[1] She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2024,[2] for service to "medical research, particularly microbiology, and to tertiary education".
[4] Hartland received a Bachelor of Science (Hons), in 1990, a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology in 1996 for her thesis, "The genetic basis of virulence in Yersinia enterocolitica".
[6][better source needed] Hartland worked at the Department of Biochemistry at Imperial College, at London, with a Royal Society/NHMCR Howard Florey Fellowship.
[9] Hartland has an oration at the Victorian Infection and Immunity Network named after her, where the winner receives prize money, and delivers a speech at the Lorne conference.
[10] She is also the chair of the Victorian Premier's award, for the selection panel of Health and Medical Research.