Jonathan Carapetis (born 1961) is an Australian paediatric physician with particular expertise in infectious disease and Indigenous child health.
He then worked as Chief Resident and Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, as part of his specialisation training in paediatrics.
In 1994 he conducted doctoral studies at the Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, into group A streptococcal diseases in the Aboriginal population.
After a year spent working overseas as a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow in Canada, Carapetis returned to Australia in 1999 where he was instrumental in setting up the Centre for International Child Health at the University of Melbourne.
In 2008 Carapetis was named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year and was selected as one of Australia’s 100 Smartest people (one of the Top Ten in Medicine and Health) in The Bulletin magazine "Smart 100" list.
[1] Carapetis has written numerous textbook chapters on rheumatic fever, has been an invited speaker at more than 40 national and international conferences, and has over 150 peer reviewed publications.