Curriculum Vitae
Corey Benjamin Moore · MBBS PhD MPH MHM BSc (Hons)
Profile
A medical doctor with an unusual combination of clinical, research and engineering experience: phase I and IV clinical trials, population-scale immunogenetics, communicable disease control, health policy evaluation and thirty years of commercial software development.
- Public health training and experience in policy and program evaluation, critical appraisal, epidemiology, biostatistics and communicable disease control.
- Publications in Science, Nature and The Lancet, with over 5,500 verified citations.
- Chief or named investigator on one international and two national research grants totalling $23.1 million.
- Research collaborations with Oxford, Harvard, GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft Research.
- Supervised, mentored and taught students, scientists, nurses, clinicians and professors.
- Responsible for company, customer and patient intellectual property and confidentiality.
Employment
2023 –
Resident Medical Officer
WA Country Health Service- Leave relief doctor at Albany Hospital to refresh clinical skills.
2023
Public Health Officer Trainee / Advanced Trainee in Public Health
Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health- Supported the executive and statutory roles of the Minister for Health with expert medical advice and epidemiological analyses.
- Received a personal request from the Chief Health Officer to work at the Ministry of Health, and produced ad-hoc reports at their request.
- Led an evaluation into the impact of a policy change at the request of the Chief Health Officer.
- Identified data quality issues and proactively automated data processes, analyses and reporting.
- Critically evaluated the quality of an economic analysis in an All-of-Government program and made recommendations to the director.
- Developed high-level dashboards to help decision makers monitor and assess research grants.
2022
Public Health Registrar
Public Health Unit, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District- Developed processes to monitor and manage COVID-19 cases and infection control in aged care facilities.
- Initiated and performed an evaluation of the COVID-19 response in aged care facilities within and between districts.
- Declared COVID-19 outbreaks and chaired multi-governmental management meetings.
- Enforced environmental health regulations and provided advice on communicable diseases.
- Audited infection control measures for a COVID-19 outbreak in a prison.
2021
Public Health Registrar
Public Health Unit, Sydney Local Health District- Proactively sought a secondment to the public health unit within days of the first community transmission of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
- Collaborated with multiple stakeholders on strategies to reduce COVID-19 transmission in NSW, including real-time updates to community health practitioners and direct work with the public.
- Improved processes and developed an application to manage and report on COVID-19 cases and contacts. The application was recognised by peers and received an award from the Chief Executive.
- Formed a research collaboration between the district and the University of Sydney, resulting in publications on socioeconomics, public health measures and COVID-19 outcomes.
2020
Public Health Registrar, Community Paediatrics
Sydney Local Health District- Mentored and collaborated with colleagues and Masters students in studies resulting in six peer-reviewed publications.
- Delivered public health teaching to Advanced Trainees in Paediatrics.
2017 – 2020
Medical Intern, then Resident Medical Officer
Royal Perth Hospital; Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital- Rotations in emergency, general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, neurology, urology, respiratory, oncology and night cover across nine hospitals.
- Participated in MET calls, assessed deteriorating patients and liaised with consultants on patient management.
- Screened and monitored participants in phase I clinical trials as per study protocols.
- Built a research collaboration with Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall.
- Received an Employee Recognition Award.
2018 –
Director, Moore Foundation Ltd
Albany, WA- Established an ACNC-registered charity to identify and fund underprivileged medical and university students in the Philippines.
2006 –
Director, eBioSys Pty Ltd
Perth, WA- Designed, developed and marketed eLab, a laboratory information management system complying with FDA regulations on electronic records.
2002 – 2006
Senior Research Scientist
Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics / Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Perth Hospital & Murdoch University- Published 33 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science and The Lancet.
- Author on 30 oral presentations, 5 poster presentations, 4 patents and 18 media features.
- Formed collaborations with Oxford University, Harvard University, GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft Research.
- Chief investigator on projects receiving $23,124,955 from NH&MRC, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, NIH and GlaxoSmithKline.
- Developed a methodological approach to studying host–pathogen interactions, with implications for vaccine design.
- Discovered an HLA association with susceptibility to a life-threatening drug hypersensitivity reaction, changing international guidelines and testing of patients with HIV.
1996 – 2006
Database Architect and Administrator Part time
Department of Clinical Immunology and Biochemical Genetics, Royal Perth Hospital- Designed the WA HIV clinical database and managed it for ten years.
- Developed processes to collate data from disparate hospital systems to produce patient reports for the management of all HIV patients in WA.
1988 –
Director, HerbiGuide Pty Ltd
Albany, WA- Founded an agricultural software company providing pesticide and environmental advice within APVMA regulatory guidelines.
- Won several contracts with the Department of Agriculture and community organisations.
