Network, the Communicable Diseases Genomics Network, Expert Review Panels for Serology and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS), as well as the National COVID-19 Health and Research Advisory Committee (NCHRAC) for the NHMRC.  

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