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Welcome from the Directors
James Cook University (JCU) has been supporting control of vector-borne and neglected tropical diseases since the initial designation of a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) in 1996 (AUS-68). It has through various re-designations broadened its outreach from lymphatic filariasis alone to include soil-transmitted helminths and then other neglected tropical diseases. It has been supported by the Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine until 2012 and by the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences. In 2014, the WHOCC (AUS-68) was formally incorporated in the new College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences at JCU and was discontinued in favour of developing a new overarching designation in 2016. The new WHOCC for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases was designated in September 2017 (AUS-131).
The new WHOCC (AUS-131) is committed with other Collaborating Centres globally in the field of vector-borne diseases being able to draw on significant expertise in vector biology and mosquito-borne diseases. It is also one of three WHOCCs dedicated to neglected tropical diseases. With four other WHOCCs, it remains globally committed to the elimination of lymphatic filariasis, particularly in the Western Pacific Region (WPR). The Collaborating Centre continues to support and expand the development of surveillance, research capacity building, control programs, training and control program monitoring and evaluation in the Western Pacific Region. It also supports the international efforts of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine at James Cook University.
Dr Maria Castellanos Reynosa
Professor Maxine Whittaker
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- Dr Maria Castellanos Reynosa, PhD (Epidemiologist), Co-Director
- Professor Maxine Whittaker, MBBS, PhD, Co-Director
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- Dr Oyelola Adegboye, PhD (Biostatistics)
- Ms Tammy Allen, MPH&TM (Health Promotion)
- Professor Tom Burkot, PhD (Entomology)
- Associate Professor Constantin Constantiniou, PhD (Parasitology)
- Professor Denise Doolan, PhD (Malaria)
- Dr Theophilus Emeto, PhD (Biostatistics and research methods)
- Associate Professor Richard Franklin, PhD
- Associate Professor Lars Henning, MD, PhD (Tropical Medicine)
- Dr Roslyn Hickson, PhD (Modelling infectious diseases)
- Dr Paul Horwood, PhD (Virology)
- Professor Alex Loukas, PhD (Immunoparasitology)
- Associate Professor David MacLaren, PhD (Public Health)
- Dr Kris McBain-Rigg, PhD (Medical Anthropologist)
- Associate Professor Michael Oelgemoeller, PhD (Photochemistry)
- Associate Professor Catherine Rush, PhD (Immunology)
- Mr David Sellars, MPH&TM (Environmental Health)
- Associate Professor Stephanie Topp, PhD (Global Health and Development)
- Associate Professor Jeffrey Warner, PhD (Microbiology)
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- Ms Linda Barrie
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- Ms Kathy Fowden
- Ms Diane Dogcio Hall
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- Sinead Rush
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- Dr Diana Rojas Alvarez, MD, PhD (Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology)
- Dr Tamara Buhagiar, PhD (Entomology)
- Professor Graham Burgess, PhD
- Dr Janet Douglass, PhD
- Professor Patricia Graves, PhD, Director Emeritus, WHOCC AUS-68
- Professor Sue Gordon, PhD
- Associate Professor Bernie Hudson, MBBS (Infectious Disease)
- Professor Kazuyo Ichimori, PhD
- Dr Louise Kelly-Hope, PhD
- Professor Colleen Lau, MBBS, PhD
- Professor Peter Leggat, AM, ADC, MD, PhD, DrPH, Director Emeritus, WHOCC AUS-131 (Tropical Medicine)
- Associate Professor Lachlan McIver, MBBS, PhD (Public Health and Climate)
- Associate Professor Wayne Melrose, OAM, PhD, Director Emeritus, WHOCC AUS-68 (Parasitology)
- Professor Scott Ritchie, PhD (Entomology)
- Professor Marc Shaw, MBBS, DrPH (Travel and Geographical Medicine)