Dr Frank Beard is Associate Director at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, where he heads up the vaccine coverage, program evaluation, vaccine preventable disease surveillance and social science teams, and Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney School of Public Health
Dr Beard is a public health physician with extensive experience in immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases. He was closely involved in the development of the Sharing Knowledge About Immunisation package of resources to facilitate conversations about childhood immunisation between parents and healthcare providers. Prior to undertaking his public health medicine specialist training, he worked for 15 years as a GP in Sydney.