Professor Dominic Dwyer is a medical virologist and infectious diseases physician based at Westmead Hospital and the University of Sydney. He is Director of Public Health Pathology in NSW, and is Director of the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (New South Wales Health Pathology) at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He undertook postgraduate research in HIV/AIDS at the Institute Pasteur in Paris, France. He leads the World Health Organisation (WHO) National Influenza Centre located at the ICPMR and worked with WHO during the SARS outbreak in China in 2003.
He has a clinical and research interest in viral diseases of public health importance, including COVID-19, influenza and other respiratory viruses, HIV, antiviral drug resistance and arboviruses. He is actively involved in investigations of outbreaks of viral infections, including at mass gatherings and closed environments.
He is a member of the World Health Organisation Joint Mission on the Origins of SARS-CoV-2.
