Professor Karin Leder is an infectious disease phsician, Head of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Monash University) and Director of Travel Medicine and Immigrant Health (Royal Melbourne Hospital). As a world leader in disease spread across international borders, her research outputs have changed global surveillance prioritities and clinical management of infections among mobile populations. She also leads a multidisciplinary research program to improve water-sanitation management, reduce health impacts from exposure to environmental microbial contamination and mitigate adverse climate change effects via introduction of sustainable technology into resource-poor settings.

Professor Leder is renowned for mentoring a new generation of independent clinician-researchers.