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Jane Greig

Dr Jane Greig is a Senior Operational Epidemiologist and co-head of the Pacific Infectious Diseases Working Group at the Burnet Institute, and a long-serving field epidemiologist with Médecins Sans Frontières.

Oct 13, 2026

13:44
She was undertaking field training to become a fully-fledged epidemiologist.
13:48
And so I was just finding my feet in my field placement, working out what I was going to do to meet my competencies, one of which is investigate an outbreak or a public health problem.
13:58
Pretty sure I was in the office of my field supervisor and we were discussing what my potential projects would be when someone came in to tell him that they were going to send an investigation team to the aquarium.
14:10
And I was offered, do you want to go along? So absolutely, yes.
14:15
And that started a whole thing for you.
14:17
Many, many months.
14:19
Four people had contracted Legionnaire's disease, and all of them had recently visited Melbourne Aquarium.
14:26
The office at that point was on Spencer Street, and so it was like a five-minute walk around the corner to the aquarium.

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