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Associate Professor Lance Jennings is Clinical Virologist to the Canterbury District Health Board, Director of New Zealand’s WHO National Measles Laboratory, Clinical Associate Professor in the Pathology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand, Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, London and a Founding Fellow of the Science Faculty, Royal Australasian College of Pathologists. He has been instrumental in the development of influenza control strategies for New Zealand, including the introduction of free influenza vaccine, establishment of influenza awareness education (NISG) and pandemic planning. He co-founded the Asia Pacific Alliance for the Control of Influenza (APACI), a Charitable Trust, and is a Director and the immediate past-Chair. He is also the current chairperson if the International Society for Influenza & Other Respiratory Viruses (ISIRV).
Dr Jennings has been a member of WHO/WPRO Avian Influenza Outbreak Response and Expert Influenza teams in Asia and has held WHO short-term consultancies on measles and influenza in Asia and Europe. He was appointed as a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order in 2006 in recognition of his service to virology in New Zealand and internationally.