Our Team

The Australian Pathogen Genomics Program (AusPathoGen) is led by a multidisciplinary research team of leading academics and public health laboratory experts from 12 academic institutions across Australia, withexpertise in antimicrobial resistance, bioinformatics, epidemiology, evaluation and implementation science, health economics, infectious diseases, genomic modelling, medical microbiology and phylodynamics.

Our Team

All Executive Group

All Program Aim Leads

All Program Management

All CDGN Laboratory Leads

All Research Fellows

All Cross-Cutting Theme Leads

Professor Ben Howden

Principal Investigator | Executive Group | VIC CDGN Laboratory Lead | Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory (MDU PHL), VIC

Professor Steven Djordjevic

Executive Group | One Health Co-Lead | Professor of Infectious Disease, University of Technology Sydney, NSW

Dr Susan Ballard

Teaching and Training Co-Lead | Principal Scientist, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory (MDU PHL), VIC

Dr Sanmarié Schlebusch

Teaching and Training Co-Lead | Medical Director Microbiology, Virology, and Genomics, Forensic and Scientific Services, Queensland Health, QLD