The Barwon Health Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention is an academic tertiary referral program and incorporates:

• • Expert Infection Prevention/Control service across all Barwon Health sites
  • Infectious Diseases Services including consultations, inpatient care and antimicrobial stewardship to all acute care sites
  • Accredited advanced training in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
  • Specialised ambulatory and outpatient services for general Infectious Diseases, Hospital in the Home, HIV management, sexual and reproductive health, viral hepatitis and refugee health service with multidisciplinary models of care and paediatric input
  • Psychiatry and pharmacy specialist liaison services and comprehensive community case management programs (HIV/HARP)
  • 24-hour community HIV post exposure prophylaxis service
  • Extensive infectious diseases research programs in clinical, basic sciences, public health and epidemiology.

Our department works closely with Deakin University, with many of our physicians and staff having teaching roles and academic appointments with the university. We also have close links with the Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (GCEID), a collaborative, multidisciplinary research partnership between Deakin University, Barwon Health and the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) and links with Alice Springs Hospital (with our registrars rotating up to Central Australia for 6 month placements).

The department has active research collaborations locally and internationally, as well as running an active infectious diseases clinical trials unit.