About

I'm a landscape epidemiologist and disease ecologist with the Sydney School of Public Health and the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases. I'm interested in the complex ecologies of pathogens and their interactions with hosts, vectors, and environments. I combine methods from spatial and infectious disease epidemiology with applications of community ecology, biogeography, and macroecology to employ transdisciplinary One Health approaches to understand the distribution of pathogens and their transmission processes, especially those processes that involve arthropod vectors. I'm particularly interested in the ways in which interactions between wildlife, domesticated animals, and humans in wetlands facilitate pathogen spillover from maintenance communities to novel or target recipient hosts.