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Epidemiology Technical Advisor | Pandemic specialist | Global health security | Surveillance | System evaluations

Profile Summary

Dr Beverley Paterson is an epidemiologist who consults at a senior executive level in roles requiring high-level strategic engagement and influence with counterparts. She is looking for a meaningful role in public health that will utilise her extensive skill set and can be conducted remotely with multiple in-country visits. Working in developed and developing settings, she is a dynamic and versatile health specialist who has achieved significant results in the international health sector. She is an Honorary Associate Professor with the Australian National University and is an Academic Supervisor for the Australian field epidemiology training course. She works on health security, COVID-19 response, pandemic planning, workforce capacity development and field epidemiology. In her last position she was the Epidemiology and Surveillance Adviser to the Australia Indonesia Health Security Partnership. She supported the WHO COVID-19 response in the Northern Pacific and, in January 2020, finalised an infectious respiratory diseases emergency response plan for Western Australia. She consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO) on India's pandemic plan and worked with governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to improve health security, particularly around pandemic threats. She wrote the WHO Guidance for Surveillance during an Influenza Pandemic: 2017 update. She developed an All-Hazards Public Health Emergency Response Plan for the Pacific island, Nauru. Work locations have included Central Asia, India, Australia, Indonesia, various Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar, England, Europe and West Africa. Dr Paterson has undertaken consultancies for numerous organisations including WHO HQ Geneva, WHO Europe, WHO AFRO, WHO India, WHO Papua New Guinea, WHO Fiji, the International Federation of the Red Cross, the Australian Red Cross, the Australian Department of Health, and UK’s Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England). She has worked on COVID-19, Ebola, dengue and pandemic influenza outbreaks. Experienced in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Dr Paterson has a PhD (Surveillance/Epidemiology), a Masters in Applied Epidemiology, a Masters in Knowledge Management, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion. She has published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals including the British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and Science. A CV can be provided on request.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Zika Virus
• ☆ Surveillance Systems
• ☆ Knowledge Management
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ Viral Diseases
• ☆ COVID-19
• ☆ Tropical Medicine
• ☆ Dengue
• ☆ Pulmonology/Respiratory Disease
• ☆ Influenza
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Pandemic Preparedness
• ☆ Emergency Preparedness
• ☆ Global Health
• ☆ Community Health Services
• ☆ Medical Sciences
• ☆ Gap Analysis
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ SOP & Protocol Writing
• ☆ Textbook Content Writing
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Management Consulting

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing

Research Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Principal Consultant

Evaluation & Epidemiology International

January 2016 - Present

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Level C)

University of Newcastle

2014 - January 2016

Research Fellow (Level B)

University of Newcastle

2010 - 2013

Consultant

World Health Organization

April 2010 - October 2010

Consultant Epidemiologist

Health Protection Agency

November 2009 - March 2010

Education

PhD (Faculty of Health)

University of Newcastle Australia

2010 - 2013

Master of Applied Epidemiology (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health)

Australian National University

2007 - 2008

Master of Knowledge Management

University of Canberra

- 2003

Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion

Edith Cowan University

- 2000

Bachelor of Arts

Edith Cowan University

- 1995

Certifications

• Master of applied epidemiology

  Australian National University

  January 2022 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2022). Wastewater surveillance: an effective and adaptable surveillance tool in settings with a low prevalence of COVID-19 . The Lancet. Planetary health.

(2017). 'Silent' and 'noisy' areas: acute flaccid paralysis surveillance at subnational level, Australia, 2001-2015 . International health.

(2017). Acute flaccid paralysis incidence and Zika virus surveillance, Pacific Islands . Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

(2017). Lessons learnt from a measles outbreak in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, June 2014 - March 2015 . Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR.

et al.(2017). Lessons learnt from a three-year pilot field epidemiology training programme . Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR.

et al.(2016). Early warning epidemic surveillance in the Pacific island nations: an evaluation of the Pacific syndromic surveillance system . Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH.

(2016). The Harvard-LSHTM panel on the global response to Ebola report . Lancet (London, England).

(2016). Commentary: Zika Virus: the Latest Newcomer . Frontiers in microbiology.

(2016). Zika virus from a Pacific perspective: What are the risks to Australians? . Travel medicine and infectious disease.

(2015). Adult encephalitis surveillance: experiences from an Australian prospective sentinel site study . Epidemiology and infection.

et al.(2015). Consensus guidelines for the investigation and management of encephalitis in adults and children in Australia and New Zealand . Internal medicine journal.

(2015). Protecting Australia from Future Polio Outbreaks . Online journal of public health informatics.