- Awarded First Prize in the CompuFarm Competition by the Hon. Simon Crean MP, and the Encouragement Award at the Australian Farm Software Competition, Sydney Royal Show.
Education and qualifications
2020
Master of Health Management (Excellence)
University of New South Wales2019
Master of Public Health (Excellence)
University of New South Wales- Publications in peer-reviewed journals on universal healthcare policy, smallpox, ethics and aged care policy.
2012 – 2016
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Australian National University- ANU Medical School Scholarship — top ranked student on entry.
- Rural Australia Medical Undergraduate Scholarship, National Rural Health Alliance and Department of Health and Ageing.
- Won the first- and third-year population health prizes.
- Best Grand Rounds Presentation, Goulburn Base Hospital.
- Selected for the Indigenous stream, with training in a remote Aboriginal community.
2011
Doctor of Medicine (partial)
Cebu Institute of Medicine, Philippines- Six months studying medicine in the developing world before enrolling in medicine in Australia.
2008 – 2010
Commercial Pilot's Licence
Great Southern Aviation1997 – 2002
Doctor of Philosophy (Immunology and Biomedical Statistics)
Royal Perth Hospital & Murdoch University- Thesis rated in the top 5% of theses submitted to Cambridge University.
- Awarded best science publication by a young scientist in Western Australia.
- Contributed to my supervisor receiving the award for Best Scientist in WA.
1996
Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours)
Murdoch University- Scholarship from the Immunogenetics Research Foundation.
1993 – 1995
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
University of Western Australia- First Prize, Best Software Competition, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Research grant support As chief or named investigator
| Year | Funder and project | Amount (AUD) |
|---|---|---|
| 2005–08 | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — HIV adaptation to HLA-restricted immune responses in diverse human populations: application to HIV vaccine design | $12,740,000 |
| 2006–10 | NH&MRC Program Grant ID 384702 — Interactions between adaptable pathogens, drugs and the human host | $5,727,327 |
| 2007 | Western Australian Centres of Excellence Infrastructure Grant | $2,300,000 |
| 2000–03 | GlaxoSmithKline (UK) | $1,613,320 |
| 2003–05 | NH&MRC Project Grant ID 237412 — Characterisation of polymorphism in HIV-1 sequence: investigation of viral escape from HLA-restricted immune responses | $425,250 |
| 2005 | Microsoft Corporation | $130,000 |
| 1997–2002 | Australian Postgraduate Award; CCIBS Post-graduate Scholarship | $110,000 |
| 2011–16 | Department of Agriculture and Food WA; R&D Tax Incentive; South Coast NRM — image analysis for pest detection, quadcopter and autonomous vehicle development, environmental weed control | $56,050 |
| 1996–2003 | Raine Research Foundation; Murdoch University Special Research Grant and travel grant; Honours Research Scholarship | $23,008 |
| Total | $23,124,955 | |
Publications Citation counts verified against OpenAlex, September 2026
Counts shown are from OpenAlex and total 5,531 across 26 indexed works. Indexes that also count theses, books and grey literature report higher figures — a 2023 Google Scholar count gave 6,752. Ten entries are not indexed or are not yet published.
- A review of the impact of community integrated care programs on hospital presentations and activity
- What do we mean by social care in the global dialogue surrounding integrated care? A narrative review
- Australian HIV Observational Database collaboration study
- Australian HIV Observational Database collaboration study
- The impact of contextual socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of residents on COVID-19 outcomes during public health restrictions in Sydney, Australia
- Unpacking the design, implementation and uptake of community-integrated health care services: a critical realist synthesis
- Sydney Local Health District's Integrated Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Study
- Understanding for whom, how and why Sydney Local Health District's integrated response was effective in addressing COVID-19: a critical realist qualitative study
- Audit of the Sydney Local Health District Public Health Unit notification and contact tracing system during the first-wave of COVID-19
- Consumer Directed Care aged care reforms in Australia since 2009: A retrospective policy analysis
- Ebola, quarantine, and the need for a new ethical framework
- Pathophysiology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Review
- Smallpox - leaving its mark on public health
- The Philippines' Universal Healthcare Policy (Kalusugan Pangkalahatan) and the poor
- An intervention program for general practice for the prevention of childhood bullying
- Government policy on financial assistance to medical students discourages medical research
- Life in the developing world as a foreign medical student
- Interaction between allelic variation in IL12B and CCR5 affects the development of AIDS
- Control of human immunodeficiency virus replication by cytotoxic T lymphocytes targeting subdominant epitopes
- Population level analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 hypermutation and its relationship with APOBEC3G and vif genetic variation
- Selective escape from CD8+ T-cell responses represents a major driving force of HIV-1 sequence diversity and reveals constraints on HIV-1 evolution
- HIV-1 viral escape in infancy followed by emergence of a variant-specific CTL response
- Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors and HLA act both independently and synergistically to modify HIV disease progression
- Interactive selective pressures of HLA-restricted immune responses and antiretroviral drugs on HIV-1
- Transmission and accumulation of CTL escape variants drive negative associations between HIV polymorphisms and HLA
- Predisposition to nevirapine hypersensitivity associated with HLA-DRB1*0101 and abrogated by low CD4 T-cell counts
- Dominant influence of HLA-B in mediating the potential co-evolution of HIV and HLA
- Tumour necrosis factor-alpha gene -238G/A promoter polymorphism associated with a more rapid onset of lipodystrophy
- Randomized, controlled, 48-week study of switching stavudine and/or protease inhibitors to combivir/abacavir to prevent or reverse lipoatrophy in HIV-infected patients
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Evidence of HIV-1 adaptation to HLA-restricted immune responses at a population level
Core finding of my PhD: HIV adapts to the HLA genotypes prevalent in a host population, with direct implications for vaccine design.
