Mira Cooper

I am a Research Associate in the UniSA STEM. My research is focused on environmental health issues, and I am currently working under the NHMRC-funded Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) network, in particular within the theme on “Food, soil and water security” investigating the quality of rainwater. Prior to the position at UniSA, I worked with the Victorian Department of Health in Victorian wastewater surveillance program for SARS-CoV-2, which is a part of a national Collaboration on Sewage Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 (ColoSSoS) project. My main role was to undertake an epidemiological analysis of wastewater in Melbourne and across Victoria, providing intelligence on Covid-19 levels and its variants and associated public health risks to help the Department and the State with decision-making. My background is in environmental health and I completed a PhD at Flinders University studying human zoonotic parasites and advocating for One Health and environmental health approach to control them.