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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005709b.htm person Burgess Margaret Anne AO AACR2 2 September 1937 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Immunologist Paediatrician Margaret Burgess is a pre-eminent paediatric researcher who made major contributions of international importance to understanding congenital rubella and its prevention, and to clinical and public health aspects of the control of vaccine-preventable disease. Her research focussed on rubella and measles, and she played a key role in adding varicella vaccine (in 2005) and rotavirus vaccine (in 2007) to National Immunisation Program. With colleagues she proposed the now-regular national serosurvey which examines age-specific prevalence of protective levels of antibodies to vaccine-preventable diseases at population level: this proved to be critical in the evaluation of the national Measles Control Campaign in 1998 under which all Australian primary school children had the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Burgess contributed to public policy on immunisation and infections diseases by serving on a number of advisory boards and committees. She also advocated for strengthened monitoring and reporting of vaccine safety. Burgess wrote over 270 research publications. 1 Aug 1911 1 Aug 1977 Award - Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal 1971 1971 Education - MD, University of Sydney 1972 1984 Career position - Norman Gregg Senior Research Fellow, Children's Medical Research Institute 1978 1978 Career position - President, Paediatric Research Society of Australia 1984 2003 Career position - Senior Staff Physician, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney 1989 1995 Career position - Member, Advisory Committee on Infectious Diseases, Department of Health, New South Wales 1992 1998 Career position - Associate Clinical Professor, University of Sydney 1992 2003 Career position - Member, Immunisation Advisory Committee, Department of Health, New South Wales 1996 2003 Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Communicable Diseases Intelligence 1997 2003 Career position - Director, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases 1997 2003 Career position - Member, Measles Elimination Advisory Committee 1997 2005 Career position - Member, Communicable Diseases Network of Australia and New Zealand 1998 2003 Career position - Professor of Paediatrics and Preventive Medicine, University of Sydney 1998 2005 Career position - Member, Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation 1999 2002 Career position - Member, Strategic Advisory Group of Experts for Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization 2000 2005 Career position - Chair, Working Party on Varicella, Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation 2003 Career position - Emeritus Consultant Physician, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney 2003 2003 Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to public health in Australia and overseas, particularly through the provision of policy advice to government and through undertaking research into vaccine preventable diseases and the control of infectious diseases, and to paediatrics. 2006 2006 Award - Howard Williams Medal, Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) (1938 - )

Awarded Howard Williams Medal 2006

 The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Professor of Paediatrics and Preventive Medicine, 1998 - 2003

 'Burgess, Margaret Anne', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Burgess, Margaret Anne Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Margaret Anne Burgess: a remarkable paediatrician who pioneered research into vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases in Australia McIntyre, Peter B.; and Forrest, Jill M. Margaret Anne Burgess: a remarkable paediatrician who pioneered research into vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases in Australia 2016 Medical Journal of Australia 204 10 389-91