chief medical officer

CMO Paul Kelly has followed the lead of the WHO in declaring MPX a Communicable Disease Incident of National Significance.

From Wednesday travellers will be allowed to enter and leave Australia without needing to disclose their COVID vaccination status.

A potential Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) outbreak discovered in 14 piggeries across Australia will require a national response.

Chief medical officer professor Paul Kelly made the announcement in light of the COVID-19 Delta variant continuing to spread across NZ’s North Island.

The federal government has appointed health experts Anne Duggan and Jo Watson to lead the advisory committee overseeing the new MBS Review.

Professor Paul Kelly will lead the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines across the country after being officially appointed to the role of Australian chief medical officer. In a statement on Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Kelly has been “intimately involved” in the national COVID-19 response, as well as the health response to the 2019–20 bushfires. […]

Sometimes, exchanges in Senate estimates start to sound like the Monty Python skit about the argument clinic.