John Mackenzie

Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Professor
Center for International Health
Curtin University of Technology
Australia

Research Interests:
Infectious disease emergence, especially the areas of zoonotic and vector-borne viral diseases
Establishment of national and international surveillance systems to detect, monitor and verify disease outbreaks.
Diseases transmitted to humans from an animal reservoir, particularly wildlife reservoirs, and those transmitted to humans by mosquito vectors.

Professor Mackenzie's laboratory has been interested in understanding the role of fruit bats (flying foxes) in the appearance of novel virus diseases such as Hendra virus and Australian bat lyssavirus, and other animal reservoirs for diseases such as SARS, and in the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, such as Japanese encephalitis virus.

Any other information:
Professor Mackenzie is a member of various World Health Organization committees concerned with disease surveillance and response and is Secretary-General of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

: Public Health & Epidemiology > Epidemiology (14 November 2005 - 28 August 2008)

Links

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