Associate Professor Simone Barry is a respiratory physician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Head of the South Australian Tuberculosis (TB) Service.
She also serves as the state representative on the National TB Advisory Committee, providing expert advice to the Australian Government on TB prevention and control. She holds a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and her PhD thesis focused on microRNA as a biomarker for TB.
Recently, she completed a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Over the past three years, Associate Professor Barry has dedicated significant time to working with Aboriginal communities in the remote APY Lands in northwestern South Australia, managing an outbreak of tuberculosis.