Colleen Lau

Biosecurity & Emerging Infections Lead

Colleen Lau is a Professorial Research Fellow, NHMRC Fellow, and infectious disease epidemiologist at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland. She has a significant portfolio of independent research and is internationally recognised for her expertise in emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases and travel medicine. Her work includes operational research on lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination and surveillance to improve strategies for the WHOs Global Programme to Eliminate LF, one of the largest public health programs in the world. Other areas of research expertise include leptospirosis, eco-epidemiology, spatial epidemiology and disease mapping.