Deborah Friedman
Medical Doctor in Infectious Diseases, Deputy Chief Health Officer, Department of Health, Victoria
Deborah Friedman is a medical doctor in infectious diseases with over 20 years of experience. She received her Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, and her MD in infection control and hospital-acquired infections.
Her research since that time has largely been in the areas of infections that develop in hospitalised patients, antimicrobial resistance and Buruli ulcer.
She played a major leadership role in infection prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic as Medical Director of the Infection Prevention Control and Response (IPCAR) Team at the Victorian Department of Health.
Most recently she was employed as the Deputy Chief Health Officer in Communicable Diseases in the Victorian Department of Health leading the state-wide public health response to mosquito-borne disease threats. She is the new Director of VICNISS.