Professor Peter Collignon

Professor Collignon is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist and employed as a Senior Staff Specialist at ACT Pathology and Canberra Hospital. He is also a Professor in the Medical School of the Australian National University. In June 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Medicine in Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Infection Control. He is active in many public health advocacy issues. Particular interests are antibiotic resistance, infection control and hospital acquired infections. He is the inaugural and current patron of the Australian College for Infection Prevention and Control. His research is widely published and referenced in many Australian and International journals. He is member of many national and international committees, including as an expert to the World Health Organization (WHO) on the issue of antibiotic resistance and the use of antibiotics in food animals since 2000. He is the Chair of the Healthcare Associated Infection expert committee of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. He has been and is on many national and international committees dealing with infection control and prevention issues as well writing and updating national infection control guidelines. In October 2017 he was awarded a PhD by thesis, examination and defence in Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit- VU) on the Topic of antibiotic resistance and One Health.