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Professor Allen Cheng is an infectious diseases physician serving as Professor and Director of Monash Infectious Diseases at Monash Health within the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University. He earned his PhD from Flinders University, Master of Public Health from Monash University, and Master of Biostatistics from the University of Queensland. His early career included positions as an infectious diseases and general physician in Darwin and Geelong, with experience in remote communities in Australia's Top End, and international work in Papua New Guinea, Thailand, the United States, and Finland. From 2009 to 2023, he was Director of the Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit at the Alfred Hospital. Cheng's research encompasses sepsis, influenza and vaccine effectiveness, hospital-acquired infection prevention and control, antibiotic pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, antimicrobial stewardship and drug policy, and clinical infectious diseases. He has produced over 400 peer-reviewed publications, more than 50 letters and editorials, and 17 book chapters. Notable publications include "Pathophysiology, transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a review" (JAMA, 2020), "Melioidosis: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management" (Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2005), "Interleukin-6 receptor antagonists in critically ill patients with Covid-19" (New England Journal of Medicine, 2021), and "The epidemiology and clinical spectrum of melioidosis: 540 cases from the 20 year Darwin prospective study" (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010).