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Professor Peter Collignon (AM) is a professor of microbiology at the Australian National University. Collignon has worked for the World Health Organization, studying the use of antibiotics in food animals, and the rise of drug resistant pathogens. Collignon is director of the Infectious Diseases Unit and Microbiology at The Canberra Hospital and is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.
Collignon has advocated many public health issues, like hospital acquired infections of drug resistant pathogens, alarmist media reporting of swine flu outbreaks, and the safety and efficacy of some drugs and vaccines.
In June 2010 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) during the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to Medicine in Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Infection Control.