Hib Initiative Team

Kim Mulholland

Kim Mulholland is the new Professor of Child Health and Vaccinology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an Australian paediatrician with extensive experience in clinical care, public health and field research in developing countries. During six years with the MRC in the Gambia he established and undertook a program of research in the use of Hib vaccine. This lead to a large trial of the efficacy of a Hib vaccine, which was completed in 1996, and then to the introduction of the vaccine into that country, making the Gambia the first African country to introduce Hib vaccine. Between 1995 and 2000 Professor Mulholland worked for the WHO in Geneva, and for most of that time was in charge of Hib and pneumococcal vaccine research. During that time he established standard procedures for the evaluation of pneumococcal and Hib vaccines in developing countries. In 2000 he left Geneva to establish the Centre for International Child Health in Melbourne, which has grown into a successful regional child health research group, and is now recognized as a WHO Collaborating Centre in Child Health Research. In 2005 Professor Mulholland took up a new post as the Professor of Child Health and Vaccinology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

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