Beth Temple
Epidemiologist
Qualifications:
Master of Science (Epidemiology), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2005
Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Biological Sciences), University of Oxford, 2003.
Location:
Biography:
Beth joined Menzies in 2008. Currently she is the epidemiologist for a program of pneumococcal research in Vietnam, involving the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne. This program of research centres around two large pneumococcal vaccine trials among infants in Ho Chi Minh City, for which she is the trial manager. These trials aim to generate evidence to aid decision-making regarding pneumococcal vaccine introduction in developing countries.
The first trial provided a head-to-head comparison of the two pneumococcal vaccines, PCV10 and PCV13, and evaluated various different schedules of PCV10.
The second trial evaluated reduced-dose (0+1 and 1+1) schedules designed to provide protection primarily through herd immunity. Results from this trial are currently being written up for publication.
Previously, Beth also contributed to the Women's and Children's Health Hub, part of the AusAID Health Knowledge Hubs initiative, and the twinning partnership between Menzies and the Timor-Leste Cabinet of Health Research and Development. Before coming to Menzies, Beth lived in Fiji, working for a pneumococcal research program and in Uganda, working on a multi-drug resistant TB study and an HIV cohort study.
