Ricardo Soares Magalhaes

Soares Magalhaes is an Associate Professor of Population Health and Biosecurity at the School of Veterinary Science (SVC), UQ. He has a background in veterinary medicine and control of infectious diseases with specialization in infectious disease spatial epidemiology and veterinary public health. He leads the UQ Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, a One Health medical geography research group based at the UQ SVC. He currently leads two large multidisciplinary projects in collaboration with WHO and AgriFutures Australia that aim to inform global risk-based integrated surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and national farm-level management plans in Australia, respectively. He has authored over 180 peer-reviewed publications, including several technical reports for FAO, WHO.