Professor Dominic Dwyer is a clinical virologist and infectious diseases physician, trained in Sydney with doctoral research undertaken at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. He is the NSW Director of Public Health Pathology, and Director of the Institute Of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICPMR) at Westmead. He is an expert in emerging infections, an investigator in many antiviral drug/vaccine trials, and has published over 480 papers. He has worked with the World Health Organization, including as a member of the WHO Study of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 (Wuhan 2021).
Professor Dwyer has a prominent media presence, and has worked on various international and national committees and advisory boards.