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2014, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 794 .

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, Vaccine, 2014 .

Paterson BJ, Butler MT, Eastwood K, Cashman PM, Jones A, Durrheim DN, BMC public health, 2014, vol. 14, pp. 58 .

Quinn EK, Massey PD, Cox-Witton K, Paterson BJ, Eastwood K, Durrheim DN, BMC veterinary research, 2014, vol. 10, pp. 144 .

Martin N, Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report, 2014, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. E107-13 .

et al.(2013). Case definitions, diagnostic algorithms, and priorities in encephalitis: consensus statement of the international encephalitis consortium . Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

(2013). Case definitions, diagnostic algorithms, and priorities in encephalitis: consensus statement of the international encephalitis consortium . Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report, 2013, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. E149-55 .

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, <i>Journal of epidemiology and global health</i>, 2013, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 41-47 .

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, Hardie K, <i>Influenza and other respiratory viruses</i>, 2013 .

Paterson BJ, Kirk MD, Cameron AS, D'Este C, Durrheim DN, <i>BMJ open</i>, 2013, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 159 .

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN: The remarkable adaptability of syndromic surveillance to meet public health needs. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 2013, 3(1):41-47.

Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN, <i>The New England journal of medicine</i>, 2012, vol. 367, no. 10, pp. 973; author reply 974 .

Kool JL, Paterson B, Pavlin BI, Durrheim D, Musto J, Kolbe A, <i>Global public health</i>, 2012, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 670-681 .

Durrheim DN, Huppatz C, Paterson B, <i>Retrovirology</i>, 2012, vol. 9, no. Suppl 1, pp. O9-O9 .

Paterson BJ, Kool JL, Durrheim DN, Pavlin B, <i>Global public health</i>, 2012, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 682-694 .

Van Kerkhove MD, Mounts AW, Mall S, Vandemaele KA, Chamberland M, dos Santos T, Fitzner J, Widdowson MA, Michalove J, Bresee J, Olsen SJ, Quick L, Baumeister E, Carlino LO, Savy V, Uez O, Owen R, Ghani F, Paterson B, Forde A, Fasce R, Torres G, Andrade W, Bustos P, Mora J, Gonzalez C, Olea A, Sotomayor V, Najera De Ferrari M, Burgos A, Hunt D, Huang QS, Jennings LC, Macfarlane M, Lopez LD, McArthur C, Cohen C, Archer B, Blumberg L, Cengimbo A, Makunga C, McAnerney J, Msimang V, Naidoo D, Puren A, Schoub B, Thomas J, Venter M, WHO Southern Hemisphere Influenza Comparison Study Working Group, <i>Influenza and other respiratory viruses</i>, 2011, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. e487-98 .

Paterson B, Caddis R, Durrheim D, <i>Emerging infectious diseases</i>, 2011, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1963-1964 .

Paterson BJ, Mackenzie JS, Durrheim DN, Smith D, <i>New South Wales public health bulletin</i>, 2011, vol. 22, no. 5-6, pp. 99-104 .

Van Kerkhove MD, Vandemaele KA, Shinde V, Jaramillo-Gutierrez G, Koukounari A, Donnelly CA, Carlino LO, Owen R, Paterson B, Pelletier L, Vachon J, Gonzalez C, Hongjie Y, Zijian F, Chuang SK, Au A, Buda S, Krause G, Haas W, Bonmarin I, Taniguichi K, Nakajima K, Shobayashi T, Takayama Y, Sunagawa T, Heraud JM, Orelle A, Palacios E, van der Sande MA, Wielders CC, Hunt D, Cutter J, Lee VJ, Thomas J, Santa-Olalla P, Sierra-Moros MJ, Hanshaoworakul W, Ungchusak K, Pebody R, Jain S, Mounts AW, WHO Working Group for Risk Factors for Severe H1N1pdm Infection, <i>PLoS medicine</i>, 2011, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. e1001053 .

Presanis AM, Pebody RG, Paterson BJ, Tom BD, Birrell PJ, Charlett A, Lipsitch M, De Angelis D, <i>BMJ (Clinical research ed.)</i>, 2011, vol. 343, pp. d5408 .

Paterson B, Durrheim DN, Tuyl F, <i>Science (New York, N.Y.)</i>, 2009, vol. 325, no. 5944, pp. 1071-2; author reply 1072-3 .

(2009). OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2009 . Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report.

Owen R, Barr IG, Pengilley A, Liu C, Paterson B, Kaczmarek M, National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, <i>Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report</i>, 2008, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 208-226 .