Prof Rick Speare

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	Email Rick Speare at richard.speare@jcu.edu.au.

Rick Speare is a Professor with the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director of the Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His main interest is in infectious diseases and their control. His areas of special expertise are human parasitology and amphibian diseases.

Role within the School:

• Teach postgraduate health professionals tropical medicine and public health, particularly the infectious and parasitic aspects with an emphasis on how these infections can be diagnosed and managed in individuals and controlled within communities.
• Supervise research students
• Do research on diseases with a focus on answering questions that will improve health status of humans in the tropics
• Obtain funds from outside the University to pursue research interests.
• Play a useful role in the administration of the School and the wider University, particularly as Director of the Anton Breinl Centre.
• Provide advice and assistance in areas of expertise, namely tropical medicine, travel medicine, infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases, public health, and amphibian diseases to health and veterinary professionals and to members of the public.

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