Craig Dalton is a public health physician with a MMSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Newcastle and is a graduate of the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service, Atlanta, Georgia. He completed a Preventive Medicine Fellowship in the Foodborne and Diarrhoeal Disease Branch at CDC in 1995.
He is the founder of Flutracking.net - one of the largest online participatory surveillance system in the world with over 150,000 Australians reporting their flu-like symptoms every week in winter across Australia and New Zealand in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He won Research Australia's Data Innovation Award for Flutracking in 2018.
He is a public health physician employed with the NSW Government and conjoint senior lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle. His main experience is in health protection issues - communicable diseases and environmental health. He is currently completely consumed by COVID-19 response and research. A publication on community control of COVID-19 was cited by Dr Anthony Fauci at a US White House COVID-19 Taskforce briefing (at 13:20) as the basis for the US community control guidelines for COVID-19.