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Association between presence of HLA-B*5701, HLA-DR7, and HLA-DQ3 and hypersensitivity to HIV-1 reverse-transcriptase inhibitor abacavir
The analysis behind this paper changed international HIV prescribing guidelines: HLA-B*5701 screening before abacavir is now standard of care worldwide.
- Chronic hyperlactatemia in HIV-infected patients taking antiretroviral therapy
- Contribution of nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors to subcutaneous fat wasting in patients with HIV infection
- Control of HIV replication by CTL responses
- Periodontal attachment loss in HIV-infected patients is associated with the major histocompatibility complex 8.1 haplotype
- The value of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans in monitoring HIV patients on protease inhibitors
Presentations
30 oral presentations and 15 poster presentations at national and international conferences, including the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (Boston and Seattle), the International AIDS Conference (Durban), the International Congress of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (Seattle), the British Society for Immunology (Harrogate) and NSW Health Epi Grand Rounds.
Selected oral presentations 30 total
- Moore CB. Public Monkey Business at Sexual Health. Nepean Hospital Grand Rounds. Penrith; 11 August 2022.
- Moore CB, Truman G, Mulvey C, Glasgow K. The sticky date: Hepatitis A in a 15-year-old male related to an international foodborne outbreak. NSW Health Epi Grand Rounds. Sydney; 7 April 2022.
- Soultani M, Moore C, Armstrong R, Wang Y, Quinn E, Gupta L. Driving through or dropping in: how Sydney turned up for COVID-19 testing. Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Conference. Sydney; 20 June 2022.
- Jojic V, Moore CB, John M, Heckerman D, Mallal SA. HLA optimization of a HIV vaccine. 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Boston; 10–14 February 2005.
- Moore CB. Experiences with Aborigines from Central Australia. Goulburn Base Hospital Grand Rounds. Goulburn; 11 September 2014.
- Moore C, John M, James I, Mallal SA. Characteristic mutations in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase sequence encoding HLA class I restricted CTL epitopes: evidence of HIV-1 CTL escape at a population level. 24th Australian and South East Asian Tissue Typing Association Conference. Perth; 30 November–3 December 2000.
- Moore C, John M, Mallal S. Costs associated with management of lipodystrophy syndrome. Fourth International Cohorts Meeting. Marbella, Spain; 30–31 March 2000.
- Moore C, Herrmann S, Mallal S, Watts GF, Lenzo N, French M, van Bockxmeer F. Peripheral lipodystrophy, dyslipidaemia and insulin resistance in patients receiving HIV protease inhibitors. Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Diabetes Society. Perth; 26–28 August 1998.
Full list of 30 oral and 15 poster presentations available in the detailed CV on request.
Patents
2006
Association-based epitome design
US 2006/0160070 A1 — Mallal SA, Heckerman DE, Jojic N, Jojic V, Meek CA, Moore CB, Kadie CM2011
Association-based predictions of pathogen characteristics
US 8,000,900 B2 — Heckerman DE, Mallal SA, Kadie CM, Moore CB, Jojic N- With the patent above, describes methods for determining the likelihood that a region of a foreign genome is immunogenic, based on polymorphisms in that genome across a host population.
2003
Method for identification and determination of hypersensitivity of a patient to abacavir
WO 03/068985; US 2006/046267; EP 1 472 367; CA 2 475 784 — Inventor: Mallal S- Resulted from my analysis showing a significant association between HLA-B17 (a subtype of B57) and abacavir hypersensitivity. Led to commercial flow cytometry and SSP genetic diagnostic kits with One Lambda Corporation and Becton-Coulter.
