Trish Hurst
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Queensland Infection Prevention and Control Unit (QIPCU)
Trish has more than 20 years’ experience in infection prevention and control, having led and delivered programmes and initiatives across a broad range of healthcare settings. Her experience spans Queensland’s largest tertiary–quaternary hospital, office-based practice, aeromedical retrieval services, primary healthcare, and translational research in partnership with academic collaborators.
In 2024, Trish joined the Queensland Infection Prevention and Control Unit (QIPCU) as a Clinical Nurse Consultant in the Surveillance team, where she focuses on modernising surveillance definitions. Outside work, she enjoys swabbing hospital drains in search of interesting multidrug-resistant bacteria and paddle boarding on Raby Bay in search of dugongs.