The Infection and Immunity Theme's vision is to address key health issues at the intersection of infection, immunity, chronic disease and community. This inevitably involves a collaborative approach across the theme, institute, and externally.

This vision is underpinned by a strategy to develop immunology, bioinformatics, microbiome and clinical platforms. These platforms have been utilised to develop programs of work examining areas such the impact of microbiota on vaccine responses, chronic lung infections, the gut-brain axis, networks in cancer and STIs and BBVs in Aboriginal communities.