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Trainers at HIVTRI
 Suzanne
Crowe, Australia
Professor Suzanne Crowe has recently been appointed
Head of the Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, responsible
for approximately 100 scientists and physicians who investigate
HIV, hepatitis and respiratory viruses. She is also an NHMRC Principal
Research Fellow, Principal Specialist in Infectious Diseases at
the Alfred Hospital where she takes care of individuals with HIV
infection, and Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at
Monash University, Melbourne. She is currently an adviser and consultant
to the World Health Organisation Global Program on AIDS, Deputy
Chairman of the Board of the Australian India Council (Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade) and has served as President of the
Australasian Society for HIV Medicine and as a member of the Prime
Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council Asia
Working Group. Her laboratory has recently been appointed the Regional
WHO Reference laboratory for HIV Resistance testing. With over
180 peer-reviewed publications, her main research interests are
the role of macrophages in HIV pathogenesis and translational research
in low cost CD4 and Viral Load tests to monitor HIV infection in
developing countries. She has organized 41 train-the-trainer programs
on HIV clinical management for doctors working in urban and rural
India, as well as similar training programs in Fiji, Indonesia,
China, and Malaysia. Her laboratory has transferred technology
for performing low cost monitoring tests into each of these countries.
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