Laurence Gleeson

Women selling poultry, Hanoi, Vietnam 2005 (Lorrie Graham/DFAT photolibrary)

Evaluating a decade of Australia’s efforts to combat pandemics in Asia and the Pacific: are health systems stronger?

September 27, 2017

by Gill Schierhout, Laurence Gleeson, Adam Craig, Irene Wettenhall

Laurence Gleeson

Laurence Gleeson is a veterinary graduate from Melbourne University, with a PhD in veterinary virology from Cornell. His career has included 16 years with the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) where for a period he managed the AAHL diagnostic service and was part of the teams that identified the Hendra virus (winning a CSIRO gold medal), and the Australian bat lyssavirus. He was foundation manager for both the OIE South-East Asian FMD program and the FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases for Asia and the Pacific. More recently, he has undertaken consultancy work in South-East Asia with an emphasis on emerging diseases and One Health. In 2010, he was awarded the Australian Veterinary Association Kesteven Medal for contributions to international veterinary science.