A/Prof Paula Lister is the Director of Paediatric Critical Care at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH), Associate Professor at Griffith University and Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland. She is the medical co-chair of the Queensland Paediatric Sepsis Program. Her current research is aimed at improving outcomes for children with sepsis. Dr Lister is a World Health Organisation consultant and rapporteur for the standard guidance on clinical management of severe Influenza infections. In this role she developed, and delivers, the paediatric critical care content of the WHO SARI training course and she contributed paediatric aspects of the 2019 WHO Ebola Guidelines. She was previously a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and was part of the UK-wide Sepsis-6 roll out.