One Health
Experts on zoonotic and other infectious diseases research
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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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Professor Ruth Zadoks' interests include the use of molecular epidemiology to understand sources and transmission routes of bacterial infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance across host species, and the development of disease control programmes to support human and animal health and food security.
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Associate Professor Katrina Bosward is a veterinary microbiologist researching the pathogenesis and control of infectious diseases of animals especially those considered zoonotic.
She has a particular interest in Coxiella burnetii, coxiellosis in animals and Q fever in humans.
Other research projects have been in mastitis in dairy cattle (particularly due to Mycoplasma spp. and Streptococcus agalactiae) and antimicrobial resistance in animals.
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Dr Michael Walsh is a landscape epidemiologist. Combining methods from spatial and infectious disease epidemiology with applications of biogeography, community ecology, and macroecology to employ transdisciplinary One Health approaches to zoonosis inference, prediction, surveillance, and prevention.
Dr Walsh is particularly interested in the ways in which interactions between wildlife, domesticated animals, and humans in anthropogenic landscapes facilitate pathogen spillover from primary reservoir hosts to novel hosts.
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
