Professor Paul Effler

Paul Effler received a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of California and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Hawaii. After completing a residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, he served as an Officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC and as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Health Organization. For more than a decade he served as the State Epidemiologist for Hawaii where he oversaw disease surveillance activities and directed the public health response to outbreaks of SARS, measles, dengue fever, murine typhus, hepatitis A, and Escherichia coli O157.  In 2008 he moved to Western Australia and served as the State Human Epidemic Controller during the 2009 influenza pandemic, and where he currently works as a Senior Medical Adviser in communicable disease control and immunizations.  Dr Effler has an appointment as a Clinical Professor with the University of Western Australia School of Medicine, is an Associate Editor for the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Outbreak and Response Network and the Technical Advisory Group for the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies.