Michael J Binks is a senior research fellow and program leader within the Child Health Division at Menzies School of Health Research. He received his Bachelor of Science from Monash University, in 1996, Bachelor of Health Sciences (Natural Medicine) from the Australian College of Natural Medicine in 2006, and a PhD from Charles Darwin University in 2015. With expertise in biomedical science, clinical trials, and epidemiology, he leads a collaborative and multidisciplinary research program dedicated to achieving sustainable improvements in the respiratory health of Indigenous children. For this collective body of innovative work, he was recently awarded the Charles Darwin University Prize for Exceptional Performance in Research. He currently supervises and has successfully supervised several PhD students to completion on projects including ‘Safety of vaccination in pregnancy’ and the ‘Microbiology of otitis media among Indigenous Australian children'. His research themes include child and maternal health and respiratory immunology.