Aileen Joy Plant (died 27 March 2007) was a leading Australian infectious diseases epidemiologist.
Born in the Victorian country town of Warragul, the fourth of eight children, her parents had a car dealership and petrol station.
She returned to Darwin as chief medical officer and deputy secretary of the Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services from 1989 to 1992.
She always sought a balance between policy and research, describing as a professional highlight her role as founding director of the master of applied epidemiology programme at the Australian National University.
In 2003 the Vietnamese government awarded Aileen the "people's medal for health" for her work leading the World Health Organization's SARS team in Vietnam, with Vietnam achieving the status of being the 1st country being able to control SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).