Professor Soares Magalh\u00e3es<\/a> is a veterinarian (LMV) and an infectious disease epidemiologist (MSc) with qualifications in both human (Ph.D.) and veterinary public health (DiplECVPH).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a Zoonotic Disease Epidemiology and Biosecurity Professor at the University of Queensland<\/a> (UQ) School of Veterinary Science and an affiliate of the UQ Children\u2019s Health and Environment Program. He heads the UQ Queensland Alliance for One Health Sciences<\/a> and is the Analytics Program Lead of the Australian Collaborative Research Centre for Solving Antimicrobial in Agribusinesses, Food, and Environments (CRC SAAFE<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is an internationally recognized leading researcher in the spatial epidemiology of zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases with +200 lifetime peer-reviewed articles. He has worked as a Technical Advisor to the WHO Southeast Asian Regional Office<\/a> on Biosecurity and Emerging Threats and International Consultant to the World Bank<\/a> on the Bank’s Global Biosecurity and Pandemic Threats Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past few years, Professor Soares Magalh\u00e3es research in collaboration with institutions and organizations across the Indo-Pacific region has influenced policy including the design of integrated surveillance protocols for zoonotic diseases (including AMR), development of spatial risk assessment approaches for risk-based surveillance of priority zoonoses, and the provision of technical expertise that led to policy guidance on enhanced biosecurity of live animal markets in the region.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"member-group":[],"member-type":[25],"class_list":["post-1020","member","type-member","status-publish","hentry","member-type-sc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n