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

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

Professor Martyn Kirk

Executive Group | Evaluation Aim Lead | Professor of Applied Epidemiology, Australian National University, ACT

Professor Kathryn Glass

Executive Group | Evaluation Aim Lead | Head, Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling Group, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, ACT

Associate Professor Torsten Seemann

Bioinformatics Lead | Executive Group | Lead Bioinformatician, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory (MDU PHL), VIC

Dr Angeline Ferdinand

Executive Group | Senior Research Fellow, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory (MDU PHL), VIC

Professor Emily Lancsar

Evaluation Aim Lead | Associate Dean (Policy and Practice), College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, ACT