Mary-Louise McLaws
Currently
• Deputy President Academic Board
• UNSW Global Water Institute - Water - Health Leader Institutional Biosafety Committee
• UNSW Institutional Biosafety Committee
Previously
• Academic Board Professorial member
• Vice-Chancellor's Childcare Support Fund for Women Researchers
• Faculty Higher Degrees Committee
• Faculty Research Student Sub Committee
• Director School Research Degree Students
• Director Public Health Program
• Director Graduate Health Services Management Hong Kong Programs
Mary-Louise is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Program Experts Advisory Panel for Infection Prevention and Control Preparedness, Readiness and Response to COVID-19. For several years she was a short mission World Health Organization Advisor to China and Malaysia for surveillance development. She collaborated with Beijing to review the response to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak and healthcare worker safety for the Hong Kong SARS designated hospital. Mary-Louise provided advise for 9 years to the WHO Clean Care is Safer Care Challenge program. She was commissioned by the Commonwealth to review the Pandemic Influenza Infection Control Guidelines for evidence of protection for healthcare workers.
As Honorary Advisor to the Clinical Excellence Commission for many years she collaborated on several state-wide patient safety interventions including: improving hand hygiene in healthcare care workers, reducing central line associated bloodstream infections and detecting and treating sepsis early in patients presenting to emergency departments. Her research has included performing the seminal Australian survey of healthcare associated infections in 1984 and developing the first surveillance system for healthcare associated infections as a pilot in 1998-2001 for the NSW Health Department. She enjoys capacity building PhD candidates and performing infection control research in Cambodia, China, Bangladesh, Mali, Indonesia, Iran, Viet Nam, Taiwan and Turkey.
Membership:
Australian Epidemiology Association Foundation member
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
Hospital Infection Society UK
Society for Healthcare Epidemiologist of America
Journal Boards
2006- International Journal Clinical Governance
2012-2015; 2017- American Journal of Infection Control
2017- Journal of Hospital Infection
Completed Appointments:
World Health Organization Core Group - Components to Infection Control Programs
World Health Organization Core Group - First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care
World Health Organization Advisor - Malaysian Ministry of Health national surveillance for healthcare associated infections
World Health Organization Advisor- Chinese Ministry of Health national patient safety accreditation
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome reviewer - Beijing Bureau of Health Beijing outrbeak response & Hong Kong SARS Designated hospital
Clinical Excellence Commission Advisor to state wide patient safety projects; Standing Committee on Healthcare Associated Infection
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing appointed reviewer of "Pandemic Influenza Infection Control for Healthcare workers Guidelines"
Principal Investigator First standardized surveillance system for healthcare associated infections
Principal investigator First study of healthcare associated infections in Australian hospitals
Principal investigator First study of automated surveillance of hand hygiene compliance in the Australian healthcare system
Awards:
2020 Australia's (on citations) Leader in the Field: Epidemiology
2017 Medical Journal of Australia/MDA Best Research Publication "SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives."
2016 Global Sepsis Alliance Award Government category. Burrell A, McLaws ML, Fullick M, Sullivan R, Sindhusake D. SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives. Med J Aust doi: 10.5694/mja15.00657
2016 Excellence in Postgraduate research supervision SPHCM UNSW Medicine
2010 Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision SPHCM UNSW Medicine
2013 Best Paper of the month UNSW Medicine. Successful Implementation of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Promotion Strategy across Facilities Worldwide. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2013; 13:843-51.
