Rate My Professor Peta-Anne Zimmerman

Zimmerman's research focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, IPC practices, outbreak response, curriculum development for IPC, and influences on healthcare workers' behaviors in low- and middle-income countries, including regions in China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific. Key publications include 'A scoping review of published reports of the infection prevention and control assessment framework: a comparison to the findings of the global report on infection prevention and control' (2025), 'Time to Hang Up the Gloves: A Scoping Review of Evidence on Non-Sterile Glove Use During Intravenous Antimicrobial Preparation and Administration' (2025), 'Healthcare workers’ perspectives on the implementation of tuberculosis infection prevention and control policy in rural Papua New Guinea' (2025), 'Moral distress among infection prevention and control practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review' (2024), and 'Teaching faculty experiences with student evaluation of teaching in a graduate infection prevention and control program' (2024). She has received funding such as a $10,145 grant from the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control for 'No time for losers: producing infection control champions in the healthcare setting'. Additionally, she contributes to the editorial board of Infection Prevention in Practice and has participated in public outreach such as the World Science Festival Brisbane.