Pathogen Emergence and Spread
Meet our experts
Professor Eddie Holmes is a world-renowned virologist and expert on the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, particularly the mechanisms by which RNA viruses jump species boundaries to emerge in humans and other animals.
- John-Sebastian Eden
- Mary Petrone
- Julien Melade
- Winkie Fong
- Jon Misfud
- Lauren Lim
- Vince Costa
- Krispin Hajkowicz
- Erin Harvey
- Ayda Susana Ortiz-Baez
- Sabrina Sadiq
- Kate van Brussel
- Michelle Wille
Prof Vitali Sintchenko is a leading public health microbiologist and informatician who conducts research on biosurveillance of communicable diseases. He is studying and implementing genomics-guided surveillance of respiratory, food-borne and other bacterial diseases with epidemic potential (e.g. tuberculosis, pertussis, pneumococcal pneumonia, salmonella gastroenteritis, MRSA infections).
A/Prof Meru Sheel is an infectious diseases epidemiologist with expertise in public health emergencies and immunisation. Her work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region.
Prof Mikhail Prokopenko is Director of the Centre of Complex Systems. Complex systems is an approach to science, engineering, health and management that studies how relationships between parts give rise to the collective emergent behaviours of the entire system, and how the system interacts with its environment.
- Sheryl Chang
- Quang Dang Nguyen
- Ma Christina Jamerlan