2009 Peter Baume Public Health Impact Highly Commended Prize SPHCM UNSW
2009 Top 10 cited Elsevier publications for 2006-2008. Behavioural considerations for hand hygiene practices: the basic building blocks. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2006.09.026
1999 Baxter-Australian Healthcare Association Healthcare Innovation Award http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2002.1361
Current Research Activities:
Wastewater epidemiology for health
Safe removal of non sterile gloves in clinical from contact precautions
Address: UNSW Australia, Sydney, 2052, New South Wales, Australia
• Deputy President Academic Board
• UNSW Global Water Institute - Water - Health Leader Institutional Biosafety Committee
• UNSW Institutional Biosafety Committee
Previously
• Academic Board Professorial member
• Vice-Chancellor's Childcare Support Fund for Women Researchers
• Faculty Higher Degrees Committee
• Faculty Research Student Sub Committee
• Director School Research Degree Students
• Director Public Health Program
• Director Graduate Health Services Management Hong Kong Programs
Mary-Louise is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Program Experts Advisory Panel for Infection Prevention and Control Preparedness, Readiness and Response to COVID-19. For several years she was a short mission World Health Organization Advisor to China and Malaysia for surveillance development. She collaborated with Beijing to review the response to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak and healthcare worker safety for the Hong Kong SARS designated hospital. Mary-Louise provided advise for 9 years to the WHO Clean Care is Safer Care Challenge program. She was commissioned by the Commonwealth to review the Pandemic Influenza Infection Control Guidelines for evidence of protection for healthcare workers.
As Honorary Advisor to the Clinical Excellence Commission for many years she collaborated on several state-wide patient safety interventions including: improving hand hygiene in healthcare care workers, reducing central line associated bloodstream infections and detecting and treating sepsis early in patients presenting to emergency departments. Her research has included performing the seminal Australian survey of healthcare associated infections in 1984 and developing the first surveillance system for healthcare associated infections as a pilot in 1998-2001 for the NSW Health Department. She enjoys capacity building PhD candidates and performing infection control research in Cambodia, China, Bangladesh, Mali, Indonesia, Iran, Viet Nam, Taiwan and Turkey.
Membership:
Australian Epidemiology Association Foundation member
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
Hospital Infection Society UK
Society for Healthcare Epidemiologist of America
Journal Boards
2006- International Journal Clinical Governance
2012-2015; 2017- American Journal of Infection Control
2017- Journal of Hospital Infection
Completed Appointments:
World Health Organization Core Group - Components to Infection Control Programs
World Health Organization Core Group - First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care
World Health Organization Advisor - Malaysian Ministry of Health national surveillance for healthcare associated infections
World Health Organization Advisor- Chinese Ministry of Health national patient safety accreditation
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome reviewer - Beijing Bureau of Health Beijing outrbeak response & Hong Kong SARS Designated hospital
Clinical Excellence Commission Advisor to state wide patient safety projects; Standing Committee on Healthcare Associated Infection
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing appointed reviewer of "Pandemic Influenza Infection Control for Healthcare workers Guidelines"
Principal Investigator First standardized surveillance system for healthcare associated infections
Principal investigator First study of healthcare associated infections in Australian hospitals
Principal investigator First study of automated surveillance of hand hygiene compliance in the Australian healthcare system
Awards:
2020 Australia's (on citations) Leader in the Field: Epidemiology
2017 Medical Journal of Australia/MDA Best Research Publication "SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives."
2016 Global Sepsis Alliance Award Government category. Burrell A, McLaws ML, Fullick M, Sullivan R, Sindhusake D. SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives. Med J Aust doi: 10.5694/mja15.00657
2016 Excellence in Postgraduate research supervision SPHCM UNSW Medicine
2010 Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision SPHCM UNSW Medicine
2013 Best Paper of the month UNSW Medicine. Successful Implementation of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Promotion Strategy across Facilities Worldwide. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2013; 13:843-51.
2009 Peter Baume Public Health Impact Highly Commended Prize SPHCM UNSW
2009 Top 10 cited Elsevier publications for 2006-2008. Behavioural considerations for hand hygiene practices: the basic building blocks. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2006.09.026
1999 Baxter-Australian Healthcare Association Healthcare Innovation Award http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2002.1361
Current Research Activities:
Wastewater epidemiology for health
Safe removal of non sterile gloves in clinical from contact precautions
Address: UNSW Australia, Sydney, 2052, New South Wales, Australia
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