Professor Julie Bines is the Victor and Loti Smorgon Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. She is a paediatric gastroenterologist and Head of Clinical Nutrition and Intestinal Rehabilitation at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Bines leads the Enteric Diseases Group and the RV3 Rotavirus Vaccine Program at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. This Program has developed a novel human neonatal rotavirus vaccine, RV3-BB, targeting the preventing of severe rotavirus gastroenteritis from birth. This vaccine has undergone clinical trials in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Malawi. The aim is to provide a safe and effective vaccine at low cost able to be globally implemented to reduce the global burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis. Professor Bines has been involved in global efforts to reduce the burden of childhood gastroenteritis including serving on the WHO Steering Committee for Enteric Vaccines, the ROTA Council, and through organisation of international conferences. She was intimately involved in the development and validation of the Brighton Collaboration clinical case definition of intussusception, WHO documents outlining the epidemiology of intussusception in developing countries, and generic protocols for intussusception and post-marketing surveillance following rotavirus vaccine introduction. Professor Bines is Co-Director of the WHO Collaboration Centre for Child Health and Director of the Rotavirus Regional Reference Laboratory, which supports WHO and countries in the detection and monitoring of rotavirus strains and informing countries in the region considering introduction of rotavirus vaccines or in the assessing impact following introduction of vaccines. She is also Director of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Network, a collaboration across laboratories in Australia aimed at monitoring rotavirus strains causing disease in Australia and investigating vaccine escape strains that may impact on the success of the immunisation program. Professor Bines established the Clinical Nutrition and Intestinal Rehabilitation Program at the Royal Children's Hospital which is recognised nationally and internationally for excellence in the management children and adolescents with complex gastrointestinal disorders and intestinal failure and played an important role the development of the Australian Intestinal Transplantation Program. Through the development of a novel preclinical model of short bowel syndrome in children, Professor Bines has made an important contribution to the scientific understanding of intestinal adaptation and the pathophysiology of intestinal failure related liver disease.