We provide a collaborative forum for research on zoonotic and other infectious diseases, their impacts on human and animal health and their social, ecological and environmental determinants.
We bring together experts in veterinary epidemiology, public health, microbiology, social sciences, ecology and environmental sciences to:
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Associate Professor Victoria Brookes research focuses on using epidemiology to promote evidence-based practice in One Health, particularly emerging and neglected infectious diseases. She has extensive research experience using methods such as risk assessment and disease modelling for the development of strategies for disease preparedness, including prevention, detection, and response.
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Dr Alison Peel's current research looks at the complex interactions between land-use change, flying foxes and the dynamics and fatal spillover of Hendra virus to horses and people, and how interactions within the diverse community of viruses in flying-foxes contribute to bat virus spillover in general. She collaborates within international One Health networks to explain the root causes of spillover and identify sustainable solutions that harness natural ecosystem processes to both prevent viral emergence and solve the environmental and public health crises we have created.
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Associate Professor Kerrie Wiley's research covers a wide range of topic areas, including the drivers of vaccine uptake globally; how social science is structurally and functionally embedded in public health decision-making; the human social and behavioural drivers of Japanese Encephalitis prevention; Hendra vaccine decision-making among horse owners; the decision-making processes of non-vaccinating parents; exploring immunisation policy acceptability with qualitative deliberative methods; the ethical considerations in responding to vaccine refusal; barriers and facilitators to Q fever vaccination among Australian cattle farmers; attitudes to immunisation in pregnancy among women and antenatal health care providers; attitudes and practices toward vaccination in aquaculture; and developing empirically-driven interventions and communication approaches to increase vaccine uptake.
Associate Professor Navneet Dhand is a leader in veterinary epidemiology and One Health initiatives at the University of Sydney.
He devotes his time to leading exciting global One Health initiatives, including development of veterinary epidemiology training programs as well as major collaborative animal and human health research projects in the Asia-Pacific region.
In 2019 he signed an agreement with Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop technical guidelines for in-service applied veterinary epidemiology training, vital for diagnosing, preventing and controlling infectious diseases.
The guidelines will enable the FAO member countries to establish new programs in epidemiology training and to strengthen the existing ones.
We acknowledge and thank The Dr Aubrey Crawley Research Support Grants (as established by his daughters Doreen Elizabeth and Margaret Florence Crawley) for their generous support of our One Health special interest group.
Mailing address
Westmead Hospital
Level 5, Block K
Westmead NSW 2145
