Prof. Ben J. Marais Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI) Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis (TB-CRE) Clinical School, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead The University of Sydney

Ben Marais is a paediatric infectious diseases physician who trained and worked in Cape Town, South Africa, before transferring to Sydney. He chaired the Childhood TB working group of the International Union of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2007-2010) and assisted with the establishment of a TB Centre for Research Excellence... read morein Sydney. His areas of interest include all aspects of childhood TB and epidemic control, since child cases reflect on-going transmission within communities.