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Doctor Jane Greig

Co-Head, Pacific Infectious Diseases (Operational Research, Surveillance and Resilience) Working Group; Senior Operational Epidemiologist
Background

Jane is a Senior Operational Epidemiologist and co-head of the Pacific Infectious Diseases (Operational Research, Surveillance and Resilience) Working Group. With this working group she is supporting outbreak response resilience in the Pacific region. She is also supporting program implementation and research activities of the TB Elimination and Implementation Science working group.

Jane is an epidemiologist (MAppEpid) with a biomedical science research background (PhD). She has health-related research, analysis and programmatic experience for over 20 years in non-government, government, private industry and academic settings. Her extensive experience working in international epidemiology/public health and humanitarian response includes more than 15 years with the international emergency medical humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a field epidemiologist, epidemiology advisor and health information system content specialist for activities in more than 30 countries.

Her field epidemiology work has encompassed field support in various countries during outbreak investigation and response including severe lead poisoning, meningitis, cholera, Ebola, COVID-19, Legionnaires’ disease. She has undertaken field work to support programs in a range of countries including Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Colombia, Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Jane has undertaken operational research arising from routine programme activities and to support organisational strategic objectives, including research related to outbreak interventions (lead poisoning, meningococcal disease, Ebola) and programmes managing TB and HIV in challenging settings. She supports operational research capacity exchange through leading modules and mentoring participants of the structure operational research and training initiative (SORT-iT) in PNG, as a field supervisor for Master of Applied Epidemiology field epidemiology training program (FETP) scholars and project supervisor of Master of Public Health student projects, and as a member of the GOARN Research Technical Working Group.

Qualifications
  • 2002: M App Epid, Australian National University, Australia
  • 1998: PhD, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • 1993: BSc(Hons1), University of Western Australia, Australia
Appointments
  • 2023–present: Member GOARN (Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network) Research Technical Working Group
  • 2023–present: Member Médecins Sans Frontières OCA Operational Research Committee
  • 2008–present: Member Médecins Sans Frontières Scientific Day Editorial Committee
  • 2001–present: Member of Australasian Epidemiological Association
Positions
  • 2024–present: Co-Head, Pacific Infectious Diseases (Operational Research, Surveillance and Resilience) Working Group
  • 2017–present: Senior Operational Epidemiologist, Tuberculosis Elimination and Implementation Science Group, Burnet Institute
  • 2017–present: Health Information System Content Specialist Advisor, Manson Unit, (MSF)-UK
  • 2020: Outbreak Epidemiologist and Co-lead Outbreak Field Epidemiology Intelligence team, COVID-19 Incident Management Team, Victorian Department of Health
  • 2008–2017: Operational Epidemiology Advisor, Manson Unit, MSF-UK
  • 2007–2008: Coordinator of Operational Research, MSF-Holland HIV program, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2007: Contract Project Officer, Communicable Disease Control Branch, Health Department, Western Australia
  • 2005–2006: Epidemiologist, Department of Infectious Diseases, And Lecturer, Epidemiology Unit, Department of Social And Preventive Medicine Universiti Malaya Medical Centre
  • May–August 2005: Epidemiologist, Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International), Tajikistan Field Office
  • 2004: Interim Supervisor Masters of Applied Epidemiology Program, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Australia
  • 2002–2005: Epidemiologist, Medical Marketing, CSL Limited, Melbourne, Australia,; June 2002: Research Officer, Victorian Q Fever Management Program, Communicable Diseases Section, Victorian Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2000–2002: Epidemiology Registrar, Masters of Applied Epidemiology Field Placement, Communicable Diseases Section, Victorian Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1999: Research Associate, The Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  • 1998: Research Assistant, The Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  • 1994–1998: PhD candidate, The Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia