Professor Stephen Rogerson

Professor Stephen Rogerson researches malaria in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and is also an infectious diseases clinician. His research has taken him to Papua New Guinea, Malawi and the UK. His principal interests are malaria in pregnancy and the pathogenesis and immunity of malaria in young children.  Since 2005, he has been a member of the Gates Foundation-supported Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, and he advises WHO on malaria in pregnancy. He chairs an interview committee for the Wellcome Trust. From 2016, his laboratory will be supported by an NHMRC program grant.