Michael Traeger Email & Phone Number

Michael is an epidemiologist and post-doctoral research officer in the HIV Prevention and Surveillance & Evaluation working groups at Burnet Institute, Melbourne. Michael’s research involves analysing large surveillance data to examine epidemiological trends in infectious diseases and evaluate large-scale public health interventions, with a particular focus on HIV and bacterial STIs.Michael is also a Research Fellow at the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, where he works on a range of projects related to HIV prevention among key populations.Michael completed his PhD at Burnet Institute in 2022, where he explored the interplay between HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation and the epidemiology of bacterial STIs among gay and bisexual men in Australia.Key research interests include: infectious disease epidemiology, disease surveillance, HIV & STI prevention, biostatistics and sexual health.

Listed skills include Data Analysis, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Surveillance, and 1 others.