Division of Epidemiology

We use a range of surveillance and diagnostic data to model transmission of pathogens, antimicrobial resistances, assess disease incursion and spread risk, and model the potential impact of interventions.  

Sustainable Agriculture 

The Epidemiology Division undertakes work in a range of areas to understand the impact of disease on health and methane emissions.  

We investigate how these may change with climate change and how these impacts can be mitigated using a range of statistical and mathematical models as well as primary data collection.  

We also work with social scientists and economists to understand how land use decision-making and environmental change intersects with the emergence of infectious disease problems. 

Infectious Diseases 

The Division works on a broad range of majorly important diseases including bovine tuberculosis, rabies, avian influenza, East coast fever, foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever and important zoonoses.  

We work in a range of aspects of infectious disease from design and implementation of complex population-based surveys, diagnostic test development and novel surveillance strategies particularly using environmental samples, as well as the use of molecular epidemiological and modelling tools to understand pathogen introduction and spread as well as drivers of evolution.  

Enhancing Health 

All the Division’s activities are directed at improving both animal and human health through development of improved digital data capture, improved stewardship and use of antimicrobials and embracing a One Health approach to disease control to improve public and animal health.   

Our research supports large scale zoonotic disease control interventions to reduce animal and human burden and improve animal welfare.