2002
Method for identification and development of therapeutic agents
WO 03/035097; US 2006/257865; EP 1 438 064; CN 1602202; CA 2 464 366 — Inventor: Mallal S- A result of my PhD. Describes methods to identify which amino acids of a foreign genome mutate in vivo to avoid host immune recognition, and how to use that to design therapeutics and vaccines.
Awards and prizes
| 2021 | Recognition of Excellence in COVID-19 Response, Highly Commended — Innovation and Excellence Awards, Sydney Local Health District |
| 2020 | Employee Recognition Award, Osborne Park Hospital |
| 2014 | Best Grand Rounds Presentation, Goulburn Base Hospital; The Population Health Group Prize, ANU Medical School |
| 2013–15 | Rural Australia Medical Undergraduate Scholarship, National Rural Health Alliance and Department of Health and Ageing |
| 2012–15 | ANU Medical School Scholarship — top ranked student on entry; The Population Health Prize; Indigenous Stream |
| 2003 | Best Science Publication in Western Australia, Raine Research Foundation |
| 1997 | Australian Postgraduate Award, Murdoch University and University of Western Australia |
| 1996 | First Prize, Western Australian Best Software Competition, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; Honours Scholarship, Immunogenetics Research Foundation |
| 1992 | Winner, Western Australian Young Achiever of the Year (Regional Category, inaugural) — Channel 10 and Wesfarmers |
| 1992 | First Prize, CompuFarm Competition — Commonwealth Department of Primary Industries and Energy and the Commonwealth Development Bank. International competition for educational software teaching good farming practice. Also: Encouragement Award, Australian Farm Software Competition, Sydney Royal Show |
| 1991 | International Science School Scholarship, University of Sydney |
Memberships
| 2021 – | Research Affiliate, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Economics, University of Sydney |
| 2020 – | Sydney Institute for Women, Children and their Families |
| 2013 – | Australian Medical Association |
| 2009 – | Albany Aero Club |
| 2000 | Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology |
Technical skills
Languages
C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi/Pascal
Statistics
R, SAS, SPSS, S-Plus
Databases
Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, Access, Centura/Gupta/SQLBase, Paradox
Tools
Visual Studio, VS Code, Git, Subversion, NUnit, FxCop, Unreal Engine 5
Platforms
Amazon Web Services, SharePoint, Exchange Server, IIS, Virtual PC
Domain software
Applied Biosystems SeqScape, EndNote/Reference Manager, eBioSys eLab, HerbiGuide
Media 52 features, 1988–2015
Selected media coverage 52 total
- Saunders C. High-flying UWA graduate works with Nobel Laureate. MeDeFacts 21(1):11. March 2015.
- Swan N. Gene test for HIV drug toxicity. Health Minutes, ABC Health & Wellbeing. 11 July 2005.
- Mallal SA, Martin A, Swan N. Gene testing for safe prescribing of HIV drug. The Health Report, ABC Radio National. 4 July 2005.
- Gates Research Grant. Channel 9 TV News. c. 2005.
- Raine doubles the winnings. UWA News 22(10):6. 28 July 2003.
- Kingman S. Population data analysis holds lessons for vaccine designers. BioWorld International 7(23):1. 5 June 2002.
- Swan N. Important new work on AIDS. The Health Report, ABC Radio National. 3 June 2002.
- Mascolini M. HIV diversity driven by viral response to HLA. International AIDS Society. 31 May 2002.
- Stewart J. New AIDS treatment. AM, ABC Radio. 24 May 2002.
- Dortch E. Computer whiz taps HIV secrets. The West Australian. 24 May 2002.
- Montgomery B. DNA treatment tailored for HIV. The Australian. 24 May 2002.
- McKinney M. HIV changes to hide from immune cells. Reuters Health. 23 May 2002.
- Meredith H. Father and son help to cultivate clever country — overseas interest in home-grown software HerbiGuide. The Australian. 11 February 1992 (lead story, Computers & High Technology section).
- Thornton C. Software down on the farm. The Australian. 24 March 1992.
- Lynch A. Game helps cockies count coffers. The Weekly Times. 8 January 1992.
- Winners show that our future's in good hands. WA Young Achiever Awards feature. The Sunday Times. 29 November 1992.
- Carbon D. Computer game is $20,000 winner. The Countryman. 28 November 1991.
- Albany boy shares $20,000 game prize. The West Australian. 28 November 1991.
- Chambers AJ. Book review: HerbiGuide. Plant Protection Quarterly 6(2):91. 1991.
- Bailey J. HerbiGuide. Your Computer. August 1990.
A further 32 features across print, radio and television, 1988–2015, are listed in the detailed CV.
Referees
Referees, including medical supervisors at Sydney Local Health District and NSW Health, are available on request. Their contact details are not published here.