Meet the research leader in vaccine safety
Dr Mike Gold MB ChB MD DCH, FCP FRACP
Dr Gold is the leader of the Vaccine Safety Stream at the Children's Research Centre and a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Paediatrics at the University of Adelaide. In addition he is Head of the Department of Allergy and Immunology at the Women's and Children's Hospital and a paediatric consultant for the South Australian Immunisation Coordination Unit run by SA Health.
Dr Gold is currently investigating methods of evaluating vaccine safety in children and is the first to link the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to hospital morbidity in South Australia. His work hopes to identify very rare adverse reactions to vaccines among Australian children and inform improvements to current immunisation policy. Dr Gold is also investigating the reasons behind the under-reporting of adverse events following immunization, and hopes to use his findings to inform improved safety practices.
Importantly, Dr Gold is Chair of the Technical Oversite Committee that is coordinating a USD$3.8 million project aimed at improving vaccine safety surveillance in 11 developing countries that prescribe UNICEF vaccines. He is also part of a research team that received over $2.2 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council to investigate the prevention of egg allergies in infants.
