Dr Josh Osowicki is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases physician and Team Leader in the Tropical Diseases research group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, Australia. He is an early career clinician-scientist and emerging research leader whose work focusses on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and human challenge research as an innovative platform for accelerating research and development of vaccines and other interventions targeting high-priority pathogens.