Professor Peter Richmond is a Consultant Paediatric Immunologist and Paediatrician at Perth Children’s Hospital and Director of the Child and Adolescent Health Service Research Network. He also heads the Vaccine Trials Group within the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases at the Telethon Kids Institute. The Vaccine Trials Group is a multidisciplinary research group which provides a coordinated approach to the development, delivery, clinical and laboratory assessment and promotion of vaccines. His major research interests are in the prevention of meningitis, pneumonia respiratory infections and otitis media. He has authored over 300 scientific publications in these areas and has worked in vaccine research for over 25 years.