Alison Peel, PI, Australia

Alison Peel is a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She is a wildlife disease ecologist with a veterinary background and her primary interests lie in the role of landscape change and anthropogenic influence on the dynamics and drivers of infectious disease in wildlife. She investigated the population genetics and viral epidemiology in African fruit bats for her PhD (University of Cambridge, 2012) and her current research extends this to further explore the complexity of multi-host-multi-pathogen communities. She is interested in how Hendra virus exists within a diverse community of viruses in Australian flying-foxes, and how the various host species contribute unequally to transmission and spillover.