Anthony Draper is Senior Epidemiologist at the Centre for Disease Control in the Northern
Territory, Honorary Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in
Dili,Timor-Leste, and Honorary Fellow and PhD candidate at the National Centre
for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University.
Katie Flanagan is a world-renowned clinician scientist with long-standing expertise in studying human immunity to infections and vaccination. She is a Senior Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Clinical Professor at the University of Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and Honorary Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Dr David Williams leads the Diagnostics and Mammalian infectious Disease Research group at CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong, Victoria. This group contributes to national and regional emergency animal disease diagnostics and surveillance.
Dr Alison Peel is a veterinarian and wildlife disease ecologist in the Sydney School of Veterinary Science and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute. She holds a Sydney Horizon Fellowship and her research investigates associations between bat ecology, bat virome dynamics and the human health risk of emerging bat viruses.
Prof Glenn Marsh is a Principal Research Scientist and Team Leader for Pathogen Research within the Zoonotic Pathogens and Models Group at CSIRO based at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness.
Emily Gibson is an infectious diseases epidemiologist with Hunter New England Health Protection, where prioritise working within a One Health framework, including hosting the longest running regional One Health group in Australia!
Stephen R. Graves is a medical microbiologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA). He is a former Chair of the RCPA Faculty of Science.
Almost 30 years ago he established the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory (ARRL) as a boutique, not-for-profit, microbiology diagnostic and research laboratory, located at University Hospital Geelong, Victoria.Henry Tan is the Principal Scientific Officer in the Food Unit at the Department of Health, Western Australia. He leads the state’s foodborne illness reduction strategy, which aims to enhance food safety across the entire food supply chain. Henry represents Western Australia on several national food regulator working groups, including the Campylobacter Action Plan Working Group.
Luisa Miranda is a veterinarian who holds a PhD on Clinical Research in Infectious diseases from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil. She has worked for more than fifteen years with animal sporotrichosis, with special emphasis on immunological and pathological aspects. In 2020, Luisa joined the University of Sydney Veterinary School and the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute as a Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, where she continues to pursue her research interests in fungal diseases and host–pathogen interactions.
Malcolm
Jones is Professor of Parasitology in the School of Veterinary Science at
University of Queensland and an Honorary Group Leader at QIMR Berghofer Medical
Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia.
His research interests lie in molecular and cell biological approaches
to understanding the biology and control of pathogenic helminth (worm)
infections of humans and animals, notably schistosomiasis, echinococcosis and
angiostrongyliasis.
Dr Md Saiful Islam is
an infectious disease social epidemiologist and Lecturer at the School of
Population Health, UNSW Sydney. His research focuses on emerging and
re-emerging infectious diseases, infectious disease surveillance (including
wastewater and environmental surveillance), One Health, zoonotic diseases, and
epidemic preparedness and response. His work integrates epidemiology with
social and behavioural sciences to better understand disease transmission
pathways, strengthen epidemic preparedness, and inform evidence-based public
health interventions.
Richard Bradbury is an internationally recognised parasitologist and former Team Lead of the Parasitic Diseases Diagnostic Reference Laboratory at the CDC in the United States of America. He is a member of the WHO Diagnostic Technical Advisory group for NTDs and has contributed to several other WHO advisory panels in the field of NTDs and parasitic diseases. He acts as a co-Director of the JCU WHO Collaborating Centre on Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Simon Reid is a Professor in One Health at the School of Public Health
in the University of Queensland. He is a keen advocate of One Health and the
application of systems thinking approaches to understand and improve
interventions for wicked zoonotic disease problems at the
human-animal-ecosystem interface such as leptospirosis, brucellosis, human-bat
interactions and Clostridioides difficile infection
Tim Stinear is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Co-Lead of the Centre for Pathogen Genomics, and Deputy Head of Department. He provides strategic leadership across research and academic development within a large, multidisciplinary department. His research applies genomics and bioinformatics to understand pathogen biology, transmission, and antimicrobial resistance, with a strong focus on Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Mycobacterium ulcerans
Professor Darren Gray is an infectious disease epidemiologist and microbiologist, who is Director of Population Health Program; Founding Director of the Centre for Tropical Health & Emerging Diseases; and Senior Group Leader of the Global Health & Tropical Medicine Group at QIMR Berghofer. He currently leads a research program that investigates the transmission and control of tropical infectious diseases and diseases of disadvantage, including some of the most prevalent and important infections that cause much suffering and economic loss worldwide. He aims to develop new public health interventions against these diseases that will lead to their sustainable control and eventual elimination.
Dr Cassie Jansen is the Consultant Medical Entomologist for the Health Protection and Regulation Branch of Queensland Health, providing technical and strategic advice to support the management of public health risks associated with mosquito vectors and vector borne diseases. With a background across research, laboratory and operational medical entomology, Cassie provides specialist technical advice which informs preparedness for emerging mosquito borne arbovirus threats and oversight of Queensland’s three statewide mosquito-based surveillance programs. Cassie has a keen interest in novel mosquito and arbovirus surveillance techniques and response to exotic vector detections.
Professor Tom Riley, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia | Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine (WA)
Tom divides his time in Perth, Western Australia, between PathWest Laboratory Medicine, WA’s public sector pathology service provider where he is a Senior Clinical Scientist, and The University of Western Australia where he is a Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences. He has had a long-standing interest in diagnostic microbiology and healthcare-related infections, particularly the diagnosis, pathogenesis and epidemiology of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI).
Dr Tim Gray is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist at Concord Hospital and Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney. His interests span the zoonotic spectrum, from the everyday to the exotic. At home he is outnumbered by several productive pet chickens, one long-suffering dog, and a rotating cast of possums and prowling neighbourhood
Dr. Shafi Sahibzada is a leading veterinary epidemiologist specialising in AMR surveillance at the human–animal–environment interface. With over a decade of research experience, he has led national and international initiatives using advanced genomic tools to investigate antimicrobial resistance in major foodborne pathogens and to inform One Health strategies across Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
Dr Sally Havers is an experienced Registered Nurse with more than 15 years of Infection Control experience. Sally currently works as a Clinical Nurse Consultant at Darling Downs Health and is a certified Infection Control Practitioner (at Expert level). She completed a Master of Public Health in 2012 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2019.
Cathy Kneipp has been a veterinary clinician since graduating with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science from the University of Queensland. After working in both Australia and the United Kingdom, she has been based in regional Queensland, where she is a partner in a mixed animal practice in Goondiwindi. A general veterinary practitioner for over 35 years, her primary interests are in small animal medicine and surgery. Cathy was awarded her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2025 for her research into Brucella suis infection in dogs. She continues to work in clinical practice and remains affiliated with the University of Melbourne, with ongoing research interests in brucellosis in Australian dogs.
Dr Chris Clews is an Advanced Trainee in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine approaching the end of his training in Wellington, New Zealand. His focus is pragmatic and patient-centred care, with early career interests in complex surgical infections and tropical disease. Beyond medicine, he's most at home running the hills and coastlines that surround the greater Wellington region.
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