Tonia Marquardt

Tonia Marquardt is a public health physician who has worked in a range of remote and developing contexts throughout her career. Over the last 25 years she has spent time working with Medecins Sans Frontieres on various projects including HIV and TB in Malawi, refugee and IDP projects in Liberia, Darfur and Bangladesh. She has supported responses to multiple disease outbreaks (cholera, measles, meningitis and Ebola) in a range of settings. As a women’s health advisor she supported activities in multiple locations including Nigeria, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Philippines. She has also spent time as a regional medical lead on projects dealing with Hepatitis C in Cambodia, TB in PNG and Leishmaniasis in Pakistan.

Tonia has spent many years in Far North Queensland where she worked in retrieval medicine and primary health care with the Royal Flying Doctor Service mostly in Cape York. During this time Tonia obtained dual fellowships in General Practice and Rural and Remote Medicine. She was also part of the editorial team for the first chronic conditions manual. Tonia has also completed her Public Health Physician training working in Queensland Public Health Units. Roles included responding to communicable diseases such as Covid19, melioidosis, meningitis and diphtheria, she also supported the Rheumatic Heart Register team and worked on the addition of Acute Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis to the list of Notifiable Diseases.

Tonia is currently based in the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) in Australia as a Senior Medical Officer in the Global Health team supporting safe and effective immunisation in the region.