Professor Marshall MBBS DCH MPH MD is a medical researcher and National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow with specialist training in child health, public health and vaccinology having completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Doctorate of Medicine, Master of Public Health and Diploma in Child Health and the Advanced Vaccinology Course at the Pasteur Merieux Institute, France. She holds the position Professor in Vaccinology in the Adelaide Medical School and is the Deputy Director of the Robinson Research Institute at The University of Adelaide, Senior Medical Practitioner and Director of the Vaccinology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, VIRTU, at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, South Australia. She is an international leader in vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases with translation of her research to policy and practice locally, nationally and internationally. She has been a member of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, which advises the Federal Minister of Health on immunisation for the National Immunisation Program and is a member of the Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee, Therapeutic Goods Administration. Professor Marshall has been an Advisor to WHO and is currently a member of the COVID-19 Maternal Immunization Working Group, COVAX ACT-accelerator vaccine pillar to identify the best COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women. In recognition of her research excellence she was awarded the National Health and Medical Research Council’s “10 of the Best” research projects nationally and the South Australia Science Award for Excellence in Research for the Public Good and South Australia Science Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration. In 2020 she received the Inspiring South Australian Women award, Australia Day Council, South Australia.